Connecticut western news., 1874-05-22

A Sunday Train.-A Sunday morning
 train will be run regularly hereafter. over
 the Naugatuck railroad from Bridgeport to l Winsted. -5
 Suicide in Van Deusenvil1e. Last
 Monday morning, Mrs. Hiram Ladd of
 Clayton East Shefaeld left the house of
 her son in Van Deusenville, at about five
 o'clock in the morning, and went to the
 river and drowned herself. She had ar
 rived at her sons house only the Saturday
 before, intending to live with him, and
 having been in poor health for some time,
 it is thought she was temporarily dcranged.
 She was seventy years old.
 A Singular Faot.-It is significant fact
 that the fires which ragged so fiercely last
 Saturday on or near BalG Peak, north west
 of this village, and which were making
 rapid progress north and west toward Mas
 sachusetts. and New York states, and when
 at the state lines of those states, the heav-
 ems opened and the rains descended and
 extinguished every spark of them, not per
 mitting square foot of the territory of
 those states to suffer from it's presence
 Has this significant circumstance anything
 to do with the late senatorial contest
 Telegraphic.-The foreman of the CONN.
 WESTERN NEWS office, being of scientific
 turn of mind, has procured set of tele- graph instruments and all the attending paraphernalia, and has run wires from his
 table in his department, through our sanc- tum, out over pole and the ridges of
 buildings to ''sounder" at the depot, and he and Agent Watson hold sweet converse during leisure hours. Exactly what next we are to expect from this scientific chap is difficult to surmise, and until he at tempts to run railroad through the office, Ia Tariffville brick church on the Conn. Western road, we have concluded to let him do about as be wants to.
 An Ugly Dog.-Last Tuesday, as little six year old boy was going to school, and when just outside the door yard gate to his home, large dog ran up to him, when he reached out his hand and put it on the dogs back, saying at the same time; s.Nice doggy," when the treacherous animal jumped and seized the arm of the little one and bit it severely. The country is full of dogs that are worse than useless. They are nuisance, and while there is occasionally dog of real value, there are probably nine hundred thousand of the other sort :; and the plan adopted by the good people of Millerton for their extermination, i s not en- tirely destitute of merit. .. .
 A Fine store.-Probably no small yil- lage country store in the state is SO well planned for general merchantile business; and go elegantly furnished in it's every de- partment, as that of the Cornwall Bridge Iron Co. in Cornwall Bridge. Having ta- ken the store in that village, vacated by Kellogg & Skiff in January, they have re- l paired it most thoroughly, externally as we'll as internally. The general arrange ment of the interior seems to be perfect : everything evidently having received care ful attention, and in the finish, no pains | were spared to make it as good as the best. The rooms in the second story share with those below in the elegance of their finish. and altogether, as we said above, we think It the finest store in the country, and we congratulate the managers and clerks Messrs. McNeil, James A. Bierce, Russell Bierce and Peter Griswold on it's fine an. pearance.
 The East Canaan Burglar. - The F'renchman, Bion, who seems to have a special spite agalnst certain parties in East Canaan, and who is mistrusted as guilty of he attempt to blow up residence in that village some months since, was arrested in Chatham, New York, oy Miles Beach, the son of the landlord in that village, who identified him (Bion) by picture he had 'een ot him. He was brought to Canaan md examined before Justice Prescott last Friday. and bound over to the September crm of the Superior court at Litchfield. This man seems determined to devote the est of his life to revenge. He was ins- orisoned for robbing store in East Ca. laan, and it is proved that he made will ainous attempt to blow up with gunpow- fer, the residence of the party whose store le IS supposed to have burglarized, and who caused him to be imprisoned for the 'rime; but in this attempt he made mis- ake in the house, and exploded the pow Ter on the door step of the minister in. tead, which failed in doing serious harm. t is thought by some he burned the hay 'arn, ,'which was recently destroyed in Ca laan, to "get even" with the owner, Of- lcer Van Deusen, for arresting him.
 Senatoria1.-The General Assembly last Tuesday voted for United States Senator, lecting Wm. w. Eaton of Hartford. The { 'ote in the Senate was as follows: It
 For Wi1iama ". Eaton. n.-Charles M. 'ond, first dirtrict; Chester Johnson, sec md; Thomas W. Loomis, third Luzon }. Morris, fourth Hiel s. Stevens, fifth ( Ralph Wheeler, seventh; Charles Hewitt, ighth; Nathaniel Wheeler, tenth; Ezra { 'tevens, eleventh Galen A. Carter, twelfth; 1arvey B. Steele, fifteenth Miles Morse, $ lxteenth; Charles Edwards, seventeenth ( amuel J. Starr, eighteenth; Merrick A. iarcy, twentieth; Jonathan G. Page, ,twen- { y-first-l6. I
 For Wil'iana 4. BuckingAam-Horace t ,. Wilcox, sixth district; Richard G. Hooper, ninth; Samuel M. Fenner, four Y eenth; William 0. Hough, nineteeth-4.
 The Houee voted at 70 o,oloob o ,o..J l ( rable number of spectators being present. ( he following is the vote of Litchfield ( ounty: g
 w. ". Eoton-Litchfeld, George c. l Woodruff, James B. Newcomb; Bark s amstead, Elisha Payne, Monroe Hart C