Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23

scalded.-A young man fell into vat of scalding fluid in one of the mills in Van Deusenville last Saturday afternoon, and before he could be removed, was so terri bly scalded he died the next morning.
 A Good Connection.-ED1ToR NEws.-I Dear sSr: Commencing Monday, July 26th, the Housatonic train leaving Bridge port at 4.55 p. m. for Pittsfeld, will arrive at e.20 p. m., enabling passengers leaving New York at 800 p. m. to reach North Adams the same night, The North Adams train will wait for the Housatonic.
 H. D. AvERlLL, G. T. A. Hous. R. R. The Villain.-John Lee Powell was ar raigned in Bridgeport last Monday fer an attempt to wreck the evening train down on the Housatonic railroad at Beers Mills last Friday evening. A bar of railroad iron, two cross-ties and large stone were found placed across the rails at short inter vals from each other, and all within a half mile of the station. Powell was detected by young man named Synel in the act of arranging the Instructions and was arrest ed. The cause of his attempt is supposed to be malice purely. He was on previous train and had words with the conductor, who told him to pay or get off. The law deals harshly with such 'vermin," and it is hoped this case will be no exception to the 1 rule.
 VEr 41@ nny,r Fur wonce in my life hay celebrated the forth of july, and thot mebby wood like tu heer about it. l day sum time ago Sam I ule cum runnin in and sed thar wus no tis up in berton gilbert's store that thar wus agoin to be grand afare and festival oyer tn kent planes tu celebrate the forth, but bein as how the forth cum Sunday this wood be held on the 5th. Samule was pos essed tn go, and he kep at me nite and day till finally sed he shud go, and as dassent tu, fceln that as never had held the day it wus time had. The nabors made ter ribul time over my goin, and old made had the awdasity tu tell me that twas hily onproper fur woman of mi age tu go off to hold the forth, but when make up ml mind tu du ennything thar cant no old made in Warren turn me aside so tu make long story short Samule and i and the horse and the dog started brite and erly a Monda mornin fur kent. objeckted tu talin the dog, but Samule sed it looked arristokratic tu hay Roach dog so i giv in resolved tu be in the fashun or di. Wall after long dusty ride we arriv at the place where the fokes wus kongregatin, ,hitched theIhorse, left the dog tu gard the wagon and went in. tell you mr Pease the rooms looked hansum all trimmed out in regler christmas stile with ground pine and hem lock; thar wus lots of fancy work, and invested in pinkushon and tidy for mi nu boston rockin chair thar wus sum hansum bokas in the flower room tu, but didn't by enny fur had fixed Samule out with a fore leevin hum for his button whole of velvet maygolds and red geraniums then we went Into the eatin room and bot sum iskreem. it made Samule sick he ct so much, but twas good only dredful kold. i got paleful tu take hum, but twant very lgood nex day didn't seem tu keep well was kinder soft. when we cum out a tall slim feler stood in the dore invltin every body tu walk up stares and see the art gal. Iery free fur 10 sents. iinquared the way and he offered to eskort me up. He wus reel sensible and seemed very polite tu the wimmin generally, he pinted out the wurks of art and the revalushunary relicts, sed kent wos famus fur it's numerous relicts. don't no who he was, sum called him Elder, but he didn't act like one bit. I wandered around till mite, and then cum the dramat- ic intertanement as tha called it. i don't no what sum of the strict ones in warren wood sa if tha nu had been to see a thea ter, probably wood think was on the strate road to perdishon so you need not mention it tu enny boddy. everybody liked the pla first rate; the name of it was the new spir- it of 76. ihaint much of judge, but i thot twas good only it did seam rather queare tu see the wimmin doin the kortin and the men darnin stockins and tendin baby they dun it handy too aspeshally the darnin. didn't fling in bokas but gin mine tu of the fellers that pulled the kertain, i thot he deserved 1t. we started fur hum rite away cleer tired out but kan sa hay celebrated the forth and had a most dredful good time tu. it is supper time so good by. Ures truly,
 JANE A. SIMPSON.
 Warren, July 12th, 1875.
 Postscript heer tha made about three hundred dollurs from the fare and koncert which was held the saturda nite afore and over hundred and 50 dollars ceer of ex- pence.
 A Family Centennial.-ED1ToR NEWS. : Although an entire stranger to you, per init me to insert in the columns of your ex- , cellent paper brief account of a rare oc- currcnce ID which was favored partici- pant. Having come from my home in Michigan to this exceedingly picturesque
 and grand old state Of Connecticut, and to Salisbury-the most beautiful of all its towns, and which am glad 10 own as my birthplace - for the purpose of visit
 among my relatives, found myself ex- ceedingly fortunate in coming at this par ticular time. This year numbers the one hundredth from the settlement of my great grandfather-Mr. Israel White-in the
 town of Sharon, he having left DanburY just previous to the burning of that town by the British. On Saturday, the 3rd of July 1875, the descendants of this venera ble father assembled by invitation upon the grounds of MT. Henry White for the pur- nnse of annronriatelv celehratino tha cen.