Connecticut western news., 1875-10-22

printed thereon, is prima facie evidence of it's ac iceptance'as correct. J.L. PEAsE. II Home From Abroad.-Mr. Charles F Barnum and wife of Lime Rock arrived
 home from Europe Thursday of last week
 R. R. Commissioners The board ot
 railroad commissioners looked at the Conn T Western road again last Tuesday, and the Housatonic road Wednesday.
 First snow.-Snow to the depth of two , inches whitened Mt. Riga last Sunday morning, which is the first of the season. Oh. that the last might be first.
 ' Won't Take Long-It wont take you long to read the new advertisement in the ) half column space of Wing 6 Griswold this week, so if tyou happen to be in a hurry, you'll have time enough to tend tc . it. t -.i. ~.
 Journalistic. w. J. Anderson has
 disposed of his interest in the Hartford Post newspaper, and has retired from all connection with it. The business manage
 ment will hereafter be in the hands of l William Fitch, for. g number of years the
 manager of The Norwich Morning Bulle- tn. -s e4s| 5a 4f5ts @l' , I Office Changed. Hartford Post says the office of the Connecticut Wettern R. R. Co.,, in Hartford is changed to the second floor of the Hurlbut block, on Asy- lum street, and they have now very hand some and convenient quarters, with rooms of the superintendent and treasures, the directors and the conductors adjoining each other. The apartments have been finely fitted up and carpeted. . rz t@ 4a Golden Hours.-Among the many | publications for the instruction and amuse- ment of children, none is deserving of more attention than the Golden Hours, a magazine for boys and girls, and which is published by Hitchcock & Walden Cincin- nati. Ohio. at $l,60 per year postpaid. This delightful little magazine is always full of tho stories that the children love to- read, and Its low price places it within the reach of all. Send $l. .60 to the publish CTS, whose address we give above, and let your children have it. It cant help but do them good. +. -..5
 Tain't so.-The New Milford Ray, says the story told by Collins, who recently died in Boston of Econsumption, that he (Collins,) belonged in New Milford, and was put on board the cars by the seIectmen and sent out the state, for the purpose of getting rid of him and saving to the town the expense of caring for him the remain ing few. days of his life and decently burying his remains after death, is utterly false, the selectmen never having seen or heard of such a man. We are glad the Ray is able to thus emphatically contradict the statement, which, unpleasantly for New Milford people, has got extensively abroad in the papers of the land.
 Heavy Freighting.- The freighting business over the Conn. Western road has assumed magnitude scarcely expected by even the most sanguine at this early day in it's life history. The rolling stock is taxed to it's uttermost to keep up with what is required of it, and then it doesn't do it. Extra trains are now run nights and Sun days. five or six long freight trains passing oyer the road each way last Sunday. It is not likely this Sunday work will have to be continued great length of time, as facilities adequate to the requirements of this new order of things will probably be provided as soon as they can be obtained. The friends of this road, and they are very numerous. rejoice to see this evidence of prosperity. "a+ 'a'' F+3~
 The Temperance Lecture The Rev. c. B. Hewes of Utica, N. r., delivered lecture in this village at Academy Hall Tuesday evening on temperance, which was decidedly the most eloquent and alto gether convincing against the demon, Rum, ever heard here. Mr. Hewes gives to this much lectured subject new interest, and handles it in manner that commands the closest attention of his hearers, and if at the close he has not captured their hearts, and infused into them zeal to labor with their strong right arms to crush to the earth mans greatest curse, and hold it there: We say if an audience is not i'm pressed with the eloquence of Mir. Hewes, something must be wrong with it. The clay out of which it is constructed must have become so hardened as to render it proof against anything. MT. H. lectured in Lakevile Wednesday evening and will lecture in Millerton this (Thursday) even- ing. The good people of Millerton should give him an overflowing house.
 Potatoes and Corn. The farmers in this region are in their glory this season, each seeming to vie with the other in their exhibition of their crops Mir. Ingersoll Reed of West Cornwall now comes to the the front with his specimens of corn. He had five acres of Silver Glaze corn, which has filled his heart so full of joy he lays awake nights to think about it. He brought in our office she other day, dozen ears of corn, measuring from 12 to l3 inches in length, and one ear he says has 600 kernels on it's cob. Aud then his potatoes arc astonishingly large, sample of which he showed us. eighteen in num- Der of the Peach Blow Seedlings, which filled the half bushel measure full MT. R. has reason enough to rejoice at this exhibi- tion of the fruits of his labor...... While in Lakeville the other day, Mr. J. Silvernail hailed us and said he had dug Az bushels of Blue Peerless potatoes from one bushel planted on ground that has grown potatoes for several years past in succession. This too will be recognized as an extra prolific 1 report. - -a.=