Connecticut western news., 1875-02-19

numerous places, and the very sudden
 change in the following night froze it into
 solid ice, which, in some places, was seY-
 eral inches deep over the track. The trains
 were not only very far behind time, but
 finally got considerably mixed, and to add
 to the disorder, the tire to one of the driv-
 ing wheels of Engineer Barton's locomo-
 tive broke as he was coming through War
 ner's cut, below Lakeville station, on his
 way from Mlllerton to Hartford. Mir. B.
 managed to get up to this station with his
 train, where he waited till the arrival of
 the milk train from Millerton, at o'clock
 in the evening, when it was attached and
 drawn to Hartford. Engineer Barton fol-
 lowed the train with his locomotive, run
 ming it at very slow rate of speed. He
 consumed the whole night on the road, not
 arriving in Hartford until o'clock the next morning.
 The External Fitness."-Lawyer Rora-
 back of Canaan is unquestionably firm
 believer ill the 'eternal fitness of things"
 or else why was that large plat of the most slippery ice you ever saw placed imme- diately in front of his office door, and in such close proximity that one cannot enter
 without crossing it? We cannot imagine an answer to the question, lest it be to make deep impression on the minds of his clients (and more especially SO as their feet fly heavenward, and they land on their heads, that to enter the sacred precincts of the law is extra hazardous; or at least is exceedingly slippery business, and as though that was not enough, be persists in keeping that instrument of torture, his pet cactus, with its multiplicity of arms bristling with thorns standing just inside his door, ready to bounce on the unfortunate as soon as he reaches the threshold. Strange as it may seem, notwithstanding this arrangement of these appointments to his office, he is full of business, enjoying one of the best prac- tices Tn the country. ''Mine Got; vat beebles !''
 The Poughkeepsie Bridge MT. Ed ward Dolph, who controls large coal inter ests in the Carbondale, Pa, region, has written to Mayor Eastman of Poughkeep- sic, offering to take three hundred thousand dollars of stock in the Poughkeepsie bridge and the railroad approach to it on the west slde-$20O, 900 to the bridge and $lOO,O 900 for the Pine Bush railroad line-tO be paid in the best quality of coal delivered on cars at the mines at $2.lO ton or at $4 ton delivered at the Hudson river. The sub- scrip:ion of coal at these prices he regards as good as gold. He says the Pine Bush line completed would bring the Carboudale coal fields within l08 miles of Poughkeep- sic. MT. Dolph expresses the belief that similar propositions to his may be secured from other coal interests to a very large extent, and says he makes the proposal to impress upon eastern friends the anxiety of the coal interests in the matter and their faith in the bridge project. It is evident that the more the plan for additional rail road facilities for coal and other traffic with New England is studied, the more apparent is it that bridge is a necessity. Further propositions are in order from either east ern or western friends of the enterprise - Hort0rd Courant.
 Brilliant Wedding.-In the Honesdale Cttlsen we notice the marriage of Miss Lib bic Hubbard to Mr. Chamberlin, and a careful perusal of the editorial divulges the pleasant fact that Miss Hubbard was granddaughter of MT. T. Augustus Hub bard and his wife Dlphne Hubbard, natives of this town. An extract from the article concerning the wedding may be of interest to some of the older citizens, and will erat fly them 10 know these children of their old friends and neighbors seem to be well to do in the world:
 Few except relatives invited; no cards. but the assembly was select and decidedly brilliant. At o'clock the beautiful parlor. tastetully decorated, was thrown open. Festoons and wreaths of evergreen surpass- ingly gay. ornamented with white roses be Wllderingly fine, at once met the eyes, The tables and mantels were loaded with bouquets and sweet flowers. The groom and bride once in position, the hymenial knot was soon tied by the Rev. E. o. Ward 1T Bethany, and the happy pair received the congratulations and kind wishes of warm and ardent friends. Nature had fla vored the bride with profusion of per sonal charms; her calm, dark eyes revealed a mind of spotless purity, and the bud of beauty hloomed on her cheek Her dress was ot lavender silk of the heaviest and | finest quality and newest style, and eor- geously trimmed with Brussels lace, ar ranged In points and flonnces; her hair was | nO1U oAo al r,.tR
 Arctic Birds.-Mr. Editor The in tense cold of this winter has brought a class of birds among us that rarely come further south than the upper Canadian and Maine forests, but this winter are as far as Connecticut. have seen them about here frequently during this winter. have ref erence to bird of q blueish- brown color. with a reddish breast, colored somewhat ike a pigeon, but not quite as distinct, in size abe ut like the robin.
 At this time they are very plenty in the towns and on the mountains, among the svergreens of Vermont. They are called he Pine Grosbeck (Pyrrhula Enucleator). sometimes called the Pine Bullfinch, A native of northern portions of Europe and America, during the summer months they migrate north as far as Labrador and about audson's Bay, where they breed They build their nests of small sticks, lined with 'eathers, and usually placed on branch 'ew feet from the ground
 During the rigorous winter of that eli nate they return south to about the latitude 't Quebec and northern Maine, where many of them are easily caught under snow hoes put up with a f,ure 4, around the yood-cutters' camps, and are said 10 afford