Connecticut western news., 1875-09-24

Let's sbuy three or four railroads. They don't cost much and are so handy to have | in the house.
 Renewed.-Mr. George W. Hall of Falls Village has renewed his advertisement this week. MT. H. appears to be meeting with very good success in his new mercantile en- terprise, and is one of that sort who not only thinks, but knows that money invest ed in advertising pays heavy dividends. Read his advertisement in another column.
 A Singular Case.-The good people in Ashley Falls are in trouble. A young man Eeighteen or twenty years old by the name of McGinnis, living just over the Connecti- cut line in Canaan, milks the COWS of the neighboring farmers, while they are feed
 ing in the fields, with his mouth. He ap- pears to be one of the curiosities of the age, and when demonstrated with for his con- duct; and even threatened with being sent to jail, listens with mouth and eyes widely extended with fright, and after his interloc- utor becomes fully convinced he has gained his case, and made lasting impression on him, he is hardly out of his sight before this mouth nilker is again at his work. The other day he was told that MT. -, whose COWS he had been milking for some time, was going to take his gun, and watch for him in the woods adjoining his pasture, and If he caught him there, he would be shot. This worked admirably for the man l n F,o6 cr1fF hryh lot1 tions, for he immediately left his fields and went among the cows of the good neighbor who had tried to scare him with the gun story, and at last accounts he was pumping them dry every day. He is one of the most accommo dating young men you ever saw If the COW is laying down, he too will lay down to his work, and suck ''so hard as never vas." He has been seen to carry milk home in pails, and when questioned about it, acknowledges everything freely; says he likes milk, and that which he takes home, he eats pudding and bread in. Ex- actly what to do with this ''thing," for he is nothing more nor less than thing, is 8 greater puzzle than the people have had to contend with. for long time. He wont scare worth cent, and to prosecute him would be exceedingly poor business. Milk and honey probably doesn't flow SO freely in the land of Canaan as in days of yore, or this border rufian would not have occa- sion to forage outside his legitimate bounds
 He is indeed an anomaly. .s.e. ........
 Last Fridays Excursion.-All things considered, the excursion over the Conn. l Western and Rhinebeck 6 Conn. roads and down the Hudson river to Poughkeepsie last Friday was probably the pleasantest of any since the two new roads mentioned were built. The train of eight long passen- past ten o'clock in tho forenoon, and all were well loaded with excursionists. After leaving State Line, no stops were made to receive passengers on the Rhinebeck road, and the train whirled along at express time, arriving in Rhlnebeck at little past noon.y The magnificent steamer, Thomas Cornell, and indeed she is magnificent l boat; one of the finest in fact there is on the river, was waiting at the wharf with banners flying, for it's generous load of Western Connecticut. The sail down the river was delightful, and tie run to Pough- keepsie, eighteen miles, was made in about an hour and quarter, and the return was equally as rapid, as all were on board the cars again and started out of Rhinebeck fol home at about 3 o'clock. The sudden change in the weather, from the mild and summer like temperature of the forenoon, to the November chill of the late afternoon, gave to those who were unprepared fol such sudden and unexpected plunge into the realms of frigidity, an appearance deci dedly frost bitten, but aside from this, nothing whatever of an unpleasant charac
 ter occurred to mar the pleasure of the ex
 cursionists.
 The rolling stock of the Rhinebeck road is some of the finest in the country. Never
 have we seen anywhere more elegantly fin
 ished passenger coaches. The locomotives
 appear to be of the heaviest and most pow
 erful construction, and the monster, whic1 !, bore the name of "Wm. B. Platt," anG which was attached to our train at State Line," started off with it as if it were but toy for it's amusement, whirling us around !, some of those curves at a rate of speed tha , tended to excite ripple of fear in thu breasts of the more timid, but the littl'
 chub of an engineer knew what be wa
 about, and all was well By the way
 did you see that nineteen year old lad witt the salmon colored face, and hear hin
 whistle! Those of the party who wer
 honored with hls presence in their car wer treated to feature in the days entertain ment not advertised in the tri colored DOE l ters giving notice of the excursion. Tn e ''White Cockade" surely never emanate : from such shaped countenance before, an :, $ the notes CD as they tumbled forth an Y mounted the atmosphere, climbing into tn e ears of those most remote from him, no o withstanding the din and roar of the car j. brought tears of all sorts of emotion to th y eyes of the involuntary listeners. Frien i Wardwell of Lakeville was very much di V turbed about the young man ; thought n whistling car ought to be made for hin " but Col. Tupper said no; it wasn't wort '0 while; he probably wouldn't live long an. way. Anybody with so much music in h n soul, and of that particular sort, was to 10 celestial to dwell long here below. IT ... .. fun of it was; the young man didn't kno 70 that anybody heard him. and was perfect " happy. We'd like to talk an hour or tW .e longer about this whistler, but as the ]" is no danger of his being forgotten, we
 tear ourselves away from hlm long enous