Connecticut western news., 1875-07-30

Rattlesnake KiIled.-Mr. New, depot agent at Lime Rock on the Housatonic railroad, killed big rattlesnake Friday as it was on its way down from the mountains to the river. The recent dry weather com pels them to go to the river for water. This snake had nine rattles.
 Personal.-Mr. F. w. Smith of New York dropped in upon us last Monday af- ternoon. MT. Smith, who is now with Ben edict, Hall & Co.,, 134 Grand street, New York, was formerly clerk in MT. H. E. Wetherelrs store in Huntsville, and spent some part ot his early life in Cornwall. He is travelling salesman for the house mentioned; his route being in the south a large part of the year, and his old-time friends will be glad to know he is very suc- cessful in his business.
 The Rev. Albert Bushnell of Chicago, formerly of Salisbury, was recently married to Miss Margaret Carle at New York Mills, and is spending his vacation among friends in New York State.
 District Court.-The August term of the District Court will open at Falls Village next Monday at 2 p. m Judge Foster pre- siding. The following are the cases on the l trial list:
 Jury Cases-Durrill Adams vs. Thomas Peters, H. D. Ferry vs. Benj Hawley, AL fred DeLong vs. Henry Whitbeck, Newton L. Dexter vs. Henry Whitbeck.
 Court Cases-Harvey Holcomb ct al vs. George N. Cooper ct al, cases; Hunt & Lake vs. George Thompson, Thomas Pe- ters vs. Davld Stewart, John W. Rood ct ux vs. E. M. Rowland ct al, Wm. E Melton c. Welton vs. John F. Swift, John G. Lan- don vs. James Phelan. Thomas Morgan Jr. vs. Horace Landon ct al, E. Martin vs. E.. H. Rogers, P. Mundry vs T. M. Morgan, F. J. Rossman vs. E. W. Warner, Wm. H. Yale vs. s. P. Ensign, J. G. Powers & Co. vs. F. M. & B. J. Hicks, M. E. Hunt vs. Charles Vantine, Lew Whitford vs. Charles Brazle ex, Robert R. Thompson vs. H. J. Wilbur, J. G. Wilkinson ct al vs. Wm B. Perry, A. J. Bostwick ct al vs. Reuben Parmelly, H. Whitbeck vs. Newton L. Dexter, Roswell H. Day vs. Hiram E. Bartlett ct al, Ezra J. Dudley vs. Lyman Munson, Homer N. Gibbs vs. Patrick Far. ley, Abraham Hermon vs. Dennls Manix, | Wilson B. Hicks vs. James Rynoles, M. 0. Jewell vs. Eugene Wolfe, Lyman Page vs. John Doulan, Pratt 6 Foster vs. Joseph B. Ives ct al, Pratt 6 Foster vs. Mark Ives ct al, A. Thomas $ Go. vs Wm. N. Pitch CT.
 Time by Electricity.-The Bridgeport Standard says: Happening to meet Su- perintendent Reed at the New Haven de- pot, he showed us the electric clocks of which mention has heretofore been made In small room there is a first-class clock connected with galvanic battery and hay. ing wires running from 1t to two clocks in | the large passenger room of the depot, and also wire running half mile away to the iewelry store of Messrs. Benjamin & Ford in Chapel street, near the old depot. These clocks look the same ss other large clocks, with the hour, minute and second hands, but they differ however, in this respect, that they contain no clock works, and in
  ic machine. As the pendumlum swings back and forth in the re.l clock, it makes and breaks the circuit, and the current thus running through all the electric clocks causes their pointers to move at precisely the same instant SO there can be no possi- ble variation in them. Mr Reed said the wires might be extended so as to run these clocks in all the depots on the line of the road by this New Haven clock, thus insur- ing absolute accuracy of tune at all the stations, which would certainly be great public convenience.
 All large places in England and Scotland are provided with large cannon, stationed in forts and other places, and these cannon Gone in each citY,) are connected by teIe graph wires with the great clock ct Green wich, and at precisely twelve o'clock noon Greenwich, some part of the clock work i. made to close the electric current and fire all these guns simultaneously, thus giving exact Greenwich time to the whole people once day. This fact of what IS done ir England, together with the success of the experiments in New Haven, suggests wha is possible to accomplish in our country Every church bell in every town and will Elage on the line of a telegraph, could bt provided with the striking part of a clock and connected by branch wire from tho main line, and waich could be switched or to the main line say fifteen minutes befor. twelve each day, and the line put in con- ncction with the central office in New York or Boston, or Chicago, according to the time desired, and connected in the centra office with the striking part of large clock in such manner that every stroke would open and close the circuit, when every church bell in the country connected witt the wires, no matter how far away, would instantaneously respond, striking the hou of twelve at one and the same time. Tt make the connection constant, and the bel to strike every hour in the day would re- quire wire exclusively for that purpose and which is not practical or necessary, :, bu ] on all lines already constructed, the bell could be .strdck once day, giving to th whole people accurate time once in twent, , four hours, by which to adjust their clocks When it is remembered that every watcl , and clock keeps time of it's own, an, which varies from five and ten minutes t. 3 half hour from some ot the other time in the neighborhood, the importance 0 having something reliable ''to tie to" once , a day will be admitted. and it probably , only question of time as to something o , the sort being, to greater or less exten
 over the country, adopted; perhaps no
 however till the government buys up tn telegraph lines and runs them in connee ton with the post-off1ce department, an perhaps for this daily distribution of th