Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
More Severe weather-Tuesdav wa.

In Hartford the weather was very severe. l The Courant of Wednesday says the mer- cury m that city indicated from to l2 be- low zero, and in East Hartford 20 below. Weathersficld reports IA below, Enfield l5, Suffolk and Simsbury l9 below.
 That River Channel. l.-FatAers of the Toaon: Have you noticed tue ice in our streets, arising from the fact that you neg lecttd 10 make a channel for the water of the Riga stream after the June flood ? You were told by the oldest inhabitants of the place that our streets would be flooded with water and ice. The warning is dem- onstrsted by the fact. Question-Wil you let another summer pass without doing your duty in this regard. X. L.
 Poitioal-At a republican caucus held at Cornwall, January 18th, the following named persons were appointed delegates to the various conventions:
 State Convention-Chauncey E. Bald
 win, Horace c. Hart, John W. Beers, B. B. North.
 Congressioual-Rufus s. Fnnk, Theo- dore $. Gold, James H. Cole. D. W. Pierce. County-Wm. Chipman, Walter B. John. son, Walter D. Smith, Wm. c. Hart. Senato1al-Oliver Chipman, T. R. Bald.
 win, w. H. Porter. Egbert M. Rogers. The New Route west.-The committee
 of Boston business men appointed at the
 recent Board of Trade meeting in that city,
 to examine into the feasibility of further
 railroad connections with the West by the
 way of the Poughkeepsie bridge, left Bos-
 ton last Tuesday morning and came to
 Hartford, on the Hartford, Providence and
 Fishkill road, and the same afternoon
 passed through this village oyer the
 Conn. Western road to Poughkeepsie.
 whence they will probably continue their
 trip of inspection as far west as the Penn
 sylvania coal regions.
 "Old Massachusetts."-T eighth an-
 nual gathering of the sons and daughters
 of Massachusetts took place at the Clark
 House, Winsted, Wednesday evening. The
 call embraced the residents of Winchester and vicinity, natives of Massachusetts, and
 all families either head of which is native of the old Bay State. It is too near time r for going to press to obtain 8 report fol . this week. The committee of arrange r ments have our thanks for kindly invita- : ton to be present. Being native of Mas
 sachusetts, we should have been. glad tt
 have join, d the company, but that particu o lar evening in the week will seldom permi T, us being absent from our office. That Village want-Nr Editor: Tha idea about the Village Want"-a readini d room--alluded to in THE NEWS last week
 strikes everybody favorsbly. Why no }. ke p 1t before the people2 Why don't yo u say something about it2 Whether you fs :. vor or oppose 1t, say something occasion s ally. EBefore the above was received, W J. had penned an item concerning the readin D room project, which may be found in sn
 other column.-ED. NEws.1 The Literar :, Society met Tuesday evening, at DeS. Jew ell's. A bright moonlight, gay sleighina ringing bells. smiling bellies and hopefr :, lads, made it very enjoyable for all. Thl !, society may be, can be, and should be th nucleus of the reading room. "s" l. surprised.-While riding after Mir. Err
 rvs steed the other day in Winstrd. an 70 when the animal was spanking" off abor " a 2S6 gait, he turned suddenly upon u md with evident surprise said: "Whl 4 Pease! we (Bepjamin & Frary) got su O der the ether day from a Mir. Bradley, :. Iosco, Michigan, for some of our ne'
 sheet music, 'Silver Threads Among th
 Gold, and he said he saw the advertisemer
 in THEsNEws. I didn't know your pap r. went away off there; and if 1t did shouldn have thought we should have heard frol IT our advertisement 50 soon, as we have hs n 1t inserted only little more than a week V' Why, bless your soul. Friend Frary. TH st NEWS goes to every state in the Union, say st and if you do not get several orders fro'
 the other side for this most excellent must [ it will then be our turn to be surprised. S' Duchess County silver.-The Pougil ;. II. keepsie Eagle says gang of laborers hay ,s recently been engaged in lengthening tn S ., side track at Shekomeko, on the Dutchel .. a and ColumbiA Railroad. In order to con 's plete the desired extension it became nee | essary to blas' some rock. This develope :. some shining ore beneath the surface N' pwhich, upon examination, gave evidence (
 containing considerable quantity of silv' 1e and lead. Experiments were made wit l. the newly discovered ore to ascertain 2; value, and some was also forwarded .h New York for analysis. It was found a contain AZ per cent. of silver and lart at allowance of lead. This vein, h0weve be is a very thin or small one, and scare t. worth the trouble of furt CT investigation ly But this event would seen to indicate thu or there certainly is silver in large quantiti
 somewhere in the numerous mountains
 eastern Duchess.
 s; Where, Oh! Where
 of "Ohi where has my little tog gone;
 ,a With his ears cut short and his tail cut long, ,a were not the exact words to the tune tl ,o Hartford business men sang the other ds ,n when they visited this village with their n h. merous bills for belting, machinery, sc if. but something that sounded somewhat lv follows. comes nearer the precise languas Tn to their melody:
 v "Where, oh where have the Taylor Brothe ,o g"neP
 With our bills cut short and our faces cut long.
 Never before in the history of this tow IE has business finn entered it, made iise m SO immensely ''rich," and retired fro