Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05

GUaL 66eC0puOn. - The LIT ana MFS Knight were blessed with pleasant evening and large gathering of their friends at their home in Lakeville last Wednesday, evening. They were congratulated upon the safe arrival home from Europe of the Doctor, and his much improved health.
 We should be glad to be able to give de- tailed report of this very pleasant recep- ton by the Doctor and his amiable wife, but the proximity to press hour imperative ly forbids the indulgence.
 The "Weston" Locomotive.-The ex- perimental locomotive; the ''Weston," l" which has been run on the Conn. Western road the past few days meets with varying success in it's efforts to do given amount of work with from third to nearly half less coal than engines built on the old plan. On one round trip of the road in competi- tion with the locomotive Bloomfield" !" it consumed about seventeen hundred pounds more coal than the ''Bloomfeld" while do- ing the same work. Then again with oth- CT engines it came out ahead. Alluding to this experimental locomotive the Scsentife Ansericas says:
 A saving of fuel of generally over thirty per cent. IS claimed. This is effected by means of peculiar fire-box. In most loco motives the long flues or pipes connecting the furnace with the smoke stack are di- rectly opposite the door, and much of the fine coal is caught by the draft as soon as thrown into the furnace and comes out of the smoke stack in the form of dust and sparks. With this boiler however, the in- vention of man named Weston, a firebrick arch over most of the furnace keeps down much of the fine stuff, and what doese cape has to pursue zigZag course through a consuming box-where the particles are stopped. and even the smoke is consumed in front of which are the fues, only six feet long instead of dozen, as in an ordi- nary engine. This much for economy of fuel; and to provide still more for com- fort, the smoke stack contains an arrange ment by which what few sparks do get that far are carried off to the ground by pipes running beneath the engine. The locomo- tive is higher than most. and is extremely well proportioned. This is rather small one, having cylinder 16 inches in diame- ter, with stroke of p inches. and driving wheels i've feet in diameter. H. B. Kling- CT, who has it in charge, has been running it on trial on the western end of the Boston & Albany railroad, and comparing itsswork with that of the company's engines, with an average saving of 46 per cent. in fuel.
 All About Lakeville.-The street lead. ing from the main street in Lakeville to the depot is an exceedingly dangerous thor oughfare for strangers arriving on the even ing trains and going through it. One not acquainted with tho way is very liable to walk off the high entertainments on the north side, or off into the lake on the op- posite side these dark nights, and at least two lamps are sadly needed to make it at all safe. A street lamp at the end of the platform leading into that street, and one at or near'the knife factory. should be put in position at once. Col. Tupper says he will care for one near the depot if put there, and it only remains a question as to who is the proper party to furnish one for that place, the railroad company or the cit- izens of Lakeville, with the chances in fla vor of the railroad company being the priv ileged party; and then if the Governor will hoist one into position near the knife fac tory which so worthily bears his name, ev- erybody will be compelled to acknowledge he has done the handsome thing '..... MT. Peter Lanpson, who has bee n with Mr. Miller at the Miller House for two or three years past, IS now landlord thereof, run l hing the hotel for the administrator of the Miller estate......The strong wind of last Saturday night, and which seemed to be on bender pretty much all about town, had a tussle with the smoke stack up at Esquire Dodge's ore bed, and from the appearance of the pipe Sunday morning, evidently got the better of it, as about Is feet of the top thereof was made to bite the dust. Anyway; Dodge says he has some of the best cider you ever saw.-What does he charge for board D.. Two more butchers are at once to be added to the stock on hand. Mir. George Barnet kas recently engaged in the business, and MT. s. Decker will soon have his battle axe ground and his hands reeking with the innocent blood of Mary's little lamba9 Now then; Messrs. Wipck- worth 6 Bunnell, look we'll to your laurels: I MT. Decker is after you with his Porter house steak at 16 cents per pound......W We won't say those Knife shop chaps will steal chickens, but when we passed there on the l way to the 8 o'clock train last Monday evening, we saw some chickens going ir the front door, and they acted as if they Edidn't want to go in; didn't like the looks of the place. The pork may be getting low in their barrels. but we are satisfied the
 boys came honestly by that lot of chick I Among the most contemplating of tho
 leading business men of Lakeville, art
 Messrs. Cornell & Hoyt.. Their new stor'
 is now entirely completed, and filled abso-
 lutely full of everything required by tn.
 housekeeping world. The entire secont
 story is filled with furniture among whicl
 are some as fine chamber sets often seer
 outside the cities. Everything in the lin'
 of furniture IS in the stock of this room
 The rooms below are literally packed witt
 an endless variety of everything from a til whistle to four-horse pump: Carpets, oi
 cloths, tea pots, washboards, clocks, ther
 mometers, street lamps, and nine million
 of everything else that we hadn't time t. count when there taking the census tn s0ther night. A visit to this store is wort
 as much as circus any time. The Gath
 olic fair is meeting with very good success
 the attendance being large and receipt very satisfactory. Boss Sawye r Cleveland says he did actually see rair g bow in the west the other evening at abou D 8 o'clock. It was genuine moonshin - bow and he'll swear to it; while Postmas f CT Norton says he saw shower bow figt g square in the north once, and which h