Connecticut western news., 1875-01-29

ate on their papers, is always correct, and when Rsy ywSher Ssr is changd to indicate he proper credit, and in the event of an error. to nform ua for correction at once. No claims for red, unless presented Within thirty lays after the payment is claimed to have been made, as the regular receipt ot the paper with the late to which the subscription ie paid plainly printed thereon Is prima facie evidence of its ;eptance as correct. J. l.. PEAsE.
 Those Nines.-Who painted the ss on the mile posts on the Conn. Western road Was be cross-eYed?
 Barrington.-Orva Brusie has bought of Mrs. Pixley, the Berkshire House, in Burlington, for $2l. .5oo.
 Quit Claims. s.-Lots of blanks for quit claim deeds, just printed on first-class pa- per. Only twenty-five cents dozen.
 Ancram Pork.-A MT. FinKle of An cram killed . hog 2l months old that weighed over half Q ton. The exact weight was los7 pounds.
 Going to F1orida.-Mr. John Wardwell of Lakeville will sail from New York to- day CThursday), for Jacksonville, Florida, to be gone two months.
 New Danbury Paper.-Mr c. E. A. McGeachy, who was employed to edit the Danbnry Neos during MT. Bailey's absence in Europe, will start 8 paper of his own,
 1he Daas6uriaas, the last of this month First Senator.-Iu the election of the
 Hon. Henry l.. Dawes as Senator by the
 Massachusetts Legislature last week. Berk shire county is permitted to send her first
 United States Senator to Washington.
 Court Matters s.-The Superior Court
 which was to have commenced it's session
 on Tuesday last, at Litchfield, was ad
 journed over to next Tuesday, on accoun
 of the illness of Judge Granger. Ther,
 were three jurors from this town.
 New Milford Town Hall.-New Milford
 voted last week to build new town hall
 the size to be sixty by ninety feet. It is t,
 he of brick, and the cost not to exceed
 thirty thousand dollars. Towns all around
 us have built. or are building, new towl
 halls, and they are no fifteen cent struc-
 lures, either.
 Kent.-The new depot in Kent is one 0
 the finest on the Housatonlc road. It is al
 ample structure and elaborately finished
 being provided with everything that can il
 any wise conduce to the convenience an'
 comfort of the patrons of the road and ii
 business. We congratulate Agent Smitl
 on his new and elegant quarters.
 Canaan Ore.-One of Salisbury's profef
 sional iron men, having heard so muc
 about the new ore bed in Canaan, visited
 last week, and acknowledges himself as
 tonished at the quantity and quality of or
 now visible. He pronounces the prospeo
 for getting ore there better than at an
 mine he ever saw, and is very enthusiast about it. The Postal Parcel scale.-Under th recent improvements in postal arEang ments great convenience is secured to store and their remote customers. Glove shawls, slippers, groceries, cigars, dr goods, candy, ornaments, anything n' weighing over four pounds, can be SCI quicker by mail than express, and at fra | tional cost. For two cents one may sen by mail parcel welghing 8 quarter of 0 pound from Maine to California; eigl e cents will carry pound across the cont a nent.
 Suffering Kansas.-The following lett 2 speaks for itself:
 f LAKEv1LLE, Conn.,, Jan. 20, 1875. . J. l.. PEAsE, EsQ.:
 Dear SST-l am ID receipt Of a lett
 from E $. Stover, chairman of the Kans e Relief Committee. acknowledging the r, ). ceipt of $29. 50 and notice of the shipmel
 of barrel of clothing, &c. He say 1T ''The Restitution in our state is steadily il s creasing as the weather becomes more s d were. and we find ourselves with an arn n of 25,O0O suffering people on our hand n Our supplies are totally inadequate. if YouIs truly, THos. l.. NORTON. Gold Weather.-The following authe Y. tic record of the coldest weather ev h known in this section of the country, w e handed us the other day: Friday. Ja 23d, l857-The mercury in thermonete d at Ashley Falls marked p degrees belo d zero. On the following day (24tb), b reached dirty-one 6elow zero in that villag C In She effield on that day (24th), it stood n 32 degrees; in Western Sheffield, 33 d. a grees; at Canaan, 30 degrees below. ( l. tbe next day (25th) it marked in Ashl, E Falls, Is degrees below zero; the 26th, if below, and on the 27th it suddenly rose ,- 35 degrees a6ove zero, and rained. I'll 1t was indeed remarkable weather. ,e Strike at Ashley Falls.-Buildings al 10 derricks have been erected at the Scovi n quarries at Ashley Falls. and last wee m Friday, while the work of getting mart D was being pushed forward as rapidly as t at unfavorable season of the year would a Y init, the men, to be in fashion, of cours n- struck for higher wages. We know not l. ing of the merits of their particular clail C, but an opinion formed by 8 general vie , 70 of the case, or that of any other class se workmen at such times as the presel le would pronounce their act as disgusting foolish. The country is full Of men of ,d ages travelling about as ''tramps," sleepi re in barns and begging from door to dot h and all tell the same story, Cant 2 at work, when in almost every instance tn Io o could get employment, but refuse to lab t. unless they can obtain the price their &
 vices commanded in prosperous times, a to which, in the present depression, cannot ,gf paid. Sympathy bestowed on tramps W ,n made themselves thus by their own stu e. born and unappreciative acts, seems e ed tirely misplaced. We know not the coul