Connecticut western news., 1875-01-29

Postal Appointment.-Mr. c. K. Cor ham, for several years news agent on the Heusasonic railroad. has been appointed postal route agent on that road, In place of MT. G. w. Porter, resigned.
 That Mystical Swindle.-
 In facetious paragraph in the CoNNEo- TToUT WESTERN NEWS the information Is vaguely conveyed that some Hartford men have been swindling the good people of Salisbury. 1t does not give particulars of the swindle. but says: s.Never before in the history of this town has business firm entered it, made itself so immensely 'rich,' and retired from business in SO short time as have the Taylor Brothers. The last seen of the active partner in the firm he was walking against time oyer Holland hills, with all his worldly goods in his vest pocket, bound for the rising sun. "-Hart- ford Courant.
 We frankly acknowledge ourself in fault for SO wording the item that those not pre- viously conversant with the facts in the case would not understand its purport, as is evident by our venerable contemporary getting an erroneous impression. as is shown by it's quotation and remarks above. It is not Hartford's bull that has gored Sal isburY's OK, but instead Hartford and Salls- bury together own the OK that has suffered by the ungentlemanly conduct of some body else's animal. Tho Taylor Brothers came to this place some months since, ana ''staked out" business enough to satisfy a millionaire. They employed great number buildings commensurate with thelr inflated plans. Now they would appear before the public as architects and builders, making contracts for the erection of residences al
 half the price such structures usually cost.
 and offer to give their patrons five years
 credit. Presto; and they loom up in the
 attitude of merchants, and goods arrive by
 the car load. They give credit to every body and expect credit from everybody else. The active partner visits Hartfort
 and renders his orders 30 freely that at on'
 house alone his purchases in something lik half an hours time amounted to more thai five hundred dollars. Their prices fo
 erecting buildings were so very treason
 able" that orders came in SO rapidl J they were compelled to erect their shaftin ' and adjust their pulleys in the m' ' chanical department of their estal
 lishment in such haste for the E, ecution of their contracts, they wel e not hung with the precision usually regar e ed as essential. and when the water Wi ], turned on and motion imparted to then
 every man, woman and child in the reggie
 instlnctively fled from the neighborhoo le fully impressed with the idea that aom 'e thing dreadful was going to happen. Tn matters progressed till one pleasant afte S' noon in October, when Sheriff Richmol
 of Canaan paid them visit, and boug t, their mercantile department out clean Il ,n first shot. Friend Crowell of Lime Ro' d. bought back his water wheel, Sheriff Per nt traded even paper he had in his pock re for horse,-&c &c. Business cortinu
 brisk until they retired perfectly satisfied ua having sold everything, and have gone to !, where the woodbine twineth. When n e., they came or whither they have gone, no seem to. o.know.
 ''The wind bloweth where it listeth; ye h, J" the sound thereof, but know not whence it co Vn eth nor whither 1t goeth.''
 c. Just so with the Taylor Brothers; a
 when the Hartford business men visit If Salisbury last week with their hills agail m them. and poeticalIy inquired:
 Where, oh where have the Taylor Broth u' gone?
 With our bills cut short and our faces cut long no there were found none to make answ lts Salisbury and other villages iu this regis th as well as Hartford. have substantial ca,
 for grief for having known them; a es- quite likely hope that tue places whi oh have 80 recently known them will kn i, them no more.