Connecticut western news., 1876-07-21

York, who is quite extensively known hcre about, called on us the other day. Mir. Smith is Litchfield county boy, and is worthy representative of the iron bound corner of our state. He spends much of his time as a mercantile traveller in the Southern States.
 It Will Grind.-The mill of Eggleston & Selleck on Washinee street wont lay still, even at so dull season as at the present time, and those gentlemen are compelled to buy western grain, car load after car load, to give it something to do. Of course they have sale for all they can grind, because the mill docs it's work so well, folks will have it's flour. feed, etc., but during the heated term when everybody thinks they ought to have rest. there is no chance for a "breathing spell" there.
 A Centennial Loaf.-Hardly had the ink on the item above concerning the indus trious mill of Eggleston & Selleck got cold, when MT. Eggleston made his appearance at the door of our sanctum and courteously presented us. with a loaf of rye bread.- There is nothing particularly remarkable in the fact of our being the recipient of loaf of bread, for we presume we looked hun gry, as editors usually do, but when he told us the rye of which that loaf of bread was made, stood Tn the field at six o'clock this
 (Tuesday) morning, and was cradled, raked and bound, threshed, cleaned in the fan , ,oi a1 II os,oiM
 into flour, bolted, taken to the house and
 placed in the hands of Mrs. Eggleston, who,
 before five o'clock in the afternoon, had
 completed a batch of raised rye bread, and
 which, we will bear testimony, was whiter
 than the average of bread made of that
 grain and seen on New England tables. It
 was sweet, tender and delicious: We say.
 when he told us this brief history Of the
 loaf, our interest went beyond what would
 be dictated by hunger. We presume none
 will be found who can say they ever before
 ate for tea at five o'clock in the afternoon,
 bread made of grain that stood uncut in the field the same morning at six o'clock. If
 they can, we'd like to see lem do it.
 The State Prison.-Mr. l. N Bartram
 of Sharon has the entire superintendence
 of the changes which are to be made in the
 state prison at Middletown. There Is to be
 an addition of fifty-six new cells; the tail
 bring and laundry departments, which arc
 now on the south part of the prison are tc
 be changed to the north part, also the fe-
 male department is to be removed to tho
 north part of the prison. The chapel is tt
 be thoroughly repaired and the system O.
 ventilation of all the departments to b. perfected. The prison will be enlarged ant
 fifty six convicts more than at present There are now two hundred and sixty con
 victs in the keeping of Warden E. B Hewes, who appears to have a tact in thei management and control, that gives hi guests vast amount of satisfaction, an such a wholesome satisfaction that the pee pie of the state, who stand as surety fo their board there, are glad to give him a of this kind of patronage they have at thei disposal. By the way, we came nea
 emitting to say the Warden's department to be built over and made entirely new, an F more to the comfort and convenience c = that official, whose duties are such ths 9 everything should be ss nearly perfect g : possible, and as will conduce most to hi : assistance. This work of change, recor | struction and general improvement, is { . begin at once.
 ], Man Drowned.-Last Sunday afternoo n about four and half or five o'clock, ' young man who has been in the employ C /, , Dennis Mannix as farm hand on Tow = Hill, and who gave his name to MT. Maj n nix as William Appleby, and to some otl s CTS as William Vosburgh, and claimed t have hailed from Beekman,a a station on th }, Harlem railroad, went to the east shore C : the lake, Wononscopomoc, in compan f with small lad. and there found two ott
 CT boys, who were in boat o! D in the lake few rods. Appleby aske " the boys to come ashore and take hmse I and little boy in with them, which they die |. and after the boat was again pushed ou : they being undressed and prepared fc 8 sport in the water, began to rock th T boat and dip it's side till it was partiall s filled with water, and fearing it might sin Q a and endanger the life of the little boy, the A proposed some of them to jump out. Alp : pleby told the boys he could swim, an , leaped off into the water. but instead of r r maining on top of the water or swimming l. he went immediately down. Seeing he wa d being drowned, one of the other boys wer r under the water to his assistance, when th T drowning man grasped him, and seeing h r. could not manage him. and fearing himse would be drowned, he wrenched himse s loose from him and went 10 the shore. A sistance was summoned from the neighbo
 ing houses and the unfortunate man re l. cued, but not till he had been in the wat' so long he could not be resuscitated. A e inquest was held Monday, which gave 1T verdict in accordance with the facts as W = have stated them above.
 Hydrophobia Remedy.-A correspon
 ent of the Hartford Times says: "In the, &, broiling days, bydrophobia specifies are m order. see you publish cure for it-el " campagne boiled in milk. have an ar cle by Mrs. Swisshelm, published in Il ~ Pittsburgh Commercial last summer, whic
 recommends the same remedy; and as . tells how to prepare it, would like to ,u form your readers-the more so. as half 'A dozen or more mad dogs are said to be loo st in the region round about here. Mrs. Swi of helm learned of the cure in Chester cou se ty, Pa., where it went by the name of 'tl ;e old Chester Valley cure' A German l Il the name of Joseph Emery had become I Ve nous far and wide in that region for | lxy nf hv6ropbohin Ho u,oc cont f