Connecticut western news., 1876-08-04
Falls Village We almost hv accident

l dropped into Falls Village last Saturday, and looked about amongst lem some, but concluded If we wrote up what the mer- chants and business ,men generally are up to now, we should not have a good excuse to go over there again very soon. Any way, we'll just say that Jeweler Capron has added more show case room to his store, and besides the finest jewelry, silver ware, watches and clocks, he now celebrates the centennial year with an added stock of guns, pistols, revolvers, fishing tackle, mus ical instruments, chromos, toys, stationery, | albums, porcelain ware and-well, almost everything "under the sum-" After the reader becomes tired sightseeing there, just | step across to Mir. Dentist Clemans and he II tell you how old you are the moment he sees your teeth. Our marriageable ladies whose age is at all uncertain, can find out | all about it. The doctor is one of the best dentists in North America, eff we do say it." But we wasn't calculating to write up the business folks when we started, and shall stop here, if we don't go on any fur 1 ther.
 Thieving Gypsies.-A small caravan of Gypsies passed through this place last Mon- day forenoon. One of the women entered house in this village, and finding nobody at home but a young wife and her child, placed herself between them and the door, thus blocking the means of egress, and demanded Victuals. On being told the family had none to spare. she went rumag ing about in cupboard. The wife went to the window to raise it and summon as- sistance, when the old bag "went for" her with will, and peremptorily commanded her to close the window and come away l fromi it. Spying a loaf of bread in the cup board, she grabbed it and said she was go- ing to have that. Ste endeavored to make the lady give her some pork, give her the dress she had on, and wanted her to go up stairs and get dress and give her, etc. ,etc., accompanying her demands with threats. The lady was considerably frightened, and concluded to let her have the bread, but succeeded in preventing her from getting anything else.
 | It seems as if it would be an excellent plan to not, under any circumstances what ever, permit these travelling vagabonds and thieves to enter dwelling. Drive lem out with broom stick, and see to it that the handle of the broom is good strong one.
 Too Thin.-A trial was made, on the 11th ins:., at the Moss Creek mills, near Carol l tnn Mo pQNartain fho finnn in xUhinh bread could be made from wheat standing in the field, and with the following aston ing result, commencing at one minute after three o'clock and finishing at twelve min utes after three.
 | Commenced reaprng wheat 3:0l Finished reaping wheat 3.02
 Finished threshing w66eats-4 bushel s:9s 1-4 l Commenced grinding wheat 3:03 3-4 hsaoa making bread sS | Finished making bread sos 1-2 Commenced baking bread sos 1-2 Finished baking griddle cakes 3.o9 12
 That is an achievment in bread making equal to the best time of Goldsmith Maid or Smuggler on the turf. -EcchGnge. 1 That's too thin. The item we made two weeks ago about Messrs- Eggleston 6 Sel- lect cutting rye in the field at six o'clock in the morning, and Mrs. E. completing 8 batch of most excellent bread from it be- fore five o'clock the same afternoon, excited the jealousy of some brother of the quill, who probably 'screated" the above item, and made himself safe from contradiction by locating the feat in Missouri. Green. land is not known to be an excellent wheat growing country. but the event might have happened there, as detailed above, as well as in Missouri.
 There is, as is plainly manifest, dis crepancy in the record of ''time" as re- corded, if all the rest is strictly correct. It should have been as follows:
 Flowed the land at BOO Sowed the wheat at 800 1-S Commenced reaplng wheat 301
 And so on, counting through the table as given above. With this correction, the table will be believed by the general reader.
 but without it, the story ''won't go down
 worth cent.
 Fire at Ore Ri1l.-The residence of MT. Goodrich s. Gibbs at Ore Hill caught fire in some unknown manner last Friday morn. ing, and was burned to the ground. MT. Gibbs and his wife left their home about o'clock in the morning and went to Sharon, and at tri1e past 9 o'clock their house was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was given and the workmeh in the orc pits, and everybody else in the village, at once rushed to the scene of confagration. The smoke was seen at Lakeyille and Millerton, and large numbers from those places and from all the region about, were soon on the ground. The men, it is said, worked like beavers, and succeeded in saving per. haps tWo-thirds of the household furniture and goods, but the house was past help. The property was insured for $2, ,OOO, $l, ,OOC in the Litchfield Mutual and $1 ,OOO in g Hartford company. The-l loss we are not informed of, but it can not be less than $3,0O0 or $4,0OO. Mir. Gibbs began tc build his house twenty years ago, and has occupied it about IS years, since which time he has almost constantly been adding improvements and conveniences till it haC really become an expensive house, and fol himself and wife to ride up to the ruin after } their return from Sharon rnust have beer exceedingly trying to thern. As we said } above, the origin of the fire is not known
 Mr. Gibbs built light fi.e in the kitchen te cook quick breakfast, and when himself and wife locked up their house, they sup } posed every spark was entirely extinguish ed. Some have theory that the quick fire ignited soot in the chimney, whici } heated the wood work and ignited it, O communicated fire to it in some way. IL