Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27

OO ' Ou 0o9 4L 1-WOOQLOrQ CD CaDp s new advertisement, we mean. Law sakes, how nateral it looks. These Winsted ad- vertisements appear about az much at home in THE NEWS as Robert Thomas almanac does in the home of Yankee farmer.
 A Good Deed The Congregational church of North Canaan have shown an ap- preciation of their pastor by generously contributing sum sufficient to send him and his family to the Centennial at Phila- delphia. The act was spontaneous one, and one highly creditable to the liberal donors.
 Norfolk. weather has been very fine the past week. Business is not over brisk. w. E. and E. s. B. ach have their store we'll filled with fall and winter goods, which they are selling as cheap as the cheapest. M. Ryan is not asleep, but doing his share of the business in the way of dry goods, groceries, hats, caps, boots, and ready made clothing......J. K. Shep- ard, down at West Norfolk, has not been heard from lately, but we nay expect to hear from him soon as his partner has jus: returned......A. A. Spaulding is laying the foundation for new house which is to be erected this winter......C. Fl. Mills had 8 harness stolen from his shed one night last week. He is very thankful they did not take his horse too. HASH.
 Touched Bottom. - The Bridgeport Steamboat Go. has actually touched bot tom on prices to the Centennial at Phila- delphia by their steamer from Bridgeport, the price for round trip tickets being now only $5. We are informed by Supt. Hub bell that passengers taking their Sunday night boat, which they can do by going on the Housatonic milk train Sunday even- ing, will be carried around by the Bridge port steamer and landed in Jersey City in time for the $40 train, which will take them into Philadelphia in time for break fast. This is certainly the most comforta- ble and rapid route to the Centennial. The advertisement of the company iD another column is changed to correspond with this new order of things.
 That New Platform. extension ot the platform on the west side of the Union depot in this village, by Boss Carpenter Bartlett of the Housatonic RR. Co.,, is one of the great improvement of the age. Pas sengers alighting from the trains from the north have heretofore been obliged to steE out upon the ground, and then climb the steps to get to the depot, but this extension brings these Housatonic northern passen- gers on level with other folks, a courtesy extended to them they can not fail to ap- preciate. "Red Tom," as he stepped upol the platform the other day (You know Tom, don't you? He's the best passenge
 brakeman in North America). as he alight ed with his usual sprightliness upon tn
 new pIanks, looked at them moment ant ejaculated, ''rhere; this is what we want I don't care if we never h. ve anything els
 on the road, now we've got this platform.
 Tom thinks this new stoop will put 8 prd
 mium on the old original stock of the roa
 in less than thirty days.
 Missionaries for Salisbury -Brothe Pease of the CONN. WESTERN NEWS is fas getting St tiled in his new and pleasan quarters at Canaan Depot, and it is not diff
 ficult to imagine that he bas now bette location for the newspaper business tha when he was located in Salisbury. He hs } come little nearer our domain, to be surt , but we shall take steps to cultivate tn r field he has left to run to waste. Salisbur 7 is good field for missionary york; w. f sted Herasd.
 r While we are pleased with Brother Vaill r indorsement of our judgment in determil g ing the location at Canaan a better one ft l. our newspaper business, we can not perm e him to say that we propose to let Sslisbul :, run to waste. or that it is good field f,
 missionary work. The latter remark, hoy b eyer, may be intended to apply to that ar t cient but honorable locality in polite
 sense, in which case it of course becom 10 a matter of opinion, and while some W agree with the HeraId. others, who are U ' questionably ''good and true." will prob of blY stubhornly refuse to believe that R
 publican missionaries are at all net essa tn to the comfort and peace of Salisbur
 Anyway, MT. Heragd, say what you choo
 about us, but no reflections on ''Old Sal
 bury" THE NEWS was born there, al
 should the old town even curse us f
 branching out little, for removing our r a per to Canaan, yet will we love her.