Connecticut western news., 1876-12-01

Horse Dead.-Thursday of last week, while . horse hitched to wagon. and be ,nnging to Theoph Houghtailing. WAS sanding in front ot Taft's store in Ashley Fails. it dropped sudehly to the ground md almost instantly died. Some sffrc- non of the heart is said to have been the cause.
 Notice A meeting of the bond holders of the Connecticut Western R ,ilroad Go. will be held at the office of the company in the city of Hartford, on Wednesday Dc. $, 1876. at 10 o'clock. A full attendance is desired. By order of Board of Directors. Office of Connecticut Western R R. Co.
 Hartford, Conn, Nov. 27, 1876.
 The New Elder Bishop Harris has appointed the Rrv. DelOs Lull Presiding Elder of the Poughkeepsie District, New York Methodist Conference. to succeed the Rev. William Goss. deceased. Mir. Lull is now pastor of church Using Sing. There are about sixty churches in the dis rict.
 Thanksgiving serviees.-There will be- Thanksgiving Services Ut the Congr-gn-
 lonal church in East Canaan, at II o'clock A. M. Thursday, and at the Episcopal church in this village at the same hour. At the Congregational and Episcopal churches in Salisbury, at the usual time of Sunday forenoon meetings.
 Another Tenement Mir. George Gil- lette is building Lew house on Gravel street. the new street leading from Main street to the hay press works and gravel 'i-pot, The demand for tenements in this place is far greater than the supply. and | his addition to the number will be hailed with delight by the floating population of | the world.
 Lee & Hudson R. R.-The Lee 6 Hud. son railroad has cost in it's construction up 10 the present time several hundred tbUus- first mortgage on the road for @l2.OO0 held py man ny the name of Dwire, it was sold at auction a short tune since to the smith Paper Co.,, of Lee, for $lO.O00 Exactly what the Smiths are going to d, with this elephant we have not been in ,ormed: but they have it. The town ot Lee alone has paid $50, GOO for stock, be sides what individual cItiz ns have taken and which was no small amount. This with what it has cost other towns and par
 ,irs, to be sold for paltry ten thousand
 shows the result of some investments
 "Huw little We know what we don't know,
 when we invest ID stock in new rairouds.
 Connecticut Western Railroad. = Tn
 annual report of the Connection
 Western Railroad. shows that the Com pany has issu, d $3 GOO 900 of bonds be
 sides pledging $2OO OOO as collateral'to pa.
 coupons with. It has nine locomotive
 ranging from 2S to 32 tons each seven
 teen passenger and baggage cars and tw
 hundred and nineteen merchandise cars The receipts We're for 'he year $3I8 2S6 Fl, being for freight $l9l 900 7s passen gers $lO9 698; milk $lO,O33 O9 7; mail
 $3 456,3l and express $3. .l9s 53 Th exp-nses include repairs, $5s 972 g. freight expense. $4s UOO,2S psssruprr. $ll , 7O3,S ,S2 coal, S36, ,394 0s .alari, 8, $2s, ,sl; 30. The total is $l98 N5742.
 This is $l2O, ,229 29 It ss than the total r' c-ipts The bond interest on $3, GOO. .OO0 , $2lO.OOO. In other words, the road wit all it's exp-nses reduced to the very lowe point, ne.s just about enough to pay ha it's interest.
 Cornwall Education serms to be r , ceivIng considerable attention on Creal Hill this winter. Besides Furnishing di ! .rict school. which has stood tor s, Yer : years, ranking first in town, it supper l. two private schools for advanced scholar .nd in this way is kerping the young De- pie at home. T. l. Gold has sustained !, private school for the past year at his ow
 nOuse, and recently, Dwight Pratt, Jr.. N la : graduate from Amherst college. has opens b 4 school at his fathers residence. M
 
 d NJ .ltie ScoviI is spending the winter vii S friends in S.ndusky. O., perfecting herse i'd the at of ptinting. Her absence 5, much regretted by her numerous friend J Miss G,rtie Wickwire has just return It from a visit to her sister, in Cortland. 'o Y. after aD absence of three mOnths....
 Harry Andrews and living J Scov;lle sp''
 Ihe Sabbath ip Plsisfirid. IL is hoped [
 ducks ahnut the lake will have little r' I'D during their absence am pg the ducks" d. Pnsfi Id. Don't you think. Mr. Eiir"r. is long ways to go sparkling. all the W B. from Cornwall to Pittsfeld? :? l won't 8 n- that is the bu mess nf these young gel Id up among the Berkshire hills, but ,h ii. have gone to Pitsfeld anyway, whsts' . their businessi g. AHoH.