Connecticut western news., 1876-02-04


 is at this season of the year. It is very clear and free from snow. and will un- doubtedly make the water it is used in next summer, when the thermometer marks 90 degrees in the shade, as cold as zero itself, and keep well in the ice house. Now, al who have the good fortune to possess an ice house, had better lay in stock of the Washinee ice right away quick Delays are dangerous and the weather changeable and uncertain.
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 Send me, if you please,
 THE WESTERN CONNECTICUT NEWS
 For this rag in the letter;
 l can send you no better,
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 Says that he cant
 Give us anything better as yet,
 And Congress seems willing
 We shall all lose shilling
 On every dollar we get.
 By the next Centennial,
 Of that comes bi-ennial,)
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 Then if that should prove true
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 D..
 South Canaan, January s1st, 1876.
 Another Suspension Bridge.-The New York Tribune of last Tuesday says: The Hudson Suspension Bridge and New Eng land railway company is negotiating with contractors for grading the road from Turner's, on the Erie railway, to some point south of Lake Mah0pac, on the New York, Boston & Montreal railroad, Q dis tance of 26 miles, and also for building a suspension bridge across the river at Peeks- kill. The elevation of the bridge will be l65 feet above high water mark, and the span will be l,6OO feet. The Keystone bridge company of Philadelphia will erect the superstructure of the bridge. It is es- timated that the entire cost will be $3 ,OOO,- 900. MT. Pusey, the president Of the compa- ny, stated to Tribune reporter yesterday that he expected to sail for England on Saturday, Feb. 5th, to complete negotia- tions with English capitalists who had of fered to accept the securities of the compa- ny and advance the money necessary to carry on the work. The officers of the company are as follows: President, Chas J. Pusey Vice-President, John Q. Hoyt Secretary, James B. Macbeth Treasurer, A. W. Humphreys; Chief Engineer, Gen. E. w. Serrell.
 Southern Papers.-We are indebted to F. W. Smith, Esq.,, of Brooklyn, who is travelling in the South, for late files of Southern papers. One of them. the Will mington (N. O. Star of Jan. Fist, Gust | two weeks ago. has this item: Hyacinths are in bloom in the gardens about the city, and the beautiful yellow jessamine has been in full flower in the woods near Hilton and along the c. 0. rail | way for two weeks past.
 No where is manhood more fully devel oped than in the New England States, and the hardships of our bleak winters ot near ly half the year, are probably necessary tc bring out and enlarge all there is in a man susceptible of improvement; and we are not disposed to find fault at the established order of things but if perchance an earth quake should pick up our little state ot Connecticut, with all it's busy hum of in dustry ,and set it down few hundred miles further soutk, where the hyacinths are in bloom in January and the beautiful yellow jessamine iu full flower in the woods, very many of its inhabitants would be quite vii ling to suffer the depreciation of rugged manhood consequent upon the removal tc a warmer cllme, in exchange for the home among the flowers and sunshine.
 s'Them Chicken Thieves."-Can noth- | ing be done 10 rid t..e region of the gang ot thieving night providers that make thei haunts not many miles from Babe's Hill Foley's station or the bogs of Wetaug-th, foxes, wild cats and wolves that far' sumptuously on chicken fxings and turkey stuff1ng at the expense of the neighborint hen roosts? It has been whispered tha possibly it might be boys that had don' the sneaking deeds, but as no decently brought up specimen of the genus AOm would be guilty of the meanness of rob bing hen roost, the idea must be dis missed at once. Besides, what three boy could make way with or pick the bones o one or two chickens in one night, to sa, nothing of half as many turkeys, and duck or two? or what three boys could g. cover up their tracks that only few feath CTS scattered along the road they tool should tell for certainty where they ha fenced their swag? No! it is the sly sneaking fox Gin furs), the crafty cat G boots), and the wary wolf Gin sheep clothing) that we are to hunt up, and who's : well-tanned hides should be made to deco rate the barn doors they know so well ho, to get over or through, along with the crow and owls that usually hang there. Never theless, there has been hundreds of dollar worth of poultry carried off by somethin that goes on legs (two or four) during th present fall, ard it is not difficult to gues where it was disposed of; and It is we known that the guilty 'varmints' that featl cred their nests so well still prowl aroun and find shelter almost in sight of tt e roosts they have robbed; and if it shoul , turn out that these boys (well grown a iniquity) are really the thieves, it is a mi. taken leniencY to let them off on their rt l.. turning handful of feathers, let us say n they have stolen-and which they can n ready-ly make up from another man roost. Seriously, it is to be hoped that pa n ties who have good proofs (and we are !. sured they are ample to conyict) will n n hesitate to make au example of these vi
 lains that will deter some and perhaps GU