Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05

countless millions of these creatures, and | similar instance is also reported from the l town of Wilton.
 Domestic Incendiary.-Th fire recently 1 discovered in the house of MT. Dalzell of Egremont, and which was supposed to be an incendiary attempt to destroy :he build ing, and for the discovery and conviction of the offender a reward of $2OO was of fered, it is now proved pretty conclusively was ignited by the servant girl, who kindled very 'comfortable fire" in the wood box The motive of the girl in thus attempting the destruction of her employers home we have not learned, if indeed it is known.
 From Negaunee.-In private note to us received the other day from MT. Tom Wells of Negaunee, (and who almost eve rybody knows is Salisbury boy,) he says among other things:
 You might enjoy perhaps, taking walk with me for fifteen minutes. and would show you snow eight feet deep, yet the day is fine. One advantage we have here is, al- most as soon as the snow disappears, the ground is dry. The first question of course is, Are you going to the Centennial? When you have seen the big show, you had bet ter make the trip of the lakes to Marquette and so through this mining region. You might find the contrast great after visiting Florida so lately, but do think you would enjoy the trip. We are this week receiving lots of new goods and business is fair Keep sending THE NEWS,
 We are very much obliged to Friend Tom for his kindly invitation to visit Negaunee, and will say that we verify believe we shall some day stray off into that region otcop- per and snow. Our business demands that we shall stay at home at least part ef tue time, but sometime when we can see ,our way clear, we shall justlikeasnot start off on tangent and fly to the nor'ard. landing right on Toms door step. How's Squire Adams, he whose front name is John Q. !, Friend Gibbs, Corbit and the rest of em 1? eh ?
 Slowing Up on the State House.-Only about twenty-five cars of marble week is being shipped from the quarries at East Ca naan to Hartford for the new state house. A year ago forty cars week were put in the structure, but we are informed the com
 missloners, who are receiving large salaries
 for their work of attending to the construc, tion of the edifce, found the work was be.
 ing completed too rapidly, and their term | of service at that rate would be too quickly
 at an end, and as a consequence the state
 government pap, upon which they were fat
 tening, would be taken from them before
 each and every one of them was fully in-
 flated. and immediately It became ''abso-
 lutely necessary" for the thorough ant
 substantial progress of the work" that i
 should not proceed so rapidly, therefore
 help was reduced, and the time of it's com pletion heightened ip the ratio ot 25 to 40
 In other words; where 25 years would bt
 required to complete the work as it pro gressed last season, 40 years will be neces
 sary as it is pushed forward by this season.
 scale of labor. We hope not syllable O
 the above is correct, but we are afraid, by
 what we have learned, that it is too true
 The quarrymen at East Canaan have beer
 
 pond with the new order of things.
 Guy Fawkes Responds.-MR. EDITOR
 In one of your late papers you made an en quirY for Guy Fawkes, and from hints il
 the paragraph, seemed to wish for him t.
 ply his vocation on our ruinous town hall If not lineal descendant, l fancy mus have some of his blood in my vRns, sine
 from my earliest childhood have fror | time to time manifested strong disposition to blow up various people, and as old az creeps on the tendency grows stronger, 8 } that I feel quite confident I can answe ' your purpose. However, in these har 5 times have grown economical, and CT
 deavor to adapt my destructive capabilitie
 to this-panicky era, and would pot adYis wasting any powder on the hall. Let m ' call your attention to the patriotic proposi tion of citizen of Brooklyn, N. r., ,whic appeared in the daily papers;
 . To the Common Council, etc.: I see b s the public prints that it is the intention c D your honorable body, at the approachin n centennial holiday, to make by fire-work:
 etc., an unusual celebration, for which presume you will make liberal appropri;
 ton of public moneys. Now, inasmuch g
 l, a citizen of Brooklyn, am imbued wit ' similar sentiments of patriotism and reck t lessness, make the following proposition e Being the unfortunate owner of coup n of houses, which begin to realize are nt z worth the taxes and assessments levied ur Il on them, and desiring to get away from D city altogether too costly for my limite f means, l offer the said houses to your hol !. orable body as bonfire on the Fourth ( ;a July. JOHN T. THORN. .s This surely is worthy of the centenni T. year. Now sir, IS the patriotism of Cor
 necticut, and of the good town of Sali bury, to be outdone by any of the dege :, crate inhabitants of York State ? It mu ' not be. The same reason may not exist
 in the Brooklyn case it is tagation, in oul h. dszapidotioa-bu both afford suitable pr " texts for heroic acts of self-sacrifclng D r. triotism. Let US offer the town hall ,e ming sacrifice on the altar of the countr " It belongs to the town Git is said) and if st common consent we should give it 10 [ r. flames on the evening of the 4th of Jul ut we should outshine all the towns in Go e. necticut ln the way of fire works.
 it To be sure, our German friends and o ht CTS, who occupy parts of it, may object nd this. But we know that in India it i w common thing for widows to be burn h. alive as an honor to their husbands me m ory, and possibly their patriotism will bt
 Iklo e.. nd fho1 vryill nI,o rt,1ll oI rst sent to sacrifice themselves to give ad' ,w tional eclat to our Fourth of July celebl
 ton. If not-as this is free country a
 not one of the effete despotisms of Euro Oe tl,a,, aro of Ehnrfu tn rnnva nnt Wa r