Connecticut western news., 1877-07-06

Mrs. Theo. Sweet. Union Grove, Wis, 5 25 E. Snedeker Marketable. Conn.,, Do R. J. Arnold, Otsego, N. r., 50 H. E. Howe, Huntsville, Conn.,, Q 1S NJ. Stevens, Chapinville, Conn.,, 518 Y. McClerrin, Chapinville. Conn, tlS Mrs. ". Bissell Wakeman. Ohio, ,S;5oo s. Silyernsjl Elkhart, Ind, 1 20
 Dividend The Housatonic Rail Road Go. has declared quarterly dividend of $2 per share on the preferred stock, paya- ble July IA.
 Omitted.-For want of time to do it, we omit till next week giving credit to the dates of those of our subscribers who have paid us within the past week. ..
 Hunts Furnace At a recent meeting of the Hunts Lyman Iron Co. of Hunts vile, it was decided to again start their fur mace in that village at 8 not far distant pe- rod, probably in the early fall. "..
 Tobey Hill Ore.-Mr. Peet has begun in good earnest the transportation of ore from his Tobey Hill ore bed to the furnace of the Barnum Richardson Co.,, in East Canaan, large quantities being hauled daily.
 Cleaned Up.-The passenger coaches and baggage cars of the passenger trains of the Conn. Western road are being clean ed up, vanished and otherwise improved in appearance. They look very much bet ter, for there was and has for long time been great need of It.
 Too Late.-Correspond from Clay ton and West Cornwall was not received till Wednesday, ard as the boys of the of flee had their fire crackers and torpedoes bought. and were off celebrating, we couldn't coax them back to put them in type.
 Sheffield School, No. This school closed last Friday. Mary E. Lee, Matte Stanton, Mary, Katie and Dannie Fitzger- aid were neither absent or tardy during the term. Katie Fitzgerald has been neither abseut or tardy for four terms.
 M. E. BR1Gas, Teacher.
 Steamboat. A small steamboat, neat, pretty, and very delightful to sail in, we have no doubt, passed this station on the Conn. Western freight train Tuesday morn ing, going to some New Hampshire lake. Why don't somebody put just such boat on the Twin Lakes2 'Twould pay large interest on its cost, .-
 Heavy Yearling. g.-Stephen Maloy, an employee of the Barnes Bros., and living on Lime Avenue. sold fifteen months old heifer the other day to MT. Butcher Con way of Sheffield, which, at live weight brought down the scales at nine hundred and twenty pounds Isn't this pretty good Anyway, who can beat it ? -..r
 Heavy Freights. Last Monday thu freight train on the Conn. Western road di( not leave this station till half past eleven il the forenoon, and two of the heaviest loco motives in the service of the road were re quired to draw the train. Everybody glad the business of the Conn. Westerl road is improving thus rapidly.
 AAn Old Times Custom Bal toms locomotive Salisbury" of the Con1 Western road came out on its trip on tn Fourth tastefully trimmed with hagl which if we mistake not was the onl locomotive on the road thus adorned. w are sorry this old times custom is DO
 more generally observed now days. an
 Engineer Barton should be duly accredite
 for his patriotic enterprise.
 Another Dr. Weloh-William Welch,
 young man of West Winsted, who ha , been studying medicine in New Haven, hs begun practice as a physician in Norfol } with his uncle, Dr. Wm. Welch. Tn
 young man is another natural born Doctt ) Welch, and of course he will succeed his profession, for who ever heard of D g Welch who was not the best doctor ''yo . ever did see ?"
 Locomotive Longevity.-An Exchans says the New York Central & Hudson Ri CT Railroad Go. have been experimentir ; for some time past to discover how long
 locomotive can be run, with due regard = economy, without undergoing repair ;. The result of the experiment is that loc ,, motive No. 90 has run 70 900 miles
 eleven months, without once going to Il o shops, thing never before accomplish
 in railroading.
 d Fast Trains and Good Connections, g. Tbe fast trains on the Housatonic TO sI continue to speed on their way carryi is passengers to the West on much qulcl Is time than ever before. Think of takl .r lunch here in Canaan at noon and an ca IS diuner at Saratoga's Grand Union, wh D. '-no Jews need apply" or at the Congr , H .ll or ClaFenden where both Jew 2 il Gentle are welcome, at quarter past fl st or if it is farther westward the star of ( ts D re takes it's onward course, which in | Id case means our fellow passenger, he n V. leave here at noon day, and be lant ls safe and sound. fresh and hearty, in Chica a a-thousaDd miles away, in the afternoon at tie next dsy. The connections by th Il. f,s, tr,ins are certainly very desirable,
 fact it is thought that better do not exist
 the New England states; being continue K close and reliable. connecting with Io' fastest and most desirable trains on