Connecticut western news., 1877-02-02

the worst and longest sthslf, of the winter if fnow passed. z I
 sleigh Rding.-N seems as If aluaos everybody was sleighriding now days The Beautiful snow" and which is packed in the highways and byways lnto most ex- cellent sleiging, and the spring-like days the weather clerk occasionally gives us bring out the spanking steeds with theil loads of humanity which has been weath CT bound for some months past. Last Mou' day afternoon the ride, under the auspices of the Salisbury Village Improvement As sociation, was bad according to the an nouncement in THE NEWS last week. Sev' enteen teams loaded chock full. everyon, of tbem, drove through Lakeville, Ore Hill. and down into Sharon, returning in the evening to a supper and dance in Academy Hall ut Salisbury.
 Norfolk.-Like the adjoining towns, Norfolk is well under the snow, yet We would not for moment have the readers Of the NRws think We are dormant. Oh, no we have holes and paths in every direc. tlon......The N. & N. B. Hosiery Co.,. uu. der the superinteudency of F. E. Porter, Esq. a. e now running at full headway...... The freight depot was broken into one night last week and several gallons oi whiskey taken from 8 barrel, marked to K. H. Farnham, and it is thought by some that 1t has gone where great many chick. ems have, that never come back......A par " ot ls ladies and gentlemen started ou' tor sleigh ride last Thursday. and after a pleasaL, rive through Canaan and Shef- field, came back to the house of Samuel Garfield. Jr., where they found all things ln readiness to make the evening equally pleasant.... daughter of Mrs. Baker. while coasting few days since, ran into . tree breaking one of her limbs badly. ... Y. HASH. The Rose and its Thorn. While spend. ing an hour among old frier ds and acquain. tances i1 Lee last Friday, the visits of the Rev. Mir. Reed of the Congregational church in this town. to supply ihe pulpit of the late Dr. tale of Lee, were frequent y alluded to. and the compliments paid lo Mr. Reed, and the desire expressed that be could be secured and settled there, were very pleasant to hear. for we know the Reverend gentleman deserves all that was said of him. but when with these pleasaul
 
 ! words is coupled the thought of Mir. Reeds inability to becnme the settled pastor ot he Congregational church in Lee, and re. main also the pastor of the Canaan church, we fear this statement will scarcely be re- crivt d with pleasure by the Canaan people. No rose without thorn. and 1t is just here he thorn comes in. The Hon. William, Taylor expressed himself to us as particu. Iarly pleased with Mir. R"ed,a and we art afraid there is danger in Mir. Tay or's love for our Canaan minister. The Congrega ! tional church and society in Lee Is a very large and wealthy organization. and-well -our Canaan people had better ''sleep with "ne eye open"
 Ancient Iron.-As this is an Iron region the following concerning this staple metal will be read with some interest.
 The eldest pieces of Iron (wrc ught iron) new known are probably the sickle blad. found by Belzoni, under the base of a sphinx in Karnak, near Thetes; the blade found by Colonel Vyse, embedded in the masonry of the great pyramid; and the DOT tion of cross-cut saw exhumed at Nimroo oy Mr. Layard, all of which are now in the British Museum. A wrought bar ot Damascus steel was presented by King Fore to Alexander the Great, and the ra- zors steel of China fur many centuries has surpassed all European steel if temper and durability of edge. The Hindtos appear t,' have made wrought iron directly from the ore, without passing it through the furnace: from time inmemorial, and elaborately wrought masses of iron are still found ip India, which date from the early centuries of the Christian era. Iron ore has been found in the Haz .rebaugh district in India which is sad to contain eighty per cent of pure metal together with sllgbt admlxtur. "f manganese. There is said to be 800 square miles of this ore ip the D,amado coal fields.
 A Chapter in Love Now then, Nor an Sackett of Salisbury, is ir trouble, ,ano ir jail too, and all bis misery Was brnugh, upon him in this way He sought the hand ot one of Sallsbury's fair daughters, Miss Cora H.. and was at first encouraged ID his visits and declarations of affections, 'ut after time one George B. put in an tppearance as rival for the fail Cora, ana 'he at once tilted the faithful Norman. ! transferring her affections to the aforesaid George. Thls was more than Norman ! could endure, and last Friday (and which 's the sequel shows. was very unlucky Friday for Norman the fair disturber of lis peace made neighborly Gail at the family of the Sackett's, ane while there, Norman again appealed to her to reccnsid- 1T her decision. and previously expressed determination, imploring her in tile name of his honored ancestry to reLounce the troublesome George and cling to him, and togt ther they would climb hand in hand up the rugged pathway of life. This she sleadfastly refused to do, in fact, telling him right out squarely that she would nev- er marry him. that she would rather have one leg oi Georges p-nts than a whole regiment of Sacket.s," whereupon Nor mans accustomed dignity instantly forsook nim, and instead of being the lofty and noble specimen of manhood that has for SD ong time honored the peaceful denizens ot Washinee street with his presence, he was changed into ferocious beast of prey, a roaring llOn eik,nu fo d. vOur bor ,yho,