Connecticut western news., 1877-05-04

at the Town Hall for few weeks, where be will trace out pictures that will be satis- factory. .. MT. Frederick Gibbs, who has been dangerously ill for some weeks. with rheumatism, is now recovering slowly. QUILL DRIVER.
 New Railroad-MR. EDITOR :-When any signs of improvement are noticed it is we'll to inform the public. am happy to inform you that new railroad is nearly | completed, to be called the Blackberry | River Railroad, narrow gauge. The ott- cers are not yet announced, with the ex- ception of Chief Engineer and Superintend' ent, who has the road in charge, and whose name is l.. D. Perkins, who is every way qualified for such an undertaking. It is eX pected that trains will commence their reg ular trips about the 10th of May. Time ta- bles will be out in due time. R. R.
 P.S.-Ths railroad is to run from one of the Hosiery Mills in Norfolk, to the other.
 Hydrophobia.-The Hartford Tsmes says,
 Cases of hYdrophobia are bee oming too frequent. If any remedy exists it should be known. The powdered root of elecam- pane, boiled with little madder, in milk, is still found to be the most efficacious rem- edy for thls dreadful disease-after other things have been tried in vain. An ounce of the powdered root, tablespoonful of the madder, and one quart of fresh milk the latter to be taken with the rest wine glassfull a day. Cauterlzing the wound can do little good-unless the cautery is instantaneously affected. The much-talk- ed-of remedy in the possession of the fami- ly of the late Dr. Welch, of Norfolk, should, if it is 8 remedy, for humanity's sake be given to the public. no matter what the restrictions of the German doctor at Albany may have been when he sold the secret.
 Lakeville.-Items are scarce this week, but will try to write something so the readers of the WESTERN will not think we are dead. ..... Our merchant, Roberts, has returned from New York, bringing Spring goods, which looks as if A. F. really meant business......W notice J. Bird, proprietor of the Miller House, is out with span of grays. They are nice looking team, which of course will add to the attractions of the house. We hope it may be filled to it's utmost capacity with city people this summer......That old barn that has been such an eye sore to some of the villagers is being removed. H. McNeil has purchased it and will raise it again on his place. While the men were pulling it down the thing collapsed, but they all ran from under it in time to escape injury...... J. Camp has fine selection of flowers just received and which are on exhibition and for sale at the post of1ce......Our schools are ID session again after vacation, which tskes the children from the streets part of the day and keeps them out of mischief. which of course is all very good. Report says we are to have a select school opened here by lady from Millerton. OPTIC.
 The Clothing Trade in Burlington Messrs. Girling & Doolittle, of Ct. Barring ton, anticipating good trade through the spring and summer months, have their store full of clothing adapted to the season. Their long tables are as full as they can hold with tall heaps of all the various grades of goods good durable and we'll made suit selling for $5. 25. and the better and finer goods at higher prices, bat all at extremely low prices. These gentlemen deal extensively in hats and caps, and all manner of gentlemen's furnishing goods. MT. Girling is an old veteran in the cloth ing business, having been engaged in it for many years. He first began business in Railroad street in 1s48, and was the first to introduce in Burlington the clothing trade as an entirely exclusive business, all the merchants who previously dealt in it,kept it with general assortment of other goods. Messrs. Curling 6 Doolittle have been in the trade where they are now located on Railroad street, as partners for the past six years. and being fair dealing men, have en- ioyed first class trade. They are now among the most prosperous and successful business men of Barrlngton. Their patron age from the northern part of Litchfeld county has been no small item to them,
 and as they manage to load their patrons
 from this way pretty heavily with satisfac-
 ton, their chance for the still further atten-
 tion of the people is very good indeed.
 Sunday Fishing Sunday morn
 Ing at little past nine o'clock, a well dr ess-
 ed man in long leg rubber boots, with cane
 fish pole on his shoulder and trout bag by
 his side, strutted along the street in Ashley
 Falls, with an air of self importance and
 defiance absolutely disgusting, aud g
 few moments later was dangling his llne
 ''under the dam" for trout. Nor is this
 Goddess stranger the only fisherman who
 disgraces our brooks and streams by theil
 Sunday visits, for several others were seen
 last Sunday, with spears and other imple-
 ments for capturing the finny tribe.
 wandering about peering into the deer
 holes and seeking out their secret hiding
 places, and that in the stream in the lot be
 low the grist mill and plainly in view of the
 village, showing disregard, a shameless
 indifference to the fact that their sin and
 lniquitY was seen by others, extremely hu-
 initiating to contemplate as possible to ex
 ist in civilized community. It was salc
 of a village in the northern part of Berk
 shire county some years since, whose in
 habitants were noted for disregarding al
 most every recognized law of morality, that
 ''hell was not more than half an inch under
 the surface of the ground there ]" Is il
 possible this remark applies also to Ashley