Connecticut western news., 1877-05-11
Lost A Horse.-One of the fine span of

collie last Sunday night about midnight, and ble to be attacked with thls disease, owners should make it point to keep a remedy for their relief always ready prepared ID thelr stables for immedi te administration. We are informed that dose of two ounces of laudanum and one ounce of nitre will seldom if ever fail to relieve a horse suffering with collie.
 Only Finger. reports of the ac- cident to MT. Harry Sedgwick, of Corn wall Hollow, while saving wood with horse power, and which have appeared in some of the county papers, are remarkably accurate perhaps more so than usual. Some of them state that Friend Harry has lest his hand, while others came very near asserting that he lost his head. It Is true that he had a tussle with buzz saw and came off second best, with the loss of the second finger of his right hand; but his head is still level, and his hand (when the spot where the finger once was gets welD will be extended for as cordial grip as it was wont to give in days of yore.
 Thank You.-We are under special obli- cations to the Hon. Senator William H. Barnum for the Congressional Records of the debates and proceedings of the entire first session of the Forty Fourth Congress, from the 9th of December, 1875 to the 18th of August 1876. inclusive; also of the spe cial session of the Senate from March 9th to the 24th 1875, bound in six parts, ( six large books) with bound index to all the parts; also for bound copy of the report of the trial of w. W. Belknap, late secretary of war, in the spring and early summer of 1876, for the abuses of his of flee in accepting perquisites or bribes for government offices under his control.1
 Horse-Th1ef Tracked.-Two weeks ago we announced the theft of a horse in Bridgewater. The morning after the theft an animal answering the description. ridden by colored man was tracked through New Preston to Bantam, and there the track was lost. A reward of $25O is offered for the recovery of the horse and conviction of the thief, or fifty dollars for the recove- " of the horse alone. Word can be sent to the Selectmen of Bridgewater, Conn. If our exchadges will be kind enough to copy the above they will be doing very worthy poor man great service and may be the means of bringing rascal to justice.- Neso Ms!tord Roy.
 Collinsville.-Ten persons united with the Congregational church in Collinsville May 6. Two by letter, and eight on pro- fession of faith. .Rollin D. Lane, na- tive of this place. for the past eight years a clerk in the postal service between New York and Boston, has removed to Hartford recently .Dr. 0. R. Shepard has remoy- ed to the late residence of J. E. Goodman. Augustus H. Barbour has bought out the dry goods and grocery store. of Will Hams & Wheeler. and will carry on busi- 1 ness at the old store of his father, the late Samuel Barbour Lawyer W. w. Bid we'll is building an office and court room on Market Street 4Ox3O feet in the rear of the store of D. W. Bidwell.. l......Jacob Lauben- stein and J. E. Wheelock are building pret' ty houses on Maple Avenue......G. Dexter Henry has built him pretty house on the hill overlooking the above named avenue. No appleblossoms or worm nests are visi- ble here yet. D. B. u. l
 Railway Official sprees.-The Hartford Couraaat says The country is being regaled with thrilling accounts of MT. William H. Vanderbilt's present western railroad trip and of the remarkable time his special train is making. It is called the fastest travelling the world has ever seen. On great trunkilines he has the track cleared and the switches spiked down and goes booming across the country at the rate ot 60 miles an hour to the obstruction of al the regular business of the road, being him self out .'mainly for pleasure" It is question by what right he takes this fret and excitingstrip for pleasure. Our rail roads are joint stock companies, organized to bring profit to shareholders rather thar maintain directors cars and special excur- sions for the amusement of part of th' shareholders, while the rest, whether ou ''mainly for pleasure or on pressing busi ness. can only take regular trains, and thel only by paying their fares. Railroads be, long to aU their stockholders, not to th
 owners of a majority of tue shares.
 Mileage.-The act of the last legisatur
 fixing the legal, mileage from the variou towns in the state to Hartford, has estat
 lished the distancesof the different towns fl Litchfield county to that citys.as follows . Hartford to Barkhamsted.......... 34 mile
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