Connecticut western news., 1877-06-15

aan and Norfolk. Nor was this all the valley of the Housatonic on one hand and of Hillsdale and Copake on the other lay stretched out bt fore us. We counted the spires of no less than eight churches in the distance, and six villages q then turning northward the valley of the Green River lay before us, and above the hills in the distance, the top of Mt. Everett near Will liamstown Mass, was distinctly visible. Had we been aided by glass our view might have been more extended. Barring ton, Sheffield, Egremont. Ashley Falls and Canaan were easily located though some of these places were hid from our view by in- tervening hills. What surprised me most was: we stood in an open field as level as Sheffield Plains, with rugged mountains north and south of us, and yet through the broken ridges we were able to look down alongEtbe mountain sides, over the beauti- ful valleys at their base view such as have not enjoyed before in many years.
 --" .al.s r REPORTER.
 Hillsdale, June II, lS77.es ttar- -.a.
 Housatonio Repair Shops. Last Satur- day we looked in and about the Housatonic locomotive and car repair shops in Falls Village few moments, and found the amount of business there quite up to the average. The men are kept all the time busy repairing the worn machinery and building new In the locomotive depart ment two engines are stripped to their boilers, and are undergoing repairs: viz., the "Wm. H. Barnum'' and "Horace Nichols" In the car shops the full quota of freight cars are Son the stocks" These shops, under the supervision of Master Me chanic Morris, are now completed in @ manner that ought to satisfy any corpora tion or company. The machinery and tools are of the very best order, and are arranged for the execution of the best work in the least possible time, and should it be thought advantageous at any timeto do so, new locomotives for the company's use can be made "with neatness and despatch" :" Iron and steel are here cut with almost the ease and facility the skilled carpenter can shape wood into whatsoever be will.
 While in the department above for tin work, Boss timer Coggswell chanced to hear us soliloquize that about four inches of that half inch iron pipe was just what we wanted;-but hold on; the iron is triie too thick, Reaching for saw, which he found somewhere there, and which looked something like a butchers meat saw, he sawed off about foul inches of that thick iron pipe quicker than we can tell of 1t here. Why! bless your soul he had it off before we had time to realiEe what he was up to, and while we stood around like an animated mummy, trying to make up our mind it was most excellent time to be as. tonished, he had it down stairs end MT. William Morris clapped it into his lathe. and when we wandered off in that direc- tion, his chisel was pairing down the iron to precisely the right thickness. George and William have our thanks for this bit of courtesy. Over in the paint department MT. Eggleston was decorating some frames with his brush but where is PierreI he who has no peer with the brush this side of the Atlantic? While crossing the bridge on onr return to the village we met this peerless Pierre. He had been fishing. Investing eight cents in new straw hat and twenty,three cents in @ pair of new pants, he started off early that morning at very courageous pace, (so we were told, and we know It is so, because 1, is just the way he always does it,) but his countenapce on bis return was that of g sadder, if not wiser man. Talk about 6 man looking Gas if he had been dragged through knot hole;" Pierre had been through 8 smaller place than that that forenoon-but where were his fish. Two little dried up sinners of trout that looked as if ashamed to be brought into town or this particular occasion:-but it's just a! well; Pierre has to go fishing about once ir SO often or he can't paint worth cent, ani
 these two bait fish will answer every pur
 pose of satisfying him till the old feve
 comes on again. Up Tn the street we has only time to run into one or two places
 ''Dr. Clem," the dentist, has just comple
 ted very deceitful piece of furniture
 Standing in it's majesty, as it is seen ordi
 narily, it looks like large and very fin,
 book case, with large nice drawers at 1t
 bottom, but while we were admiring hi
 taste for literature, requiring such an ex
 tensiYe library, he unshackeled the con
 cern, and it came apart and down on th
 floor, when To and behold, 1t was nothing
 but his bed, where the critter sleep
 o'nights,- that settles the matter wltl
 the girls who have had an eye on the Dr
 for some time past. To be sure the bed i
 large enough for two, but somehow or oth
 CT it looked exactly like an old bachelor
 bed. Mrs. Cowdrey had got in her ney
 stock of Millinery fresh from New York and very fine lot of goods she has toe Mrs. 0. is very successful in her new busi
 ness, and her patronage is large. She ha sold ten Davis sewing machines since Feb lst,-but the 1:2O train whistles and-and- we haven't tune to tell the rest.
 DR. A. J, FLAGG Dear Sir---I have goo, reasons for regarding your cough and lun
 syrup as of the greatest value. l feel as 1, sured that it was the means of saving m life. I have been troubled for number 0 years with Chronic Asthma and an ir tensely severe Cough. Medical counse called me in consumption. I tried man , remedies to effect cure, and at last hay : ing given up all hopes of recovery, as a f , nal remedy. was strongly urged to try Dl , A. J. Flagg's Cough and Lung SyruI
 which procured, and using several bot ties. found myself at last @ NEW woMAr It is with deep gratitude and pleasur ] that expr ess with my signature the grea