Connecticut western news., 1878-01-24

built for the ordinary light traffic of the road, and Supt. Jones was s1ch reckless official as to assume the risk of sending an enormously loaded excursion train with two locomotives at its head, over 1t. IL ssys further that the bridge was sound; was Tn the best condition with the exception Of slight indications of sap rot" People who do not go off with flash have looked further into the matter. and cannot see, if the iron supporting rods are made of 5 quality of iron that should go into such work, why the bridge broke with nsis train. The bridge is what is known as tue How. Truss bridge, the best design for such s bridge in the world; but the iron rods whicL hold the braced umbers must be of a gig and quality of iron that is adequate to th. strain put upon them. The size of tb, rods in this Tariffville bridge was right. but some of them when found. were broken In decidedly suspicious manner, In fact.in such way ss to lead to the strong belief that it was them that first broke. The bro ken rods were examined Thursday of las, week by several iron experts, and the quail ily of the iron was pronounced pooy, th. grain showing none of the tenacious fibre always plainly visible m good iron; aDo among those who thus expressed an opiu- ion of the quality of this irOL was Sidney Ensign E-Q.. of Lime Rock, and we would as soon have his opinion on iron as that of of any other man in North America. In th' Howe bridge, It some of these rods break we understand the. sounduess of the timbel is of but little conse quence. the bridge mus, fall therefore If the iron is poor, the terri l ble strains tue bridge has been subjected ,,' | for years past have gradually weakened il till it has gone down. and terrible has been the disaster attending it.. ......
 We give below the opinions of thosr prominent in railroad and bridge building. who examined the Tariffville bridge las, Thursday. MT. Perkins, bridge exper, from New Haven, and who is by DO means a friend of the Conn. Western road, said 1:
 ''No bridge man could look at that bridg, and condemn it."
 MT. Briggs, Chairman of thcBridge Com missloners o' Massachusetts, said:
 'Would feel perfectly safe to ride over that bridge on train with two Iocomo- tives."
 Mir Woodruff, chairman of Railroad Commissioners of this state said Il con siderec this bridge the safest and mst on tn, road in which opinion, Mir. Arnold, tn, other railrond commissioner concurred.
 From the above 1t must be apparent ,hs, the bridge was regarded as safe, and safe tor just such train as broke it down; bu, some of the important supporting rods, how IS Ii to be detected how is it to be known The builders of the bridge before the rodi were put in their places in the structure should have tested these rods and ascer- tained positively that they were of the strength the contract called for. If thi. can be proved was done, then the builder of this bridge cannot be held ss responsible
 for the disaster, but if test now given te these irons proves them to be of poor quail ity, and not able to stand the contract pres sure, then there must be located the censure
 If man falls through large plate glas
 window and smashes it, 1t would be very
 unkind for g number to gather quickl,
 about him and, begin to kicG him. It woult
 be more manly and just to first ascertain
 whether 1t was his owh stupid recklessnes
 that threw him into the window, or that b, ;t-->A irinned hy- -anmsbody else The Conn
 Western road has falfvn, and most terrioi, has been the fell but let us wait before W,
 begin to kick, and ascertain if 1t was it
 own fault, or was it ripped.
 SAFE-HermanNorton of southleld who wal
 riding in the baggage car at the time of tn, accident, and was reported missing. we sr' informed has arrived home unipjured.
 "Curs For Hydrophobia. "A Pennsyl
 vania doctor glves what he calls an infalli
 ble remedy for Hydrophobia. He says; A dose for horse or COW should b' abou, four times as great ss for person
 It is not too late to give the medicine a
 any time before the spasms come on. Tn,
 first dose for person is one and one-ha ounce of elecampane root bruised, put in pint of new milk, reduced to one-half hy boiling, then take all at one dose ln tn, morning, fasting until afternoon, or at less very light diet after several hours hay, elapsed. The second dose the same as tn, first, except take two ounces of the root third dose same as the last, to be taken eve ry other day. Tbree doses are all that ar, needed. and there need be no fear.
 This know from my VII @ xpenenc' and know of number of other cas- 3 where it has been entirely successful. Thi is no guess work. These persons tha, al
 Jude to were bitten by their own rabid dog that had been bitten by rabid dogs, .ans were penned up to see if they would g,
 mad. they did mad, and dld bite the per , sons. This remedy has been used in [ nc about Philadelphia for forty Years or lon- l ger with great success, and Is known as the Goodm ID remedy. l am acquainted with a physician who told me that b. , knows of it's use for more than thirty years but never knew case that failed where | was properly administered. Among othrl .ses he ID. n,iured, was one where mum
 Der of COWS had been bitten by mad dog to half the number they administered thii remedy, to the other half, not; the latter died with hydrophobia, while those tha
 took the elecampane aud milk showed nt , signs of the disease.