Connecticut western news., 1878-01-24

sorry.
 At The Wreck We spent last Friday atternoon at the wreck at the Tariffville bridge. The day was mild and pleasant, and the work of clearing away the debris was prosecuted with no hindrance from the cold. as might have been expected in mid winter. The ice on the river was still strong. enough to bear great weight, for a large number of people were on it, witnessing the work of removing the wreck. People came from great distances in carriages and the trains on both sides of the bridge on tn, Conn. Western road came and went heav- fly loaded. The cars in the water are en- lirely destroyed, except the iron work, for they are removed by chopping into pieces and ''snaking out" with a long rope attach ed to yoke of oxen on the bank. Some of the window frames and blinds are r. | moved and saved; at least all that are not
 carried off by souvenir hunters. Towering
 around amongst the wreck were Q large ! number of human vultures. seizing upon
 everything they could carry away with
 hem, and which they thought they could
 get away with without being observed; and
 it sstonished us to see 90 many. and those
 too who looked as if they called themselves
 respectable, endeavoring to sneak off with
 a window .sh or blind; plush seat cush-
 ion or anything else they could get their ra-
 pacious hands upon.
 l The locomotive ''Tariffville" is not 90
 badly injured but that she can be repaired
 and put again into service on the road, and
 at a not very great expense but the s.SAlis-
 bury" is pretty pad off yet we are inform
 ed that even this engine Can be again made
 up ID the shops of the company in Hart
 ford. The tenders of the two engines will
 not require great amount of work to fil
 them again for use, but the cars as we said
 above, are destroyed. ~. 5
 Falls Vlllage.-Edward Finkle who
 was among the injured at Tariffville las,
 week has entirely recovered. He describes
 the situation as perilous in the extreme, He
 vas thrown against the stoye and his cloth
 es burned before the water rushed.- d ex
 tinguished the fire, otherwise he must have
 been horribly burned. He was up to his
 waist in water, and wedged 80 he could not
 move himself: be could feel some one
 Srasping hls feet beneath him, who were in all probability the two young ladies from
 Winsted who were drowned......Rev. Mir. Selleck preached a sermon on the disaster . on Sunday eve but CD account of the in-
 element weather the audience was small. .....
 A social gathering at George Botsford's
 new house at Amesvile was one of tue
 events of last week. The light fantastic
 was tripped to the time of John Butterly' s violin, and all enjoyed themselves muchly. ......The date of the grand ball has been changed to Feb IA, so as to benefit by th.
 moon at that time It is Bhrlon's band
 from Pine Plains instead of Amenia as re-
 ported. Skating parties are in vogue; oI
 were last week. Parcels rink was the
 scene of merry gathering on Saturday......
 An order requiring all dogs to be mnzztd
 mas been issued ny the justice of the pence. The csnines don't seem to relish their new
 head-gear, "M"jor," the faithful guardian :, Oi Miners store made strong protest r against his restriction. Belle Holcomb is Ill with diphtheria.. Sore throat is preva.
 lent and seems to be epidemic..... H. c. Craniall's little daughter is recovering from fiphtheria. Dr. Hea.h attends her......W G. Gardner's son William, left here on Mon |, day. bound West, 10 learn the mschInisl trade .....T The bard availrd themselves oi
 an invitation to Mrs. 0. R. Morris on Fri . day night, and report most excellent time. CLICK. d Temperance in Barrington.-Thet tenn s perance meeting at the town hall on Sab S bath eve. ;, l3 inst, was well adapted tc D the proprieti,s of the day. The audience a on Monday night was prepared for enter n talnmepts of another kind, and in these = were mingled some touches of humor and e pure fun between the speakers Gas in by 0 talk) that could not quite reach those dis }, tant from the front. One scene came thus
 Mir. Love had called upon Rev. MT. Fltct
 to speak. without any previous intimatioD ' However he readily responded by giving
 some recent instances of ,esults elsewhere Shortly after. MT. F attempted good ma tured retort on the Brother Love by say t ,nx 1 give notice to thus audience that al t address will be given by Brother Live to IT morrow evening on the subject Of Treat D ing to Drlnks.'" Thus unexpectedly an d nounced. Mr. l.. whirled to hls Brother E .. saying. "Tratipgl tratinef Is it tratlng tha d ve spake ot 2" then in 9 halt drunken tone , Would ye like-hIc-to take something ilst tnow-hic-Frl'nd Fitch '" and gliding ' past. he poured from the pitcher, and of 1i ferlng 1t ID the most affective style to tb, ,i lips of the other. then drinking from tn, u same glass hln'self; the two were for. th, 4, moment on exhibition in Rn i'm oromp,l .l tableux of soclal imbiblng, suficlentlJ
 amusing for the most laughter loving
 Not few of the female members of th, P Congregational society are unceasing 1T Is tbeir dev"ted atteu tion as worthy coadju II tors awaiting o fly to discern where b-s L. may be applied their willing hearted zeal = In full neasurs IS also found the same spi n rit among the ladies of the other ohurohss The address for the evenlnG proved powerful exposition of the direful agenc, of evil bound up in the custo n of socia
 treating. and before the eetlng was ove Ill the feelings of painful anxiety which hat 1T marked It's beGinning was lost ID the jov 'e over the indi diVlduals who then broke iron al their eutauRlement, to fraternize with us 70 From lip to lip went quickly the glad ut n. terauce, ''This more than pays for all tn effort"
 al Thursday evening brought Mir. Murphy 2. The notes of that lecture in it's perfection i'd of interest will reserve for separate let