Connecticut western news., 1879-05-07

"A very fine view can be obtained from the grounds near the reservoir now being built by the North Canaan Water Company. Looking ts the north the Housatonlc Valley stretches far away until it Is lost among the Berkshire hills, while here and there the Heusstonic river bursts forth into view, flashing back from Its sheen the dazzling rays of the gun. Still beyond are seen the loity peaks of the Green Mountains, tower ing up to cloudland, and thence along the western horizon the rugged Taughkanock range stretches its massive walls, s'r0ck ribb'd and ancient as the sun, back almost to tho Housatonic river. as if intent on join ing hands with Canaan Mountain. but fear ing to cross the river, trends off towarde York State, via. Mount Riga. to join the Alleghanies. Over above the Norfolk hills Old Haystack Is seen ting on the E isterp horizon. grim. grand, solitary, as if he had sat himself down in very weariness and Wal calmly awaiting the fnal catastrophe
 eFacing by the rear rans," we have for s magnificent background ''The Great Noun tain" (vide Uncle Daniel and Uncle Julius of the profane tOngue). which rises almos' perpendicularly sp. up, up until it seems 10 pierce the cerulean vault above and the head grows dizzy in tracing the abrupt asceB, and 1e turn away for fear the great msun- tain mass will fall upon and crush us. How puny and insignificant seems msn by tn, side of such huge giant of nature, and what feeling Vr awe 1t inspires for the Iu- finite Power which called 1t into being! Al tho foot of the mountain on either hand Ii, Canaan and East Canaan, like two tiny litll, Rip Van Wrinkles, quietly taking a nap il the warm sunshine, all unconscious of th, tolls and troubles. sorrows and miseries ol this wicked world, dreaming perhaps eff the happy days soon to come to them, wher the water works shall be completed and they shall receive heslthful nourishmrnt frcn. the kind old mother on whose bosom they are so peacefully reposing. Seen in the a- ternoon when the slanting rays of the sun bring out the contour of each hill anG mountain in bold relief and ihe fl eline spnng-clouds chase their shadows o'er hil, and dale, as if engaged in grand pedes- trian match tor the champions belt and sste money, the scene is truly grand. And when we have grown weary in gazing al the beautiful landscape, we can sit down ib as'boundless coniiguity of shade" and fiue refreshment in Natures sweet restorer sparkling pure cold water that flows in sucl . copious and never.failing stream from t6, side of ihe mountain just beyond the reser
 voir. This stream, or perhaps spring woulI be the better term, Is really quite curiosity ard well worth seeing. Il flows seemingl, from the innermost depths of the mountain In steady, lmpid stream and in volum, sufficient to more than fill SIX inch pIpe
 and Mir. Lewis, who has lived near it oveI sixty years, says it never fails or dminishts in the severest drought. It Is estimated thai
 it will have fall of about two hundred feel
 In reaching Canaan Depot. We douh
 whether there is one place in ten thousano which has such 8 splendid supply ol the purest spring water as Canaan will hay, when the water works are completed |. "Happy land of Canaan." thou art indee,
 highly favored now as thou vert in th, days of old. Aforetime thou didst flow with milk and honey, but that is gooo many years ago and we have had reform
 and progress and improvements since then and now thou hast put away milk and hon. ey and milk and gin and milk punch anc brandy straight and whiskey sour and al such abomiuable compounds. ft only fol the Philistines, and hast voted ''no lieense'' and put on the blue ribbon and thy onI, beverage is the pure nectar flowing iron thy mountain side, excepting now and th,i . little mild tea and coffee. Aud wbs
 blessings 1t will bring in it's onward flow. l.
 may effect ''reform"- perchance '.Nalion- al reform." who knows. It will. we caI confidently hope, purify ''Canaan's morals and waah away some if it's sins, and brin. many other blessings devoutIy to be wished, and then we shall no longer hear "a voIc, crying ip the wilderness" CT a voice iron Eibrldge or the Adirondacks or Vox Ec- clss ie or Vox Populi, and Mir. WsrreI and Hr. Volnpy and Mir. Cummings and lb, Niasiousry ut the AdiiuDdacks. that trul, aood man, and V,x Eccless and V"A pvnuli will be a5ls t1 turn their attention aisd devote their tffsrts to some other sub ircta of reform and morals, and when tb water works shall bs completed, they csr meet around the new fountain on Depn