Connecticut western news., 1881-11-30

slde IS nnlshed with solid maghogany, and the hallway leading to the mail room is also finished with mahogany panels, instead of be- ing sealed up, as is the case in the others. The ventilators and racks are of solid bronze trimmings, and the locks are of the same ma. terial. The seats are the Buntin patent. which are of the most approved patterns, with nickel plated arms, and the cushions and backs are covered with Brussels carpeting, the upholstering being done by Edward C. Burkett The car is lighted by eight burn CTS, of J. l.. Towards patent the wheels are 33 inches in diameter, with steel tired rims. The mail room is finished with ash, black walnut birch, California redwood and ma hogany, and the fastener is a self lock, which, with the rollers, are nickel plated. The water closet is supplied with water from a tank overhead. which is late improvement. It is said to be equal to any, and not surpassed by anything of the kind in the car line used on any road in the country, and the appear. ance of both the interior and exterior, reflects much credit on the heads of the different de- partments under whose supervision it has passed. IDLEwILD. MiIl River, u. . .sa. F.
 Mr. E. B Halloway is acting as clerk for the Berkshire Paper Company. -- ). J.. Manning, late with the Berkshire Pa- per company, has accepted the position of foreman tor the Konkapot company
 Thanksgiving passed off quietly, with no skating.
 If the lace shop were running, Mill Rivers manufactories would bc in full blast. The lace business, when well managed, with 8 | little capital to back the management, is 8 good paying business. Theskelpis cheap as it is mostly girls-the power is saf6cient, and there is always water enough to ruR it. Now if this is not an inducement for a young, steady, principled man with a little capital, we would like to be made acquainted with something that is. Lack of capital is why the mill is now idle. KoNK A. PoTT.
 West COrnwaIl. ls@
 MT. George Hunt of Mt. Vernon, N. J., is the guest of MT. and Mrs John Wood. A pleasant family gathering thanked the giver and raiser of turkey at Mir. Myers last Thursday.
 Mir. George Sheppard again calls on New
 York for few days.
 Cochrane Bros. raised their new barn last Friday afternoon. Billy Morgan raised hS,
 voice at the same time.
 MT. w. H. Porter arrived last Wednesday
 evening from New York, to spend Thanks
 giving under his own vine and fig tree.
 The bell ringers last Wednesday evening
 called out quite large audience, in spite o
 the inclemency of the weather, who pro
 nounced it very fair entertainment.
 Charles R. Smith picked" turkey in Dan
 bury last Thursday, and feather stuck in hi'
 hat and bone in bis crop. is all that's left t tell of ''gobbler's" fate.
 A wedding in high life is announced for thi evening, at Mrs. James Reeds, Cream Hill The contracting parties are her daughte
 land, Indiana. , Thanksgiving the Smith Bros. and fami lies looked after the wants of the inner mau under their own parental roof at Riversid
 farm, where nearly score es children an [ grandchildren met in pleasant reunion. A social party assembled on Thursday eve , ming at the residence of Mr. John Wood, an
 all who participated in the festivities report , jolly good time. Dancing was indulged ir ] and in honor of the occasion table wa 5 spread, generous in quantity and quality, t
 which all did ample justice. The guests dis t persed at two o'clock. with happy recollet |. tions of another evening pleasantly passed z
 the Wood mansion.
 Charles Stanton. living about two mile from this village, in the region familiarl known as Pine Swamp, met with serious a' : cident last week, resulting In the loss of a ' eye. He was at work in his blacksmi, shop, endeavoring to weld two bits of iron t 'i gether, when upon striking heavy blow, or of the red hot pieces slipped from the tong
 hitting him in the face, burning the sight frol
 one eye His sufferings in consequence of h .l burns have been most intense.
 The far famed James River Valley, ( e Dakota, to which Messrs. Frank Snyder an }, Walter Mallinson emjgratsd last spring.
 fast becoming settled, and by the encouragin s reports received from them. will eventually | the ''Eden" of the far west, n0twithstaLdh }, the many hardships and privations they wei
 at first obliged to encounter. The presel }, prospects of their unlimited success and pro s perty in the future, are highly pleasing their friends in Connecticut who are su
 prised at the rapid development of this ne g section. Railroads are being pushed rapidl 'f forward in every aiEestiop, while farm house and villages are springing up as If by magic }, and the soil very fertile and so we'll edapte to wheat raising, yields bountiful crops. 4 Redfeld. town near where the boys are l'
 cated, nearly ten thousand bushels of whe' q have been bought, and shipped at $l.l0 p' e bushel, making total of about $11,O00. }. pleasant outlook for the newly initiated farn D CTS from Cornwall.
 Il Joseph Maliinson, Esq, started for Au a tralia, as he said, on Monday, but owing
 the lateness of the train, and his race for tE same, Joe's breath grew short, he stoppe a at New York-is expected back hourly. Why will our barber disrobe the faces our village gentry of their beautiful, feather : "side board" appendages? Just to gratify e passing notion that it will be more 'swel
 like to their already dandy" fled appearance g ANON. e smu.hF3~aa = D Stage driver Brewer has had anotheE&ac h tion