The Press., 1885-09-17
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custom work Will receive prompt atteHuoH. Sign of the big boot, Oronoco Block.
 SUBJECT FoR CoLD WAVE. .--You can see as large a stock of t3e finest Alaska Seal Skins for winter garments, also full line of Silks for Fur-linei Garments Muffs, Beithas, Stohls, and trimmings in all varieties of fash ionable furs, all our own manufacture, the only house in Cosnecticut devoted entirely to the manufacture of furs. Alfred Williams, 41-45 Pratt-st., Hartford, Conn 3w
 -Bargains in Brown and Bleached Cottons at A. w. Walkers
 Agency for the American Wood Powder and the Spencer Repeating Rife at Butter fields Hardware Store, National Bank build ing. Sporting Goods in variety and at low prices. Big bargains in guns Look at the Buck Thorn Barbed Wire Fencing-the best. Full stock of Hardware and Manufacturers Supplies.
 STAFFORD.
 There is a stronger interest in the proposed Stafford Springs and Southbridge railroad than we had supposed. It only needs that stirring parties set out to wake up those interested to give the project boom.
 The Warren woolen mill has reduced its regular working hours to 66 per week, and the Granite Mill Go. follows suit Oct. 1s5.
 w. D. Simonds Speaker of the house of representatives) with his family, have been spending few days with his brother, A. H. Simonds, in this village.
 A teachers institute will be held at the Stafford Springs high school room on Thursday, Oct. 1st. Particulars later.
 -Lucius Blodgett has been serving as nryman in the United States circuit court Tol men called were Walter B. Palmer, of Columbia, Horace F. Porter, of Hebron, W. H. Cady, of Coventry, Charles N. Allen, of Wilmington, Daniel Mathews, of Union.
 Among judges serving this week at the state fair are B. H. Hyde, Stafford, on guernseys, Julius Kibbe, Ellington, w. Il. Yeoman, Columbia, and Samuel Rockwell, Stafford, on oxen. .3
 -The Central House as re-fitted for it's new conductors is greatly improved. The third floor is entirely made over to its great improvement, and an office and other rooms fitted up on the first floor. The house is newly furnished, and makes a snug and cozy hotel.
 People who have to drive over the hill road between the borough line and south end of the Street are complaining of its condition.
 Rev. Dr. A. J. Church preached at the Methodist church last Sunday. The doctors home is now at Albany, N. Y., and he has been making a summers tour of northern New York, speaking at the different religious and temperance assem- plies. A large congregation of old &C., auaintances greeted him here.
 A. l.. Burdon is contemplating west ern trip. to extend, probably, to southern California.
 Next Sundays temperance meeting will be held at the Congregational church in Staffordville at 3.30 p. m. Rev. MT. Taylor and others will speak, and there will be singing as usual. Everybody IS invited.
 A repulsive and not creditable specta- cIe is the standing filth pool seen under the building opposite the depot.
 The liquor cases against Fred. Rem inert have been decided adversely to him at Holland. MT. Remmert was prosecuted as the representative of a German club, being its president. The fines were made as low as possible, there being little dispo- sition to prosecute, as since the prescott tion began the community has had little to complain of, the practices of the club hav- ing been greatly changed. An opportunl- ty for a much easier settlement in fact was offered, but MT. R. was persistent in his determination to fight the cases. The fines amount to $55, costs to about $150 more. MT. Remmert wishes it understood that he received no benefit from the club save the common privilege of all members that of being able to get glass of beer when he wished for it. The club as now organized is to be disbanded.
 
 NORTH ADAMS, MASS.
 On Saturday of this week special excur. sion rates will be given by the N. l.. N. road for an excursion to North Adams, Mass, giving Q ride through the wonder full Hoosac- Tunnel, the second longest in the world, the longest on the American continent, being exactly four and three fourths miles in length. Those who have had the experience of riding for quarter of an hour through the bowels of the earth behind prff1ng locomotive will be as quick to embrace the chance to repeat the novel experience as will those to whom the experience is entirely new. Here and there the cavernous passage is lighted by the flaming torches of the patrol who keep vigil in the dark passage-way. The pas- sage cut through solid rock is 26 feet wide and p to 26 feet high. Three shafts give ventilation, the central one being 1928 feet deep. North Adams, the destination of the excursionists, is just beyond the west portal of the tunnel, and here the train will stop for q hours, and passengers who wish can ride over the mountain, enjoying the splendid view of Massachusetts, New York and Vermont scenery. Not the least pleasant feature of the trip will be the journey thither, through the picturesque scenery of Franklin county, passing Lake Pleasant, crossing the Connecticut river near Greenfield and following for thirty miles along the picturesque valley of the Deerfeld river with it's cascades and bits of mirror like quietude, and it's spells of enthrallment for service of man, as at the busy mills at Shelburne Falls, until fl nally the river breaks away to the north, and the Hoosac mountain rises grim and forbidding as if to say ''thus far, but 10 farther" But the puffing train needs on- ly Horace Greeley's injunction and ''goes vest" passing under the handsome gran ite facade, and straight into the bowels of the mountain, its monotonous clanking reverberating nearly 2OO0 feet below the mountains summit Aspecial train leaves New London at a. m., South Coventry 825, Eagleyille 8.30, Mansfield 8.34, Mer- row 8.3s, South Wilmington 8.43, Willing ton S.49, Stafford 9.G3, and arrives at North Adams 12.45. Returning leaves North Adams 3. 15 p. m., arrives at Staf-