Year: 1874

evening at their residence in Chapinville.

 A large party of their neighbors and friends 1 assembled, bringing with them presents of

 wood, ranging in size and dignity from

 wooden candlestick to a six foot "what

 not" A tent covering platform suffi-

 ciently large to accommodate four sets of

 dancers was erected just north of his house,

 and with Whites Winsted band, the desci-

 ples of Terpsichore made merry till nearly

 three o'clock in the morning.

 We Never Tell.-If an engineer of a

 passenger train receives signal from some

 body to Ego ahead" and mistakes that sig

 nal for the usual one given by the conduc-

 tor, and starts off under tAose instructions

 from Harrington and runs all the way to

 Sheffield, leaving behind not only the con

 ductor, but the brakemen and as a couse-

 quence runs some distance past the station,

 we wouldn't say anything about it for all

 the world no, not an identical anything.

 We never tell of those things ;-but the fun

 of it is, when we chanced to see MT. News

 man Gorham the same forenoon, and who

 was on that runaway train, and who is

 worth to us double the large pay we give

 him to report items, he was unusually empty

 of anything at all of an interesting nature.

 lie hadn't heard of anything that could

 possibly be tinkered up into an item. His

 face was more than nine miles long, and he

 was ''so sorry' that something hadn't hap

 pened so he could help us out Friend Gorham is puzzle; but for all that, we shall not discharge him.

 The State House Maxble.-The marble business near East Canaan is assuming magnitude of considerable importance. At the quarries owned by Messrs. c. $. Rood, and Allyn. new steam saw mill is just

 put in, which will soon be in working or der, when their facilities for getting out marble for building purposes will probably

 be equal to the large demand for it. In| the saws in this new mill are inserted to project at various points, actual diamonds,

 which are said to do all the work of cut ting the stone, and which we are informed will cut with great rapidity. These saws are of sufficient length to cut blocks from ten. to twelve feet in length, containing along the cutting edge from fifteen to eighteen diamonds. The whole working force of the quarries are now employed in getting out this East Canaan marble for the new State house in Hartford, which, we understand will be almost wholly built of it. The superior finish of which this beau tiful marble is susceptible, renders it among the most desirable qualities to be found 1n the country for the purpose, and our new state house built of it, will unquestionablv be structure that every citizen will justly point to with pride

 Wasninee Goods.-The repellents now ! being turned out by the Washinee Go. in | this village are fully equal to those made 1 by the old company, which were conceded l by dealers in those goods and the business 1 generally,to to be the best made in the United States; and as for the matter of comparl- son, we can as well say, Saa tue aooq,zd, there being none made anywhere so good. The facilities possessed by this company for the manufacture of these goods are probably not excelled by those of any other estab- lishment anywhere; which, combined with the extensive experience and superior skill ot the managers; Messrs. Titus, Bower and Edwards; assisted by so many of the old hands ;-some of whom have spent their life service in this IT i'll form an estab- lishment for this particular business that probably has no equal. The finish of these goods is beautiful; some grades of them resembling light cassimere in appearances; and for nice summer suit for men; travel ing suits for ladies or clothing for children, they are certainly very fine indeed. We not only congratulate the Washinee Woolen Co. on their most excellent success in this bus mess here, but congratulate cur citizens that the Washinee works are again so successfully running, and that just such men as the present managers are at the 'shelm.'

 Conn. Western Time Table.-A new time table on the Conn. Western road went nto effect last Monday. The change on nearly all the trains is only slight, being difference from the old table of only few The most important change IS n the evening train from Millerton. which passes Salisbury at s.O6 instead of at 30. and connects at Canaan with the Housa- 5oLic evening train north.

 It IS said by those, whom it is presumed i know something about it, that this new ia ole IS for temporary arrangement only, and that another will soon follow for the permanent summer business of the road. IT thls IS so, plan has been suggested for inc accommodation of the patrons of the western end of the road, which it is hoped will be duly considered by the powers that be. This suggestion in detail is as follows: lst-het the freight with passenger car at tached, which now leaves Millerton at 6.lO 4. M., leave there at 4.3O instead, arriving n Canaan at 600, making connection with the Housatonic special north, which passes hat station at that hour; also with the new fast train south, which we are informed will be put on the road next week, and pass Canaan at about 6. 30,

 2nd-Let the ere train, which we are in formed makes frequent trips lover the hill" to Winsted, to take through cars of freight which are in excess of what the regular train can conveniently handle, leave Ga naan on the arrival of the regular freight. and with its quota of through freight cars and passenger car, take the early passen- gers and make connection in West Win. Sted with the train for Hartford, which leaves there at seven o'clock. The ore train could return with the surplus freight from Winsted, and do its work at the fnr-