Year: 1877

Falls Village Merchant Geo. w. Hall has removed his clothing department to rooms above hls store, which gives more room below needed for other goods, and is more convenient and better every way. His spring goods are not quite all in yet, but are coming now pretty fast. His trade is very good indeed, and ''it is said' the managers of the circus which will visit that village next week, are negotiating with Friend Hall, to get him to send the crowds that are always trading at bis store, down to attend their circus. Of course every word of this is true, and the remark applies with equal force to Jeweler Capron, whose show cases are we'll filled with a fine as- sortment of all kinds of American and SWISS watches at remarkably low prices, also those scarf pins that ''are all the rage" large number of rings with and without stones, and well. one case is chock full of beautiful silver ware, and another with fancy note papers and notions in general, as well as clocks, guns, pistols etc. George naa large stock of everything except dia- monds those are so bulky he can't keep them in his small room, but be accommo- dates his customers by ordering for them any quantity from peck to half bushel, and which he will warrant of the first wa ter" Mir. Capron and Mr. Hall, are selling a good many goo's; are in fact, always busy. They advertise in THE NEWS and can't help it. Friend Ga pron has threatened for some time past. to 1 remove his advertisement from THE NEWS long enough to get chance to go fishing. ......H. c. Crandall will move into the Her man place this week. The house and shop that he is fixing up for the barber, is rapid ly approaching completion, and will be a great improvement on the old hulk that has so long been an eye sore o the good people of that place. The store in MT. Crandal's building lately occupied by w. G. Gardner as a merchant tailoring establishment. is tc let, and it seems as though it would be a first rate chance for some good tailor, as there is no tailor in the place. The rent is very reasonable, and the store centrally To- | cated.

 Time by Eleotricity.-The Western Union Telegraph Company has made au arrangement with the observatory at Wash ington by which large ball will be drop ped from the flag staff on the company's building, in Broadway, at exactly noon by the New York Time.-Erchange

 Thus It is, one step at time is this mat ter of ascertaining accurate time to be &C., complished. With the aid of electricity the government at Washington ought, can, and probably will at some time in the not

 far distant future, with but little expense

 in comparison to it's value to the people,

 give to every village of any importance

 through which line of telegraph wire runs. the accurate time of the longitude in

 which 1t is located. This time need not

 perhaps be given but once day, and in stead If dropping ball, which would ne cessitate constant vigilance just previous

 to the hour of twelve in order to ascertain

 the exact instant it fell, the current of cleo tricity should be made to strike the houl

 

 that every prudent housewife in the regior

 would be instantly reminded of the fact aud could at once adjust her clock to time r that she would know is absolutely accurate Go about the town and compare the time marked on the dials of all the clocks, ant one would be surprised to find them SC much at variance. That there should bt , considerable difference between the time

 of clocks in California and New York City } is plain enough, and of course is SO estab lished as geographical fact, but that SC great discrepancy should exist among tho clocks of village or city, isn't as i

 should be. In any village through which {

 telegraph wire passes, wire could be at tached to the main line and run up into the bell tower of a church, and the curren - of electricity passing through it could bt made to manipulate stroke hammer, anC when the large clock at the central office

 and which for our region night be located

 in New York city, giving us ''New York time," struck the hour of twelve, noon every bell throus bout the land, which wa.

 arranged for the business and connected with the wires, would give instantaneous re

 sponse, the strokes of the New York clock sounding out the hour on all the other bells That this will eventually be accomplished we are strongly inclined to believe. It ii perfectly practical, attended with no grea

 expense and would be of great value to tho

 whole people.

 Clayton-1t does seem little more lik' Spring, for if our ears didn't deceive us, WI

 had frog serenade last evening, and al

 though several of the bass, and the frs trehhle voice, showed that the owners were afa cted with severe cold in the head. ye ihe performance was generally a success

 This. with au occasional hoarse chirp from robbins aAd bluebirds indicate that Sprins l is really coming. Well, in the language o } the immortal Patrick, 'let it come !"..... ! Houses are getting sadly disarranged ant disordered these days, and domestic jar are becoming alarmingy frequent. Witl the upsetsit-iYepess of furniture, and the en tering in of whtewash and scrnbbin. brush, devoted husbands and loving wive are prone to forget those two great com mandmen:s. ''thou shalt not fret" ant ''thou shalt not twit." but we venture tt ; predict that with the putting to rights O things generally. these little squalls will b. rghttd, bringing harmony complete out o dust aud discord.."..W What has become o

 the maple sugar vendors? We saw a very meek apo ogy for the article few day ago, as the first of the season. The owne