Year: 1874

T temperance meeting was held in Falls Vil- lage on Monday evening, July 18th, of which full report will appear next week.

 The Massachusetts Freshet.-Hampden county, Mass, has had severe freshet; mills and much other property have been destroyed. About twenty miles Gin sec tions) of the Boston & Albany railroad were washed away, thus obstructing travel in that locality. Through passengers, by tile way of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, for Albany, Saratoga, etc. now come over the Conn. Western railroad. Conductor Eggleston's train, at evening, is loaded down with travellers for Saratoga.

 About Worry.-There is deal of com fort and satisfaction in worry. It makes people know their place and keeps them from being either obtrusive or intrusive and, moreover, after good growl or wor- ry, one can draw himself inside his own den and really appreciate the value of peace and quietness. A grand field for worry is the railroad car. If one will only set about the thing right, it will be found that here the smallest modicum of talent will make everybody within reach reasona ply miserable. As soon as you enter the car begin; If it is cool stir up the brake man and conductor with sharp stick, re- minding them that they always have rousing fire when it is not wanted and nev-, CT have any when it is needed.

 This will be very mullifying to those testy officials. If it is too hot, rush frantically about the car, opening windows and venti- Iators without regard to the feelings of any one but yourself, and without saying so much as 'bY your leave Be sure, too, to occupy two seats; then spread your bag gage over them and entrench yourself, de- liant and growing, behind it and if anoth- CT passenger puts in claim for one of them, take your revenge, first in tardy surrender and then in persistent scratches of worry. If one IS only industriously on the lookout for grievance on the cars he will not have long to wait for one; the train will be sure to go too fast or too slow pleasant remarks will be banded about at your expense; the conductor will be short and crusty your neighbor will ex- plode with some sentiment more piquant than complimentary to you and by the time you reach your journeys end you will be in fit frame of body and mind to receive the plaudits of good conscience and enjoy the sleep of the just

 Lightning.-MR EDITOR. During that eventful night of our great deuge, a very large quantity of electric fluid must have been discharged in single locality near the center village in this town. Nine trees were struck by lightning in the Bushnell or school house grove, ranging from one foot to perhaps two rods apart, forming almost a semi-circle around that famous old rock of some fifty tons weight which stands on nothing (almost,) and holds up by the same,' a few rods north of the spring. Oth- CT trees in the immediate vicinity show the effects of lightning ot some previous years There is nothing particularly observable here that would tend to attract electricity, but it is known that trees have occasionally been struck by lightning, and some twenty years ago large hemlock was almost wholly demolished by single stroke of electricity, and large quantity of small fragments were thrown entirely out of the grove and across the Washinee road and reached the Riga brook. The fluid appears to have now struck one of the trees near the top, and to have ran down the tree till about opposite the top of the rock, and then left the tree apparently and leaped about two feet, alighting on the top of the rock, which is somewhat broad, where there are several small spots apparently burned to redness. The rock itself is com posed principally of mica slate, standing on a slanting ledge of lime stone, and its east ern face strongly indicates that the two large masses of the same species of rock which lie down the hill some distance be- low, were once split from the main rock by lightning or some other equally power full agency. The roar of the Riga stream, as it was tearing away N. $. Dexter's large dam and bridge, which are near by, and the discharge of so much electrical artil lery must have caused noise and commo- tion in that vicinity unequalled by anything of the kind that ever before occurred in this town, except perhaps that of those two late town meetings. ER.H.