Year: 1873

An Ardent "Logyer."-A love-letter written by blushing @ damsel of Cain, living not thousand miles from Ashley Falls, has created not little amusement in certain circles. It commences sentimental ly as follows: My dear, darling luther, give you my whole hart and hope you will give me your hart" and closes with the following paragraph. which smacks more of busiuess 'Ma is going to give me straw bed-GU but he tick"! If some of the rest of her friends will also give her the hole Of pump, and rent the happy pair the fourth floor of a two-story house, they will be perfectly happy and will un- doubtedly commence housekeeping at once.

 LmpToUed S0qomiW.--The new lift, -eour inch circular saw in the mill in Ashley Falls, which has now superseded the old-tashion gate saw, is cutting logs into boards with astonishing rapidity. In for mer times, with the old saw, man with a team could draw logs enough in one day. besides drawing away all the sawed lumber, to keep the mill busy week. Now man and team can hardly keep up when at work all the time The pile of slabs new there, the accumulation of two months, is almost mountain in size. With the new blaming and matching machines in the mill, Nr. Chapin, the veteran sawyer, feels quite equal to any job that may happen along. Only one thing seems needed now to make the establishment perfect, and that is a machine to season the lumber With such machine, forty or fifty logs, a keg of nails, and boss carpenter tumbled into the mill, would come out at the back door fouI-story house, all lathed and plastered, with family in it complaining of the high price of rent. We give on the first page design of cottage that wasn't made in just such mill.

 R. R. Time 1a6les Again.-Our article a ] week or two since on railway time tables has called forth an amount of comment by the people little expected by us. We have been congratulated on all sides for speak ing boldly concerning this matter, and asserting the rights cf tAe people to at least portion of that official attention which should be cheerfully granted. The table, on the time of which the Conn. Western trains have been running since December 2d, 1872. is one of the most skillfully wrought combination of figures. arranged on the ''how not to do it" plan, that was ever presented for the endurance of pa tient public If there is one individual in the New England states who can come for, ward and swear that he has been accommo- dated once has once met a train on the road that was not going the wrong way at the wrong time, he will be voted pension at once and have monument erected to hls memory. The cry is, "We cannot connect with the roads in Hartford and Millerton unless we run on such table" " That sounds very well so far as it goes but the people who built the road say promptly and emphatically, The connections at Hartford and Millerton are desirable, but if we cannot have those connections and have semblance of local accommodation, then to the dogs with the through connections, and give us chance to ride to our advantage once in while. Now that this matter has been freely discussed after. its patient en- durance through the winter, and the off, cers of the road who have the arrangement of the tables know what is wanted, it is to be hoped the voice of the owners of the road, in whose behalf we speak, will be heard, and will receive the attention in the new table soon to be issued that they have right to expect. If President Barnum will give look and a word, the people will be satisfied; as they know he has their interests at heart, and will see 10 it that they are fairly treated.