Year: 1875



 Has it ever occurred to you what those large caption letters, Q. P.,' really mean We have never consulted those gentlemen about them, and surmise they msgAt @ mean Oh Pease! oh potatoes, oh parsnips, or any thing else in the vegetable king dom, but as Messrs. Girlng & Doolitt!e have but one price to all, and that is the bottom price, these letters may mean One Price, and the more we think about it, the more we continue to think about it. In all probability, unquestionably and altogether likely they meaa One Price, but don't rest on our decision: Read the advertisement before every meal and twice just before retiring, and you'll be ''healthy, wealthy and wise" enough to decipher the puzzle.

 Crowding. - Our advertising patrons have just about taken the entire possession of THE NNws this week, but as they are pretty clever lot of folks, we shall try to get along with it for this number, and by next week expect to get their favors so systematized and arranged they will not crowd each other, or us either. At the last moment, Mir. s. Tripp, the Millerton jeweler, came upon us with his ''ad," but it was our good fortune to find him so good natured. he couldn't resist our pleadings to wait over till next week, when we shall do at least partial justice to his business by giving his advertisement good show. We are informed MT. Tripp has one of the lar gest stocks of jewelry and silverware in the somewhat will sell at cost for the next thirty days. This is an important fact with those who need anything in his line.

 Horse's Leg Rroke.-Last Monday morning, while Mir. Hinsdale Dexter was leading one of his fathers span of horses out of the barn yard near their house on Washinee street, his brother Theodore, to hurry along the other horse which was fol- lowing, caught up small stone, weighing perhaps pound, and threw It, intending to hut the board fence immediately behind the horse for the purpose of frightening him along by the noise it would make striking the fence, but by . miscalculation in his aim, the stone struck the off hind leg of the horse, midway between the knee and hip, and broke the bone of the leg square off. The animal was properly slung up and Dr. Bisseu set the bone, and all will be done to save him, with the chances of success that usually attend such cases of course. MT. D. valued the horse at about $2OO., and it is hoped he may suc- ceed in saving him.

 The Late spring.-1t is generally con- ceded that the past winter has been the most severe known in over forty years. Not all, however, admit that this spring is more backward than that of last year. Such is the case however, aud cold and late as were the same months in 1873 and 1874, yet the present year bears off the palm. Not to speak of several other indications about which question might be raised, the bloom of flowers and trees in the same To- calities is an infallible test. In 1874 violets were found on May 1lth, and were plenty on May 14th. In 1875 none could be found on the latter date in the same places. In 1874 cherry trees began to blow on May 14th In 1875 none were out on the 18th. These tests are sufficient to decide the point. No doubt later blossoms may be quite as early this year as last, for Nature has wonderful way of making up lost time. WAL.

 The New Store.-Mr. A. R. Clark, the new merchant, makes his bow to the public this week in an advertisement occupying the space of full column. Mr. Clark has thoroughly cleaned the store formerly oc- cupied by MT. M. c. Jewell, and has filled it with stock of goods, every article of which is new and fresh from the markets MT. 0. informs us he found goods in New York at very low prices, and having bought largely and for cash, will give his custom CTS the full benefit of this very desirable state of affairs. It is his purpose to have very little to do with book accounts, and in this decision, if firmly adhered to, will most surely be his success. The credit system ruins it's thousands, but who was ever ruined by ready pay? We sincerely hope MT. Clark will be one of the most successful merchants in the country, as we are sure he will richly merit such success.

 Steel Rai1s.-The Housatonic Railway Co. have determined 10 lay their road with steel rails, beginning at Bridgeport and re- n owing the iron rails, using those but little worn to repair the road further north. and rejecting the much worn for old iron, sup plying their places with those of steel. They will work north in that way till the whole road is laid in steel. We had scarce ly expected to see the Housatonic road so far in advance of the other roads in this section, as the steel rail will place it; but on reflection it need not surprise anybody, as 1t is in keeping with the system of im- provements that has been adopted within a very few years past. The road bed is now in the best condition, and the bridges, cul- verts, and all the masonry On the line has been rebuilt, and in the most substantial and best possible manner, and now with lails of steel, it will be second to no road in the country. The liberal system of management introduced by the present su- perintendent, MT. Franklin, has brought tc the road an immense increase of patron age, and which has replenished the treasury to an extent that will warrant these i'm provements, and which, though heavy ir the original cost, will speedily prove the best possible economy.

 A Word for the Widow.-To Mrs Simpson (widow) of Warren: Your com munication in THE NEWS of last week was 1 htlncn lrx