Year: 1876

l Horse F'rightened.-Last Saturday as Mir. Battells horseman was driving near the depot in Norfolk, the steam from locomo- tive standing at the station frightened the animal, when it sprang suddenly to one side, overturning the sulky and throwing the driver to the ground, cutting hole in bis forehea6and injuring him severely.

 Lakeville.-There is nothing very newsy in this quiet little village this week. Every thing is going on in the usual way. The Tilden and Hendricks club held their meet ing on Saturday night at the hall in this place, and believe they had very good house. The Salisbury Hsyes and Wheeler club, which met and had good meeting ! at Salisbury last week, will meet at Acade- my Hall in this village on Friday night of this week, and have no doubt will have rousing good meeting. MT. O. H. Platt will address the club and citizens of Salis- 1 bury, and we hope they will turn out and l hear good treat. MrPlatt is well known. and is fine speaker. The Glee Club will be in attendance: and will give us some of their campaign songs, which bring forth applause every time......Mr. G. H. Bundy | of this place has bought building lot on Main street next to Mir. Wm. Bundy, and IS going to build a house. He has already broken ground, and will have his house up and will occupy it before snow flies,-if it don't come too soon. Won't some others of our townsmen follow the Messrs. Bun dy's example-buy lots and build. This is just what we like to see, and while we think of it, hadn't the Village Improvement so- ciety better get another Centennial tree and place on the green in front of the post of fee before the Centennial year is out Now is the time, boys. A good tree set out now would be likely to live. Tend to it be- fore it is too late. Perhaps some party will volunteer to give tree. Who will do its ......Law business is good in this place. Lawyer Williams had two cases Monday, and there are more coming along about every day. You can slide through the hands of Bert" "Don." and the "Colo- ne!" for about nineteen or twenty dollars, that is, if the case isn't anything more than ''salt and batter" M. Why We Move Our Office to Canaan It has been known to quite number of our readers for some time past. that we have had in contemplation the removal of our newspaper and printing office from Sal isbury to Canaan- The motive which has brought us to this conclusion has been made plain to those whom we have consul ted in relation to the matter, and we pre- sume we can make it equally plain to others who may be interested to know why we make the change. Before we began the publication of THE CONN. WESTERN NEWS, we studied our prospective field, having in 1 view the best point at which to locate our office, and found that in the northwestern part of our county. there were twenty-three villages which would perhaps regard THE NEWS, if published in any one of them, as more nearly home paper to them than any of the other county journals, and they were all small villages, one seeming to posses l no special or prominent advantage over any of the others, and there was manifestly little or no choice amongst them. With this result of our survey of the field before us, we concluded as we were then a citizen of Salisbury, to locate tbe paper here and await further developments.

 At this period in the progress of our un- dertaking the Conn. Western railroad was being graded, and exactly what effect this new road would have upon the business en- terprise, prosperity and growth of any of these villages could only be surmised. Each town through which the road passed enter tained hope that this enterprise, in which it had invested it's funds to aid in it's con- struction, and of course in which it was greatly interested, would bring to it upon its completion greatly increased business, and would conduce largely to it's growth and commercial importance. That the in- habitants of these towns were sanguine in their anticipations of increased prosperity was, Ill the very nature of things, perfectly natural. The country had for years prior to the completion of this road, enjoyed g a season of extraordinary prosperity, every enterprise had been blessed with success and the people had almost forgotten that the word ''failure" was in the vocabulary of the English language. It is not surpris- ing, then, that they counted not the cost of a panic, depression in business, such as the world never before saw, and such as has been upon us now for nearly four years, and what is the result of the comple- tion of the Conn. Western railroad |? To all of the towns in Western Connecticut through which it passes, it has brought in- creased facilities for travel to thelr inhabi- tants, and for the transportation of mer- chandise, but the panic has resolutely pro- hibited the introduction of new industries, and many of those that existed five years ago are to-day among the things that were.

 Hence it is, none of these villages, save one, offers to us advantages in the location of our newspaper enterprise, more than what they possessed at the comm encement of our project.

 That Canaan has been benefited more

 than any other village, by the completion of the Conn. Western road, none who have given thought to the matter will fail to re-

 alize as a fact. The Conn. Western road, forming a junction with the Housatonic

 road at Canaan, gives to that place an ad-

 vantage vastly superior to that possessed by

 any other town ID Western Connecticut. This junction brings it in direct communi-

 cation with the north, the south, the east

 and the west, and makes it the nominal centre of our newspaper field of villages. } That Canaan was point mostly to oul

 advantage to occupy, has been apparent for a long period of the nast hut we haG