The past week has been a hard one on the employees of the Sussex railroad, and also on the traveling public who have had occasion to pass over this line. The road has been in a crippled condition on account of three of the locomotives breaking down, and trains have been delayed. The early part of last week the locomotive attached to the milk train sprang a leak at McAfee Valley, and the train was over three hours late when it arrived at Newton. The same day another locomotive gave out at this station [Newton] and had to to be towed into the machine shop. On Saturday, a locomotive borrowed from the D. L. & W. , attached to the noon train from Franklin, broke an axle above Warbass's Junction, blockading the road until ten o'clock at night. After the wreck had been cleared out of the way, the locomotive "Hatfield" made the trip to McAfee, and on its return trip to Waterloo, gave out at slate cut, below this town, [Newton] and had to be replaced by the "Newton," the only engine on the road in condition to make a trip. The train arrived at Waterloo about Midnight, five hours late. The train on its return trip arrived at Newton at 1:30 Sunday morning with eight or ten passengers who had been detained at Waterloo from 7 o'clock Saturday evening to one o'clock Sunday morning. Four passengers on the Afternoon train from New York, ascertaining the condition of affairs on their arrival at Waterloo, returned to Stanhope and came to Newton by sleighs.