Litchfield enquirer., 1836-10-13
prPITs oF BROADWAY, NEWPORT
 rC- n. .1;,or ofthe COrrier &- EMQHiree:


 no 1hs sditOr efths COarisr S Eaqn'ysr; Z
 arrived in this city few days age E,om Sale River, and being deeerInlneo ec make the most of my time, the very nexy nor, Ol hing, after dressing myself ln my Des., se
 out from my stopping place, ne aOwIs ss S4r se
 .. Ie;s,'re and see every thing that was to bt SearfS .s 1Nowl MT. Editor, have been tifteeT reo,liar Ingen fights :; I have hugged thu hreath out of pretty smart chance of bears whiDt my weight in wild cats i, been severn Hines rowed up Salt River :; and in short, an he real whole team of a feller, that grin'' thedbark from a Pefsinion tree, though tha exploit has been enormously ascribed to tn
 lannented Davy Crockett-but all these wer
 nothing compared to the fatigues and danger of.my progress up Broadway kmade a reg
 ular list of them as, soon as go! 70 my SOP
 ping place and is seaGe Ss y n,r t., ends E at m
 yoSf paper for 0F tRe Oensn' aa oi al ny ''ps saH rossi,e [ the street at the little round grass Dlot they call the Bowling Green, I. neard a sort of a rattling roaring noise behlnd me and ifI had. not cooked my eye over the shoulder, should have been run. over; Dy a; machine that looked like one of those t2lngs theY carry, wild beasts about the, Great :YeSt ;n made tracks across the street in such r ;ro head foremost right down into a cellar. thsv were digging so deep that reckon they intended to 20 clear through and come out on, inc other sideaD o6aa4, a moii ae ,a~ taariSh'
 Taking warning upon this narrow escape, I thOugnt would ,keEpl H EHarP TyE vuw oTus my feet for fear knight fall into some bottom less pit or, other. So I walked on with my eyessto the ground, and had gone may be g. couple 0f hundred yards, when I got thun- n, Iefshe knock 6fthe shoulder, from piece of' blue stone, about six inches square, Wnlch seemedto fall from the sky, and was IolcoW- ed byea great shower of little pieces 3oiI Iths same color, mixed with a smaTL chance oI diff and dust that almost blinded me so that | could hardly, see, and trying to run out of. tfie way, ripped oyer plank that lay across the side walk, pitched head foremost into a heapsof sand, turned what they call a somef- settI heels over head, ,andS planted myself right straight feet foremost in bed of mOrtar.e od The, fellers about there grinneds at me, and feeling a little wolfish about the ears, offer ed to lick any two of them that dared toe the mark but they were afeard suppose of be- ing roweda up Salt River, and sneaked like so mafiys coons My dress did not look quite so smart after this, sbuta Salt River man don't mindIsuch 4riaes, and Imade tracks againde- te1mined to keep sharp eye upwards as we'll asdownyeards cut one peeper slaptendic- ular downWards, the other slant cular 2up- pits and the showers of blue stones, ,',s,.a @ <,
 Wen, on j, went , little way, not minding SO much what was before me as what was over my head and under my feet. when some thing came whack against me in front and dead iCatrfshs At thetsame time a feller caI- led outato me to get out of the, way. There were two of them carrying a thing something like what they use to tote about dead people n our church yards. gave the foremost a touch of Salt River and knocked him into a cooked hat pretty decently The other squar- cd himself and came on, but crowd of peo- pie got round us, and reckon the gentleman pretty narrowly escaped being rowed up Salt KiVegssts tG sssI8 ,sl@Tafs s&4 ~ A real whole team ofa hunter can see at least three days at once, and 50 I thought ! would look right ahead as we'll as up, and down.tIsI Il, pushed on smartly till ! got to the corner of Wall street, as think they call its when was stopped by 2 pretty smart chance ofomnibusses, carts, little wagons, big Wag- gons, and other wheel carriages which block ed'up the way all around as far asI could see, While was waiting for an n'opening tosqueeze through, and Keeping U bright lookout in
 
 rear guard, and bump came somethingaa upon q man right before me, ,who pitched against a fat, woman, who weighed asEI cal culate, about as much as a middle sized buf- falo, stood her ground, and stopped further progress in pitching, Ifelt the-fife fly out of my eyes, and turned round t0 see who the trihing feller wassthat run against me, being bent, on making gone sucker of him.s But as soon assI clapt eyes on him, could not help laughing all the anger out of my gig gard. He seemed to me about three Six teenths of q man of my size, half starved into yeiier wrinkles and yet for all this was ldo. ing the duty of 2 horse. and pushing along a littlecat loaded with peachesa never saw sucha team before, and feltsos ticklesornc that instead of licking the felles Bibought shlll5ngs worth of his. peaches. ,,il ]. ina. did for suit river to run by, that he might pas over dry, at last caught an, opening abou wide enough to see daylight through, arit siade'a dart like a flash Of lightning fhrougl agOoseberry bush to get through. succeed cd,With the damage of d great slit in nay coat which got upon an old rusty nail sticking out ofthe corner of a dirt cart. 5,.,l ,,jn,.,' -l had not gone far, when saw a woma, whose arms seemed twice as thick as her bo street. feIt HIEfe anxious to nnG % Gut ~ e' its could be the matter with her and crossed ove to take anearer look. Blythe time I got int, the middle of the street Twas surrounded oi all sideai with perils and dangers. A thun dering big omnibus was coming right dowi lea0 foremost one way < on the other hane was strlng of carriages about 9s long as al cIeanon oeiore me was a. procession of dir