Litchfield enquirer., 1836-10-13

T I ali too tired to make any remafhs on l clothes. being not much used to OsWriting, and will only say, a man that walks Broadway should have as many eyes as peacock car ries in his tail, and never shut up but one et . : time For my part had rather be rowed up Yours. Mir. Editor. JEHU SLAPDAsH. B The trau ,ce build Cities rOar-G-days. e., 1; was not built in q day Carthage was una ue :,, ;shed Ionp affer pious Eneas joined hls c,ss.. s
 EIvsiun1. and SO little did men learn .o t;r,1a q Iv from the experience of Ioies m ' n4 of i'm U and so slowly travelled tne '1e ~ If our own oroyement. that down to the age oi ou: ,oo1o OJ Q 1ss,l;.,te, predecessors, town, sllnple it ... ,yc xvork of generations, lett unnn- oii !owi t;ke .,,, old chancery suit from age to ,s..ee t0 carry out the sihnile, each suc- .eSsdino generation pay the costs for thelr T nTodecessors. We have reformed all tnls'- I Ea1o have no longer like Cheops, to use up a I ,.,hcle peoDlsy yforttte inrcction of our house, ] and that without,a chimney. We have no longer to mourn that we,r like Moses, may new CT see the glory of the unborn city, but even
 as MinerVn---perftct born, ileaped from the
 brain of Joye.f9 So western intelligence
 knows a childhood ,but springs from the prai-.
 rie and the forest, and men behold, with un-
 certain eyes, towns, cities, squares, water lots and water privileges rising under the. wandof
 the lithographer, like the palace of Aladdin To illustrate this, look into the bar-room of some tayern--be it in the centre of some small l town on the very outskirts of Illinois--there l you shall see two dealers III land, ana listen | to a conversation very much after this fasll- | ion ".Mr. Float, good morning.: you and II
 have got some land here lying pretty mulch together, and I've an idea that,if you agree with. my notion, that we can make it a capi-s
 tai speculation for both of us!" sssI want toseei
 you" will then answer Mir, Claim, 6 about
 that very thing. I've paid young man, up our way, to make me d map of the land, and
 I've taken the liberty of making out yeursec-
 ton along withmine." "A Ah,indeef !singulaF
 we should both thinksalike Fl have map l (and here both produce a most magnificent | specimen of lithography, besides which the
 new ytopographica map of New York is a
 mere gignette.) . And here you see,' says
 MT. Claim, aI have laid out your part, and
 thereI have placed assquare, which | call
 Float square and hereIt have laid out anoth- l CT, which Lhaveicalled Claimplace. There, 1 youisee; | have. extended the creek a little
 longer and wider than it is now, but not more
 so than twill be in all probability next year, lprovided we have a wetseason; in that case, f these water lots will be very vaihable.7 "To l be sure they will.p,i siAId now, MT. Float, sI what will you sell one of the lots on your ll farm for-E should like to purchase one."4- ,l ".I valuelmine on Claim place. at a thousand
 dollars each. :" So Mir. Float sells a lot on Float square, and takes inpay lots on Claim T place, and thus price is established. Then
 the Autograph is enlarged, and the city, new
 bonI under such happy auspices, is christen. I ed !" Crono ononhotonth0log ior, for more
 taking appellation they call it istThe City of l the ten cataracts; r and MrT Claim and Mir. | Float buy and sell of each ether until all
 Claim place sipaid away forQ Float square
 lots. By and byconles aspeculatorin search
 of Eldorado ,t fully believing that Benton l yellow boy, planted lingthe afternoon on the
 door prairie, will be found next day a golden
 tree, more gorgeous 1than that of the Com q looms. And him does Mf. Float astonish with a. recital Oftwlat this 6foltunatei location en-
 sures to it's possessor.A He, Mr. Float, has Il sold the whole of Float square, one. thousand dollars the lot. he regrets that this new friend
 missed such an opportunity, but he ,,obliges | him with lots in, the immediate vicinity at ! five hundred dollars each. a,d b.ns s,,tlif,4ai E xSo, the new town has, actually found one
 cash purchaser. and him they ,maketa stool \ pigeon to eentice others into this valuable \ speculation After a while appears in. the | HOlympus Daily Universal Gazette and Loco Focol Enquirer" a paragraph somewhat as t
 ni Ctaaoshotoniho iholQgos, atera Lots. lt Mr. Edi-
 tor--What is the reason that these valuable water lots are not in, the market as, The pub- I lie have long expected from the known capi-
 tai and enterprises of the gentlemen who are
 the proprietors and SO forth. and so forth. a l
 ''.Hy, Yigog apif(Signed)ey6 ieii i CRoEsUs,ia Someidays after, one may read another paragraph in the same paper to this effect.
 MI. Editor In reply to the somewhat fas-
 uaious remarks of Cfoesus tits to be 0bserv- ed, that the town of Crononho hologos ex- hanAts specimen of prosperous significance
 nnparaiieied in the memory of terrestrial men. Oniy three years ago, sir, the wild Indian, ana the dreadful panther, and so on, coflclud ! ing with informing the exquisite Croesus that ! aS soon aS the engineer who has been enpa- 5 ged, at stupendous expense shah have completed his report these water lots will be offered to the eXpectant public. rolt9EN Then issues forth another Photographic mar : of double size, and an advertisement assuring , us that town sites in paradise don't begin tt compare with those in the "city of the ter
 cataracts. " f ' }'tH t'.te'F t.3sthtt- VI 2 Then comes the agent of the Winnepiseog' Land Company, and Greenhorn, Flat & Com
 Raay ane u al long @ story f%i sl1sasr ver1 r honnely saying, "the way they get sucked 1T D is a caution. ."-N. Y. Times.
 Il Selling Spirit ,cihom License-E Edwin D ? Parsons, of Ludlow, was brought before Ingersoll, Esq. few days since, on com. pla:nt for selling spirit without a license, and [ sentenced to Imprisonment in the County goal