Litchfield enquirer., 1857-10-08

the church steeple as Of speaking to one hVlhs so high and venerable above all boys
 Then came Judge Gould's! Did we not re member that, and the faces that used to illu mnate it The polished and polite judge the sons and daughters, the little office in the yard, the successive classes of law students that received here that teaching which has since so often honored both bar and bench Here, too, and we stopped to retrase the very place, being set on by a fiery young soutaeru blood, without any cause that we knew oi then, or can remember, now, we undertook to whip one of Judge GouId's sons, and did not do it. We never were satisfied with the re- suit, and think if the thing could be reviewed now it might turn ont d frrtntly.
 There, too stood Dr Catlin's house, looking as if the rubs of time had polished it, instead zled memory a vacancy. Ought there not to be about there Holmes house-to which we used to go and get baskets of Virgaloo pears, and were inwardly filled as satisfying method of keeping us honest toward the pears in the basket?
 But Dr. Sheldons house is all right Dear old Dr. Sheldon ! We began to get well as soon as he came into the house. Or if the evil spirit delayed, little "cream o'tartar, with lot water poured upon it, aud sweet D. ed," finished the work. He had learned, long before the days of homeopathy, that a doc tors chief business is to keep parents from giving their children medicine, so that Nature may have a fair chance at the disease, with out having its attention divided or diverted
 But now we stop before Miss Pcrcc's "a name known in thousands of families, when gray-harcd mothers remember the soft and gentle days of Lhtch;icld schooling The fine residence is wei! preserved and me hath been gentle within, likewise But tiir school-housc is gone, and she that for so many years kept it ed its threshold brood the whole globe with offices of maternal love. Tiic Litchtield Law School, in the days of Judge Tappan Reeve and Judge Gould, and Miss P,erccs Female School, were, in their day, two very mcmora ble institutions, and though since supriantcd by others upon d larger scale, there are few that will have performed so much, if We take irto account the cariness of the times, and the fact that they were pioneers and parents of those that have supplanttd them But they are gone, the buildings moved off, and the ground slnoothed, and soft to the foot w.th green grass No more shall the stttit,g sun see LitchfioId streets thronged with young grntl' men and ladies, and filling the golden air with Laughter, or low converse which, uli laughing then, made life musical for ever at- ter
 But where is the Brace house An old red house. red once, but ickvd at by winds and washt by Pains, till the color was neutral ,I-s tn fbn 1l,,, fl,a Dt1 olp trnn guard the spot, brotherhood as noble as these eyes have ever seen, lifted high up, and in the part nearest heaven locking their arms together, and casting back upon their separate trunks and bole an undivided shade So are many, separate in root and trunk, unit, d far up Iy tIc;r heavcn-touchng thoughts and ai: tr"tiouS.
 Mrs Lords house is tie oiy one now be- for, We Teach our own native spot This too holds it's own, and is fertile in mynoreS Across the way lived Sh"rtr L,nlon, famous for dry wit and >tron" politics. A thread there spun has stretched far down into later time and been woven in the fight and dark of after figures il the aIric of life But south of hm lived th, greatest man in town, Mir. Parkcs, that owned the stages and the witticst man in town with Us boys was Hiram Barnes, that drove stage for him. To be sure neith'r 0. them were eminent for learning or civil nliu- ence But in that temple which boys in.agi nations make, stage proprietor and a Stag,- drlvvr stand forth as graLd as Minerva iu the Parthe.on
 But there are houses on the other side The eastern side of Lit enfield North Street, like the eastern side of Broadway, was never so acceptable to fashion, albeit some memorable names lived there. It was our good fortune to be born on the west side Of the street We kAow not what blessings must hay" descended upon us from having been born oil the faShon able side of the street. One shudders to think how near he escaped being born on the other Side--tne east side of the street
 But there is our old home ! Of this We mast not speak at the end of a long article.