Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25


 I Ali the time, for about year, he was unaLl to preach. At East Hampton he set up school which was successful, owing however ill great part to Mrs. Beecher's efforts, Afte the Burr and Hamilton duel he preached an plhted a sermon against duelling, which Wa held in those days to be a "pohtical sermon, and aroused opposition accord 'ngly, and gay him fame. In 1910 he left East Hampton'be cause of the insuaiciency of the support give by the people only four hundred dollars pc annum. He removed to Litch6eld, in Conuec tcut. Here he spent some happy years. Il began there a temperance movement. It wa then the fashion to use strong drink; eve ministers drank freely. At any official gather ing all Kinds Of liquors were served
 "Wh:n hey lad all done drinking and ha, taken pipes aud tobacco, in less than ffteei minutes there Was such d smoke you couldn' sre. And lhe nui>e l cannot describe 1t Was the maximum oi hilari,y. They told their sto lies, and Were at the height of jocose talk hey were not uldiashioned Pullans. The, had bean run down. Great deal of spirituality on lii: Sabbatb, and not much when they go "ueie thcre something good to drink. think l recollcct some aninladversi0ns were made at that time by tLe people on the amount oF liquor iranG, fer the tue was swelling ii the thinking habits Of society.
 l ] Was a member of the General Association which met at sharon, June, 1872, when a con ni!tte reported. They sad they had attende, to the subject committed to thelr care; thai incompetence lad been for some time inclea sing Ia most alarming lnanner but that, t,a:te the most faithful and piayerful inquiry, they were obliged to confess they did mol pc; ceiv, that anything cou:d be done.
 The blood st;tited through ny heart when heard tbs, and rose instanter. ani moved that a committee of three be appointed imme li,ttev, to report at this meeting tue wAys and means of arrcstng the tide of ntemperance.
 The committee was named and appointt d. Was chairman, and on the following day bro'l in a ienolt.tt.e most important paper that eve | 1 wrUte.'
 l: was thorough. and it did its work at once It stirred up all New England to temperance aud total lbst4ncnce zeal.
 h 16lS he wrote cllracteris c letter to h,s son Edway;l, who had IeeD copce ned i1 some staden.s '' s"rapc" at Yale:
 :: must s.y. my sod. that no ust 6cation 1 can ever be aa,t loe Cisubeying the laws and the au nori,v of college, and as to the plea ol t,.n;rta,on. i sinai, te alarmed, and disapoin. ted, and mortified eHtleme!y, in finding yor l 50 soon pleading ;e.aptation as an excuse for following mul,,ude to do evil * 'i Ny son. there is no living in lLIs u, ait f1 1pI r.1 and le>i.,l it, ,-wh4u artayeu ou the side of evil :l;G DEGCurR FANrLy " ROME. Here is an account of tie Be 4cher family il letter dated
 LITcEF. sLo, Feb. 4, 1919. x Papa had his wood-spell yester day we had only twelve loads, for it was SC terribly cold. We have now had twenty-five loads in al.
 Papa is we'll, and still writing that piec, with hard Dame-I can't remember what. Mama is well, aud don't laugh any more 1 than sue used to. Catharne goes on just a; she always did, making iun of everybody Geo1se is as usual Harriet makes just as ma ny vry itc,.a. is just as odd, and loves to bt | l Il he'd at about as much as ever. lienr, does tot improve much in talking. but speak i very thick. Charles is the most mschievou little fellow 1 ever knew. He seems to do for the very love of it; is punished and pun ished again, but it has no effect. He is tn same honest little boy, and love him dearly Poor little Frei is quite unWel, but has go better now ; he grows more and more interest ing every day. Now for the boarders. Mis Nj is just as amiable and lovely as whe she was here. Miss B. loves fun still. Mis- W and L- same as usual. Miss C. the most obligng and useful of the family. T. conclude, the old cat has got the consumption
 Here is another glimpse, in a letter Iror Cathaline to Edward. dated
 NoyENrra %. 1919.
 Apropos-last week was inferred Tom, jr with funeral honors by the side of old Tom o happy memory. What a fatal mortality thrr is among the cats of the Parsonage Gu Harriet is always chief mourner at their Gune rals She asked for what she called an epitht for the grave-sIone of Tom, junior, which gave as flows
 ieie died our Kit,
 Who had fit,
 And ced queer.
 Shot with gun,
 Her race is run,
 And she lies here.
 F. 5 by b.. Dcecil1r - in provero Is Every ohe must eat his ponni of dirt l lii gut be a maxim, every one mast write hi oul.. of loIsen>e. l remember thai l wrOt mine out If Eot more While in College, and judge, by lie hopeful specimens of my chil dren Casialine, William, Edward and Mary that you vii! be soon through with all of tn kind which you are lated to wr;te end tha soou none but letters so solid and wcig fly d 10 earn their postage, vii be passing to an fro
 P. $. 2d, by Catharine-' Never mind thi Ned, for papa loves to laugh as well as any us, and is quite as much ticklel at nonsense 2 we are 7
 Mrs Stowe writes of the Ltchfeld life: My father was fond or excursions with hi r boys, into the forests about, for fishing an hunting At first l remember these only g something pertaining to father and the old' boys they being the rewards given for gol conduct. l remember the regretful intere with which I watched their joyful preparation for departure. They were go ng to the Gre :, Pond-to Pine Island-to that wonderful blu . pine forest which could just see on the ho' = zon, and who knew what adventures the : might meet ! Then the house all day was { still no tramping of laughing, wrestling bo j no singing and shouting and perhaps on l. a long seam on sheet to be oversewed as u E sole means of beguilins the hours of absene 8 And then dark night would come down, ar ; ctorS lonI, ont from thp curtains and iuDue