Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-16
IITCHFIELD.

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 We,clp the following from the Hartford Daily Courant of Friday:
 . Mrs Dr. David Tomlinson, lately died in New York city, aged s4. She was 8 native of Litchfeld, and her maiden name was Adams. In her youth Litchfeld was the Athens of America. Its famous law school attracted to the spot the wisdom, eruditon- and scholarship of the country. Here John c. Calhoun took his first lessons in study which he afterwards turned to such unhap7 py account She was accomplished. educa- ted and refined, and married Dr. Tomlin- son, of rising fame. Some years after they removed to New York, and Mrs. Tomlin son became thirty years ago one of the lead fifty years of age, and displayed the pecu time of Washington and his immediate sue eessors. Her grandfather was Andrew Ad ans, member of the Continental Congress, and for many years chief justice of Connec- ticut By her mothers side (the Canfe1ds) she was connected with the Cowleses and the Spencers. She was the niece of Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer, of New York, asd first cousin of the late John c. Spencer, secretary of war under President Tyler
 Ninety-two years ago today Ethan Allen. native of Litchfeld, took the fortress of Ticonderoga, ~' In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress"
 .- The Concert of the Barker family on Saturday night was we'll attended and re- ceived. The programme was not an ambi tious one, but promised no more than was performed. Everything attempted was we'll done-in most excellent time and most ex- cellent tune. The instrumental perform ance was especially creditabfe-- the vocal, good-the quartettes better than the solos. We cannot say much for the costumes neither did we perceive any necessity for the remarkably tender tones in which our friend who supplied the place of programme announced the different pieces; but taken all in all the concert was success and seemed to give universal satisfaction. ' < A part Of the selections were from that "Old Folks music which has been occa- sional1y revived of late. Ludicrous enough seem those old fugue tunes, which moved our serious great grandparents to tears, to LIS of this light generation. With all due respect to New England antiquity, we are certainly right and our ancestors were cer- tainly wrong in this matter. The fugre style is an artificial one at best, one which the better taste of our day has almost entirely discarded. A few magnificent choruses like the Grand Hallelujah, and now and then a little organ music in that style is all wemod- erns care to hear. The unskilled musicians of Puritanism could not initiate, they could only burlesque, this most difficult species of musical composition. Of the old s'Yankee" tunes, Old Majesty" and few others de- serve to live /; but the great bulk of them are trash that has sunk into deserved ob- livion. In looking over one of the old col lections, sometime since, we fell upon cu- rious instance of the manner in which sen tences were sometimes cut up in these re- markable musical com positions The four parts follow each other in succession in true fugue style Oh, for 8 bottle 2 ''Oh, for bottle P :'Oh, for bottle! !" ooh. for bottle p leaving considerable room for misconstructlon, till ct last all wind up with, ':Jor our tecrs'' r. '.... | !, Persons holding 7-5O bonds, first. se- ries, can exchange them for 5-2O's, at the First National Bank See adv't.