Litchfield enquirer., 1869-10-14

guide leading his flock into the green pas lures and by the still waters of the plai1aer principles of Christian duty faith and and hope. And while some who knew him years ago, thought it possible or probable thatlhe might go to .Sdang gerous extreme in Pauline fearIessness and Independence, and pass out of sympathy with his time. not to say out of sympathy and cogni- zaHce of the material and the mundane, and up and off into the cloud-land of the netaph ysical and the spiritual. we are happy to say he is evidently no longer in that danger, if he ever was. For while he may still follow Paul Cin some respects, in one he has certainly abandonel him, and found more excellent way than for man to be alone. A Lady. graceful and queenly in personal appearahoe. cordial in manners, and we think in a remarkable degreel gifted with common sense, now ac- companies him, and is spoken of as < Mrs
 Tomlinson, my wife.a On their union we congratulate both. a4sb.' T saii saslaa4l 5 !, a Another friend has been with us, MT. William c. Bennett, who has spentascore of years in California Would that Cali fornia could have been blessed with more such men. He took New Eagland princi- lples and enterprise with him, and has been friend and supporter and advocate of good order, general education, and all nor C;;as: Ch.;st;;saas: in short, an earnest. devoted the good minister who told . slack mem: Der that it we'll to have an eye to 5oA worlds, MT. B. has been stirring and thri wing in business for this world, yet not be- coming unmlndfdl of the higher life be- yond. Manifesting all tue open hearted ness and generous warmth of the great and distant West, his sentiments are ut tered in a terse, and, in q ood-sense, home ly language, that not unfrequently provoke an audible smile, even when he speaks of serious things. His family did not &C., company him. He soon returns to, his western home, and carries with him the best wishes of many friends. -'
 A third friend, of whom I may speak briefly, is Capt. John Whittlesey of Tex as. We hardly know what to say of him. He has not been long in Texas, and how long he may stay, we suppose. is. dou btful
 We expect, however, to hear good ac count of him, and that he has erelong be- come 9 merchant prince, or, possibly. member of Congress. -l, a- rl..,.o4 ;.
 These friends have been cordially well comed home by many of the friends of their youthful days, and have met socially on many pleasant occasions. The last grand rally was at the Pinnacle, on Satur- day morning, the 2d inst. The morning here referred to witnessed the gathering of about score there, quorum pars magma .ffuerunt, MT. and Mrs. Tomlinson, Mr.
 Bennett, and MT. Whittlesey, Mr. B. and two of his sisters rode on horsback to the tip top of the rock. This gathering, not easily described to the absent, and never to be forgotten by those present, after a pleasant season of chat oyer the reminis- cences of the past, &c., &c., concluded by all joining in "America." and singing with the spirit and the understanding, :.
 "My country, 'tis of thec," -~l.a
 And as this last refrain died away, some gave, perchance, their final farewell look to Litchfeld Hill and Lake, to Mount Tom, and to old Judea's spires, to lovely, placid Waramaug, sleeping in it's quiet bed among the hills. E s,a s..a .5al -~ z, g.
 What if the tear starts from adult eyes at such times, is it evidence of weakness and folly or does it bespeak only the stir ring of the nobler feelings of the soul, the earnest, yet not really sad sobriety of spir- it which compor,s with mans higher na- ture, and befits the probabilities of the great future, and the realities of the near eternity which we are soon to enter? Hap piness to those who go to distant homes, and the final reunion of all who sang to- gether or. the Pinnacle, on the Mt. Zion above, is the earnest wish of the o g.. ,a :. -a..al.s4 Es.G SECRETARY.
 .. +- TnWN 0FET1Fpc