Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-04

the programme on Thursday evening, ant was listened to by a crammed audienc' who were highly pieased and delighted. la.raad dgoa HOW WEI wENrI IN. :, '',uoi y6sf, T
 The preliminary exercise of ebtainina seats was. abput as arduous performance in that line as we ever witnessed! !G1 sGhree thousand tickets to the concert had been sold and it got noised about that the lnev City Hall would only seat about half tha
 number Acting on this notion. at th' opening of the doors, a dense mass of hu. map beings crowded into the City Hal entrance as though the devil really had q Sure thing on thes hindmost. After en tering that crowd all indiwdual responsi fbility was lost. There was smart cllanc. of-what they called in war times ''beine doubled up''ronnd door or corner; other. wise the ticket holder. somewhat fattened and with no breathsin his body to speal of, but comparatively safe, was eventually shot into the Hall. Certain fellows did shout something about tickets. half way Fup; but it was like asking an editor half way down Niagara Falls to stop and show his free pass. Having arrived in the Hall the audience found it had been little pre- cipitate, inasmuch as there was just about room enough for the ticket holders pres ent. Had it been pleasant evening the approach to that concert would not have been rout but massacre.
 , Waterbury papers state that the Hall will seat 1900, and that about 2,3o0 were present. t
 1.-THE NEW HALL a
 The new hall is credit to Waterbury. It is large, commodious, not lover orna- mented as such halls are apt to be, but neat and tasteful: . a. 7, THE CONCEPT. -
 The concert was very pleasant one in, deed Gilmore's Band, of Boston, about ffteeen in number, and lead by Arbuckle, probably the finest cornet player in the country, played selection of light operat- ic pieces for orchestra or band with admir- able spirit and taste. The great feature of the performance was Arbuckle's own cor It was decidedly the most remarkable thing of the kind we ever heard and entirely up to his reputation. He was repeatedly encored, giving among other things'the Last Rose of Summer and Home Sweet Home, with echo, with won derfnl sweetness and feeling. There was some good violincello and futs playing, but the troupe excell as band rather than as an orchestra. Just before the close fel- low played something on what looked and sounded like length of picket fence, which brought down the house just as we should have expected such piece of clap-trap might. s ,.'.Io
 THE DRAWING. e.s
 The drawing took place under tine aus pices of gray haired man, who in gen eral appearance and pugnacious honesty, re- us of Gen. Pratt, of Rocky Hill. The drawing was as fair as fair could be. The mode of it, however, was not at first obvious to the audienca; and when One Hundred and Forty-four was announced as the first lucky number, everybody suppos- ed he was to be the proprietor of the $6oO piano. When, instead, he was given a ''hair brush, shout in the highest de- gree ''sarkustikal' went up from the audi ence. Fancy the : feelings of poor One Hundred and Forty-four as he dropped from the proprietorship of prize piano into the possession of hair brush!
 There seemed no end of Initial paper" s'oval frames" and the like, among which were interspersed pianos, violins, and the real prizes, but old Litchfield didn't draw even an alligator toy" and we left in dis gust, before the drawing was over. s- ] .a 40gJ THE RETURN TRIP. <. lasf iifs
 After what seemed two hours of whistl- ing, ringing and shouting the crowded ex- cursion train started north. a Up to Water vile we took it leisurely, at about the rate of three miles an hour. Above, the speed was increased probably to avoid collision with the morning train. Arriving at our station. we found the procession for Litch- field not yet organized ;the four-horse stage, even, had not arrived; in fact, not only had nobody come but nobody was coming. So we knocked up MT. Carter lfrst door. north of Scoville Hetel), who is the man to forward untimely freight and passengers and in due time ascended the everlasting hills to the county seat. snow on every side and Q played out moon shining in the dim. nest and dismalest way over the hills to the Tsonfl, of ns. ss1 tiily195tse( .sI
 les- -5g-9-. |.saa 4ea lgslsFx 38a1E axss 1r r < 9 ya !,4F.ssas THE RESULT. @t fs4s ssstsf z,ss olWe are pleased to believe that Mir. Isbell has realized a2 fair amount fol his property, and his expenses. which is all he could expect under the ar: rangement The lovers of good music hereabouts, owe him adebto of gratitude for many . treat, and we greatly fear there is no one left to fill his place and give, us,
 now and then.a first class concert - = l. ,Fr