Litchfield enquirer., 1871-11-16

! aE I rE ! i manner as to make 1t necessary to kill it. This is a sad loss to Mir. Peck, as he was offered $500 for the animal only few days l before stt '0i '" t'~a '.'1 | RI ' . = l.,.s4 kjas s~sIy4 l,4As.Ee .0UE
 js--On saturday evening the chimney in the store occupied by D. Watts caught fire, and had it not been for the prompt assistance rendered by the neighbors we might have had quite eonfagrafion.
 -rThe Lecture delivered by 'sJosh Bill lings" did not please the audience as well as was expected, but he managed to keep them in roar most of the time. ii Dor. l j ssaHy North Cornwall. ,f.l ls..,g.. = Winter seems to have, come upon us 1 unawares and in good earnest. Farmers are giving stock winter feed and care. Those who have short crops of hay make wry faces. l.''s- .,-..t.. '-'I
 i9a-7Ths ladies meet two or three times a week to work for the sufferers in the late fire at Port Huron, Mich. The. work is under the direction of Mrs. Gold who, with the aid off Mrs. w. e. Rogers sorigi mated the project. ~ss 1si'1 .tt's7eeffssian ii | W. L.. Rogers has made permanent Arrangements preside in Waterbury where he will shortly remove his family .aeI
 | About two hundred and seventy dol lars have been subscribed for repairing the church which sadly needs ,shingling and various inside repairs and renovations. Rev. Mir. Swallow preached last Sab bath. Your correspondent heard one one of 1 the estlmable mothers of the church say that she didn't ''believe his sermos was wholly swallowed by all his hearers 3 Many dissented from some views therein expressed. t5i 5qs4is bua a!sga ueab
 Miss. Harriet Bartholomew 0coinmen- ces her school in the church district Nov. 14.
 MT. R. l. Scoyille has, from ron time time, to time, for the last few years been making Improvements in his dwelling until it de- serves to be called a model farm house as we'll as it's proprietor thorough far mer. The reading circle meets there on 1 Thursday eve. next. > ,1s-i lo t!''o asss 1 Several young ladies. and gentlemen are about to leave town for the winter to attend school1aE I1s4i9sAua 2gga83f aBoff ' F-u .4s5lfiT -------z-- Sass s guftp2 !. ] MR. EDrFoR:-Four columns, have just 1 been added to the Enquirer. d Permit me to suggest that one column each week be | E--. open to the discussion of agricultural sub- ]ects.fHai1 sllia e- ,alslEga aa bnoli7
 Ia The great ilnpediment to advancement in agriculture at the present time is the l enormous prices demanded for hired help, both in the house and on the farm Ia farm CT who is the owner of a hundred acres of land and dependent on hired help mainly, to carry on the business of that farm must be aigood farmer and work hard himself not to fall in debt. at the end of the year.
 With bone and muscle in parts of our own country rnimployeds and much nearer to us than Ireland, which, when properly trained and educated to our habits of do- l ing the business of the farm, we ought not, and need not, to be subjected to any such demands as are made upon us from the laboring portion of the community. It will e.remembered that vote has been passed and committee appointed by the County Agricultural Society to take into consideration and report at the next meet ing of the Society upon the expediency of changing the time. of holding the annual meeting until the winter and organizing farmers club for the county. It is be- tlieved that through this organization, by a little concert of action on the part of its members, arrangements my be. made by which help may be. obtained in a few months at more reasonable prices. It is hoped that all the Agricultural Societies will be fully represented at the coming meetings. In behalf of the committees. |
 a1l. sas t. saz T. L. HART, Chairman.
 [The above suggestion is a good one. We shall always be glad to hear from far
 mers on agriculturl subjects. ED. iENo. ] Ee MR. EDrroR:-It is painful always to witness decay and the neglect of things once chefished among men. :. Our country grayeyards, many of them, are humiliat- ing examples of want of reverence for the memory, of cur ancestors and thriftless- mess on the part of this generation. .Abra- ham bought field to remain as a burial place for his descendants; but if Macpelah had been situated in. Goshe,s Easti Street, would aAbraham's great-grandsons have felt like comply ying with Jacobs request, F"bury me with my fathers? ?" Disregard ing their oaths, would they not have pre- fered to leave him in the Goshen where The died? For many years past, everyone passing through Goshen East Street has been shocked at the conditioned the graveyard there; its utter neglect and drear.y rriin are shame to the people of Goshen. en A gentleman riding byEit, 2 few months since, who had travelled around ! the world te,s times, said he never had ] seen even yen in heathen countries. such ? ] spectaele of utter deselation. If this neg l aected spot were photographed, nd, one would consider it Q 2 truthful represents ton \, who had never seen the place Why cannot the people of Goshen either de gently repairit, or else remove the few l stones yet remaining? The whole grave yard is in itself amonumento of selfshness, ingratitude and irreYerence.