Litchfield enquirer., 1871-09-07

No objection was made aid tho machine moved. Gradually it rose through the dark, mounting the steps with patience sublime and indomitable; ;and i'll little more than an ho1r, overcoming all difficulties and without the slightest accident to mar the pleasure. Of the journey. the weary horses took long breath on far-famed heights of Litchfield Hill. From the City Hall in New York, by steAdy travel. with 1 out pause or pressure, we had done the whole in eight hours! '- More beautiful than ever is this lovely village on the Hill. In the morning, as the sunlight wanders among the great elms and brightens the walks, it seems to be the loveliest hour. And then tse calm of the evening steals on quietly Il the eye oi day shuts so gently, the s~rlng and the morning make a perfect day. Nota sound of business is beard during all the week, and Christian stranger might mistake it for Sabbath all the year round.
 TWO OLD GRAvEYARDs
 1 The forefathers of this hamlet are not ly. l ing all in the same yard On the East and on the West side of the town is cemetery, and q walk in the midst of them brings to 1 mind the names of many of the families now scarcely to be found among the living here. The number of the old people is wonderful. ''Aged 82'' was on so many | stones, 1t seemed to have been limit. The most remarkable case here-and, perhaps, without any equal in history-is that pre- sented in the following record:
 MARY BUELL.
 died Nov. 4, 1766, aged go. She had 13 children, 101 grandchildren, 274 great grandchildren, p great-great-grandchil dren-4lO in all, of whom 339 survived her.
 SALMON BUELL.
 great grandson of Mary Buell., was born June 9. 1767, and died Jan. 3, 1868, being the last survivor of the 336 above mention ed. He attended church on Sunday, June 5, 1867. on his Tooth birthday As he en- tered, the whole congregation rose in re- spectful salntation, and the choir sang Old Hundred. The pastor then made an ap- propriate address to him and the people.
 Fms centenarlan was a temperance man all his days. When boy, on one occasion he refused to drink intoxicating liquor of fered to him. and a friend said to him, "Stlck to that, my boy, and you will live to be hundred years old" He did both.
 Mir. John Marsh died at the age of g, in 170l, and so early in life he had become a man of some importance at home, if not abroad, fer on his stone it is written,
 70, cruel deth to fill this narrow place,
 in wonder house left A grate emty place."
 The regret is just as sincere as though the orthography were modern. It is not worth while to look among these tombs for odd inscriptions. The monuments re- theer gehsra, her 4il il tnEflselXed testimony the people.
 THE NEW RAILROAD.
 This fall it is expected that the new rail road to pass down the Shepaug Valley to the Housatonic road, and then by the New Haven road to New York, will be open, bringing the town into still more rapid communication with the city. Three To- comotiyes now being built for this road are to bear the august names of Shepaug, War amaug and Weantinaug-nam which cer- tainly auger we'll for the success of the road.
 In one of my letters from this place I gave the name and office of one of the em- inent citizens incorrectly. It should have red, the Hon. Lewis B. Woodruff, Judge of the U. s. Circuit Court. He passes his summer vacation in his native place and occupies the same mansion in which Chief Justice Reeve dwelt. IRENEUs