Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-11

Acause they know there is no nlaca undav heaven higher than Litchfield. 1Dlese ;t F Norwalk clothing store. So when thev speak of q location they do not sav it is so many miles away, but that it is anch a number of feet ssfalI' north or sonth aa the case may be.
 There IS an unpleasant appearance of newness about the depot. but that is going to wear of. The location is well provided with the appliances of locomo- tion and it's care.
 THE WINDING sHEPAUa.
 I found Tim Keeler, of Danbury. in charge of the train. MT. Keeler was glad to see me, but judiciously kept two cars and part of a locomotive between us. until l assured him there was no truth in the rumor of. smallsR sRox in Danbury.
 s4I eheerfnHy accepted an inyitation to ride on the locomotive, but regretted it when found on starting that we passed out of town over the brow of hill. and saw the track suddenly dip down out of sight. leaving the perplexed passenger to wonder If the train was about to plunge ir- to an abyss seventeen hudred feet deep. or into one only sixteen hundred feet deep.
 We dashed along merrily over the hill, and when we got to the bottom we swung around curve so sharply, as to induce me to step down from my seat
 There are nine or ten stations on the road, and if the station at Litchfeld looks raw, I don't know what to say of the oth- CTS. It is wild country-a country pro- life in timber, rocks, cascades, and quick sands The road follows the Shepaug river as near as 1t can. and preserve its balance The river is narrow stream that runs and falls, falls and runs, the en- tire distance, sputtering. mumbling, roar ing and hissing all the time It is the most sociab1e stream ever saw. The valley is for the greater part narrow the hills rise abruptly, and after reaching a great night commence to look down as if they wanted to swear at something, but were afraid it wouldn't hear them. '
 The valley is series of winding turns. The road goes down, down. When it isn't going down, it is going around. A piece Of straight track Is rarity once seen nev- CT to be forgotten. 5 1a'f --fstt -s <
 The road from Litchfieldt to Hawleyyille is thirty-fye miles long, and in that stretch there are, we believe, one hundred and ninety-six cueves. There are four bridges and several pile structures on the line. The bridge that crosses the Housatonic river IS 450 feet long, and high enough to scare hotel clerk. The t'fan" from Litchfeld to this bridge is SO5 feet, and as the distance is about thirty miles, math- ematical prodigies can ascertain accurate ly any distance in Litchfeld-by due al- lowances, of course After crossing the Housatonic the road commences to crawl upward, and ascends 200 feet to reach Hawleyville. -4 i'5 Here the road at this writing ends, but by the time this reaches the intelligent reader a connection will have been made with the Bethel extension, and trains will run through from Litchfeld to New York over the Danbury < Norwalk road. '-
 CONCLUDING MORAL REFLKCTIoN. e.i..
 An old gentleman, tottering with the accumulated weight of four score years, once told the writer that if he couldn't be an angel he would like to be stockhold- CT in the Danbury & Norwalk road. sis
 .,t-s...s CYRUS D. PERKINS , As the time when our friend Perkins will be 8 real angel in a real heaven is, we trust, remote, may we not hope to see him in our ''sub-heaven" continually? and now that the Shepaug railroad has be- come to the Danbury & Norwalk what the Missouri river is to the Mississippi, why may he not become sub-angel by su6- scribing to its stock? a 15-
 It is very difficult getting at the truth about the immense Republican accessions claimed by the Greeley and Brown party in the Middle and Western States. The estimates of the Republican papers and of the Tribune differ so entirely that any att tempt to reconcile them is futile. The North Carolina election of August first will indicate very clearly what we are to ex- pect from the South. Later elections in West Virginia, Kentucky, Vermont and Maine may give further indications but the great fight is to come of in the Octo- Der States. As at present advised we are sorry to believe that the Republican State ticket in Pennsylvania, handicapped with Simon Cameron, deserves to be beaten. We would not like to see it beaten heayi- ly because that would injure Grants chances in November, but it probably will get the thrashing it has admirably con trived to merit. Indiana will be the test State of the West as Pennsylvania is of the Middle of the Union. Should we car " that State as we'll as Ohio in October, MT. Greeley's chadces would be next to nothing, for Pennsylvania could then be redeemed and the whole North and West be brought into line as in 1864 and 1868. Should Indiana go against us in October by slight majority then we may look for bitter and a doubtful fight in November. It is unnecessary to say that if Ohio goes against us in October the Republican jig is up for 1872. - #
 Matas Milford ..t- s