Litchfield enquirer., 1872-12-19
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 must have been somewhat exaggerated if your extracts from the Herald were corl rect and the cause was rum fatlzes than High Dutch.
 Gould the Thanksgiving sermon pre- viously alluded too be preached once a month till our good people were inspired swithAfrs Bassestss entinsiasfn g6nse fhistgs would be done for the public good which are now neglected. First would be the suppression of this unlicensed drinking saloon. We know that it is not patron ized by the best .ofethen eemmHnity and that general peace, health. and prosperi- ty prevails, but it does some evil awerk, F Weddings have been few and far be- tween with us of late We have had one. not g wooden or tin affair but an old. fashione q ore. First because it was a so,e match (which is rare nowadays) the result of long courtship, though they are yet young Next they were married and spent the first night under the parental roof, which is quite refreshing in these days of morning weddings and hasty flights. It is said that matches are made in Heaven. We know they are sometimes commenced in the village sehoo'. Our couple have now gone west to visit friends. That in due time that they may return to their old home and spend many happy years together is the wish of their numerous friends: -.:5 -osa=- f--. WASHINGTON Dec sth, 1872
 MR. EDIroR:-Perhaps you remember circumstance that happened here mum of years ago, when MT. Hays was pastor of the Congregational church He was to preach in neighboring town and for that purpose drove thither Sunday morning. A certain man who lowed him $ grudge'' entered a complaint against him for tray cling on Sunday When the time of trial came MT. Hayes pleaded his own case, and made a successful defense He said he should not urge 1t was ga case of neccs- sity or of mercy. but that he had rigIt to go, and he maintained his position. In those days the Washington Sabbath b1SaH at sunset Saturday night, 4Is1 iaa many households all labor was religiously laid aside, to be ioyfully resumed at sun- set Sunday, after the somewhat irksome repose of the Holy day. Mir. Hays ex- perieDce was brought to my recollection by the course of the Station agent at Bethel, who refused to unlock the depot there on Sunday nigh, "because, The said, ''people had no right to travel on Sun day." so lady who was suddenly called to sick mother in Pennsylvania was ob- liged to stand out on the platform Ia stormy night, tool until the train could go to Danbury and back. Other passen- gers had found it convenient to be e,, route for New York that night, and one of them plead in the lady's behalf ''No," the agent said, s'I have been here ten years and never have unlocked the Sta tion Sunday yet, and I shall not now"
 "Why do you come here ?''
 ''To make out the waybills for the milk -'--'- -'--E1 ea.rt
 ''Is it not as much your business to see to the comfort of passengers r -
 ''No, this is not Passenger train. D
 ''But the company sells tickets to pas sengers, and they expect the usual accon- modations. - t.
 The lady alluded to is the wife of one of the railroad employees, and her hus- band thought she could go to N. Y., Sun day night without difficulty, and proceed on her journey Monday morning, but at Norwalk, she was obliged to leave her trunk; with only the assurance that it should be in New York the next morning at six o'clock, which necessitated return to the New Haven depot at that hour to claim it and therefore considerable addi- tional inconvenience and expense. Any other night in the week she would have been spared all that annoyance, why should she suffer it on Sunday night? In the year one, We read, the evening and the morning were the first day, the even ing and the morning were the second day, and third to the sixth, when creation was finished and the Sabbath instituted If the same order was observed, then the evening and the morning were the seventh day, and the former generation, whose Sabbath began Saturday evening, had very high authority for the custom, and now one who starts on a journey Sunday night is violating no law human or divine, and, as Mir. Hays argued She has right to go." We submit the case to the rail road officers, to decide whether their de- pots should be closed to passengers trav- cling on tickets buoght at the usual price, or not n J slE .rs17a4.. s aiseizs.9a3 S. os
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 The high wind on the night of the 9th inst, made a "clean sweep" of the tin roof from the new freight depot of the Conn. Western at West Winsted It also took portion of the roofing from the Mu- SIC Hall building which was but partly covered. It was the strongest bieeze we have had here in many months x zs Two more horses have succumbed to the epizootic, making seven in all which have now died in town..saz si. sa sa- .s y4 L. Clamp Hall is being newly paintedand