Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-11
IiTTCHFIELD,

Any one who has seen Newtown from the Housatonic railroad, and who may have had at some time in his life, glimpse of heaven, can combine the two memories together and save the expense of trip to Litchfield b5+-s'i-a e"g SJ1 '-i.s LA,
 Litchfeld and Winsted present the con- ditions of cause and effect. In Litchfeld was the law school; but there is no law school there now. It disappeared, and mad-house was started in Winsted.
 At the Mansion house the stage dropped its passengers. The young man with the book passed in, and I mechanically fol lowed. Then the young man turned round to me and said: Whats your bill, coachee?" I wanted the money badly enough, but I thought of the teachings of a gray haired mother, and told him to put up his gold. We never met again f
 North and South Main street comprise the chief natural attraction of Litchfeld. They are broad avenues, lined with gen. erous shade, and sub-lined with lawns, clean walks, neat hedges, and home-like dwellings. The business street is broad centre, with two parks In one the mem- ory of the dead soldiers of the late war is perpetuated with granite monument; in the other decayed liberty pole rears its lofty and necessarily bald head. In a calm day the monument monopolizes the reverence of the people, but when the wind blows the pole inspires the most awe. sd VI b~.'i'-s Ai .* g. ,'-tt-
 A singular feature of Litchfield society is the perfectly straight hind legs of the horses. Any one who has never enjoyed the pleasure of witnessing gale in Litch- field will hardly be prepared to believe that the wind did it. Iitchfeld hurricanes are very embarrassing until yoh get used to them. Sometimes they come up .sud- denly, laden with two-ss o-y houses with modern improvements attached fincluding we'll of cold water on the premises1, the finest and most comple letely equipped barns you ever saw, tax lists, esuer casks Gn- variably empty1, and dead men nearly whole and uninjured. No house is safe on one of those hillsL1the Heading clerey- man told me--unless it is heavily mort gagged. l.iA &oos saasy zas'E Io isff $ l5sa- The resort of bitchield If country place is no bigger than the statements in this letter, it has it's s4resortr1 is Bantam lake.-From the elevation of street the Beechefs have made famous by living on the corner of, the lake can be plainly seen. It is sheet three miles long,, and some what the shape of al oyster without any pepper on it. It nestles down in an az ricultural bowl whose sides slope away to far distant horizon, dotted with farm houses, splotched with forests, and check cred with meadows and cornfelds I could have sat there and looked on that scene until the beautiful valley melted away in the dawn of the resurrection, and the. heavens rolled together as a scroll above me but didn't know when. the cars left. Had I been nearer the depot should have tried it. s s-s q 1sa '
 It@is the impression that Litchfield was originally designed for sub-heaven know nothing about that but I do k'ao,D that 1t is as near an approach to heaven as an earthly place can reach with two newspapers. 1s s~a -
 Late in the afternoon T went down to the depot of the Shepang railroad The depot is about 96 feet ssfall" from the v1l- lage seFaI' is the term the people in this section employ m designating dis tances. They don't use saJtStudes be.