Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-25
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iA . LitchfleId.
 Notices were posted. last week sll over the village, in Milton, and elsewhere. for grand Greeley and Brown Rally at the
 courthouse, Monday night. Asfhat was
 just the rally we were little curious to
 see We were in attendance early. No one
 had yet arrived except the. editor of the
 Sentinel and another gentleman who were
 superintending the ringing Of the bell. They then turned theiA attention to the lamps, which, after much fumbling of chim- neys. dropping of screws, and pious ex-
 clamations of the Greeley sort, they final iy succeeded in lighting Then they re-
 tired to the billiard room to rest. Reap
 bearing soon after, they caucusssd with two or three patriarcllal Democrats in front of the courthouse, while six Gree
 leyites of tender years rang the sssecond' bell. After hanging about sadly for 8 few moments they went up stairs and the pa- triarchals went home.
 The Rally consisted of these two gen. tlemen, three Grant Republicans and three Democrats who had dropped in to
 see the fun, eleven small boys, and MT.
 Knapp, who came in afoot from Milton,
 and constituted the entire Rally proper.
 The persons present looked at each other
 for about ten minutes, and then smiled
 simultaneously as the full proportions of
 the joke became obvious. Conceding the
 thing to be farce, the editor of the Sen
 tinel and his friend proceeded to organ
 ize on that basis. The latter assIsted him.
 self to the chair and opened with speech
 that for ineongruity of subject and variety of detail would have done honor to Geo. Francis Train or the Great American Tray eler. The editor of the Sentinel became temporary secretary and entering into the spirit of the occ4ssion nominated Dr. Henry president of the proposed club, and Col. Vessels vice president. The Rally testified their esteem for the two most pronounced anti Greeley men in town by sustaining these nominations. The chair man then called on Brother Johnspn"' for rremarks. Brother J." was too mich engrossed with his duties as tempoiary secretary to respond. The chairman hen proceeded with an iniihitable address of which we can only givea brief outline3
 "Fellow citizens, friends, relations con neetions- see any sisters (soao gSee3 nor fellow citizens either. As the em- bodiment of the Greeley & Brown senti- 'ment in Litchfeld, and representing the four thousand, eight hundred and ninesy- two friends of theirs in Litchfeld, I call on you to RALLY! This meeting isn't Jig enough to pull down the Enquirer offte, next door-that's certain-but Burning to the temporary secretary .'Tal oaks from little acorns grow. Here very little dog that has unaccountably attached him self to the temporary secretary of late took offence, and parked uproariously, to the great delight of the Raly.) Ah!do hear another man a-coming !? (Enter three small boys-the Rally smiles-) What we have assembled here for tonight is to get rid of this inestimable, devilish admins tration. But are these all the friends of Greeley? shall have to resign if there isn't anybody to help fellar (Applause.) Brown ought to be hung, and the other fellow to be damned Qoud applause), that's fact; and the next business in or I der is to put out the lights for, in words suitable to the place and the occasion, I do herebyzpron and promulgate this cuuCern-tfI1s sassocIaJIon-autour. ed joursaed, ADJOURNED! And maay the. Lord have mercy O,a its soul !''- f.' D
 We understand that prolonged and enthusiastic ratification meeting was held at the billiard room later in the evening at which 'Paiph and the temporary secreta- ry "joined hands across the bloody chasm, 7" and the latter made several beau tiful openings of maiden political speech which, somehow, heneyerfnished. 'Paiph feels very much ashamed of the affair this Tuesday) morning, and seems to be thoroughly cured of Greeleyism. .-I
 Not single Liberal Republican put in a appearance, and a more complete, ab- surd, irremediable failure was never seen than the .'Grand Greeley and Brown Ral- ly'' at Litchfeld. .ssatfe. 8 5ta. ..4a
 = The Beecher house is begging away slowly towards it's new location on Spring Hill. n e5slz-..t z.tG 5t8sae slI sIs4
 - The Hon. John H. Hubbard is very i'll at his residence in this place. Dr. Welch of Norfolk has been down to attend him. aa4 I.z6x ..L3 t3 Has. . -a.=
 The Brooklyn company arrives early tomorrow Wednesday, morning and re- turns late in the evening. ss ,,. s.a5 frame of the new residence J. Deming, Esq, is building in West Street. was raised last week qa7 ! fa9 vat