Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-28

IltchnelO, spoke of Mrs. Goddard and Mrs. Sewall. His wife said that she d1d not originally belong to either of these families, but she was glad she had entered the Sewall family. H. N.
 Aug. 18th.
 No. 107.
 The Nortons assembled, last week Tues day, at the house in East Street, formerly owned by Dea. Lewis NJ. Norton, and now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Eliza N. Gaylord, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of it's erection.
 The tables were set in the kitchen, at the east end of which were the figures 1773, and at the west end, 1873. In large letters. on the north side of the room, was, Welcome; under that was the Nor- ton Coat of Arms, made from the old fam fly chart, which gives the genealogy back to the time of William the Conquerer. West of the coat of arms was the picture of Mrs. Laura Norton. Besides the old chart there were exhibited the two vol umes of Goshen Statistics and Family History, l.. M. Norton's account book of 1895, and the old Bible of 1793. The old est son, Rev. John F. Norton, at the ta- ble, gave the first address, and we heard the circumstaces under which our grand father, Ebenezer Norton, built this house in the summer of 1773; how after his death, occasioned by that fever taken on bank of the Genesee river, his widow oc- cupied the house, and he gave us an &C., count of the changes which have since taken place. It was thought that the house, if kept in as good repair as it has been, would stand until August 19, 1878, and the speaker charged the young peo- pie present, to tell the coming generations to celebrate that day If the house should be standing.
 Dr. John Sewan, of N. Y. took us back century, when they made guns at the blacksmith's shop in the southeast corner of Mrs. Gaylord's garden, which were used in the Revolution, and told us how Ebenezer Norton put the stocks to the muskets.
 He was followed by Rev. Robert Nor ton, of Canada, who spoke of thu dread full war with England, and said that Great Britain had profted by the lesson learned at that time, and that now not dollar was raised in any of the British Colonies to support the English Government, and that among the Britons now. no name, ex- cept Queen Victoria, was spoken with so much respect as the name of George Washington. ....
 Mir. John W. Brooks, Edward Norton, and others, spoke. Here L. M Norton while engaged in the woolen factory, in- vented and put in operation the first loom worked by water power, in America, and here he made the first Pine Apple Cheese on the Western Continent, and here in East St. the wife of one of his sons first made the suggestion which has resulted in the establishment of Cheese Factories in our Middle and Western States, and has revolutionized the cheese business in our country.
 When the sentiment, ''Our Father and our Mother" /" was proposed, all rose from the tables in silence. .#f f.. H. N.
 Aug. 25th. g.
 The following communications reached us last week to late for publication:
 West Cornwall.
 We were all much pleased to hear our former pastor, Rev. ". B. Clark, last Sab- bath. The Sabbath School exercises al so were quite interesting. and if the teach CTS and scholars will take hold and be as interested in the school as our Superin- tendent, Dea. R. R Pratt, there is no req son why we may not have live school.
 We have had no boarders in this part of the town this summer.
 The foundry is running; three men are steadily employed; work is done for the Housatonic R. R. Co.,, and the cast ing's> for the Gold Sanitary Heater Go.
 Col. Blinn and Tom Smith were in town, week before last, and they with Niles Scoville (Gideon's BanO gave a sing in the Hall
 Every thing is dry, and we appreciate what little rain we had, last week,
 Tobacco is failure in most cases al- though think some may have fair crop. Bad for apples. -
 North Cornwall.
 Last Sabbath, the Rev. William B. Clark, our former pastor, preached for us. It was understood that he was com ing and we had much larger cougrega- ton than usual. Notwithstanding that he has been gone from here for fifteen years, he has many warm friends among the people. While he was with as he in. stituted the 'syoung peoples prayer meets ing' which has never been discontinued and has been the medium of much good. It was he who placed the elms around the church, that have already becomevery ornamental R. R. Pratt is the Superin- tendent of our Sabbath School and it is under his management. , Mir. Nathan Hart is absent from town for few months, being engaged inselling the Milk of the shepaug Valley. By his experience in producing @ik and his large acquaintance with milk men in New York he is well adapted to i'll that difiii cult and responsible position.
 The new foundry of the Gold Sanita-