Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-09
EAST GAINESVILLE, N. r.,
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Sept. 28, 1873.


 EDITOR ENQUIRER :-"Every body trav. els nowadays. but every body don't tell of it" Just so Mr. Sarkustical But we are not everybody" and besides the Enquirer has already told of it, that is, the leaving Washington.
 | The ride to Norwalk was a reflective one. We recalled the handsome dividend awarded us last year at about this season; the generous hospitality of the Norwalk- CTS. now, alas, not advertised, we recalled the personal interest felt in oar road, that we 'ppiittied the poor fellows Who had no right nor lot in the matter All this was memory. We felt like rejected lover wandering past the curtained window while somebody else was inside basking in the smiles and revelling in the luxusies that once were ours. We might ring the bell and humble hurried business call, no more; so now we bought our ticket like any other sinner, and went on our way to New York A call on Rev. C. T. Wood ruff found him eogitating on The ExtEemes of City Life, as the subject Of lecture which he thought the Judeans would like. Dr. Holland was in lis office busy reading his morning mail of letters from all over the country. many from young men thanking him in the most touching manner for the good Arthur Bonnicastla had done them; one of them which the doctor read, was concluded in such hear ty and son-ike thanks, that the author might we'll feel he had not lived in vain
 The attack on the book in Harpers' Month ly was mere venting of personal spite. The editor sent an apology for it. @. In Brooklyn we found H. L. D. Wood ruff, Nj. D., living at 436 Gates avenue, with practice of $4, 800, worked up in three years. His father was a native of Washington. On Wednesday eve we dropped into Booths theatre, the first time we ever entered one in New York. When we started our little dramatic ven. ture in w., the members of the associa- tion were soundly berated for so doing; the vile surroundings of a theatre would be sure to follow it, and SO forth. Having never been to one before the oth- CT night, except once in Boston, with the doctor, we looked around for those hor- rible surroundings, so pit-like and de- structiye. We did not see any. not even 1 a s'painted Jezebel' was there. Perhaps it was because we were SO green. We'll we 1won't swap our greenness then for that astute sharpness which can discover vileness. All was as orderly and quiet, with crowded house, for the occasion, as Sabbath service. What theatres may have been has nothing to do with what Booths now is The play was Rip Van Wrinkle Jefferson. MT. Jefferson has become so identified in Told Rip that you forget, except by an effort of the mind, that there is any other person pres ent but the easy-going, good-hearted, hard-drinking "old Rip, who loves child ren and ttmy dog" This play teaches g good moral, and is effectingly handled by the actor Thursday we took rides around Brooklyn. It is a city which has tre- mendous facilities for spreading itself. What an avenue the Atlantic will become in ten years The widest imagination will no more than predict the truth. It is delightful staying there at present as you have city and country combined. The crickets kept up there monotonous sere made and we dropped asleep dreaming that we were at home. All city sound' where hushed and the cricket chirped sad ly his complaint of being driven from on' street to another by the pandemoniun noises; and early Tn the morning. like th' ghost in Hamlet, as soon as he heard tn first horse foot fall on the pavement, h
 slunk away into silence before the rain Q 1 iron hoofs upon the paving stones tha goes on increasingly for sixteen hours C the day. as. 1z....- srtss At the forts we could see eannen, fk whales summing themselyea, lying by hul
 dreds looking oyer the green grass. whao .sres2 -sssft ss-FI aFta