Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-24
New Preston.

1 from NIT. Boiles stone saw-mill to the new
 Bee Brook road. This alteration had been approved by former meeting and
 Saturdays action turned on q resolution
 resembling this vote of acceptance. The
 resembling resolution was strenuously op- posed and compromise came near pre-
 prevailing, but after long debate the
 original resolution finally passed. It ap- peared that all due legal steps necessary
 to the layout of the highway had been
 compiled with, except the payment of
 land damages. It was question much
 mooted,. therefore, whether simple re-
 scinding resolution was sufficient to undo
 the work of the former town meeting.
 The word discontinue" was, indeed, em-
 ployed in the resembling resolution, but
 inasmuch as there was no previous report
 of the selectmen recommending such dis
 continuance, the validity of this vote will
 evidently rest on the power of the town to
 rescind its former vote of acceptance.
 After the resembling resolution had been
 carried, a vote was passed instructing
 the selectmen to grade the hill on the
 roads on each side of the parsonage at an
 expense not exceeding $500. ,..,.I mn. ..... Most of the speakers argued the points
 at issue sensibly, forcibly, and concisely;
 but the personalities indnlged in by the I disputants, particularly by two of those, i'll the minority, were of the most outra- geous character. They shouted, abused the moderator, turned round to one or
 another opponent, calling him '.liar,'' puppy" ''iackass," and indulging in
 brutal coarseness of, tongue and manner
 that we judge defeated the compromise
 resolution advocated by another of the
 minority with admirable temper D and
 judgment. Other, speakers also became 1 excited, and issues of veracity were raised with alarming frequency even with the l two clergymen who were present and took part in the debate. In fact the exhibi- 1 tion was one of the most painfully indecent ! we eyer witnessed and we cannot help I thinking that the next extraordinary ap- propriation of the town of Washington
 should be to build lookup for the use
 of the town at it's meetings. me, -..- One amusing incident we must not
 omit Just before the close of the meet ing MT. Hitchcock rose, and in the tone l which we fancy Elijah the Tishbite used to take with Ahab, demanded of Mr. D. c. Whittiesey an explanation of a clause he had put in the warning about the dedication of strip of land for highway. Drawing 0 slip of paper from
 his pocket, Mir H. read from 1t Web ster's definition of ,dedtcate and claimed, that there was no .ssconsecration to de- vine being" implied in giving a bit of land for New Preston highway. MT. Whittlesey explained, that he. had, only
 used the appropriate law term; one which occurred frequently in the Statutes MT. Hitchcock was not convinced. sHe thought that if the word had any such signification the late lamented N. Webster would have
 known it. As for the Statutes. he had perused them carefully and the word did not occur there. The meeting ad- journed, and when we left, MT. H. was triumphing in the fact that oaestseated could not be found in the text of Justice Beardsleys statutes-only in the notes which he maintained were of no special authority. '.'.-,'1..A ,,.,, ''-i t.- The New Preston stationg has been furnished with settees and an enclosure 2 for the new ticket agent, but the highway near it is totally impossible from mud.
 We saw men rolling barrels and carry ! bags of grain dozen rods up the track to point where teams could reach them.
 a--.r .,f WASHINGTON, April 21st.
 MIR. EDITOR: To-day we consign to the
 grave the mortal remains of our esteemed
 fellow-citizen, Mir. Frederick Newton.
 His death, April 18th, was totally unex-
 pected, and for time the family hoped
 he had only tainted, but no effort could
 restore him. The vital spark was extinct,
 and till the resurrection morn cannot be
 rekindled. His last Sunday on earth was
 Easter Sunday. Then he joined with his church in commemorating his Lo.d's res urrection. Then, too, he stood by the grave of his only son, just revealed from beneath it's winter covering of snow. Per haps the thought occurred to him that | soon he would repose beside him.
 Tomorrow, the last scene in the New Milford tragedy will be enacted, and the happened four weeks ago, will be buried. Several notices of the sad affair have been | published, but no clear statement has l been made Mr. Clark was splitting 1 wood, and the two little boys, Robert and | Earnest, were pillng it under the wood- l house. They had each a pair of steers l they were breaking under the yoke, and l were eager to get the almost completed 1 job of piling wood done, to return to that l sport. How Earnest came beneath the 1 axe the horror stricken father could not
 tell, but his older brother said he had | picked uptwo or three sticks and when l reaching for another, slipped and
 fell just when he received the fatal | blaw. 0 His father carried him to the house and mounting his horse urged him through almost impossible snow l drifts in search of surgical skill, fearing his darling boy would bleed to death be- fore doctor could, be obtained. After
 several disappointments he succeeded in l finding Dr. Cole, of Marketable, who | probed and dressed the wound, the pa tient preserving conciousness and com
 posture all the time, only crying little when his father said Fl am afraid I have killed him. He said 'sI don't want to die" though the day before hes was sing