Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-30
EAST EVANSVILLE, N. Y,
 October 2Oth. 1873.

EAST GAINESVILLE, N. Y,
 October 20th, 1873.
 EDITOR ENQUIRER We had expected to have sent you note ere this, but have been quite busy.
 Merritt Woodruff came to this place il 1917, with his father John Woodruff, and his mother. who was Polly Frisbie, and three sisters. They moved from tht house that stood near what is now called the Moody barn in Washington. Leemar Garfield came with them with a horse and wagon. They started on the 4th o November and arrived here the 27th. be ing twenty three days on the journey Now, one can leave Washington depot at half-past eight, a. m., and arrive, by the Erie express, at 5:27, a. m., next morn. ing, besides staying in New York nearly four hours. The express leaves there al 5, p. m. Mir. W. has been identified with the growth of this place, and to-day pays the largest tax of any citizen in town. He has held places of trust and in 1880 stood as fair chance for the honors of place and office as any one. On the agitation of the Slavery question he took his repu. tation. chances for fame and emolument in his hand, and stood by the dictates oi his conscience, and the rights of humani ty, justice and freedom in the persons o1 the slaves. He has never seen the mo- ment when he regretted the decision hen made. The consciousness of having done what was right according to the light then given him, has been it's own reward. That he has been maligned and misunderstood is but an attendant consequence upon all who dare act up to such standard. The annals of that old discussion show but few here and there who had spiritual perception of the issues involved, or mor- al hardihood to stand by them There is a lesson here for all future reforms. "Ahl he means 8 hit at. the woman suffrage question Oh, it is a question then ? Look to it that the chaff is blown away, and the kernel of truth discovered. Five hundred Woodruff and Claflins with their detestable and pernicious vagaries and practices will not swerve the scales of jus tice one iota in the future, when our acts shall be weighed on the truth and right of the question. How many one mourna to-day that he took false position on slavery. because some 'crazy abolition ist" turned infdel. Beware my friend that no frail issue turns you from the un- swerving track of justice. That track ia always safe. There are no collisions on it. It will always pay to keep it, if you have to fight for it.
 This place is a village of some thirty families. The taxable property is $92, ,O0C and they are building school house 4Ox30, two stories high, which when com pleted will cost $3, 800. The Ere compa- ny own property to the amount of SIG, ,OOO here. We have seen six extra through freight trains standing on the track at this depot, having from twenty-four to thirty cars each, waiting for another train to pass. The other Sunday we counted thirty trains pass between 8 a. m. and 10 p. m., all but four being through freight from Buffalo to New York. A double track is being laid to accommodate the rapidly increasing business.
 There is as rule but a small supply of apples this year, though Frank Holman told us he had picked from his orchard three hundred barrels of apples, fourteen of which were taken from one tree oi greenings. A cheese factory here ship ped 26, 600 lbs. of cheese at one time last week, being the product of twenty-three days work. The farmers have put in an extra large crop of wheat this fall, and if is looking splendid. Tomatoes are or have been picksd from gardens the last week. A tobacco plant is standing in the garden with blossoms on it.
 A squirrel hunt came of, Saturday, when thirty-fiye hunters brought in game at night, from fox counting 500 to chipping squirrels at TO- The totals were 2, 1875, Of course we were on the winning side, for it would: ::not do for a Hawkeye to gel beaten. The old club at Washington are assured that their representation has not suffered through poor representative. ei. ther in hunting or eating oysters. Flee. ton makes but little stir. there not being opposition enough to make it interesting. .a What has become of all the goose-quills in Judea? We tried to set good exam when there. cannot some one do better?
 The dramatic spirit is alive even here Last winter the cheese factory was fitted up with platform and curtains, and two exhibitions given. Kilbourn's poetica effusion in the Enquirer was changed te hit the store kept by Belden and spoker with gnsto that astonished the natives Light your candles on the hills and valel eff Litchfeld county; there is no telling how far their beams may shed. But it Ii time to take mine and go to bed. Gooi night! E. W. ". e Pray. sir. of what profession are you? asked Mir. Edwin James of 8 witness wh, had come prepared to prove fact, am who was deemed not very respectable. Sir, I am shoemaker and wine mer chant.
 "A what, sir?. said the learned counsel
 GA wine merchant and shoemaker"
 Then. said Mir. James, ..l may de scribe you as sherry cobbler!'