Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-09

'sThe next evening about ten o'clock there came great knocking at our door, I was up in a minute, and looking out, I saw by the moonlightabout thirty indians in war-paint and feathers standing round the house. My heart was in my mouth for minute, and then it came over me what they had come for.
 "'What do you want?' called Abiram from his window
 "'We have come for a cup of tear said ! a voice which I knew right we'll. Get up and give tito us.like.a good fellow, or we shall have to take it where we can find it. , ',Abiram clustered and talked big, but ! it was no use. They told him if he didn't open the doors, they would break them down, and at last, rather than have his house attacked, he gave up the keys. They touching nothing else in the house, but they carried all the tea out into the
 meadow yonder, piled it up, and. set it ! on fire. It burned splendidly, and per ! fumed the air for half mile round. There ! were at least two hundred people looking on, but nobody said word, or offered to \ interfere. It was all as solemn as yearly
 meeting, and it had right to be, when
 two at least of the Indians were minist-
 CTS. When the tea was all burned, every body went quietly home.
 ''Abiram was like madman for a time,
 and then he broke down and cried like
 baby. He never held his head up after ! that, and presently he moved away to Philadelphia. They tried to bring a suit against. the men who burned the tea, but ! it was of no use. The grand jury were too good Wings, to. bring in 8 bill, and finally the war came on and the matter was dropped
 ''I had engaged Eunice Hunt to come and take care of the house, and wait on Aunt Betsy. and on the day appointed I went in and told her what was going to do. She scolded at first, and then she cri- was firm. I thought had waited and suffered about enough, She declared she never would see me again, but told her I had an inward persuasion that she would change her mind. Then I left her, and Lewis and went up to Mr. Philip Fithian's and were married. Afterward we moved over to James Whitecar's and I lived there long time. all the same as one of the family, doing the spinning and helping in the work. Some Friends blam- ed Deborah for taking my part, but she said she had acted according to the best light she had, and she was pretty we'll able to hold her own.
 1.-The next year the war broke out, and Lewis, with his brother Richard and Step hen Whitecar, went into the army It was great trouble to Deborah to have
 Stephen turn soldier, but he did, and
 made very good one. My Lewis rose to be captain, and was much respec, ed; but
 he was wounded up at Wyoming, and died, leaving me with one little girl,
 mother of your father and Elisabeth here. Stephen Whitecar wanted to marry me
 when the war was over, and knew De-
 borah would have liked it, but couldn't
 bring my mind to it, and after while he
 married Emma Parvin. Folks said he
 thought it was the next thing to marrying me.
 "Aunt Betsy was very angry for long time, but she came round, and was kind as ever, even getting me the satin gown and crape shawl she had promised me if I
 married Abiram. He got very rich in Philadelphia at one time. but he lost everything speculating in Continental 1 money after the war, and finally died poor and friendless.
 "And now, as the wind has changed
 and it is clearing up, you had better go
 and get ready for your tea-fght." Lucy Ellen Guernsey.