Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
Cornwall.

2 rrs t.esye --~-A-- ssf 2 rEk Mir. Barnett Johnson has sold his farm to Frenchman, aud expects to make the place known as the Birdsnest his residence for the future.
 --Frederick Kellogg, Esq, ,contemplates spending the coming winter in Chicago.
 Col. D. W. Pierce has recovered from his illnesa and the ladies all look happy.
 One of the workmen engaged in rais- ing the Johnson monument was quite badly injured by the falling of the der rick. He was caught by bolt and press. ed against the wheel and it is feared that his ribs were broken. aEti
 Two drunken men caused great deal of excitement during their passage through Cornwall Center, some few nights ago. A person not intimately acqlainted with the habits of drunken men might be surprised to find how many tracks two Of tbsh can put into a small piece of road. They had a great deal of anxiety about a horse. judging from the choice language address cd to it. No accidents are reported except the knocking down of about twenty yards of Geo. A. Wheaton's fence. ,ts ..,
 The schools are the all-engrossing subject of discussion just at present. The boys whose intellects need fuller devel- opment than the district school can give them propose to continue their support of the select school which has been so suc- cessful for the past two years under Miss Wilson. Miss. W. is e general favorite, and will undoubtedly have ap plarge school for the ensuing term.
 The Cornwall sportsman ''caved" gracefully, and owns beat. but wants to know whose squirrel cage the "New Mill fordite" shot into?' -.s-.-
 The monument lately erected to the memory of J. Sanford Johnson is a model of neatness and beauty. It is of Scotch granite and is said to have cost nearly s1, ,OOO.
 ,,.-Dr. North is having a monument cut rOst of granite which prpmises to be- of great beauty, but we hope onr cemetery will not require further establishment for some time to come. ,,tr r, III
 Cornwall don't mean to be outdone in Revolutionary relics. We have swords which, yielded by heroes now defunct, are supposed to have strewn the ground with "British dead" We have an old ceme. tery somewhere in the neighborhood of Dibble Hill in which are ,supposedlto lie the disorganized frames of either the the great Ethan Allen or his paternal an- cestor. perhaps both. [Butve have not got Revolutionary whiskey bottle. Nol As Cornwall has not changed since the Revolution, we know why we havn't a whiskey bottle. A Cornwall man never saves one. He always hides his where he cannot fnd it himself and don't go home till his breath gets better, so person can never trace it out But we have liberty pole, uWe do not know the exact date of it's erection but its appear ance indicates that it was raised by the "Scatacooks' about three years, before Columbus came to America. Cornwall furnished men who went to Stonington in the war of 18l2-if we may be allowed to speak here of so'modern an event-and we remember a couplet something like thls:
 "It cost the King . thousand pounds 'lt
 To Kill hog at Stonington."
 But both tradition and old records are silent as to whether it was a Cornwall or . Goshen man, whose death cost poor George so enormously. DIcKEY.