Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-29
washington.


 the Green is the removal of an old land i mark. the Academy, where you, ME Ed itor. in company with yours truly" and | a large number of Judean youth, now scattered over the country filling places of trust and usefulness, were taught t0 make the most of ourselves while. gath cred overhead in solemn conference, the l fathers and mothers in Israel with wailing ! tones "hang- g-ed their harps upon the vii lows" or made "Dundee's wild warbling measures rise" and we youngsters with long faces and rougish winks at each other with one eye, kept the other on the teach CT, and slowly beat the long-drawn time. Then hush, and in few minutes some good old deacon's voice prayerfully started off after the old patrarchs, and seemed in danger of getting lost in the wanderings in the wilderness, but comes down at length to the cares of this present | life and the hope that the rising genera ton, might come up and fill the places | of the fathers, which made us look sober | indeed. But they have nearly all gone up to the great conference above, and we shall see their familiar forms and faces no | more.
 What good old times we had with those | hieroglyphical desks, before the days of
 paint and varnish. A jack-kn1fe was worth something then. We learned to carve out our paths Tn the world. What memories, too, of town-meetings, where they mended, amended, and re-amended l notions But, before all, the first time of speaking in Lyceum P The halting. stammering tongue, blood all in the face, and the wonder why the joiner could not have left board loose that would have let us down below, or anywhere away from that place. But the kindly smile of friend and an encouraging word resolves us to win or die next time. It is right | that the old building should be still con- secrated to learning. Having been re- moved to place north of what was for meriy the Methodist church, it, in con- nection with the old school house, makes | a very pretty female seminary, now kept by Mrs. Marvin and daughters, while tine l new Hall occupies the ground before GOV cred by both. The new Hall is an elegant l structure. and far exceeds any conception l we had formed. The inside arrangement | IS excellent. The roomy stage, as we viewed it last Friday evening, made US think of the precipitation shed on the nar- row confines of Farmers Hall. The gal l lery IS very pleasant and the room every way ga thing of joy" It IS an honor and l an ornament to the place, and makes one feel proud of his nativity.
 ''She stoops to Conquer" was the play given the other evening. It was finely | rendered, and gave universal satisfaction. l
 A large lynx was killed a short time since near Daniel Clark's by Burr and 1 Martin Judson- Mir. Clark saw the ami nal around his barn, and went for Jud- | son and his hounds, which soon treed the l ''Tarmint." W.
 Rev. Wm. E. Bassett, of Warren, ex- changed with ". Cotton Last Sabbath. The subject of his discourse was ssChris- tian Joy" There was large attendance | of the Sabbath School.
 The refreshing rain of last Friday | morning was blessing worthy of record. Vegetation IS reviving in some places, and | corn is rapidly advancing.
 in the shower on Tuesday, the 18th, two cattle, one valuable COW, of Frank | Holiister's, on Church Hill, were struck l by lightning. ..-.
 Mir. Lewis A., instead of D. N. Can field, is the leader in tobacco raising.
 Some petty thieving has been prac- ticed of late in the vicinity of Washington | Depot. i-.-s.-
 About seventy-five persons met at the | house of s. D. Ford in Romeford, on the | 3d of July, to commemorate the indepen- dence of America. Tie occasion was a l very pleasant one. The subject of ad- l journing to meet at some one of the places | represented by the families there gathered | was mentioned. It was thought that 1 some other arrangement might be made | another year. As one of your other cor from this place has preached | the subject, we should suggest that all | the people of this town meet in some cen- tral place for united and grand celebra- tion, that the exercises consist of the read l ing of the declaration of Independence, an oration patriotic and historic from | some native of this place, with toasts, ad- l dresses &c-, in short that it may be me- morial stone in our national history.
 The event of the past week has been the observance of the twenty-ffth anni- versary of the marriage of MT. and Mrs. George Hollister, which occurred on the | 22st inst. A large number of friends and relatives assembled at their home. After | a season of social intercourse the tables | were beautifully spread and bountifully | laden with the deIicacies of life and the | fruits of the season. A beautiful Brides | Loaf, placed in the center of the table in l front of the groom and bride, indicated | by it's date their twenty-five years of | married life. After the guests were seat ed at the table few remarks were made. divine blessing invoked, and the inner man refreshed. The gifts were not pro- fure but valuable; but better than gold or | silver was the good feeling manifested on | the occasion. s.