Litchfield enquirer., 1876-08-24

d heavy dew. There has been no rain to speak of in thee weeks, and but light rains for three months. Springs and brooks are the lowest eyer known and many are dry.
 Rev. Mir. Colwell is in town over the Sabbath. tie guest of MT. Jno. Hopson. ' Tobacco cutting has been progressing for several days past, and the crop is good. Corn is being cut, but the crop is { light owing to the continued dry weather. Potatoes are being dug but yield small. A light frost, on the morning of the 21st inst. Eas SUN-DowN. WARAMAUG LAKE, NEW PRESTON, August 18th, 1876.
 EDITOR OF THE ENQuRER:-In this year of Centennial attractions We are liable to forget some things near at hand which may afford us great rest and recreation at little expense. It is a pleasant aud yalu- able excursion, if indeed it be not one of the most profitable. for tho time it occu- pies, which any one with g few days to spare may take. to Lake Waramaug. Let l me recommend tito oyer-workrd clergy men and other professionals who wish to l husband their energies and their cash in view of the expected trip to Philadelphia. Here for dollar and a half day you can spend week most satisfactorily. Let me indicate how. Take the wife, like wise exhausted by cares and responsi- bilities, with a couple of congenial friends; drive over to J. B. Wilson's new hotel on the west shore of the lake. You will find in him host everyway worthy your patronage, and with his accommodations you can find no fault. He will fit you out with. boats and tackle, and if you have any skill at fishing, I can assure you good string of choice bass in 8 couple of hours, if the day be favorable. have seen bass that would weigh three pounds drawn in,a and yesterday, whici, was not at all an uncommon day for luck, there was one 1 man who took sixteen pounds, another 8 dozen pounds, and several who had eight and ten pounds of as fine bass as devotees to the rod could wish for. Waramaug is far from being deserted this season. MT. GDnn's school has just "broken camp" They numbered over hundred persons. The Loomarwick house is full. Dea. Hopkins likewise has all he can accommodate and has turned many away because of limited room. Nowith- standing the hard times and the Centen- nial, there have been more visitors at this lake than usnal. You can hardly drive around the lake any day and not see peo- pie from New Haven, Hartford, Bridge port, and other neighboring cities, who have run out to enjoy few days of rest and recreation about the lovely shores of one of Connecticut's most picturesque lakes. ..~ g ..a..r.i
 notice one other feature, and this I especially wish to emphasize. It IS this. that it is becoming quite the thing for farmers to take their wives and few friends. after having and harvesting are over, and drive over to Waramaug and avail themselves of needed diversion and relief from care and labor. by few days at the lake. No class of persons can be more benefited by this change, and I hope the custom will become more popu- lar If you cannot afford to take wifeand boys to Saratoga. or to Philadelphia, or to the seaside, you need not therefore de- prive them and yourself of the sights and sports by the waters edge while you are within few hours ride of as many of them as will make the trip one long to be remembered.
 . Some despise Waramaug because it is so near; but give it your support and you may one day see it a very popular resort. c. N. F.
 LYONS. IOWA, August 15th, 1876.
 EDITOR ENQUIRER The West is warm ing up lively, to campaign work. Clubs are rapidly forming. and speakers in de- mand. Ths great battle of the West is to be fought in Indiana, because it is one of the doubtful states, and the home of Hen- dricks. Its State Election occurs before the presidential election. and it will have great influence on the general result. But the indications are favorable, since the substitution of Harrison for Orth for Governor. There is little doubt here,
 among republicans, that Hayes < Wheel CT will carry every Western State. Some body put up five hundred dollars on H.
 & w., and advertised in the Chicago Tri-
 bune for two or three days for a"taker."
 An influential German paper of Dayen. port. (democratic) has come out for Fl. $
 w., while the Staats Zeitung. another German paper of this state, comes out for Tilden thusly: 'When see all the tenn perance fanatics, all the religions fanatics. all the woman screechers, and all the Lincoln fanatics, coming out for Hayes &' Wheeler, it is too much for me-" Com
 ment is unnecessary. e,oFs .r,., /, :. noticed in one of your Eastern papers an account of some one dying from the 1 bite of Q rattlesnake. There is para | graph going the rounds of our papers that two persons who had been bitten were cured by the extract of plantain leaves. A German farmer near Jobula .'bit him- ! self init 8 rattlesnake," the other day,
 which lay coiled Tn manager, into which
 the farmer thrust his hand. He killed the snake with 9 pitchfork. jumped upon Q horse and rode for his life to town, where
 remedies were administered in time to
 save him. a9
 The Hanford homicide, in Chicago, is
 attracting good deal of interest There
 were several marked and unusual features
 in the case. Both parties were highly ed .ucated and refined. of singularly amiable
 disposition. occupying official positions,
 and the killing was done in the presence l -Rp R. -H- t-ss #