Litchfield enquirer., 1876-11-02
Coshen.-No 26O.

ACADEMY.-The Trustees have engaged MT. J. c. Lester, of Dartmouth college,
 to.teach in the Academy, the time of be- ginning to be made known next week
 CENTENNIAL.-Ou minister and his
 wife have gone to Philadelphia, but our
 organist and Sunday School Superin- tendent, and nearly all the teachers have returned, and although many more have
 started this week, we know that the Gen. tennial Commission have fixed on day, (my birth day) when the grandest Ex-
 hibition the world ever saw, shall end.
 You have been there, and there is no use
 iu my telling you what saw, but wish
 some of your readers could see the Mar ket street horse cars in the morning and forenoon filled with passengers for the grounds, and following each other as cften as one every minute. l asked one conductor how many he had on at once :: he said one night he had on 108, but his car was not generally so crowded. Towards night the people are so anxious to ride
 back to the city that they jump on while the car is going up, and by the time they are ready to return the car is as full as it can be; and there are hundreds of these l cars. And what sight there is in the ! afternoon, as you come out of the Zoo.
 logical gardens (Where you have seen
 bears, lions, tigers, sea-dogs and fifty monkeys Tn one room, and all sorts of I animals and go on to the Girard Ave- l nue Bridge over the Schuylkill river. One is led to believe that all the horses and beautiful carriages in the city are hurrying over into Fairmount Paak. It is beautiful bridge, and more people cross it in one day than we have in Litchfeld county. A native of Goshen, who lives in Courtland County, happened to be in Philadelphia at the same time
 was there, but we did not meet, and he writes that he Is very we'll pleased with
 the Exhibition, except one thing, that he saw in the Connecticut house, none but Democrats; but If he had been there when I was. he would have seen plenty of Re- publicans. It was often remarked that every thing connected with our house
 was very appropriate, and that the large ! old-fashioned stone chimney and old | well-sweep with old we'll Lcurb looked per.
 fectly natural. A visit to the Kansas
 and Colorado house we'll repays us for going to the Exhibition ;what tall oats,
 barley and wheat. and what pyramid of apples, what a cave in the rocks, and what host of wild animals and birds Tn,
 around and above the cave I tried to
 reach the corn on these tall stalks, but failed to do so by fifteen inches. After
 examining the wonders in the Govern
 ment building I could have come home
 satisfied. What great cannon, what won- 1 derful Indian curiosities, tomahawks,
 scalping knives, arrow Leads, wigwams,
 scalps, stone mortars and pestles and then we saw the relics of the ages when
 our country was inhabited by race far superior to their successors, the Indians
 In the Missouri house were full sized fig
 ures of Indians with dogs and arrows
 and deer, all made by stitching arrow
 heads of different colors on black cam
 brio. There is no end to the wonders in
 the building annexed to the Art Gallery
 and in the annex to the Main Building
 among hudnreds of beautiful carriages is
 the one in which Washington rode 100
 years ago. In the German part of Ma
 chinery Hall, the great 14 inch rifed
 cannon makes great show, it is 26 it.
 inches long. H.