Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-11
HarWInton

CuI uOW Wh1A bWO AAAAOo e N0y A1OS"As0- the deep snow which is estimat- ed as being three feet deep on the level.
 The children in the 9th district held l a "candy pulp at Mfr. Samuel Lewis. on l Monday evening; and Mir. Lewis Fenn l was favored with surprise party oD 1 Wednesday evening of last week.
 Our P. M.. Mir: Lewis Catlin. is on the sick list. Mir. Geo. Alfred is danger ously sick with pneumonia; Mir. Fred Catlin is reported worse; Mrs. Lydia Cook is now improving; our Academy teacher, Mir. c. W. Bird, has severe cold which prevented his teaching last week. Our pastor will probably lose his little daughter, Mary,-a victim of scarlet fever. In consequence of the sickness in his family he did not preach, week ago last Sabbath, and the services were con- ducted by Dea. NJ. l.. Goodwin.
 MT. Elliott preached at Campville, last Sunday.
 Our first selectman, MT. N. A. Will son, gives the following statistics of the past year: Number of marriages, 5; num- Der of births, IS, of which 13 were males and 5 females; number of deaths, IT. For the past ten years the number of mar riages was CT; births, POP; deaths, 192; or ten more births than deaths, being an average increase of one per year.
 A family reunion was held at Mir. Erastus BaIdwin's on New Years day. :. Four generations represented.
 We recently ate piece of pie at Post master Austin's table, the crust of which was rolled out with rolling pin two hun- dred years old, and which has been in constant use in the family for four gen. erations. Its present owner, Mir. Austin. IS over eighty years of age. The pin is worn down to mere skeleton.
 MT. Ben. Dagon drew 8 fine silver tea-set at the recent Catholic fair in Vol
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 which we mentioned as having beseans sas stoi. Soi. en, few weeks ago, tied to post in his dooryard, one morning after being mlss- ing three weeks. The calf was half starved.
 One of Willis Belden's oxen has been sick for week in consequence of his be. coming united in the night and getting to the meal barrel and eating fifty pounds of meal. Mir. Belden expected to lose him, but the OK is again in working order.
 Rain all day Sunday, with a slight January thaw."
 It is difficult for teams to pass on the roads now, on account of the deep snow. As MT. N. B. Perkins, of East Litehfield, was drawing load of wood up the Nau- gatuck valley, last Saturday, he met anoth- CT team en route for Waterbury. and his load came in contact with the sleigh and broke it, compelling the driver to turn back to the shop to get his sleigh repaired while he borrowed our sleigh to proceed to Waterbury,
 A social gathering of the young peo. pie of East Litchfeld was held at Mir. Ma ser's, on New Years eve, while on New Years night some of the boys made "New Years calls" on their neighbors in the dead of night, saluting them with loaded guns and other musical instruments. LITTLE GHoNNIE.
 Week before last the Lyceum ad- lourned on account of the weather till last Friday night when there was large number present. There was select read. ing by Miss Mary Catlin; an essay by Beni. Dagon; and comical political ora. ton by our Mark Twain afforded much amusement and was received with great applause. Then the paper. by our able editor, MT. Balch. was much enjoyed. after which came the debate on the uues- tion, Resolved: That People are I'm. proved more by Travel than by Reading" Mir. Charles Balch opened admirably in the affirmative, followed by Mir. James Mather in the negative. The question was decided in the affirmative. This week there will be debate, select readings. two dialogues. an oration, and the paper.
 MT. 0. W. Balch. one of the guests, furnishes us with report of the Sugar Wedding of Mir. and Mrs. Thomas c. Mather
 No social event of the past has proved more enjoyable than was the Sugar Wed. ding of Mir. and Mrs. Thomas c. Mather on the evening of Now Years day.
 Twilight had scarcely merged itself into the shades of a stormy night when the guests, in defiance of the Weather God. D-gHu tu assemufe. There were between sixty and seventy in all, forming what must have been 8 company of Invincibles: for, if storm and bad travelling could have cooled their ardor, they would, methinks, have done so that night. So the writer found them at o'clock when he added himself to their number. The older ones were chatting and telling storles m the rooms below, while the younger guests were agitating "Copenhagen" and "The First Three Steps, in the hall above, "All went merry as marriage bell" es. pecially after the music struck up and the l dancing began. "The firtations of our bathrooms" that Macaulay somewhere | speaks of. were not exempt from this. oc- | casion, and formed interesting studies for l those students of human nature who. like l the writer, are fond of such philosophy. l Had the celebration happened a dsy ear Her. Leap year might have rendered the l ladies' happiness complete. While the l guests were dancing festal preparations were in progress, and when the proper time arrived ample justice was done the refreshments, Hearty congratulations, ac- | companied by many Happy New Years"