Litchfield enquirer., 1877-07-12
cosnen.-No. 2o5.

ARRIVALS. Fannie Futile of Troy
 is visiting the family of Mr. Calvin Futile
 Miss Melvine Howe, who. formerly taught
 the school in our Academy is visiting al
 at her fathers. After she left, she was . engaged in the High School at Collins
 vile, but she has lately been teaching in
 Hartford. Her sister. who has been
 teaching Ill Thomaston, is also visiting
 here now. Mrs. Rice and her two child
 ren are with her father, Gen. Cook, dur
 ing the vacation in the Hartford High School.
 Pic Me. The East St. people had a
 very nice gathering on the Fourth, in the
 yard by Birdseye Hall. the brick house
 belonging to Mir. Sewall and now occu-
 pied by MT. Calvin Futile.
 ] CANNON BURsT.--Soon- aftes, midnight, on the morning of the 4th, number of people assembled toring the bells and fire the old cannon. After firing it few times with a proper charge, they put in three pounds of powder and filled the gun with green hay and turfs It was in the road at the crossing of the two streets, and they fred it by means of fuse. The explosion awoke the people all around. One large piece of iron weighing about 40 pounds went southwest and struck the sill of MT. Howe's barn. Another piece, weighing about 50 pounds, tore the ground in front of MT. Howe's store, rose and broke the top of the fence and struck fir tree about a foot in diametsr in front of MT. Howe's house. about ' feet from the ground. literally breaking the tree in two. and the stump etands tberes now. A piece of about 20 pounds struck the hand of Lewis Curtiss as he was standing behind an elm tree in front of Mr. Sou- dant's hotel, and hurt his wrist; the iron passed on and utterly, tifmoIished nice gate post and gate in front of the hotel, and finally dropped, after passing through another fence. A piece of 8 pounds pass ed little farther west, tearing the bran ches from cherry tree and continuing on until it struck the Rice house; occupied by Chester Riley; it broke through at the top of the front stairs, and after doing some mischief, stopped in the plastering and fell to the lower floor. Another piece about the same size, passed over the house ofFDaniei N. Lucas, and came down. through the roof of Mr Abbott's ice-s house. Another piece made hole in, the ground still farther north, by the wagon shop. l found piece weighing 8f pounds. 10 inches below the surface in front1of sDr North's house, and one large piece is missing. There is, much rejoic- ing that the old gun is destroyed, but our people would rather have had it done down in the great swamp. POTATO Buas.-This is rather an old stofy. but they don't incline 4oleave -us. When the young ones hatched, the me had no effect on them, and they appeared to grow fat on a mixture of tobacco juice and the lye from wood ashes. I had hop ed that at last we had found way in in which that vile weed could be made useful; so I mixed the Paris Green at the rate of one table spoonful to pail of water. and with a, water pot sprinkled all the potatoes in the field, on which were thousands of bugs of all ages. A few days after I could find only in the lot, and having been through three times lately have been able to find only one bug, great last years fellow perched on a high plant, growing, and appearing to rejoice that he had tue command of the whole lot. '''3 z ! Z+5 7+(t1 Sk5l
 MrN1sTERs.-Rev. MT. Strong was pres- ent last Sabbath and preached in the af. ternoon. HIN.