Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-22

horse in some n,anner hecalie loose, and when he was ready to go home the horse and buggy couldn't be found nor any trace of them. Mr Wheaton thought that perhaps the horse had taken bee line for nome; but. after continued search horse and buggy were found peaceful and quiet safe and sound, not thing broken, in the meadow by the church. To get there the horse had to go through. bar way in which the bars were let down at one end only. It was remarkably good luck for Mir. W. i'iat bis things were not eis-riMted pretty generally. Such a combination of cir cumstances might not he so easily disposed of again.
 Farmers are beginning here and there one, to open the jugular veins of their porcine stock This reminds us that at F. E. Jenk's new market can be found a full line of porcine eatables as well as bovine.
 Frank Gregory. of Martledaic, and Ed. Cable, of this village, have gone to York State, trapping. '.Hair-breadth escapes" continued in Oilr next.
 Walter Burnham started to make a tour
  of the western states on Tuesday, the 18th inst.
 The Lyceum met on Friday evening at D. Burnham's Hall, not to have mock trial as was expected, but to debate the question: Resolved, that poverty is the result of mis- fortune more than of ofmismanagement." After lively debate the question was decided in the affirmative. When the question came before the house, ex-Editor w. H. Hale, of the New Milford Gazette, being present, arose and made some remarks. He spoke earnestly and tine lyceum rendered him a vote of thanks, and ad- journed for one week.
 -Leman Cogswell has just finished putting coat of paint on A. Peet's new house.
 Saturday night Joshua Billings" lectured, in Burnham's Hall on Photography and the mode of transmitting messages" He isn't the original Josh" Not much. He didn't write, 'I would like tew hay 15 babys now on my lap. l never saw baby in mi life that didn't want tew kiss. I am wuss than an old maid in. this respect" The lecture was excellent; the subject was a good one; but Josh" isn't an elocutionist, or good reader either.
 Whence are the funds coming to paint the church steeple?
 .'Th-re the tall and taper steeple
 Pointed Heavenward for the people"
 If our Young Mems Bible class would O lily keep it's number full and::all it's members would always be present, it might be reckoned the largest class, and certainly the handsomest cOllection-no, we mean, collection of the handsomest young men-in the county!
 The masons are putting inthe steam heat ing apparatus in MT. Upson's new house, and Bridgeport parties are moving the barn from it's old site to it's new foundations on Main s.. Its removal will add much to the beauty of Mir. Upson's place, because this barn has hith- erto obstructed, almost entirely, the view of the Aspetuck valley southerly towards Marble dale
 Ralph I. Wheaton will teach the village school, the coming winter. Mrs. Corning clos es the fall term, this week. H. Hoffman has been for some weeks teaching the young idea how to shoot correctly, on the Hill. We won- der who is to occupy, as teacher, that brand new school house at Lakeside. The new desks are of the latest and most desirable pattern, not much like the back-achy slabs we can just re- member in the dayst that are no more. The Kent Hollow district has availed itself of the law and, raising part of the funds the State furnishing the rest, has supplied its school house with a set of new maps brought up to date, and a globe of the most approved pattern. That's a happy Kent Hollow school teacher! Our vil- lage district, we are sorry to say, has no maps of any kind, no globe, no blackboard, no refer ence books, no anything. Our district is ashamed of itself.
 -Egbert Cogswell got heavier load than he could carry, Saturday, and fell through one of the big panes of glass at D. Burnhams store Of course he was not drunk. How. could he idently he had visited our he!ghboring town New Milford. His face was considerably cut by the glass. Rum.
 John Yale, the sheriff elect, made visit to friends in this place, last week.
 Our Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Malay and Hindoostanee citizens are gormandizing ex- cessively preparatory to the coming massacre Agonizing shrieks, strange cries, and mysteri- ous noises will be heard in this land; necks will be wrung and threats cut in the darkness of the night, and corpses be left hanging by the feet till morning, or Immediately set roasting. Meanwhile our Turkish, Malay and other denizens live on in epicureanism in utter ignorance of their impending fate. Make ready! Grind anew the rusty knife
 MARCEILA