Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-03
HARWINTON.

Sabbath. M K.
 a --- >*r l HARWINTON.
 The committee appointed by our church SO. ciety have not been able to secure the services of Mir. Fenn, and it yet remains for some fort unate candidate to secure the pastorate here. 1 -The Second Adventists held meeting at Mrs Bradley Catlin's, last Tuesday evening. The Adventists at CampvilIe will watch the old year out, and the new year in, at their chapel, next Monday night. On Tuesday night the ''Haye a Good Time" Club will celebrate New Years by a ball 1 in our town hall
 The Sociable will be held at Willis Catlin's this week.
 The young friends of Arthur scovill, some forty or fifty in number, gave him surprise on 1 his 21st birthday. They brought twenty-one birches with them but they were not very heavily applied.
 MT. David Catlin, editor of the Truth Cleaner, is ''laid on the shelf with measles, with his brother Charles for his ''companiGn in misery"
 MT Geo. Johnson has been sick for a few days.
 Our old road inspector, MT. Wm. Stone, of Burlington, was thrown out of his wagon, last Sunday, cutting his head open so badly as to necessitate calling surgeon.
 Mrs. Alanson Negus, had severe fall while standing on chair, several weeks ago, from the effects of which she has not. yet re- covered.
 Mrs. Vim. Buel received telegram last week notifying her ofthe death of her husband at Denver, Ohio, where he was sojourning for his health, he being victim of consumption.
 LITTLE GHoNNIE.
 NEW PRESTON.
 Wish you merry Christmas And this puts me in mind that wonderful preparations are going forward for to-night's Christmas tree in the church. It is trim, trim, trim beautify, beautify. I'll tell you all about it. next week, but now the all absorbing question of the hour is, Where's old Nick The financial madness which has taken possession of our people eclipses that at Washington q don't mean Ju- dea" but D. C. and ensures us 8 tree that will bear excellent fruit and plenty of It. The fruit of resumption, not repudiation. He nest be pleasant and good-natured fellow who manages our weather.
 Mir. Fred Jenks is quite sick with a fever, and F. P. Bolles is managing his store for him during his illness.
 Il heard member of the Bible class say they spent very pleasant evening indeed at the parsonage last Thursday night
 Miss Gussie Cogswell is home for the Hol- iday's.
 W. H. Dougal, the Sir Joshua Reynolds of our village, has just completed painting the ceiling of D. Burnham's store It adds much to its appearance.
 -EnterpriZe has at last deserted this village entirely. The Waramaug Brass Band has collapsed, vanished. Listen ever so attentive ly and not wind instrument can be heard, un- less, perhaps it is of that genus which belongs to the anatomy of every mans throat. How shall the W. B. B. be resurrected.
 -The Lyceum met at the usual hour, Fri day night, with H. o. Averilla as chairman, and discussed the question, Resolved that trade is better for manthan collegiate education" which was decided in the negative The reso- lution for the next meeting is. Resolved, that intemperance has caused more evil than relig- ious intolerance" w. H. Hale, ex-editor of the Gasette, was present and spoke very forci- ply at the close, maintaining that grammar was of no use whatever, and should not be taught in our public schools that to teach it is simply waste of time. He boasted of attending school only sufficient time to attain to position in the third reader class, and said the study of dead languages had been burden and curse to the nations. His antipathy to grammar ac- counts, perhaps, for the solecisms of his speech.
 Ut isn't the hog cholera, but something very fatal is carrying of our porcine inhabitants. The first symptom is poignant pain in the throat. This is immediately followed by hem Gtemesis and frightful hemorrhage, and soon the animal is corpse. If a bath in hot water fails to resuscitate the deceased the bristes are scraped of with candle-stick, and the body embalmed in salt, or sent away to distant ep- icures. Many farmers have had their sites thinned by -eutharnasia, I was going to call it, but won't-which attacks their porkers, and many others are preparing the scalding- tub and candlesticks, having set the day whent their 'Jew's abhorrence"sha be stricken. Spare-rib naeo periculo' OPHELIA.
 ROXBCRY.