Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-27
LITCHFIELD.

LITCHFIELD.
 Lieut.. Edwin McNeil is at home on a short visit.
 r Mir Chapin, jeweler, has removed to Vol cottvlle.
 The Island Hotel has been rented to MT. George Bradley. of Bantam.
 Mir. Buckhee and family remove to Bridge port this spring, -sxe hear.
 MT Joseph Slddal moves this spring into the brick house in Spencer-st
 Mr. Albert Jones moves into the new house Nelson Barnes is building on Lake St.
 -Messrs J. w. Ferris and o. E.. Adams rent the house on Lake St. hitherto used as Methodist parsonage
 -Dr. Beach moves intoAhe Charles S. Buel place, Mr. Shepard removing to the southern half of Mrs. Smiths place on. South-st. A The slips of the Y E. Church in thSkyil- lage will be rented on ty0day, the 29tfs t 2o'clock, p. Ill. Capt shuS my movA into>the house. with Mrs. Henry Trowbridge, and MT. Elias Beach takes the plaeqsIhe has hitherto oocu- pied.
 The first meeting under our Borough char ter, for choice of officers and transaction Of other business, will be held on the first Mon- day of April.
 MT. F. M. Hale returns into occupancy of hIs place on West St. and Edson Perkins takes
 
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 The pedestrian fever has reached us at last There is to be a walking match at Ar mory Hall, commencing at 9 p. m on Thurs day, and continuing forty eight hours. A change has been found necessary in the third Lecture of the ''Young Mems Course" In place of Prof. Marshall the Rev MT. Hal lock will give his entertaining lecture, entitled, ''San Francisco to Hawaii and the Volcano" :" On Sunday evening last, Hon. G. H. Hol- lister lectured to large audience in the Con- gregational church at Warren on the subject of Temperance. He also spoke on the same subject before Union meeting of the differ ent churches of Bridgeport, in St. Johns Hall, on Monday evening. It was very large and enthusiastic meeting, and indicated warm interest in this most important reform, in that city. Rev. Mr. McAllister breaches his last ser mon on Sunday afternoon. His going will be serious loss to the village. The ''little church around the corner has been filled under his ministration to overfowing, and it's attendants have included not only many from other de- nominations. but quite large proportion ef the strangers who visit us in such large num- bers during the summer months. He removes to wider field in one of the Methodist churches of New Haven.
 The Nocturne composed by c. F. Daniels, of this place, and performed in the Calberg Symphony concert. last week, is thus referred to in Sundays World:
 'Of this last composition, to say that the melody, which is introduced as a cello obliga- to, is sweet and sensuous, and that the orches- tratlen is not pretentous, forming only pleas ant accompaniment to the air, will probably be to say all it's author claims for it. It was well received and literally applauded.'
 The Nocturne, it must be remembered, was luITOuuCCu HUI a plOSIdlu SOuI0luluS hCu- dessohn's Overture to Midsummer Nights Dream, Wagner's Zine Feste Overture, and Concerto of Beethoven for piano and orches- tra. MT. Daniels may we'll feel that his noc- turne must have considerable merit to be re- ceved with any favor in contrast with such magnificent works.
 The first lecture in the Young Mems Course, delivered by Rev. Mir. Beckwith of Waterbury, was an excellent address upon the necessity of combining skill and school, in the training of the young. He referred with spec ial force to the lack of physical training to which he attributed most of the i'll health of American women. We believe that his position is an impregnable one. Skill is worth more than learning to most. A part of our own objection to the ordinary academic college course is to the utter lack of training of hand and eye that are so necessary to make the training of the brain of practical use. For success in two out of three of what are termed the learned profes- sions, knowledge of men and of things-skill as distinguished from mere learning-are in- dispensable. Rapid progress, in the multi PAASO ouN AAuuctAISS O1 uOOCIu life, IS dependant upon combination of the skilled eye and hand with the cultured brain. An education which draws lime of separation between the student and his fellow men, and ""'sh units him for all the ordinary avoca- Nions o1 IIe, fs or. t~ r-e~e O posittvc ulsau- vantage to nlm. The physical and mental training of our girls is even more faulty than that of our boys. At the very age where the outdoor sports are developing the muscles of the latter, the former are restrained by custom and by inconvenient dress from the natural exercise of body by which alone due health and strength can be maintained and insured The inevitable result is race of sickly wo- men, and that general deterioration of physi- cal strength which is falsely assumed to be one of the inevitable consequences of high degree of civilization.
 The lectures of Miss Greenwood on Thurs oay and Friday evenings of last week, were all that her high reputation had led us to ex- psct. The latter part of her Thursdays ad- dress was as eloquent an appeal clothed in as beautiful and apt language, as we have ever heard Her style is what we might perhaps pest characterize as thoroughly feminine the appeal of lady in deadly earnest, vet under certain restraint of utterance and ges- ture. There was nc attempt at those graces ei elocution which are never other than of iensiVe' unless the art is so perfect as to be Nlis'ahen TOT nature Her simple earnestness oi manner her wonderful felicity of expres sion, ana her beauty of illustration comh;nad to raise an interest which was marked by the oreathless attention and'evident sympathy of her whole audience
 Her address of Friday evening was of more argumentative character, and though not so beautiful work of art, was perhaps fuliv