Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-09
New Preston.

| We ought 10 nave mentioned, last week,
 that there were eleven new voters made in this
 voting district.
 Robert Whitilcsey, not to be outdone by
 MT. Spery, whom we recently mentioned as
 having half bushel of sound last years | apples, comes to the front with bushel of
 russets which were picked year ago and are
 still quite palatable.
 Prof. Henry and his mannikins gave a
 ventriloquous performance at Union Hall. re-
 gently. The audience was quite small but ] apppreciative.
 Dennis Havican thinks we bore on a little
 too hard in our report of intestine wars, 'week | before last. He says he did not quarrel, and
 we have also been informed by gentleman of high standing, noted for truth and veracity,
 that he did not. So. this being the case, we are sorry that if, by the least word, we unin- I tentionally cast on him shadow of blame or complicity in the affair. We are glad if it wasn't six in one and half dozen in the other'
 At the Sunday school concert, Sunday night, the infant classes did we'll in songs and recitations, but the young mems class showed no better than Artemas Wards ''wax iggers" might have done. They sat bolt upright and said nothing to their utmost capacity. But the poet saith "sience is golden j" if so, then they are twenty four carats fine.
 Prof Johnson Tomlinson, from Hartford, who is visiting his many friends Tn this vicn- ity, preached sermon, last Sunday, taking for his text part of the second verse of the third chapter of John, which reads "And it hath not yet appeared what we shall be-" We think he stood upon solid logical ground when he maintained that it was impossible for the finite to comprehend the infinite, consequent ly, Tn the very nature of things, it would be impossible for man to understand the glory and beauty and seraphic joys of heaven, while clethed with u glaring imperfections of the flesh, even if they were revealed to him, which they never have been, for what traveller has ever returned from that mysterious, unds- covered country, to name it's place or tell it's joys? Heaven, it's locality has not been re- vealed and it's grandeur and magnifcence have only been described in mighty, imposing, incomprehensible figures The very mystery of what we shall be, and where we shall be, has brought into existence modern spiritual ism, which makes heaven ts be the very air we breathe, peopled with spirits who, under certain conditions, may appear and converse with their mundane, ,carnal brethren, and, also, the same unfathomable mystery has given us such exceedingly pleasant reading as ''Gates Ajar," and yet, the happy thought occurs that heaven may be no more like that therein de- scribed than the electric light is like the glori- ous Indian-summer sunshine. We shall be raised spiritual body. That's all. But who can comprehend it? Spirit and body are an- tagonistic, so much so that no finite mind can imagine the form, appearance or the abode of such body. Truly, "It hath not yet ap- peared what we shall be-" but, all the same, it remains for every person to believe and have faith
 Books have no charms for the small boy now. Chestnuts are three laps ahead and gaining fast. The village school-mistress says the percentage of runaways-truants, that's the worlds increasing at an alarming rate at her "place of business, almost at pace with the price of iron. We'll, we're not frightened, we've had one lot of ''bied chest nuts," anyway, let the market rise as it will
 Mir. Milton P. Hoover, of Washington, D. C., is visiting at his father-in-laws's, Mar GUS Woodin.
 -The weather was so very pleasant slast week, that almost everybody, old and young grave, gay and lively, attended the New Mil ford fair, but, oh, it's awful to bet on the wrong horse, ain't Iii?
 We perceive that J., of Washington, thinks we are blessed with marvellous powers of second Sight, and second sight is a good thing to possess when it enables one to prophecy correctly. Nothing but weddings over there, eh? Just so here. PEN DRAGON.