Litchfield enquirer., 1879-04-03

| and taken the Fred Straight farm, formerly known as the Randolph Hill place Seth N. Taylor is to occupy the farm which MT. Whit tlesey leaves. -&
 Mir. Tom Katon has lost the best horse he possessed It died of severe, protracted, and incurabe asttenia.
 The regular Wednesday night temperance meeting which formerly began at o'clock, will hereafter begin at 7:i30
 A twelve hours walk was advertised to take place in the grain eleva- building, we mean, at New Preston Station, between Dwight Gregory of Marketable and c. Meeks of this village, commencing at Ii s'clock Saturday, the fellow making the most miles to receive S5 CO., Weeks did not put in an appearance, SO Gregory "hoofed" it alone, making B miles in eleven hours, stopping one hour for refresh ments, and for the attending physician to dress an enormous blister which had taken possess sion of his left heel The gate fee was ten cents, and the total receipts one dollar. The reporters stand was filled with representatives from the New York Sun, Times, Tribune, Herald, &c. and the telegraph wires were kept red hot by dispatches sent to the associat- ed press every five minutes. It was an ex citing time. We did not attend, ourselves, and are indebted to Hearsay for the above par tculars.
 Joseph T. Whittlesey is the happiest man | in town. See births
 Misses Annie Lancashire and Lorain Bee man, attendants at the Maplewood Institute, are home once more and amongst their friends. Also Henry Lancashire son of Rev. H. Lan- cashire, who is in business at Saratoga, is home for a short season..
 | Miss Carrie Bolles has returned from few weeks visit to friends in Brooklyn.
 Miss Gussie Cogswell is home for vaca- | ton. She attends school at New Haven. | The program of recent exercises of Upsen Seminary, arranged by Simon B. Cameron and briefly referred to last week, consisted of songs, instrumental music, declamations, es- says and readings in such numbers and variety that we cannot speak of them all. ''Pit and pendulum" selection from E. A. Poe, as read by A. W. Brady, was ood-curdling. The essay on New Milford, by Fred H. War ner, was good and "a trip to the Province of 1 Ontario" an essay written and read by s. B. 1 Cameron, was full of descriptions and very interesting He travels with his eyes open. Among numerous selections, "Peter Sorghum in love" read by A. H. Churchill, was side splitting and, "A Night of Troubles" read by F. M Wheeler, seemed as fresh and fun ny as ever but "the Remorseless Barber" by l Miss Nellie Bolles, was the feather that broke the camel's back. The audience smiled out loud, heartily. ''Sweot Hour of Night" song and chorus, by Misses Marvin, Ackley, Patter-. son, and Messrs. F. P. Bolles and Simon E. Cameron, was received with much applause. The scene from "Midsummer Nights Dream," Pyramus and Thlsbe, was as good as anything of the evening, which is high praise; The cast of characters was as follows, Pyranus, Mr. Wm Churchill Thlsbe, Arthur Church | ill; The Moonshine, A. w. Brady; Lion, F. M. Wheeler; Wall, s. B. Cameron. All the parts were well sustained, and the impress of l D. and amnsements after the exercises; and at |" late hour, we went home feeling that we had been well and proftably entertained 1 -Verily, a mountain has greatly labored, and brought forth mouse. Witness the fol- lowing, which we quote from the New Pres ton core spondence of the New Milford Ga zette, of last week
 The correspondent of the Litchfeld En- quirer from this place made some statements, last week, in regard to the last regular meeting | of the Temperance Union which we are in clined to reply to; and as we did not have time to reply this week in the same paper, we do it here. He states that at that meeting, | Mrs. M. l.. Whitney, the principal speaker of the evening was refused the privilege of occu- pying the pulpit and speaking from it. Had 1t not been for this same correspondent the story we believe would never have been circu- lated, not only in the paper but through the community week before the article was seen in the paper. We wonder who forbade her the privilege of speaking from the pulpit plat form. We have taken little pains to enquire in regard to the matter, and we think tt would have been well if the correspondent of the En- quirer had done the same before originating the story.
 The above assertions of the pseudo-omnisci- ent Gazette correspondent, who so ''desires to get at the truth" are, to be euphemistic, purely and absolutely false. The assertion that we stated, that Mrs. M. l.. Whitney, the princi- pal speaker of the evening, wes refused the privilege of occupying the pulpit and speaking from it," is totally devoid of truth from the first word to the last We never stated any such thing in the columns of the Enquirer, and and never used her name in any manner which could be, even by an over-heated imagination super -anxiously ''enquiring in regard to the | natter, y construed to that effect. But we could have conscientiously made such state ment, for it was told to us as fact by prom lnent church member, man of unquestioned truth and veracity, who nevsr would have made the statement unless he supposed it to be true. We say we could have conscientiously reported the story, but the fact still remains that we did not; and, we not only politely request this untruthful correspondent, but we chal- lenge him to produce words proving his state- ment from our correspondence to the Enquirer. Furthermore we never circulated the story through the community week before the ar ticle was seen in the paper" and it never ap- peared in any paper till he, "his eye in fine phrenzy rolling, gave to airy nothing name" and published it in the Gazette. This prag- nautical correspondent further says: ''We have taken little pains to enquire in regard to the matter, and we think it would have been we'll if the correspondent of the Enquirer had done the same before originating the story" It is very evident that he, at least, tells the truth when he sayshe has 'taken little pains, and, infnitessimally small must have been that ''little," too, or he would have arrived at shadowy approximation to the truth in his