Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-06
RELATED LETTER.
NEW PRESTON.

There's something awry with the present winter, owing to the miscalculation of the old seers. Either they were intoxicated with an overdose of egotistical knowledge when they viewed the autumn caterpiller, the foundations of the muskrat's house, the flight of the mi
 grating birds and the equinoctial working of the elements, or else the equinoctial, the birds, the rats and caterpillers prevaricated, we can
 not stop to argue which; we only know for a certainty that the winter we speak of is here. ID. Burnham returned from the city, last
 week, with new and varied assortment of
 goods which will be sold cheap. - '
 Friday night there was party at Charles Tompkin's on New Preston Hill. We thought
 we heard some of the merry dancers going home at four o'clock next morning
 Twas Friday night, also that delega- tion consisting of about thirty members of the New Milford young peoples temperance un- ion, gave us free entertainment in Union Hall. This was their programme: Prayer by H. Upson Singing; Recitation, "On the Shores of the Tennessee" by Miss Carrie Wild man Recitation, ''The Drunkard Sat in his Rustic Chair" by A. P. Beecher; Singing;
 Reading of the Temperance Herald," by s. T. Addis; Dialogue, "The Wrong Bottle, |" by Messrs. Emmonds and Osborne Singing Recitation, ''The Day is Done, by Miss Ella Weller; Reading, "The Defective Vail," by Gee. Emmonds; Recitation, Gall to the Field" by E. o. Marsh Recitation, ''Our Union," (Burlesque) by A. M. Palmer A short Drama, "A Sea of Troubles" The hall, which isn't over large, was crowded to it's ut most capacity, many having only standing room. We were most agreeably surprised in that the entertainment was much better than we had expected. The music was furnished by the New Preston Musical Union. The di- alogue "The wrong bottle" was very langha- moral. "The day is done," a recitation by Miss Weller, was exceedingly well done. It was fine selection, and we dislike to own that we don't know the author of it. E. o. Marsh displayed good deal of talent in his delivery of "The call to the field" Our Un-
 on," burlesque, recited by A. M Palmer, elicited rounds of applause and brought down the house. He was called out and gave next, "Action Extraordinary" The short drama, "A Sea of Troubles" was well sustained in all
 it's parts, and the characters seemed to have been given to exactly the right persons All in all it was good entertainment, and we on- ly hope the performers enjoyed it half ss well as we did. At the close male quartette of the Musical Union sang Farewell" an appro- priate selection; and E. H. Beardsley, presi- dent of our temperance union, made few pointed remarks and thanked, in the Unions name, the New Milford people for their pres ence and the pleasure afforded us thereby.
 Misses Mary and Minnie Bennett have re- turned from their visit to New York city and Washington, D. c.
 A. J. Warren, of Bridgeport, will deliver a temperance lecture in the church tonight, (Thursday, Both inst, at seven o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody to come and br!ng their friends.
 Now that o. H. Platt is Senator it will do to say that he used to attend school at the ''Old Academy" in lhis village years ago, be- fore it was rigged over into tenement house. F. W. Gum was pedagogue then, and he will remember that Orville Platt and John Gum used to be the ''boss' declaimers and compo- sition writers. In fact we rather guess they wrote for most of the boys, good many of whose muscles were better developed than their brains.
 Oh, Little Ghonnie," after all we've said . t....
 P. s. Wednesday Morming.-Pm ''mad [" After cudgleing my brains and straining my mental machine the way did Sunday, to pre- pare the foregoing letter for the Enquirer; and then like consummate idiot te forget to mail it Oh, that some one would write me down an ass I'm mad, tell you and I refuse te be comforted, for there's that nice little item about A. J. Warren's lecture, what's that good for now And the New Milford peoples en- tertainment at the hall, how everlasting flat and stale that'll be. You sec, put the letter unsealed in my pocket as 8 good reporter should, so that if at the last moment some un- lucky dog should break his leg, or horse run away, or the community be flung into hyster- ics by a irst-class murder, or-you know how it is ysurself-and now feel just vindictive enough te send it along. If had not hap pened to want an old letter, presume it would have lain hidden in the recesses of that pocket the Iniquitous 0mniseience knows how long PEN DRAGON.
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