Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-28

beyond the Connecticut River. and the hang ing rocks at Meriden, as well as the steeples and Bantam Lake ill Litchfeld, not knowing what high land we saw down near Bridge port. As 1t was scientific party, one of the young ladies, botanist, explained the won hops on the witchhazel tree, which lowered last autumn. The enthusiastic Mr. Snider was the Geologist, and he took us back from 9 to 100 thousand years, and we could al- most see those immense masses of ice and snow and rocks moving slowly over Litchfeld Co.,, leaving their tracks on the N. w. side and top of the mountain. He endcavored to l explain how it happens that on one large smooth rock we find several plain, parallel, glacial marks pointing perhaps IS degrees East of South, and another very deep, wide mark pointing much more to the East, crossing one of the others at an acute angle, and on close examination we found another, parallel to it. and came to the conclusion that the marks, (which he calls striations) were made in two distinct glacial periods. Some of the ladies appeared to be good students of natural history for they talked good deal about the COWS on the mountain, and the snakes, but that locali- ty is destitute of serpents. Send up your scientific men.
 ECHO FARM-Mr. Ludington took his friends from the South, last week. to see Mr. Starr's farm, and they think it is the incest farm they ever saw, and they call Litchfeld the finest village they have seen.
 AsTRoNoMIoAL.-The clouds spoiled great sight for us last night. The moon was to pass before the brightest star in the Scorpion just as they were to set. Early in the evening we had nice view of the moon pushing on the East and it had almost overtaken it, but soon tine clouds came on.
 A French astronomer, some years ago, calcu- lated the eclipses, transits and occulations of the moons of Jupiter for a long time to come, and the prediction was verified last Wednes- day evening, when we saw the fourth moon some distance West of the planet, and the first close by the planet on the west side, and the second and third close together east of Ju- piter. At the appointed time the third was eclipsed, and few minutes after, the second disappeared in the same way, and about half an hour after transit occurred, and the first moon passed in front of the planet, and great Jupiter was left with only one moon.
 ENTERTAINMENT.-The young people here expect to give an entertainment early next week.
 ARRIvALs.-Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Brooks have returned from Block Island, and Miss Clara Gray, from Falls Village. At MT. Lud- ington's, Mr. and Mrs. John w. Creshaw and Son from Marion, Alabama Mrs. Crenshaw was Lucy Ludington. At Mr. Whites, Miss Greenwood, from Brooklyn. At MT. R. F. Cooks, Mr. Fort West, of Decatur Go. Geor- gia. At Edward Norton's, Mir. and Mrs. Dimon and Miss Louise Wooster, from Pine Meadow. At MT. Bartholomew's, Mrs Glad ding from New Haven. At MT. Richards. Mrs. Dwight Chipman and family, and her sister, Miss Emma Landcraft of Fair Haven. At Elihu Carlisles Mrs. Edward Carlisle and grand daughter, from Alabama. At MT. Stockings Mrs. Huxley of Waterbury, the wife of our former physician. At MT. Moses Lyman's, Moses Lyman Jr. and son Moses from Waverly N. Y. also Rev. Mir. Phelps and wife from Florida. At MT. Gray's, Miss Higgins from Bridgewater H. N.