Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
Goshen No. 3S7.

GOSHEN LITERARY CIRCLE-I shali not trouble you again with accounts of these meet ings until next September as the final meet ing was held last week, at tine house of Edw. Norton. The meetings have been held once in two weeks during the season, each one be- ing more fully attended than those before it. The rooms were finely situated for a great company to hear and see, and every spot was filed Order of exercises:
 1. Minutes of last meeting.
 2. Instrumental music.
 3. Recitation, by Miss Eliza Herald.
 4. Song hv Arthur Wadhams.
 ,. Charade, word, Refinement.
 6. Essay, by Mir. Hagen, Alaska.
 2. Exhibition of Art Gallery, by Wilber w Norton, and Miss Lucy Ludingten. There were 9 paintings, eDgravings and statues, and as the curtain was drawn, we could see repre- sentations of the things themselves. I will give few of them. ATale of the Ocean and we saw large cod fish tail. The best thing out, drawn from life; and we had a large double tooth hanging from long string. Can't be Beet; great turnip. Sweet Sixteen; small girl distributed 16 Jumps of white sugar. A view of the Beach there stood Jen- nie Beach. Rice culture; Anna Rice, just graduated from the High School at Hartford. A bust of great commentator: a baked pota- to- with the skin burst open. The lovers dread large mitten.
 8. Answers to questions, proposed at for mer meeting.
 9. Singing and acting a part of H. M. s. Pinafore. EugeneP Norton was the princi- pal actor.
 10. Discussion of woman suffrage. This came up two weeks before, and the question was, ''Should women have the right of suf- frage?'' At that time Capt. Gaylord made powerful argument against it, and the discus ion was continued at this meeting Mrs. Ly- man Hall and Orlo Wadhams read very inter- esting papers in favor of it. Capt. G. replied in an able manner; then we heard the three minute speeches, and not a speaker could be found to side with MT. Gaylord. All four po- litical parties were represented among the speakers. Accustomed as our people are to read and think, it IS plain that great change has been going on silently ln opr rural popula- tion, and if a vote had been taken at this meet ing, on the question whether women of good moral character, 21 years of age, who can read the Constitution, should be allowed to vete I do not doubt that at least 97 out of 100 would have voted for it. At the close, vote of thanks was presented to Mrs. Hagen, who has performed the duties of Secretary during the season. The association then voted to dissolve, hoping to reorganize after the har- vest is over.
 CHANGE IN WEST GOSHEN SToRE.-Eugene Allyn has bought out F. E. Hurlburt's interest inthe company of Lucas and Hurlburt.
 ARRIvAL.-Miss Mary Brooker, of Wolcott- ville is visiting Miss Amanda c. Brooks.
 ASTRONOMICAL. Figures will lie in your last, you made out that the great transit of Venus of 1882 was coming off in 1862. I am now making some mathematical calculations on the location of four planets, and hope, on the morning of the 10th of May, to see Mars and Jupiter in the south, or southwest, and Saturn and Mercury still farther east, just ahead of the sun; but it will not do to wait for the fifteenth, as it may be cloudy.