Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-27
New Preston.

At last the great epidemic has reached us 1 Running and walking matches have taken place the past week at the harness shop, C. Pickett's store, Oscar Beeman's tramp room :; and even the station agent has surveyed and laid out a track in the freight-room of the de- pot of ninety laps to the half mile over which he makes some lightning like trips whenever he can snatch moments time from his ardu- ous and Herculean task as agent. The 'laps,' are as numerous, and the curves sharp as any the snuous Shepaug can boast, so that when he leaves the track at the end ofthe first mile it really seems as if there must be two gallon jug of "red-eye' secreted somewhere. Then another thing this walking mania, in one or two particulars, eclipses the blue glass cure. There have been several cases here of boys from ten to fifteen years of age, who | seemed to be incurable valetudinarians, having suffered all winter from such weakness, lassi- tude, and weighty indisposition, that it was l impossible for them to split wood after school, nights, or to fill the wood-box Saturdays. | They seemed going into rapid decline, but the insdious destroyer has been frightened away by the arrival of pedestranism, and they | now run their half mile in 4:40. Some men, who couldn't be hired to walk to Marbledale and return, on some trifling errand, for $1.5O now walk the same distance in ten minutes and think nothing of it, and without dollar and half, either. There is something won- derful about it and it's property or stimulation | +lo olo oLaI ,1, fer a trife less than legs.
 l Rosatind Jupiter how weary my spirits | 10uchStone I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.
 | Deacon Wm. Hopkins, man whom eve- rybody knew as upright and honest, died at his residence at Lakeside on the 17th inst, aged 75 years He was buried, Thursday, at Warren, mourned by all.
 The services of the ''Upson Seminary Lit erary Society, Hast Thursday night, were very entertaining They reflected great credit upon Mr. Simon B. Cameron who selected the pro- gramme and arranged and conducted the af- fair. The exercises consisted of songs, instru- mental music, declamatlons essays and read | ings.
 Rev NJ. H. Pogson is expected to be present at some of the meetings, this week. It is hoped much good may be done, and that many miserable sinners may be brought te true genuine conscientious genufections, as we'll as some professors of righteousness who, like Apemantus, in Timon of Athens, pray:
 Immortal Gods, I crave no pelf; pray for no man but myself"
 -Waramaug Academy closed it's winter term last Friday
 There is double wedding to-day (Mon- day) at the residence of Noah W. Hatch. Robert c. Whittlesey, one of New Preston's rising young men, is the happy fellow who at taches to himself the youngest daughter Nor ah; while one of your citizens, James D. Blakeman, secures prize in Ruth, the eldest. As our friends and acquaintances, one by one, make their eternal exit from the stage of bach Tor and maidenhood, we can only, in imagina- tion, pitch our gater after them, and wish them Godspeed, and pleasant partnership and happy journey through life.
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