Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-20
New Preston.

and Third Divisions.
 New Preston.
 James Connor has sold his farm on Christian street, to J. Minor Taylor, of Virginia City, Nev., and has purchased farm at and m 1ved to Second Hill, socalled, New Milford e. C. Whittlesey offers for sale the resi- | dence of the late Dea. Joseph Hatch The house is near the church and is occupied by Rev. Mir. Lancashire as parsonage The so- ciety ought to purchase it, because of it's de- sirable situation for it's minister's residence.
 -"Prof. Waldo's Ethiopian troupe" gave an exhibition at Union Hall, Thursday night It is dangerous to interrogate any of the audi ence. The highest praise we have heard be- slowed on the performance has been, 'Sold by thunder !''
 F, r. Bolles finding the monumental and tombstone business dull and quiet in nearly all departments of the home trade, and the export movement depressed and prices down, owing to the .congealed letters which force chilling quietude upon the ever busy wheels of his marble saw mill and, while waiting for spring to bring reaction, and the market to recover it's wented activity, has gone into the business of selling excellent harnesses very cheap, for firm in Newark, N. J.
 Cupid had SO much to do here, on the 14th, that he was obliged to employ sub- agent to shoot his darts. The air was full of love-sent missiles. If we knew who sent us that fearful picture of a spinster, forty years old with false teeth etc., we'd-well, # we knew, 'twould be we'll for him to propose for another world We can just tell him we're not forty yet. t'. 5@ ~"
 The temperance workers gave E. H. Beardsley, president of our union, genuine surprise, last Friday night. About forty were present They all congregated at his residence and one of the party went down to his shop and told him he'd better go up, as there were lots of tramps at his house. John Gum read an original poem written for the occasion, and, at the close of short speech handed Mir. Beardsley. as token of their friendship and esteem, a well filled purse. Mr. B. responded in few happy remarks. It was very pleas ant affair and will be remembered with pleas ure by all
 What can be the attraction! another "young feller" has been over to Sherman.
 ---Boarders begin to arrive. G.C Hopkins at Lakeside is the happy father of a boy who 'ap- piled for lodgings, last Thursday, the 18th. Truly Valentine.
 Charles Patri!l, who has been very sick with pneumonia, is slowly conyalescing~
 There was ball at Mary Katon's, last Friday night A. Cable and L. Cogswell fur nished music, ....,. .....
 Rev. Henry Upson was chosen delegate to the state temperance convention which con yenes at Hartford on Tuesday, the 18th inst. Mrs. Walter Burnham has returned from long visit at Bridgeport Major Walter Burnham is also expected home soon from his extended western trip.
 -One of the old land marks of New Pres ton has at last become thing of the past only. The roof of the old building which stood just below, the "Elm shade mills, re- gently fell in necesstating the removal of the entire structure. About seventy-five years ago it was used as furnace, and the ores of the Cogswell ore bed were smelted there; af- ter which 1t was reconstructed into marble saw mill owned and rln- -hu II~-i-s ": De0- man. Next, when the discovery of Dover and Vermont marbles had knocked the marble ouamies of New Preston higher than kite, it was built over into sleigh and wagon factory owned by Homer D. Smith and Noah Hatch under the firm name of 'sSmith & Hatch" The property was afterwards owned by Cyrus Peet but since, for good many years, all the business that has been done there has been carried on exclusively by old Father Time in such a n-conservative manner as to resolve the whole thing into it's former elements of use lessness. r'r ....t ts ..'
 | Rev Henry Lancas will deliver his lecture on Saratoga and the summer resorts
 of America" in the Congregational church, i next Friday night, 2tst inst. Addmission | twenty five cents. Proceeds to benefit s. S..
 Library .0t".9 .sl< r7. | Last Sabbath, John S. Gum was elected president, and w. G. Clemens superintendent, l of the Sabbath school for the ensuing year. Rev. Mir. Lancashire exchanged with Rev.
 Mir. Thrall, of Washington, last Sabbath and l we listened to an excellent sermon by the lat | ter from the text, "Whatever therefore Ye eat. l or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the l glory of God."-1st Cor. 10: 31.
 | If your Washington correspondent ''S'
 expects us to write poem for their centennial | celebration, he's got the wrong animal by the
 auricular appendage. We might, for con
 sideration, get the Sweet Singer of Michigan" to--but perish the thought Or we might
 plagiarize bodily from the old bards, only there
 is this little difficulty which interferes with
 the perfect and mellifiuous working of the pro- ject They never heard of Washington and consequently never wrote of it. However, let
 us suggest, John s. Gum as the man par ercel- l lence. .a. .+.8gg af as ".l- | At last the vaticinations of the gossips
 have been verified. To-day (Thursday, the 2Oth, Weston G. Graniss, the handsome and trusted head clerk of Baker & Brinsmade, l Washington Depot, will be united in the holy yoke of wedlock to Miss Louise Glover, one of | New Preston's most beautiful daughters: cer- emony at the church at a:a0 D, m.; Reception in Union Hall ? Booming events cast their shadows before" Full particulars next week. l. PEN DRAGON l e The Watertown Cattle Plague. l : -ffl af s.sa ,.t e '------sn 22~ 0'Ea sr" 2 if slt3t r-i.s E. BETHANY Feb. 17th, 1S79