Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-28
New Preston.

New Preston.
 Perrie Tompkins and wife, from Danbury, are visiting their many friends in the village and vicinity.
 MT. Wm. Cogswell has traded three year old horse, and pair of young cattle, for fine pair of Minnesota horses. Now, young ladies, if you wish to view the lake scenery after some high steppers set your caps and spread your turing, silken nets.
 It wasn't because Ed. Calvin, proprietor of the Waramaug Mills, had purchased car- load of oats on rising market, that made him so gay and happy. Oh no and he hadn't discovered new process in the mechanics of | milling, either. Not bit Nevertheless he is the happiest man in the village, and it's not | to be wondered at that he flung his hat in the | air and shouted, Vive Ia repu6Gque! because, on Saturday, the 23rd inst, an heiress was born to himself and wife.
 No man among us now has an excuse for looking like Zulu king or Australian bush whacker. A man looks "horrid'' with whis- kers, anyway, and they had all better go to the new barber, located over Picketts store, and let the unseemly hirsute appendage cease to be. This new manipulator of brush and combs halls from Thomaston.
 This from the Bridgewater correspondent of the Ray, last week k:-''A party hear, are to go this week to Lake Waramaug. For our part we should prefer lodge in some vast wildernes, where fashions and customs were | thing unknown" Fashions and customs!" Bounds, man have you not heard that ''out of the fashion is out of the world" ''The ap- parel oft proclaims the man," says the great Shakespeare, and the woman, too, add we, And, if we've dressed so that we have estab- llshed our reputation as the great center of 1 fashion around which the lesser moons do gy- rate then have we not dressed in vain The labor of our curling-irons has not been lost, nor our powder wasted. Hereafter our trails shall be more comet-like and our front curls glued on with greater tenacity. Your words have excited us to greater effort in this praise worthy object, but they savor of jealousy tow ards us, or else you are one of those benighted individuals who strive to cultivate brains, 1 rather than to excel in the fashion of your doublet and the tip of your hat. In either case we are sorry for you. If you suffer from the first mentioned cause, "give OCT the theme" it will only cause you trouble and un- rest, for you can never hope to compete with us. If you are of the latter class, we beg of you to desist, for, in that pursuit there is only great labor and no reward
 Misses Jennie and Anna Lancashire re- turned, last week, from a several weeks visit at Saratoga While in Saratoga, Miss Anna read and recited by request in the parlors of the Rev. Dr. Storrs, with great credit to'her- self, receiving much praise therefor, and many substantial tokens of respect and appreciation. She also gave an entertainment in Clinton St. church. .s. .-.:g. .e a:ssEt
 Edward Brague recently received from the government about five hundred dollars back-pay pension money. He has purchased seven acres of land of Mrs. N. Lyon, lying on the west side of the highway leading to Mar bledale, adjoining James Barneys residence. for the sum of $200, on which he has dug the cellar for house which is to be erected i'm mediately. We are glad he has had such good luck.
 There were more people at the lake, last week. than there have been before Tn three years. Thus far it has been an uncommonly good season for the hotels and boarding houses, and the landlords wear smiling physi- ognomies The shores of the glistening wa ters are dotted with tents, and the nights are lurid with camp fires. There is quite party of Bridgeporters encamped near the Gunnery, which looks like the 2lst regiment. tss
 From the following, which was picked up on the highway, it IS informed that times are growing harder and harder. At least ''cow- cumbers" are expensive Somebody evident