Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-28
DEFERRED LETTERS.
NEW PRESTON.


 It fairly makes ones neck twinge and feel l uncomfortable there is so much talking about hanging nowadays. But the feeling will pass away like fog before the morning sun when you come to know that the object of all this waste of words is "terbacker. "One says '1 kalkulate to cut and hang next week. When d. UP"
 'O I've finished suck'ring tn last time, but hain't ready ter hang yit, or I'd cut tomorrer, "
 "And how's your'n standin'? That wind O the 18th twisted mine some, but it's the best crop ever raIsed," etc. And it is remarkable | that, listening of an evening to store full of "weed raisers," the fact becomes, in the coorse of conversation, noticeably apparent that they | one and all, never before grew cropin which l the veins were SO exactly the color to ''cure" precisely right, the leaves of such peculiar and 1 appropriate gumminess such length and ! breadth, so soft and velvety to touch, so suit able and proper for ''Havana Wrappers" In fact, after giving your attention to such con- versation twenty minutes, you feel that "noth- ing like it was ever known before, " and there never was.
 On Wednesday, last week. Eddie Lloyd, boy about thirteen or fourteen years of age, while in Picketts store, having been left alone in charge for time, accidentally shot himself with pistol The ball passed through the second and third fingers of the left hand and buried itself in the left thigh. The fre-arm was s. ngle cartridge pistol carrying No. % ball, otherwise the boy might not have been so lucky as to escape with only flesh wounds. Dr. Lyman thought it best not to extract the ball. This ought to be warning to all boys not to fool around with pistols.
 Last Thursday morning, about five o'clock, Dennis Havican, who sleeps overhead in the Barn Store, was awoke by loud crash in Jerome Graniss' stables adjoining. Slipping into his neither garments he rushed out and found the stable floor had given away precipi- tating three of Jerome's horses to the cellar below. Dennis cut their halters just in time to prevent Ed Beardsley having some more horsehides to tan. Luckily the horses were not seriously injured. MT. ''Snug," with all the "Snuggery" household, is coming over this week to camp out on the shores of the beautiful Lake Wara- maug.
 If this spelling reform craze continues to increase how in the name of filologi will Josh Billings and Petroleum V. Nasby spel?
 Your correspondent e." of Washington, seemed to take it quite to heart, last week, because IS" suggested lottery to raise funds to repair the meeting house. We, looking through glass darkly, can not see much real difference between church fair and lottery when they aim at the same end We admit the fair is more fashionable than the lottery, But to pay dollar for a pincushion or other knick-knack that isn't worth four cents, that you don't want, and that you never will use, is about equal to purchasing an unlucky lot tery ticket. In the one case you give the dollar and expect and get nothing in return, in the other you give the dollar and expect something and get nothing. ''What's in an a name7" Who is there who has not paid dol lar for stew of oysters at church benefit oyster supper, knowing that for three quarters of his money he received no equivalent? The fact of the business is, any scheme whereby a person does not get fair equivalent for his money invested, be it church fair, festival or oyster supper, is lottery; tho, in a church fair and festival you cannot expect an equiva- lent for your money, n a lottery you cdn have the pleasure of expectancy that your buried talent will increase an hundred fold, and there- in the lottery has the advantage of the fair. We cannot see why a lottery wouldn't work well. We offer suggestion to our Washing ton friends Fly around and get up your lot- tery-don't call it lottery though-issue the tickets and call it, "a business venture" or, "a speculation in futures, such as Fall River is notoriously noted for, and we warrant you success People will run wild over it, and you can build an edi1ce imposing and grand enough to overshadow all the houses of Israel for miles. around. And, remembering the truthful old adage, Nothing ventured, noth- ing win" we shall be willing, as ''a business venture" to invest in one ticket.
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