Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-17
New Preston.

New Preston.
 The ministerial aOtree held at Rev. Henry Upsons, Tuesday afternoon and evening, was grand success Rev. Mir. Thrall delivered one of his instructive sermons to the assembled clergy, in the evening, but raging thunder storm without furnished terrific electric ex- clamation points, accompanied by such thun- dering applause. and cepious sending of bles- sings to earth which, when rains are withheld, we never have, that the bursts of eloquence within were nervously unheeded and the text forgotten.
 During the thunder storm, Tuesday night, Fred. Hoffman's barn was struck by lightning, and set on fire. Happily there was no hay in it, and the drenching rain extinguished the fire before it could gain headway, and no dam age was done except knocking off board or two, and shivering the great beam.
 While Fred Cogswell was at work on the Bee Brook road the other day, one of his oxen stepped on the bigges. and best tee on his left foot. It never hurt the OK at all, but split the toe in two, so that Fred can have six toes now and travel with Barnum's circus, but he does not want to; and while Ee sits and tends the tender, arnica- soaked member, he's all the time growing that Fate never opened up chance for hlm yet, but was always against him. It is strange how wilfully blind men will be some times, te that ''tide which taken at the flood leads on," etc.
 Horace Sherman and wife, from New York City, ,are at his fathers F. l.. Sherman's.
 Miss Janette Cameron, from Pennsylvan- ia, is the guest of Rev. Henry Upson.
 Will. Sperry, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, is visiting at his fathers, w. D. Sperry's His many friends are pleased to know that his smiling countenance will be seen among us for about month.
 Leslie Baldwin and wife, from Wolcott- vile, are spending a few days at F. s. Cogs- wells. He a tombstone maker and monument tai putter-up, but he cannot get job in this country for there are only twelve stonecutters in this village, and not a case of yellow fever yet.
 -C. w. Pickett has a ald-headed eagle on exhibition at his store. It was caught on War amaug Lake by Wm. DougaL AS Mir. Dou- gal was rowing across the lake he saw the bird fioundering in the water and captured him. It is thought he had driven his talons into fif- teen pound salmon which might have been swimming near the surface of the water, and, during the wrestle which ensued the fish had bedraggled and nearly drowned him. In fact the fish had nearly made meal of the eagle instead of the eagle picking the bones of the salmon-may be! Pickett says the bird is 80 years old
 The highways in our village are fast be- coming impossible. Now, as the highways in the village of Marketable have been thor oughly worked, and those at tue lake to the and, station also, wouldn't it be well to put a shov elful or two of dirt on the hill by Dr. Lyman's and cart away or cover up few of those peb- bles as small as Websters head on Pulling Mill hill, and the road towards the lake?
 Mir. Oscar Wright. a former resident now living in Birmingham. is at his father's Geo. Wright's, for a few weeks.
 New Preston's wandering sons do return once in while. MT. John Lyman, who is at A. T. Stewards is home for a short vocation.
 On Sunday, the Rev. Mir. Wychoff gave us sermon on keeping the Sabbath day holy. If this sacred day was observed as it ought to be. he said. no postof1ice would be opened, or mails sent, etc. Exactly, and if his wishes about the matter were enforced, there would not be half dezen men breaking the Sabbath running milk train down the Shepaug road to carry christian farmers milk to New York, every Sunday, either! The train men are not to blame the farmers shouldn't carry milk. And if there was, or could be, the Utopian state of things he desires, what would become of the Coney Island railroad and the dividends wherewith the stockholders give Beecher and Talmadge their thousands? What would be- come of the Sunday expresses and owl-trains If it isn't wicked to run trains and make an impious pulling and screeching, and an irre- ligious banging and rattling of milk cans on the holy Sabbath, we should like to know why it is wicked for man to go off quietly with out screech or puff, or rattle or bang, and pick a few quarts of berries in the blooming fields, and shady woods of the Great Maker, on the same day? We cannot see the difference un less it is in the profits. Whats the difference in the amount of wickedness performed, whether man goes fishing all day at Wara- maug Lake, and doesn't sell his fish,. or stays at home and sells five dollars worth of milk to some man, and pays lot of wicked men to take it to New York for him on the Sabbath day? Here again, the difference seems to be in the profits. Everybody knows that there certainly is a difference between business and pleasure, but all pleasure isn't wicked, nor all business necessary to be done on the Sabbath There's no difference between G and G except one is an octave higher than the other and custom sometimes makes wicked law. We should like somebody to define Sabbath break. ing PEN DEACON.
 Plymouth Sketches No. 324.