Daily Republican., 1879-01-03
ANEW PILBRIM's PROGRESS.
Mile stones In hts journey from
1920 to the present Year.

l62l-Kerps Thanksgiving, is in NJ
danger OF overeatlng.
l62l--Builds a meeting house.
l623-Prorl laims Fast Dav.
l62S-Cuts down May pole A. Mer
ry Mount as a rebuke to vain rscrea-
tons.
l635--Is crowded for accommoda-
tions, and stakes out new farm al
Connecticut.
JG37-Makes war on the Antinom'
ians, and the Pequot Indians, and
whips both.
lG3S-Starts a college.
l640-Sets up printing press.
l643--Goes into Confederacy. The
first Colonial Congress.
lG4s--Lays down the Cambridge
platform. Hangs witch.
lG49-Sets his face against the nm
on iSltiI tuSttll vi N'hilhh i'iS '"''
"a thing uncivil and uncom"Iy."
lG5l-Is rehuked for "intolrrable
excess and bravery Of apparel, and is
forbidden to wear gold or silver lace or
other such gewgaws.
1862 Coins pine tree Shillings, an |
makes the business profitable.
lG63-prints a Bible for the In
dians.
lGso-Buys a chang up clock, and
occasionly carries silver watch that
helps him to guess tn" time Of day.
About this period learns to use forks at
table; a new fashion.
lG92-Is scared by witches again, at
Salem, but gets the b tier OF them.
l7o2-Found4 another College, which
at last settles down at New Haven.
l7o4- ri1's his first newspaper in
Boston.
l7Oj-Tastes coffee as a luxury. and
I his own table.
l7Us-Cortracts another platform.
this time at SaybrOok.
l7!O--B"gins to sip tea, very spar
in2lv.
l7ll-Puts letter in his first post
office.
l72O--Eats a potato and takes ON"
home 10 plant in his garden as Il GU
rIosity.
l72l-Is inoculat"d for the small
poX; rot without gray" rem"n1'ranc"
from his conservative n"ighh"r Be
gins to sing by note on sundays, there
by encountering much opposition and
opening a ten years quarrel.
74O-Manutacturrs timed ware,
and starts the first tin peddler on his
travels.
l742-Sees Fanael Hall built. The
cradle Of Liberty is ready TO be- rock
ed.
l74J-Builds an organ, but does not
permit it to- be played in the meeting
house.
l749-Buys a bushel Of potatoes for
winters use; all his friends wondering
what he will do with 50 many.
i755--Puts up Franklin stove III
the best room. and tries one Ofthe new
ly invented tightening rods.
l76O--About this time begins to
wear a collar to his shirt. When he
can afford it, takes. lis wife to meeting
in u charse instead Of on a plllion, as
heretofore.
l7Gj-Shows his dislike to stamped
paper, and joins tn" Sons Of Liberty.
l76sE-Tries his hand at type found
ing, not yet successful in Connecticut.
l770-Buys a home made wooden
clock.
l773-Watrrs his tea in Boston hal-
Dor. Plants liberty trees where ever h"
finds good soil.
l774-Lights Boston street with oil
lamps, a novelty, Uhongh 'new lights
have been plenty for some yearo.)
i776-Brother Jonathan--as h" be-
gins to be called in his tamly-d"clar' 5
himself free and independent.
l7s0-Buys an "Umbrillo" for Sun
days and when he shows it is laughed
at for his etlrininacv.
l79l-Starts cotton spinning fac
tory.
l792-Hr has been raisin, silk worms
in Connecticut, and now gives his mn-
ister (not his wife) a home made silk
gown. Buys a carpet for the middle OF
the parlor floor.
l793-Invent- the cotton gin, and
thereby ,rebles the value of Southern
plantations.
95-ls0O-Wears pantaloons occa
.ionallv, but not when in full dress.
Begins to rs" plates on the breakfast
and tea table.
ls02-IIas the boys and girls vaccin.
ated.
lsO6--Tries to burn piece of hard
coal from Philadelphia. A failure.
lsu7-Sers boat 60 by steam on the
Hudson.
lslJ-Iolis little convention AT
hartford, but doesn't propose to disSolv"
th. Union. BUYS some of Trry's pa =
vnt "Shplf Clocks" for $36, and regu-
lat4s his watch by it.
lsl7-Sets up stove in the meeting
house, and builds fire in it for sun
day: an innovation which is stout y re-
sisted by many.
lsls-Begins to run steamboat on
Long Island Sound, and after his will
takes n passage on it to New York.
lslg-Grown boldrr, ne crosses the
Atlantic in st" amshlp.
lS22-.-Hghts gas in Boston. At last
I.a,us how to make hard coal burn,
and sets CRATE in his parlor' Buys a
steel pen, Cone of Giliott's, sold at S}3
per gross.) Has his every day shirts