Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-12
New Preston.

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Green peas, harvest apples, new potatoes,
green corn, huckleberries, blackberries, &C.,
now food the local market
| The steamer ..Firt, heretofore run Ivy a
Nj. Brakeman of bridgeport, is now run by
George Wright, the man who gave such good
satisfaction last year.
&C. d. Camp, instead of spending the
| summer at Saratoga, is rusticating at Carriers
hotel at Cheeree Point, Lake Waramaug
The students of Epson Seminary went
into camp last Wednesday as is their annual
custom, in the deep, solemn and majestic
wilds of Spectacle ak We wish them
their usual good time.
/ james s. Bushnell, of Poughkeepsie is
the guest of Rev. Henry Epson. 40
The Great Unwaslled Nine" Of New
Preston played game of ball with a picked
nine of strangers from about the lakc. WHO
beat them 16 to g. runs last Saturday. The
New Prestonites feel Sc bad that now they are
going to challenge the Warren club aud beat
somebody anyway.
Friday night the stringed baud played at
Norris at Lakeside for the city people there
to dance away the tiresome hours. The dulcet
notes of Alfred's fiddle, the ecstatc strains of
Leman's flute, and the. harmonious vibrations
of Eds violin were waited GER the biiiowy
waters in one mellifuous coalescence of mel
ody, mingled with the tripping of airy, fairy
feet. that was absolutely enchanting. There
was plenty of ice cream, &C., to make the
occasion, as 1t was, most enjoyable affair.
A gentleman well know in social circles
as the ''glass of fashion and the mould of
fornl," weary of the cankenng cares of au
active business life, well knowing that,
$50 g all the good that individuals find.
Or God and nature meant to mere niaukind,
Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words health, peace and competence"
and DESTROYS of finding the gentle and sweet
rest that the Sylvan solitudes" may give, is
about to erect upon building lot obtainedof
our enterprising fellow-townsman, Dan.
Wheaton Esq, home, unique, graceful and
intellectually composite. Minnerets, folia-
tons, clustered columns and colonnades are
to be mingled in wild, enhancing, and bewil-
deringly confusing beauty. Finals, frilling,
edging and point DAlencon lace are to sur
round the angles of this Arcadian structure,
and the cross and crescent to surmount the
whole. The marble statuary (vulgarly called
underpinning) is to be cut under the skilled
eye and left hand of the most accomplished
sculptor the wsrld has ever known; and the
inside furnishing of this elegant structure is
entrusted to the most cunning scientific artists
that the immense wealth of the possessor can
procure. Every kind of wood, metal, stone
or fabric containing a cline of beauty is to
pay tribute to the erection of this marvellous
edfice; and landscape gardeners of old
world celebrity are to lay out the surrounding
country into such elegance as will ravish the
eye of every behoder. If Madame Rumor
does not falsify, it will equal the ''house that
Jack built"
Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D. D., of Brooklyn,
N. Y, who is spending few weeks at Rev.
III. Upson's delivered the best temperance
address we ever heard, to as large audience as
could get into the Congregational church in
this village, last Sunday night. His remarks
were characterized Lot 50 much by oratory as
as by practical, sound common sense Among
an innumerable number of good things, he said,
''Give man all the good, wholesome food
he needs, and from eight to nine hours of
solid, sound, honest sleep, and he needs no
stimulants," and no truer words were ever
spoken. He spoke of Day, Horace Bushnell,
Finney and Lyman Beecher, as men who
did much work on cold water and wholesome
food, and some of them were born in New
Preston. All in all it, was an able discourse,
spoken to an appreciative audience. We
hope to hear him again some time.
PEN DRAGON. 4