Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-27
New Preston.

On Monday, while Charles Hoffman was d
 U. E Beeman's saw mill getting load oi saWdust his horses became frightened and ran He was inside the mill at the time SC they started off without driver. They ran straight home, luckily meeting no teams upon the road, and arrived without doing any dam. age with the exception of spilling some of the sawdust. New Preston horses are noted for never ding any damage when they run away.
 Lets see, it was the 30th of this month. l lds6, when the first Atlantic cable was com man ingenuity had arrived at the end of it's 1 tether then, but what a number of wonderful since! Even New Preston is to have tele- phone. Representatives of the New Milford Bell Telephone Co. were up to see what could be done, last Thursday. They offer to put up the wire if the people here and along the line will furnish the poles ready set. At present they have obained almost enough sig natures accompanied with material aid to in- sure the success of the project. We hope to report in our next that the thing is accom- plished.
 Letters have been received from Mr. Wm. Wooster who arrived without mishap at hls destination, Litchfeld, Ill.
 A colored gentleman has rented s. G. Holt's shop, formerly used by MT. Wm. Conn as shoe mak CTS shop, and opened all estab- lishment for shaving and cutting hair. Let the modern Esaus take notice.
 Since w. Cogswell was convicted of rep utation of selling spirtieus liquors no one can get so much as drop of water in his establish ment, and it is heartrending to see the many parched lips of the moistless anatenies that daily tread our streets. This is bad enough; but, still worse, since his conviction not drop of water have the ''blue canopied" heavens shed upon us, and everything bids fair to dry up and blow away Have the temperance people unpardonably offended Bachus till beseeching Jupiter. that deity has granted his request and rolled the clouds away both from the just and the unjust?
 On Friday the drum beat for the uncom- Grants horse was sold by A. H. Wyant, sheriff, to the highest bidder, Geo. Lyman, for forty dollars. When has anything of the kind oc- cured at that sgn-post heretofore?
 Frank Starr. the Warren stage driver, man who always deliberately weighs the pros and cons. of every subject, was rash and head-strong enough, last week, to bet D. Burn- hams clerk half pound of candy that it would rain. The clerk won and says it is the first time luck ever smiled on him, and now he is almost emboldened to bet on Edmunds' or W. H. Barnums nomination. But this stage driver must stop such foolhardy proceedings salary.
 The devil, last week, must have had an unusual amount of business on hand, so that he was more than ordinarily crazed and out of his usual quickness of mind, or else he owed us particular spite, for there were no less than eight misprints in our last weeks letter These might have been due to our miserable chirography or not However it was, we meant 'core" when it was printed "care," and ''quintessence" where it was printed ''quietness," >&c In speaking of the land damage through Mir. Hitchcock's farm it should have been printed $12OO, instead of $12O00. A cipher stands for nothing some- times but in this instance it gave the appear ance of our telling particularly enlarged lie, which, of course, it would be impossible for us to do. But we ali live by and suffer by
 = "hits misses,
 What sages call Chance, Providence or Fate
 Uncertainty is one of many bIisses,
 mortg 'ge on Humanity's estate." -r esf yet it makes us groan inwardly to see a sen- tence so changed that it means nothing.
 Mir. Weston Graniss was in this village over Sunday.
 Sunday night was beautiful. The moon shed that magnetic ray which touches the hearts of lovers and holds them in its weird, delightful spell. The air was heavy with sweet odors; tine Whippoorwil sang in the distance the shadows fell across the path in fantastic shapes; there was the calmness and