Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-01
New Preston.

A good many things besides old topers are dry in this section. Dry, hot and dusty hardly expresses our state. Last Friday was the hottest day yet. The thermometers rose up to 900, 95e and 9S 3 above zero in different places, and the whole landscape and it's in- habitants falrly parched and baked and seeth- and boiled, and the baking still continues till we should like to see,
 ''The upper air burst into life
 With hundred fire-aags sheen!'
 and be able to cry joyfully, ''It rains, it rains!" Most farmers have commenced hay and that the stubble scorches to death in day or two after the grass is off. but what's the use of repining, "what is to be, will be. {" Tobacco raisers wear most agonizing counte- nances. Some of this staple product is not set yet, and what has been and is still lucky enough to have spark of life left, looks like a calf fed on skinned milk. The island of Cuba will have to raise greater quantity than ever this year unless the powers that be turn the tide in our affairs.
 The young ladies who have been away to various educational institutions to receive the finishing touches of their education and be ''polished," have returned home to spend their vacations. Misses Anna and Jennie Lanca- shire are home from Maplewood Institute, and Miss Nellie Bolles, also, returned Thursday from west end institute, New Haven.
 
 Your Goshen astronomer says, 'Jupiter rises little before two and if Pen Dragon will look in the east he will have fine sight. " That's rather tempting, but brother H. N. is making huge mistake if he thinks he's going to get us out before two in the night to look, however fine the sight. If he will make ar engagements to have "Jupiter rise" about eight in the morning we'll try and look, as our couch faces the only east window in the room, otherwise we are afraid we shall never see this grand sight unless it should be some evening when we are returning from spark ing and then the probabilities are that our thoughts would be so occupied with--O pshaw By Jupiter!
 MT Fred Green, former resident of New Preston, who has been gone for eleven years, put in an appearance among hls friends here last week. He halls from Michigan.
 We gather nothing new concerning the suit which Frank Grant has bro't against G. c. Hitchcock for $5O00 damages for malicious prosecution, but we hear various other suits at law are coming to head fast. New Milford has got water works, fire department and two newspapers. Litchfield has railroad, a cornet in the church, and the superior court to work with, and yet New Preston has more persons mad at one another, and more law suits, than either of these thriving places Big places like these, with every facility for action, ought to be ashamed of themselves and their record when they gaze at New Preston. Should these villages ever be in want of wig orous working material, we can spare themtwo or three individuals better than not.
 There is an indistinct rumor afloat that the T. U. will hold picnic somewhere There will be the usual gathering at@Rev Mr. Upsen's. This is all the ''spirit of '76'' that we hear of with the exception of the inevitable small boys fire crackers. We expect to have our usual exceedingly jolly time.
 -"City visitors" begin to arrive and the country fellow must now put on his finest airs and say ''yaas" for "yes," ''papah" for paper, 'hot" for hat, ''wahtah" for water, etc. -
 Sunday night Rev. Mir. Lancashire's re- marks were concerning wisdom and knowl- edge and directed to the members ofgraduat- ing classes who are leaving the floors of schools and colleges and stepping out and into the world. &P.D