Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-01

thing becomes too heavily charged, or te , many words slide on at once, the differentiat- cd tympanum impinges and the Instructions with the superf1uous fluid pass down the wire l into the earth. As true as you live, it's all ] right. But these gentlemen all alarm them selves unnet esaril for the wire IS not up vet, and isn't likely to be, that we know of, this summer.
 Sheriff Champlin was down Saturday and at the close of the .''dollar" suit arrested G. c. Hitchcock for instigating malicious | prosecutions against sundrv persons. It is said that the bond required for his appearance for trial was fixed at $1O,OOO. This is really too bad, and such good hay weather too.
 Monday we received the following postal card plainly addressedto 'Pen Dragon, which we translate literally for the authors special benefit and won't charge him even an "adver- tising' fee.
 ''ROMFoRD, June 21at 1880, Please don't publish any more of my trans actions at Romford. Do you wish to add in- suit to injury? It is not your business to pub- fish private affairs especially when they are false. Such is the case with tine one which hear you are about to publish Please indulge in little recreation by allowing other people to attend to their own affairs. You must be tired out. can get along very we'll without any more advertising from your pen. Thanks.
 Yours Respectfully.
 ....-- D. GILLETTE"
 We'll, we most went into mysteries on the perusa of that! It is the first time we ever hard of false affairs" They must be uniuue and most peculiar things, nearly attaining to the unexplainable We never remember hav- ing published any of his transactions" and rummaging among our correspondence we nowhere find his name mentioned Conse- quently it would appear that he has slipped into coat intended for some other person, and, like Shakespeare, we are led to ex claim:
 'Why who cries out on pride.
 That can therein tax any private property?
 Doth 1t not flow as hugely as the Sea.
 Till that the very, very means do tbb?
 What woman ia the city do name,
 When that say. The city woman bears The cost of princes unworthy shoulders
 Who can come in and y, tEat mean her,
 WheH such one she, such is her neiglIbor
 Or what is he of basest function,
 That says his bravery is not on my cost,
 (Thinking that mean him. but therein suits
 His folly to the mettle of my speech!
 Therr tn Il How, what then Let me wherein
 My tongue hath wrOnged him if it do him right,
 Then he hath wronged himself if he be free.
 Why then my taxing like wild goose flies,
 Unclaimed of any man."
 Yes, we reckon he has slid into the wrong iacketthis time. It will not do for man to pick up floating generality and tack it upon his own back, not always Because some great man says newspaper reporters are mostly fools, shall we hug the remarks to our indi vidual self, and cry out that the arrow was meant for us? There is time enough to cringe and cry out when we are really hit. Meanwhile as to what is, and what is not, our ''business to publish" " or in the matter of ''in- dulging in little recreation," &c., we beg leave Gas the wlsest theology teachers that all men are free agents) to exercise our judg- ment. And now if the author of the above card cannot show wherein our tongue hath wronged him." we shall be sure it is hit bird which f1utters. And, feeling an uneon- trolable curiosity to know what it is he has heard we ''are about to publish" we remain, as ever, truly hisn. P.D.