Litchfield enquirer., 1880-10-07
New Preston.

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right for picking corn if you only have it t
pick. Apples are very plenty and ripe early
owing to the warm weather and late frosts
The first frost of any consequence occurred o.
the morning of the LIST inst, and was sever
enough to wind up the career of pumpkin ant
squash vines, and make human beings lool
around for old mittens and hunt in the close
for last winters overcoats.
"A couple of Nimrods from New MILFORD
came up Saturday and went hunting will
''Ramrod JIM" They found this country
good place for hunting. They hunted all day
and the sum total of their game amounted t.
one crow. They didn'tcrow much over that
and went home declaring that New Preston
WASN'T much anyway.
Mr. Jesse Barden has been making some
repairs on his residence, putting in new win
dows, &C., which improves its appearance
wonderfully.
Mr.. E. Harrington and family, of KEN
Hollow, have moved into the house on Ever
green Avenue vacated by Mrs. A White, who
has moved into house owned by G. E. Bee
man at Lakeside Thus, as in the affairs OF
nature, does change continually go on.
MR. d. Burnham has on exhibition at bis
store beet. (Mangel WurtzeD of his own
raj ing which weighs sixteen and one half
pounds.
e. H. Beardsley is having new over
shot water-wheel built for his tanning works.
Mr.. O. E. Beeman is the man who builds it.
Mr. A. T, Roraback's speech at Union
Hall, Friday night, was well attended and
well liked. He spoke on the tariff question
and numerous other subjects with which the
newspapers are full at these times. He did
not fling any mud at Gen. Hancock; on the
contrary he spoke of him highly as a soldier,
but as statesman aud on account of the raca
hosts and rebels who support him, no man
should vote for him, and no man with the
best interests of his country at heart would.
Mr.. Walter .Burnham returned Friday
from his western trip looking as well and
hearty as usual.
Tuesday night, the members of the Gar
field and Arthur Club expect to attend Gen.
Joseph r. Hawley's speech at New Milford
in full force. The Warren Band WHICH furn-
ished music at the meeting here, last Friday
night, has been engaged for this occasion also.
We went to the fair one day last week,
and heard the phrase, "Right away to the
fair ground |" half million times or more,
got invited to dinner three times, shook hands
with folks that we had not seen in one, two
and three years, said Quite we'll thank you, I"
and Haven't seen you in dogs age, how are
you and all the folks?" etc. etc., more times
than we could count; walked up and down
the grounds, saw the Bohemian glass blower"
and other 'blowers," the educated pig, the
''Great wizard of the North" the Greatest
wonder of the age, }" the patent duplex, con-
cavo- convex, rebohnding, back action butter
worker, heard the band play Yankee Doodle, :"
got our eyes, ears and nostrils filled with dust,
and came home thinking we had left it all be-
hind us. Alas it was mistake!
AT midnight in our guarded tent
We yet lay dreaming of the hour,
When awfully that whirler went
Around with mighty power
And that Internal ''two-hoss' hand organ
ground out whoa Emma" all night till broad
daylight. What is the true name of those
whirligig machines, we'd like TO know, con-
sisting of ponies, war horses, canlels, ferocious
wooden lions and other images, strung on
irons, not in the likeness of anything on earth,
in the heavens above or the waters beneath,
that folks bestride, the bell rings, the machine
~ moves, the hand organ strikes up and they
90 swinging round the circle to music that his
Satanic majesty would kick out of the infer
nal regions? Does anybody know their name.
They are diabolical contrivance anyway, es-
pecially and emphatically the hand organ that
accompanied the one at New Milford, and we
believe, as it somewhere says,in "Much Ado
about Nothing San had it been dog that
should have howled thus, they would have
hanged him." To see and to hear was bad
coming home and dreaming all night that the
fellow with his coat off and sleeves rolled up
was still turning the crank, and the crack
voiced instrument under his manipulations was
belching forth whoa Emma" in the most
waiting, detected, blood curdling tones that
the ears of mortal ever heard. AS the immor-
tai Benedict said of Belthazar's song. "We
had as lief have heard the night raven, come
what plague could have come after it,
AT church Sunday night, the whole mis-.
sionary field, Africa, Asia, India, Japan,
China, the Sandwich Islands, &C., &C., was
thoroughly hetcheled and raked over. Tc
put eur hands in our pockets and hand out
dollars for them is better than talking away
time. PEN DRAGON.