Litchfield enquirer., 1880-09-23

a dance that evening when fellow by the
name of Will Warner, of i'll repute, asked to
take the horse and carriage to drive away q
half a mile or so and bring girl to the dance.
Edwards gave his consent and since nothing
has heen seen of horse, carriage or man In that
locality. At last accounts, the horse, which
is of a gray color with dark spots had been
traced as far as Sherman. 1t may be that the
fellow got his girl and thought it fine oppor-
tunity to drive over to that matrimonial
Mecca Santa Wheeler's, at South Dover, and
get s'stuck" for life, and will be back in two
or three days as soon as the honey moon pales
and grows dim. At least we hope so, for Mr..
Glover's sake. We hope before this is in print
that Mr.. Glover will have recovered his prop
erty ''every whit whole"
We see it stated in some of the papers as
a great feat that Jerome Graniss could drive
with load of passengers from Carter's Hotel
to the New Preston Depot, find the train
gone, drive on to Washington, find the train
had Just left there and drive on and overhaul
them at a crossing and put his passengers on
board, all right. Now we acknowledge that
TO be something, but extraordinary as that
was, the dongs of the New Preston Station
agent, last Thursday. filings all former ex.
ploits into the shade of mere nothingness. The
three o'clock train on the noble Shepaug had
left the station and was putting round the
curve out of sight in the distance when the
agent discovered that he had not handed the
way bills to the conductor. AS the train had
left the side track the switches were open.
So he ran and closed and locked them, locked
the depot door and then started on run ga
dog trot," he said) down the railroad to over
take the train. He arrived at Washington in
time to shout to the conductor to hold on a
minute and so delivered the valuable papers to
as fleet as should be- or else this agent should
enter himself for the foot race at the New
Milford fair. The statement of the. New
Yorker who said he stood upon the platform
came up and fished all the way and caught
seventeen fair sized trout, gains credence
everyday.
The mixed train referred to in the above
item waits over quarter of an hour at Wash
ington, which would give a man time to walk
the mile down from New Preston Station
Ed. Enc
We noticed, last week, that in those
beautiful lines OF ours on chocolate cake,
where it read:
chad Apicius tested, his vanity
Would have called all else cooked inanty."
for ''inanity" the devil substituted 'insanity."
1t is impossible to destroy that which does not
exist, therefore the sense was not marred, but
it is too much to thrust one so severely. Every
10 not insane, though in the majority
of cases such appears to be the lamentable
poet.
e. A. Hayes, editor of the Wolcottville
Register, was in this village over Sunday,
the guest of E. r. Beeman, Lakeside
The work On D. Burnhams house pro-
crosses rapidly under the eye of J. B. Wilson.
The great unwashed nine of this place
went to New Milford and played game with
the New Milforders Saturday afternoon.
They went down elated, nostrils extended,
like war-horse who smelleth the smoke of
the battle afar. resolved ON victory, ''sink or
swim, live or die, survive OR PERISH" But
what return was theirs! They returned late
in the evening and skunk away to bed like
whipped ours so that no man might question
say that from the full meridian of their glory
they fell like bright exhalation in the even
ing to be seen no more. Alas, the score stood
70 to at the end of the eighth inning in favor
of the. New Milford chaps. Alas for the
greatsunwashed! Alas, alas!
Some of our citizens were called as wit
nesses to attend the case of Frank Grant
against A. Fl. Wyant to recover damages for
a horse which Wyant sold at the sign post last
fall. The case was tried in Warren, Sept II.
before B. E. Carter Esq, anil the plaintiff
got judgment for sixty-fiv dollars and costs,
Baldwin and O'Hara for the plaintiff, and
Kellogg and Hitchcock for the defendant. The
defendant appealed.
H. N. says "When at Soutiant's hotel.
Monday, he showed US a stalk of corn which
Is feet" If the stalk was IS feet in
it was certainly big stalk if
it was 10 feet in diameter it would do to talk
about and take tothe fair as California exhhib-
it, but having one eye on Mars and the other
watching the antics of Jupter's moons he
neglected to do so. 1t is pretty big story
as it now stands. The Goshen item above
referred to, is no part of "H. Ms" letter, as
will be seen on examination of our last paper.
1t is an editorial item we picked up while
there trying a law case, last week-ED Enc.
AT the Sunday School exercises, Sunday
night, the infant class as usual, sang all the
songs and gave all the Rotations The other
classes were not heard from at all Miss
Annie Lancashire recited Rock of Ages"
to the delight and satisfaction of all pres.
ent. .-s.'t
Mrs. E. P. Lyman is gaining slowly and
it is now thought her recovery is certain.
Mr.. George Taylor at Lakeside is quite
sick.
M L. Delavan and T. Dwight Merwin,
will deliver addresses on the political issues of
the day at Union Hall, Thursday night, %,
inst. Doors open at 7:30. Everybody is cor
daily invited to attend.
p. S.-Julius Glover's horse and carriape
have been recovered at Bridgeport, Ct.
PEN DRAGON
.s,-.
AN HONEST MEDloINE.-J. II. Northrop, of
Lansingburg, formerly captain of the Troy
Police, writes: ~ firmly believe that the
'Favorite Remedy is great, good, honest
preparation; one that may be depended up