Connecticut western news., 1880-02-18

once spent night, with some of his officers. Is there any village in the east which Wash. ington did not visit?
 Another closed house is one belonging to Judge Woodruff of New York, where Aaron Burr used often to stay, for it was the homo Of his sister, Mrs. Reeves Many of his letters were written here, and it lends strange in- terest to the charming old-fashioned house and gay, sweet garden to think that hare once fell the footsteps of the gallant, brilliant fatally gifted man, who flashed gloriouslv forth, winning golden honors, then flickered and paled ignomlniously, who was first the darling, then the scorn of the Republic. The house was owned and occupied for many years before her death by Miss Amelia o. den, granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards and cousin of Aaron Burr.
 Faclng the green in the centre of the vil- lage, stood until three or four years ago. the old church which echoed so long the words of Lyman Beecher, but it has now been moved back to make room for a new edifice and ;s used. for entertainments and as a dancinp hall.
 Could the revered Doctor have known that the giddy whirl 1.-the waltz would be seen within these precincts, and that his time. honored pulpit would yield place to stage, would he not ha' preached still moresstrenu ously against "the world, the flesh and the deVllY" On side street north of the village stood the little cottage which was Dr. Beech CTS home, and the birth place of many of his children. Henry Ward Beecher has written bis memoirs of Litch6eld in sketch called "Going to School" and Mrs. Stowe has drawn very largely from real life, her story, "Poganuc People" many of whose portraits are very easily recognized by our older inhab- itants
 Now, MT. Editor I have written at such length of the Ltchfeld of the past, that you will not am sure, spare me room for the Litohfield of to-day. hope your readers will take the pleasure do in the memories which are so rich legacy, and which here seem al- most as vivid as as the events of today
 We have no title-deeds to house or lands: Owners and occupants of earlier dates
 From graves forgotten lift their dusty hands And hold in mortmain still their old estates
 A. L. O.L Falls Village.
 A full house attended the literary enter tainment at the residence of A. c. Randall. Esq.,, last Monday night; and no pains were spared to make it one of the pleasantest and most interesting that has been held this sea- son. The readings were suitable for the oc- casion, and were highly appreciated, especial ly so was the serio-comic selection entitled Aunt Tryphenie Bordegras' Adventures" The vocal music was quite as good as at any previous meeting, particularly the male Nquartette by Messrs. Burnett, Gillett, Hunt and Coggswell, and the "Nightingale's Till" by Mrs. Sheppard. The cornet and piano se- lections by J. c. Wolfe and Mary Briscoe were finely rendered. The company were al- so favored with some trios on the cornet vii olin and piano, by J. c. Wolfe, E. A. Gillette, and Geo. A. Randall. Committees were ap- pointed for the next meeting.
 Upon the favorable representation to the state fish commissioners of Representative Brinton, who has been appointed one of the committee on fisheries, they have decided to stock Canaan mountain pond with 5000 land locked salmon. They are matched in the matching houses in Maine and will be brought here and deposited in the pond next month by MT Brinton.
 E. A. Landon of Penn Yan, N. Y., has been visiting relatives in Amesville and we are informed he has been given the superin- tendency of the Holley Knife manufactory at Lakeville, and has entered upon it's duties.
 E. J. Hunt has gone to serve an apprentice ship in clock factory in Winsted.
 Miss Estele Bartlett is in Newtown at present visiting friends there.
 The rite of baptism was administered to two converts at the M. B. church Friday night.
 An elegant Johnsonian lily containing four blossoms graced the table within the altar railing at the M E. church Sunday.
 Miss Dora Wheeler of Ancram is visiting relatives in this village
 A drove Of l7 horses were brought in on | the owl train one night last week for Seth | Pratt Several were sold here, and the oth- CTS taken to Ltchteld.
 The late Edwin Watson, whose sad and | tragic death occurred near Stark Lake, Fla the 24th, was well known to many of the cit izens of this place. he having resided here for time few years ago. Mr. M. was a sol | dier in the late war, having enlisted in the llth Conn. Regiment, Oct 3d, 1861, and con- tinued in the service until mustered out on | the 18th of Dec. 1865. He sailed from Hart | ford to New York, Dec. 18th, 1861, from l thence on steamer for Annapolis, Md, ar irving the 2lst, and the next day went into camp. Soon after they sailed for Fortress, Monroe, from there to Roanoke Island, where they went into camp again. They remained | here but few days, when they embarked on a steamer for Newberne, where they arrived | March 18th, after a 12 miles march. On the | next day occurred the battle of Newberne, which was the first engagement in which he took an active part, his regiment being under the command of Gen. Burnside of the 9th army corps On the l4th of Dec. he partici- pated in the battle of Fredricksburg; and un- der Gen. Geo. Mcclellan, he was engaged in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, Sept IA and IT, 1862. He was also in the battles of Fort Darling, Suffolk, and Bold Harbor, and in several engagements in front of Petersburg and his Brigade was the first evacuation of the city by Gen. Lee: He was engaged in about l2 of the fiercest battles of the war. His native place was Newtown, where he went after being mustered out of the service; was in an express office in Jersey Jty for three years and was in the employ 'f the Steamboat Go. and Housatonic R. R. g Jo., and was watchman in the freight depot a n Bridgeport for a time. His health failing i'm, he sailed on the Eth of Feb last year for florida, where he soon began to recuperate. de took up homestead of l60 acres, under government grant, and had just received 4 tile to it, (the time he served in the army aino daductad l and had oranoro and lor,ao., 1 tl