Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-10

from asd to Merryall are to be added. We have yet to hear of village of this size which receives and'sends more mails than New Pres ton Do we need telephone? A good many poles have been distributed along the line, but none have been erected as yet
 Nils Vesta Dowler, from Ohio, is the guest of Mir. Noble Bolles.
 Just ten years ago Gall Hamilton wrote in the following lively manner about long dresses which were just then coming into fashion, and which, you will remember, at the height of the
 fashion, swept the sidewalks with yards of majesty(O and saved street sweepers hours of labor "And here came the costumers and Haunt long skirts in our faces once more Do blame costumers? Not I. They have their living to get, and must invent or select con- tinually. But if the women of this country, having once tasted the freedom of short dress es, shall be mean-spirited enough to ge into long ones again at the dictate of any costumer under the sun, they have themselves and no- body else to blame. A pretty thing it will be for them to talk about making laws, if they have not sense and spirit enough to keep out the mud. A fine thing to be a republican sovereign when you have not independence enough to resist the fiat of foreign tyrant as to the cut of your gown! For here is no ques- tion of thinking CT not thinking of your dress you can walk just as we'll with three f1ounces as with none, but long dress interferes with the energies, the activities, the safety and the health of every day. A long dress in the street means inconvenience, untidiness discomfort, waste, indolence, repression, cramped muscles, suhordination and misery. If women rein- vest themselves in trailing skirts they deserve all the evils which may befall them. If wom- en relinquish their short suits, may their hus- bands tyrannize over them and abuse them for ever" Well, every dog has his day, and now. once more, she has the pleasure of seeing short dresses becoming the fashion, but, un. doubtedly, if she lives ten years longer she will have to bewail long skirts again, for all things move in cycles. The 'sky -scraper'' bonnet and street sweeper" dress ought to stay out of existence together Who wants to view unsighly shapes because fashion moves the world, and pride lies deep in every human heart
 MT. Galpin, the census taker, was over last week, inquiripg into everybody's business. We always thought newspaperreporter could eclipse all else ia this wide world in the mat ter of prying into other folks business, and that live Yankee was the mightiest intsrrog- ative in existence, but Uncle Sam beats every thing this time. How many dollars changed hands at the Chicago Convention?
 Henry w. Brown spent the Sabbath in Waterbury. We missed his genial counten- nance early Saturday afternoon. He takes great interest in that city and says it is the most thriving town he knows.
 -sMr Frank Starr, the jovial Warren stage driver and leading BGsso- -protundo of the War ren cornet band, says that organization will evening of the 17th inst, if the weather will permit. Our citizens ought to make it pleas ant for them on that occasion.
 MT. Jesse Barden is pushing the work on E. Galvin's new barn which in building upon the site of that burned last spring. Mr. Gal win will shortly move his market upon the site of the Barn Store," which will bring it more into the central portion of the village and be quite an improvement withal.
 The good people of the village enjoyed the novelty of "deacon's meeting" Sunday, as Rev. MT. Lancashire was away in the Quaker city," He is expected home this week.
 Nineteen years ago, April 18th, the great American rebellion commenced, and New Milford has just begun talking about erecting a soldiers monument. New Milford has long memory.
 Mrs Isaac Brown has returned from weeks visit among friends in New York CitV. p D.