Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-09-09
New Preston.

New Preston.
August days have Tapped over into Septem-
Der pretty well Saturday the thermometer
indicated 92o above and Sunday wasn't
much behind, but for all this, the coming
winter is going to be severe one, for the
Connecticut Farmer" says corn husks are un-
commonly thick, and we've seen dragen-fy
over two inches in length travelling Southern
ly, but let it come, we're all right. We trad
ed our buster day before yesterday for asecond
hand ulster. 80.
Thursday the Epson Seminary students
engaged Geo. Cogswell with his coach and
four, to take them and many of their friends
to Lovers Leap" on their annual picnic. 1t
was a little cloudy in the morning but finally
proved to be fine day. The party climbed
to old Waramaug's grave, scrambled over the
point of the rocks, gazed from the dizzy hight
of Lovers Leap, drank from the Indian
Spring and saw where 'Lo, the poor Indian"
used to fish up the fute-hole lamprey and
where the modern fisherman used to pitch his
tent and draw his seine for the palatable shad
which, alas, no more inhabits these waters
since the greedy Birminghamers have damned
back and use the roaring waters of the Housa-
tonic for manufacturing purposes. Some un-
controllable. Yankee will yet sling dam across
this lovely spot and build row Of factories
on the shores of the Cove and ruin with coal
dust and smoke these lovely surroundings.
Heaven forbid! 1t was a day we'll spent,
and jolly company who sang to the musical
coach and the crack of the drivers whip as
they rolled homeward in the mellow evening
May these annual picnics continue without
interruption for three score years and ten.
One of New Prestons handsome young
men found in his right side vest pocket last
Monday morning two hair-pins. We don't
exactly see into this. We wish brother H. n,
the Goshen star-gazer, would let Jupiter and
his satellites revolve in peace awhile and di-
rect that powerful instrument of his to this
locality and see if he cannot explain this phe-
nomenon.
The Sherlocke family assisted by Mr.. and
Mrs Ed. Pond gave one of their unparalleled
''grand classical concerts so the hand-bills
read, in the congregational church, last
Wednesday night, September 1st, to an audi
ence of twenty five persons. -r..,..:
D. Burnham is making preparations to
thoroughly remodel his residence, adding a
veranda and otherwise identifying it. J. B.
Wilson has contracted for the carpenter
work.
We are sorry to be obliged to report that
last Saturday Sherman Cogswell was badly
gored by a bull which he was leading. 1t
seems that Mr. Cogswell had walked few
steps ahead of the animal when it ferociously
pitched into him. Its horn penetrated the
right thigh, tearing an ugly cash, but Mr..
Cogswell succeeded in freeing himself from
the animal without further injury. DR.. E. P.
Lyman dressed the wound, and it will be
some time before Mr.. Cogswell will be able to
attend to his usual duties. 1t was lucky that
it was not foreordained to be worse. ~
Workers begin to leave for their palatial
mansions in the city, and the katy Lids and
fall crickets tune up and hold mighty concerts
in praise thereof. The poor inoffensive crick-
ct won't be hunted quite so tiercely, nor the
bass and pickerel be obliged to keep constant
ly before their vision, +''When sinners entice
On l,rlyy
heretofore. The city people carry all the life
and gayety back with them, and the overwork-
ed boarding house-keepers will fall back and
rest up during the coming fall and winter
ready to prosecute next summers campaign
with renewed vigor and the rest of the vii.
lage will subside into its normal dormant re-
pose, existing upon apples, hickory nuts,
chestnuts, rye bread and butter and sweet
cider till these migratory birds return to bring
it to its senses again next year. We wish that
next year all who want to come could find
accommodations. Between now and next
June there is ample time to fix things (provid-
ed you can borrow money enough so that nc
applicants need be turned away. Who's the
lucky man to build the big house?
Monday of this week the village school,
commenced under the efficient command Of
Mrs. A. E. Corning, and all the boys who
have been so busily engaged the last two
months in the outdoor and practical study Of
pelminthology and entomology as related tc
piscicapture, have suddenly assumed lugu
brious expression painful to see.
We see by the Ray that during the month
of August 155 messages (telegraphic) were
received at New Milford from over the tele
phone wire to New Preston. A large proper
| tion of these were from New Preston and the
region lying round about the lake. but nov
that,the boarding season is at its close there
will be, probably, great falling off for tn,
months to come. -
Those who went on last Saturdays excur
sion did not arrive home till four clock Sun
day morning, and yet they unanimously
affirmed eve had ripping good time"
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