Litchfield enquirer., 1880-10-14

as the democratic editors with whom l have
been thrown. They get very mad and say
very abusive things when they sit down to
write. and so does lawyer for small fee
The jury are amazed at so much oratorical
pork for shilling. So with the great party
leaders, only.theY are more cool about; it the
game is too big to be risked by a loss of tenn
per. On the stump of course, they rave over
the wrongs about to be inflicted upon the dear
people. As to consequences, what gambler
stops to think of his own or his opponents
family when heavy stakes are on the table?
Indulge me just here in few reflections
A defeated candidate for the Legislature is for
some weeks of opinion that republican lnsti-
tuiions are failure: that society is on the eve
of dissolution, and that the universe is fraud
He is generally mistaken. Great statesmen
and even great editors die, yet the old world
machine creaks along much as it did before
Except as a clew to the result of the next cleo
ton, what the North thinks and feels about US
is matter of trifing consequence. Your rich
neignbor's sympathy is never strong enough to
maktyon as rich as he is. Read Bagehot's
littfs asok, Physics and Politics" (yon can
get sc humboldt edition for fifteen cents,
and gou will see that war, terrible as it is, has
been the chief factor in the advancement of
mankind. Disastrous as was our late section
dl C0H1iCt. duu UdIUdtOu6 DIS WCEG ILjduy O1 tuC
features.of reconstruction, the lessons taught
by these aff1ctio: win not be complete till
we have learned to do precisely what the Yam
KEGS had to do when they landed on these
bleak shores. Heine could not embrace the
excellent man, who "straightway to help him
began" when he was in trouble; for he him
self was '.that excellent man." 1t is indeed a
swinish adage, but one the South needs most
to take to heart hog or die
Lebanon boasts of common three hundred
yards wide and mile long, another illustra.
ton of the fact that New Englanders are not
so greedy about land as we had supposed. 1t
is the residence of DR. Sweet, the famous
bone setter, who has an infrmary here, to
which patients from all parts of the country
resort. A family from South Carolina has re-
Gently settled about mile from the village.
have been very curious to ascertain from some
of them why they selected this out of-the-way
spot for their home, but hot or rainy days and
cold nights have prevented me from calling on
them. Lebanon grumbles. 1T is a dead
place." says the graduate of Yale. eve
ought to have a cheese factory or creamery"
says the merchant. In former years much
cheese was shipped from here to the South
"a graded school is sadly needed" says
lady. Yes" retorts her husband, "Sut the
rich men would oppose it," 1.-The town hall
ought to be removed from the common-it is
an eyesore," &C., &c. Even in Yankeeland
there are troubles. rs ....,. s.r
Of the two cemeteries the new is to me
much the more interesting. In the old one
you will see Gov. Trumbul's tomb, which is
as much neglected as the, rest, and you will
read inscriptions in Latin and English on slabs
so old that they are literally dropping to
pieces. You will also see heads of cherubs,
craven by rustic artist, which are so cOmical
in expression that you involuntarily burst into
fit of laughter. An antiquarian would revel
IN this old burying- ground The new ceme-
terry, which is less neglected than the old,
but still not half so much visited and cared
for as many of our Southern cemeteries, inter-
ested me because of the names on the grave
stones. l copied number of them, and shall
ask you to print them, together with the
names of some of the living, who are residing
in or visiting this place, in order that your
readers may see how nearly the people of the
two sections are from the same stock Here
are the names: Gay, Bentley. Payne, Wattles,
Barker, Tucker, Treadway, Stiles,
Barton, Nelson, Talcott, Barber, Barbour,
Mason, Cunningham, Moseley, Maxwell. Hub
bard, Gardener, Metcalf, Lyman, Smith,
Brown, Green, Fowler, Spencer, sc.
And now, not to leave Hamlet entirely out,
a word about Willimantic. If you should
ever go there, walk straight up the street lead
ing from the depot across Main street to the
hills, and you will be surprised to find coun-
try almost as wooded and apparently as wild
as some parts of West Virginia : Around
Bridgeport there is much more. woodland than
you would suppose possible so near city and
in so thckly settled State. In Cornwall the
sides OF the mountains in some places are COW
cred for miles with unbroken forests, without
even the log cabin and little clearings we see
in our own mountain. Of course you will go
TO the mills in Willimantic Think of it fif-
teen hundred employees engaged in making
sixteen thousand miles of spool cotton a day
And, as if that were not enough, new mill
covering four acres of ground and said to
have the largest surface area of any mill of its
Kind in tie world, is now being rapidly hur-
lied to completion. Originally a linen mill,
he name is still retained, although the work
IS confined exclusively to the production of
bread for machine and hand sewing. AS
soon as my connection with The Sun was
made known an officer of the company was
ieputed to act as my guide through the i'm
hense building, and | saw the whole process
If manufacture, from the time the Sea Island
cotton is taken from the bale till it becomes
bread on the spool, ready for the market.
hen the Willimantic. Company first placed
it's goods before the public whole towns and
cities refused to buy at any price; now 1t is
luestiOnable whether the new mill, which
doubles the present capacity for work, will
enable them to catch and keep up with their
orders. When / thanked the gentleman for
MS kindness in showing me around, he replied
hat he esteemed it a "a privilege" There is
Yankee politeness for you.
He who thinks New England is decaying
would do we'll to visit Willimantic. The
streets barely keep pace with the new houses,
lnd as for the pavior, he is clean out of sight.
The numbers and the style of these houses in
1icate that the wealth accumulated by the
great mills and the minor industries that have
sprung up around them. has not been coucen-
rated in few hands, but is widely, and all
hings considereds pretty evenly distributed.
But about that Yankee camp meeting. Not
] thing of interest there A dull preacher and
no revival. Good singing. The day before
left Baltimore | rode to Druid Hill Park on
street car. A pretty girl was ON board. If L
should say that her face contained more beau
.ylthan the entire Willimantic camp ground, /
should not be far wrong. 1t must be said,
however, that few young ladies were there.
An alarm is sounded that Fever and Ague
and other forms of Malarial Disease are
steadily up the valleys of Eastern
New York and New England; and that these
distressing complaints are becoming every
year more prevalent among large populations,
hitherto unacqnainted with them. Whatever
form the malady may assume, the origin is the
same. 1t is an infection from decayed and
deeaying vegetation, arising from swamDs and
msrshy places or from soil disturbed by
cultivation. Where these complaints are not
knpwn, they are difficult to treat and the
of danger makes everybody I'M
easy. 81 i4t i'm eiz- 5,tr81'E -
IN the South and West, where Fever and
Ague ia common every. season and has been
since the settlement of the country, AYERS
AGUE CURE is regareed as aniinfallible rene
dy! A faithful trial will convince sufferers
that it is equally certain here and positively
harmless. Patients and physicians agree that
it never fails, and that the cured recover their
usual spirits, and resume their regular pur-
suits in the briefest possible time. No bad
effects follow its use, and, when taken ac-t