Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-11
New Preston.

New Preston.
 The last meeting of the M. M. and M. R. was at Walter Burnham's, where the audience were delighted as usual with music, reading, recitations, &c. Its next meeting will be at the residence of C. E. Beeman, next Tuesday evening, the 18th inst
 -J. T. Whittlesey and wife, who have been at Geneva, N. r.. for the past year. are visit ing their many friends in this vicinity.
 D. Kinney, the popular conductor on the Shepaug R. R.. and wife, were in our village over Sunday.
 Frank Starr. the Warren stage driver, some weeks ago when Prof Vennor's weather was coming right along according to Hoyle," deied that man to predict anything in the shape of weather and snow storms that could pre- vent him from carrying the mail regular as an astronomical clock to and fro from Warren to New Preston. Every time the word ''snow storm" was mentioned he only said, 70, pshaw !" And now the exclamation he's chang ed to, 70, well, 1 told you so"
 -Waramaug Lake is free from ice, some thing which the "oldest inhabitant" never knew to occur on the 9th of March before And, we believe, not team has driver on the ice this winter, which is worthy of note also. In fact this is a remarkable Winter and "beats all" E~. #
 HI. J. Baldwin, of Wolcottville, was here last week, and we hear sold his house and it's surroundings to MT. Wm. Cogswell. This was all the property MT. Baldwin owns In this vil- lage, so we must call him Wolcotvllian hereafter.
 A man here says he is going to remodel his house and put in all such modern improve nents as bow windows, registers, and phil osophical system of ventilators, a fine veran- da, cupola and observatory on the roof, and on top of that mortgage
 Mir. G. c. Whittlesey's school has closed for it's spring vacation.
 Leslie Baldwin, of Wolcottville, was in town over Sunday. He looks as happy as ey- CT. We generally expect the trials and afiic: tions of married life to give man hang g-dog, woe-begone appearance, but he bears up under the yoke remarkably we'll. ...-.-..,-.
 Once more that prominent member of the orchestra. ''Absent minded Paganini," comes to the front with one of his unique exploits He was present at the last meeting of the so- ciable at w. Burnham's and fiddled with such a penetrating understanding of the theme that most of his hearers were sure twas pupil of Ole Bulls who thus called forth the hidden, soul-stirring melody of the instrument Solar SO good, but when it became time for the com- pany to disperse he sought his violin and bow and affectionately and gently laid them on the piano, till he could go and get his violin box Then he went into the next room, got the box, carefully locked it, placed it under hls arm, said good evening to the host and hostess and went home whistling "The Caliph of Bagdad. |" Two days afterwards, wanting to practice little, he went to the fiddle-box for his instru- ment, when, 10 and behold, ''dark:ess there, and nothing more!' To say he was dumb founded and thunderstruck would be only half telling the truth. Here was a spiritualstic manifestation, wierd and mysterious and per fectly astounding, for he certainly had put his instrument in the box but after proper iu- quiry it was found on the piano at Mir. Burn bam's, exactly where he had left it. He now says what made him forget it was because he was surrounded by bevy of young ladies who nearly talked him to death, but nobody be- lieves any such absurd thing as that. He'll have to invent more likely story. He's the same man that harnessed up fish-pole, last summer. and went fishing and when he got there found he had no bait
 The corner lyceum, after thorough discus sion of the matter. has decided that expedien- 'cy does not demand that New Preston shall possess itself of system of telephones SO long as the village gossips remain at their present high standard of usefulness. We stand ready to wager that with the above mentioned faeil- ities, news can be got from one end of our village to the other in three quarters of sec ond, and when itreachesthe other end there will be three times as much of 1t as when it started, and herein any one of our gossips can beat the telephone all ''holler." The lyceum IS right, with the present gossiping facilities of our
 "Disturhers of all civil life,
 The enemies of peace, and authors of strife, 1" as Spencer calls them, we have no use for tel phones.
 ,l A Fellowship meeting" is to be held here, Tuesday, which is too late for us to say any thing about this week.
 Misses Ermina and Mary Davis are visit