Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-01
New Preston.

The weather has been very like March, the l past week. too much SO for anyone's pleasure 1 and comfort. The highest wind we have ex- perienced this winter, ragged fiercely all day and night Wednesday the 24th inst, blowing hay stacks, demolishing barns and felling trees to their mother earth. Day i'd Jacus' barn in Marks Hollow was blown over, and news comes that Anson Squres, of Merryall, had one steer killed and two injured by his barn being blown down. Rail fences were like cob-houses and straws in the clutch of the raving elements. Residents at the lake affirm that they never saw such white-caps upon it's surface, and that the wind scooped it's water and carried it half way up the mountains side where the spray formed into ice upon the trees. It was the severest gale we have exA perienced since the tornado which occurred August 9th, 1878.
 ~ The meeting of the sociable, Tuesday night at the residence of c. E. Beeman, was very well attended, and everything passed off re- markedly we'll, under the able conductorship | of H. A. Bennett The short dialogue setting | fourth the experiences of ''Jones," who mar ried very deaf young lady with very deaf
 mother, was very laughabe,
 Miss Nellie Bolles, who IS attending school in New Haven, is at home for short l vacation.
 We counted chickens before they were matched, last week, when we ventured to an- l ticipate batch of news this week. The law l suits which were fermenting all so nicely have | been dramatically sealed with the rosin of | amicable settlement. This is precisely as it | ought to be, although the lawyers and our selves are mlghtily disappointed Fees and l items vanished like mists before the sun We hear that E. Calvin, who has pur- chased the ''Beeman" property of Morfo rd and | Trubee, of Bridgeport, is shortly to erect new I store and barn upon the site of those recently | burned. We hope this is not mere rumor but
 the actual truth
 The farmers hereabouts find 1t very diff1- | cult to obtain skilled labor. The demand is l so much greater than the supply that to bring l about the proper equilibrium they sent to New AOlh ioi oOihCtuiuS iCSS iOdu Ol Iue imported commodity, consisting of freshly ar- l rived Germans and Hungarians to the number | of nine persons. They arrived last Friday, and then, in the street before the post t-otf1ce, trauspired such a seen as to an uninitiated ob server savored of Slavery days" One farm | CT walks up and asks (Which is mine ?" The
 interpreter points out member of the load.
 The farmer says Well, load him into my
 wagon there" and then he steps around and
 pays the importer five dollars. Of course the
 initiated knows that this money is to pay the duty per head, in other words what it has cost
 to get him from the city to the farm where he
 is to labor. Then another agriculturst steps
 forward with the same laconic inquiry,
 Which ?" and the same rigmarole is gone thro'
 with as before, until the load is disposed of.
 The five dollars paid is deducted from their
 wages, and as they get only six dollars month,
 the first month they have but one dollar con-
 ing. All of which must be fine position for
 laborer who neither knows our language or
 our ways, and is a friendless stranger in a
 strange land.
 -Dr. E. P. Lyman is better but not yet
 we'll enough to visi his patti ents F. D.