Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-01
DEFERRED LETTERS.
NEW PRESTON.

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 The weather having been pretty dry lately, everybody, especially the tobacco raiser, looks gum, for his plants dry up about as fast as he Can transplant them. Take the drought like weather and the army worm (if he should come) and 'twould about finish our one-hoss farmers The hay crop will be short now, any way, rain or no rain, and that poor worm, in- dustrious in the ways of wickedness, will find tough and wiry material to gnaw upon unless he hurries up. Meanwhile it is pleasant to l read that he is headed towards York State, for humanity is SO consumately selfish that the woes of our nelghbors never affect the softest hearts while the owners thereof are feasting themselves in fields of clover, It is only when affiiction comes home to us that we feel1and then we feel power. fully that our neighbors are not suffering at all scarcely, while we are catching it most un- mercifully. Well. York State is a pretty thus chastens it, for, as was stated in the ser mon last Sunday, "Noshing is permitted ex. cept what is for the best" Of course the pestiferous worm will not be permitted to ravage New Preston for it would nt be for the best and then New Preston is a very quiet peaceful and full-of-righteousness" sort of place, 50 different from Newtown where this ravenous oer'min is gnawing everything to distraction all because it has wicked editor who invested two dollars in lottery ticket and got rich. --azle,- .-.H,E. te. =
 Tine Waramaug Steam Navigation Com pany finished placing . new boiler in the steamer Flirt, last week, and on Saturday she made her trial trip, running from the mouth to the head of the lake and back in half an l hour, which Is at the rate of nearly twenty miles an hour.
 W. Burnham returned last week from an extensive business trip through the great west.
 | The Warren cornet band came down and gave the people of this village concert, last Thursday night. Wethink they played ex- cellently for the time they have been organiz- ed and in practice One or two members were not present, which left them little light in the leading parts, and gave the bass and alto horns chance to overpower tbe comets. But they played well and in a manner to put to shame the ex-members of the once noisy N P. Cornet Band which collapsed some time ago, like watered railroad stocks, almost before it was fairly organized. We hope they will see fit to favor us again sometime. MT. Russell Camp, from Council Bluffs, Iowa. who left this place fifteen years ago, is visiting his many friends here.
 The editor of the New Milford Gazette with other disciples. of Izaak drove by the l other day earoute for the lake, and we saw under the hind seat, for the first time in our life, two-quart fish basket witha jug cork in it. Propgs of the ewithy willow used to do to string our suckers on. but times change.
 Miss Minnie Carter has returned from protracted visit among friends at Geneva, Ohio
 Rev. MT. Isham exchanged with Rev. Mir. Lancashire. last Sunday, and preached to us creditable sermon from the words 'God reigns." .+... On Saturday the great ''Dollar suit" came of at Union Hall as per adjournment The trial occupied nearly all day. It seems that Edward Hull subscribed for paper which O'Hara was to start in Bridgeport about three years ago. The subscription price was dol lar. Hull swore that he never received aeopy of the paper, and himself and another man swear that he paid over the dollar the 16th day of July, whereas O'Hara's diary showes that he received the dollar on the 18th of April previous. The new-pledged paper issued few numbers and finally died from sheer ex-. haustion sometime in the May previous to tho July when Hull paid over the dollar. This is where the prosecution attempts to prove fraud. There certainly is fraud somewhere, for, either the diary of MT. O'Hara contains false statement or else Hulls memory is a quarter of year too fast. We hear that be- fore the suit was commenced. O'Hara told Hull that he never had had dollar of him. but that afterwards he looked over his old diaries and found the entry of April 18th, at which he went to Hull and told him that he was mistaken, as showed Lis diary and was willing to refund the dollar but it was refused and the present suit brought. fthe above state- ments are incorrect. and they may be. as they are from hearsay, we should like them to be corrected as this isa most tremendous caseiat law and the facts should be known It was tried before John Term, Justice of the Peace, |G.C. Hitchcock in behalf of the state, Bald win for defendant. MT. Hitchcock's plea was characterized by his usual sweating ardor, and startling eloquence. The prisoner was bound over under one hundred dollar bonds to l appear at Litchfeld, next term of the Superior court Thus has the awful majesty of the law been asserted.
 MT. and Mrs. E. W. Pond of Hotchkiss- vile were the guests of H. A. Bennett over Sunday.
 At the Sunday night meeting the boys and loafers on the church steps made more noise than the minister, and he was obliged to request that the doors be closed or they re- quested to desist. To hear their incessant gabble and laughter is very annoying not only l to the speaker but to those who may wish to l listen to the remarks. There ought to be a