Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-15
New Preston.

John 5 dunn tIie .,,,sf week !las i,:.,! Geo Brague building stone wall the lower side of the meadow he sometime since purchased of N. Bolles There will not be rock to be seen there vet.
 F. $. Cogswell left this village. April 5th, and no one knew where e-he mad gone. He is now heard of in the far west" in Crete, Me-
 braska. His wife and family were surprised when they learned of his whereabouts He is soon to return.
 Miss Kitty Bowne, of New Milford, is
 staying for few weeks at MT. J. &. Glovers 70. Burpham was in the city, last week,
 purchasing new spring goods.
 Thursday evening of last week the stu dents of Upson Seminary gave one of the
 most enjoyable parties New Preston ever ex- perienced. They gave it in honor of one of l their number who has long been an esteemed and valued member, Mr. Simon B. Cameron We think it was eight years ago that Mir Cam. eron first came to MT. Upson's. and from that time till this he has grown in favor and es-
 teem with all who have been so fortunate l as to become acquainted with him. He is shortly to leave this place and become res- ident of Montana, where we hear he will en-
 gage in the cattle-raising business There fore Mr. Upson and his students planned this pleasant affair as sort of happy "send off'' and slight token of their regard for him. The students have-also presented him with an elegant and powerful field-glass for use upon
 the plains We are sorry to have him leave New Preston, but if he will 20, we, with all
 his many friends here, wish him health, hap. piness and all the prosperity he deserves About seventy-fve invited guests were present, through the maZes of the waltz and shottische and dancing the lively measures of the quad rlle and lanciers to the inspiring strains of the
 violin and piano. The musicians for the oc- casion were from New Milford The tables
 were loaded with all that could delight the
 eye or please the palate, consisting of all sorts of cakes, ice cream, bananas. oranges and
 nuts of all kinds ill profusion. If Rev MT. Upson and his students wished to show their l regard for Mir. Cameron they succeeded ad- l mirably, for nothing was spared to make the occasion one to be remembered with delight by all who were present.
 Jerome Graniss has. lost one of his best horses. It was very sick for about week, and as there were no hopes of it's recovery it was dispatched. He has another sick in the same way and nearly dead. One of Mir. Upson's horses is also very sick and likely to die. Veterinarians don't know what to call the disease.
 Tine sociable met Friday night at the
 residence of E. R. Beeman, Lakeside The | orchestra were not all present, otherwise the exercises passed off as agreeably as usual.
 Rev. MT. Lancashire read an interesting essay on 'Love, Courtship and Marriage" Being
 married man he was amply qualified to write up those subjects, but they would floor sin- gle man. The sociable will meet no more,
 IS it was voted that this should be the last
 meeting. These meetings have been source of much pleasure and we trust not little profit the past winter.
 Mrs. Weston Graniss is visiting at her fathers. Mir. Mir. J. A. Glover's.
 Mrs Churchill of Montclair, N. r., James Bushnell Jr., and Miss Jeanie Bushnell, of Poughkeepsie N. Y., were the guests of Rev.
 Henry Upson the past week.
 In the bridge which crosses the noble
 Housatonic at Gaylordsvile, there is certain crack n the floor blanks. It is not a wide crevice, but it was sufficiently large for it's foreordained purpose. There is nothing re-
 'narkable about this particular bridge with it's particular crevice, still, nevertheless truth is stranger than fiction" Some time since, F.
 r. Bolles of this village, wasin Gay louisville
 on business and had occasion to cross the aforementioned bridge on foot Now, as it
 was predestined, there was hole in his pock- ct and in his pocket bright and shining trade dollar, and as he walked he placed his foot exactly over that particular crack in the bridge i and at that precise instant the trade dollar at tracted by gravitation slipped through the hole in his brooches pocket, slid down Lis
 pants leg, through the crack in the bridge, and, slistening in the rays of the departing sun, fell into the seething and foamlng waters be- low. Frank fingered moment, gave wist- full glance in the direction of his lost treasure heaved sigh of regret, and passed on never expecting to see it again! because, whereas bread cast upon the waters will return after 1 many days, whoever knew money to return from any direction? But how little mortal
 man knows of anything ! After several weeks he became reconciled to his loss, and in fit of extravagant eplcureanism purchased shad of .s'Aaron Burr the travelling fisherman. He took it to the back yard and proceeded to un-
 dress it, and to his great joy and astonishment discovered, safely slowed away in the nav, the identical trade dollar which he had lost at '4aylordsville, and which he easily identified beyond all controversy by certain marks upon 1t. This was strange but stranger and more unaccountabe things have happened.
 N. B. The first part of the above remark able story is strictly true. The last half is simply apocryphal, or perhaps it would be better to say, altogetherp ophetlcal- as Frank has not yet bought the shad. We must wait sill he buys the shad before we can speak
 otherwise than as prophet and then there are various things to be taken into considera. ion establishing the authenticity of the proph- ,.cy, for he may purchase the wrong shad. or
 may not purchase any at ali orhe may pur- chase haliibut instead of shad. Sc. So it will he seen that a modern prophet labors under great difficulties and stands a poor chance against the perversity of things in general, but if Frank buys the right shad, our reputa ton as prophet is assured.
 At the temperance meeting, Sunday night remarks were made by Mrs. H. NJ. Bolles. Edwin Beardsley, Henry Upson, Henry Lanca- shire, and poem detailing how a happy home was destroyed hy stronu dr;nt, uo. rooa