Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-08-26
New Preston.

s ~.,, New Preston. ="
The great bulk of tie tobacco crop will be
harvested this week. f94I + ~
This seems to be a good year for camping
out. There are four or, five parties OF these
pleasure seekers on the shores Of. the lake,
from Bridgeport, Washington, etc. A num-
of our own citizens have left the noisy and
dusty metropolis and are up 10 Spectacle
Lakes rusticatIng with Rev. Henry Epson and
the seminary students. - s%t+s4
Talk about fun. Didn't all of US have a
fine time on the Y. p. T..U. Parlor Rock ex-
cursion Words cannot express an answer
adequate to describe the great iollitY Of that
long -to.be-rememoered occasion.
Those musicians of sunny Italy who came
down from your village seem to be reaping a
golden harvest playing for the many hops
| about the lake. Almost every night they are
| called to play at one of the many houses for
| the merry jewellers to dance the Imperial
Waltz" imported from the Rhine, and the
| measures of the endearing Lanciers. The
most unique affair yet, this season, took place
at Mr.. Geo. Hopkins. His carriage barn was
cleared and Enthusiastically decorated for the oc-
casion, and, last Friday night, about one hun
dred and fifty persons assembled to engage in
the festivities. Lamps and lanterns hung
about in profusion whose radiance gave, a
wierd and unreal appsarance to- the fsstoons Of
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bittersweet bouquets of corn and rye, ETC.. etc.,
with which the building was decorated, and
made one think, of Don Quixote in the cave of
Montesinas, that ''sumptuous palace, of which
the walls seemed all of transparent crystal )"
and when the music struck up and the dancers
commenced their merry rounds. it brought to
mind the proceedings at the rich Camachos
wedding. There were princes and princesses
moving in grand array, but nowhere did we
see Basil in his ''black coat, bordered with
crimson and powdered with flames of fire. "
but the refreshments were. abundant, though
the branches of trees were not garnished
with cased hares and plucked fowls of several
sorts, and although no stately pile of white
loaves made large rampant on one side, and
goodly wall of cheeses made a comely bull
wark on the other" as on that grand occasion,
yet there was no end of cake and ice cream, to
| all of which the pleasure seekers did ample
justice. 1t was spectacle worth beholding,
and the mirth and hilarity was as great as the
barn could hold. 1t was an indescribably
beautiful night, and when we started for home
no fio of oil EI>o
a sheet of FURNISHED silver in the mellow
| moonlight. Not ripple stirred their placid
| surface except that which broadened and
| glistened like thousand diamonds from the
Prov OF our little craft as we lazily pulled
towards the village. We fell again to gazing
at the beautiful orb which hung without visi
BILE support above us, and wondering if it
really was inhabited, and at the shady and
shadowy shores, and were fast imagining our
selves in fairy land more wild and exquisite.
ly beautiful than we ever dreampt or read Of
We were just on the point OF hearing the elfn
music, when what was that AT first We
were inclined to think the government had
stationed fog-horn at the cape to warn us of
the reefs at Cheeree Point, but gradually We
discovered that it was party Of honeward
bound jewellers trying to sing 'Union." Thes
made few more spasmodic efforts towards
the t"divine art" and then gave way to talh
and chatter to which distance lent enchant
ment as it does to so much else in this world
/ and their voices were waited to us softly ant
gently and in perfect harmony with the sereni
ty of the time and beauty of the place. A
last we arrived at the dock, safety tied oul
boat, gave one lingering look at the magni6
cent scene before us, went home ana dropped
into the arms of Morpheus and sweet Oblivion,
till another day called us to the grosser things
of life 'a +. .sn'',.at s".'@ . a" :" -. =
The Superior Court has. ordered, g. C.
Hitchcock to furnish special bail to the
amount of eight thousand dollars in the ma
licious prosecution suit brought against HIN
by Frank Grant, Esq. "Spch is life :,
| Rev. Mr.. Merwin of New Haven, gave
short q, address at the Sunday evening meetin.
at the church, last Sunday, on the thought tina
God gave his only son to save the world.
i Now see here, how many men does it tax,
to run the Shepaug railroad? There wer
about sixty of the clambakers that Sunday a
Holy Springs The clambake was all RICH
and proper enough for those who, as you say
shave No. other possible day for recreation.
1t isn't any verse to bake clans than it is t.
run milk trains on Sunday that we are awar
of, or 60 to church to show your new hat an
see what the rest of the folks wear, or harnes
your best horse to your finest carriage an
drive around the lake for pleasure but don
deceive us on the humble of men in the EN-
ploy of the Shepaug r. r. /. Can it be possibl
that all those sixty clambakers were Shepau
railroad menl
The New Prestonites went to Warren
Saturday, fully determined to retrieve the
fallen fortunes or perish in the attempt. The
played the Warren nine on their own ground
and at the fifth inning the score stood % to
IN favor Of the Warrens at the end of tn
tenth and last inning it stood 46 to Do ia favo
of the victorious New Preston nine, who
elated with their triumph, have changed thei
, name to the -euphenious one of the Sores
Washed" nine Instead of the ''Great Unwast