Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-17
New Preston.

The principal business has been and is that of setting tobacco, and wishing for ram at just the right moment to insure the life of every plant. On the rapid growth and great excellence of this crop depends our salvation. A great quantity of the weed has been set and from general remarks we judge that it is all doing we'll. Ours is looking remarkably well. Potato bugs are around some, but not enough to scare folks very much We don't hear any thing of single bug up in Warren, but that is not to be wondered at, as the frost has only just begun to get out of the ground so that the farmers up there can blow. Of course the bugs are not fools enough to climb the hills to Warren where the potatoes haven't been planted yet. when they can have perfect feast here.
 R. c. Whittlesey cut four tons of clover hay, the 3rd and 4th of the present month of June. He's the earliest man in the field.
 The criminal suit against O'Hara, the young lawyer over in Judea, who has defend ed Frank Grant in all the suits recently brot against him, for obtaining, as is alleged, one dollar of Edward Hull under false pretenses, two or three years ago, was brot before G. c. Ford on Tuesday, the Sth inst, but he refused totry the case having previously expressed his opinion concerning it. It was then taken before John Fenn Esquire, and finally ad- journed till Saturday the 18th inst, at ten o'clock a. m., at Union Hall, New Preston, Litchfield County, Ct., U. S. A. This will be known in the annals of history ss the great Dollar Suit. Let all the people attend.
 Charles E. Beeman, at Lakeside, is hav- ing bright new coat of paint applied to his barn, residence, and out-buildings New Milforders are doing the work, and when it is finished it will be pretty slick looking place up there.
 While Fred Cable was planting corn re- gently on Mt. Hope," he dug up an old En. glsh coin with this inscription on one side, ''Georgius II, Rex." On the other, "Britan- | nis, and the date, rather indlstlnct, ''1730" !" | If this old coin could speak, what tales it might unfold perhaps. of how the defender
 
 of the German hive," paid it with its fellows to the fddlers who played for him to dance, dressed as turk, with the Lady Yarmouth attired as a sultana. Perhaps, how it was dropped into the contribution box at Dr. Young's church of ''Nights Thought" fame, by the king himself. Again, Chesterfield may have paid one of his many gambling debts with it, or old Peterborough may have pur- chased chicken for his dinner with it, etc., etc. i; till at last, some venturesome Islander, who sailed away with it in his pocket, anC lived and died in the wilds of Connecticut lost it while skulking along behind trees witt an old flint lock" trying to shoot g deerel the verdant sulnmit of .Mt Hope wfere who khows, it may have Nn5 and euriouslJ watched, for century. the growth of :civli zation around h. } sA r A A
 Something is the matter with the internal arrangements of the steamer Flirt, so thai she is having brand new boiler put in. humanitys stomach when they give out, coulc be removed and new ones put in as readily how dyspeptics would laugh, wouldn't they !?
 Last Friday night, we experienced quit, severe shower. The lightning was sharI enough and the thunder loud enough to scar. good many. One thunderbolt descended upon Edward Brague's barn where, tearing uI few shingles, it ran down corner post shivering it considerably, knocked of doo and dove into the ground satisfied with sucl