Litchfield enquirer., 1881-08-25
Goshen, No. 507.

Mrs. iambertson, sister of Prof. Hall, whose mother was a Palmer, attended the great Palmer family gathering.
 The annual Norton family gathering was at Edward Norton's, last Thursday.
 There is long article in New Haven paper about the Leather Man, and judge he has been seen this year.
 Miss Nina White brought those magnii- cent flowers. last Sunday, and some of them will go to New York today, when the ten children who have been breathing our moun- tam air, for two weeks, return. They are such nice children that the people here have become much interested ill them. They were all at church again, last Sunday, and have heard that one lady wishes to keep one of the girls.
 ARRIVED. At Mr. Lamphier's, Edwin and Emna l.anphicr oI Canton Center; at Mir Whites, MT. F. NJ, Smith, of Hartford, ,, who formerly w.s 4 teacher ill your village, but is now teaching n Souihhridge. Mass. j; at Henry Norion's, Rev. John F. Norton and wife, of Natick, Mass. at Mr. Morse's, MT. and Mrs. Andrew Seelye; at Mir. Vailrs, Dea. C. w. Scartitt, of Bridgeport
 Mir Herald's new fence is great inn provement.
 My new Red Astrachan apples are very nice, but my last years Russets are not gone yet. Now is the time to set out those Cres- cent strawberry plants.
 We need more houses where summer boarders can be acconmodated One Nor wich lady aud her daughter, who have been here two summers, say that they have five friends who would cume to Goshen if they could find place 10 board, Next year we ought to have accommodations for fifty more than we have had this year.
 Miss Hattie J. Miles, of Cornwall Hol. low, while attending school at Suth Hadley, was taken sick and Dr. North went on to see her. After wh ile she was brought hotEe, and then her friends brought her on a bed to Goshen that she might be in the family of Dr. North She improved some and could walk a little, but when the dreadful lightning, striking the house and tearing the roof over her came that Saturday night, with the fear. ful thunder, she was awfully frightened and shock was too much for her and she died last week at the age of IS years. Others at the Center were shocked, and Mrs. Noah sS Wadhams has not yet recovered. We hope never again to see such lightning or to hear such crashing thunder
 Last week Prof. Wm, G. Peck while on a visit to his brother in Litchfeld, came up to see me. He is Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Columbia College, New York city, and having taken the Enquirer forty years he has read all the articles on As tronomy, and judge he is making progress in that science, for he ack sowiedgcs that as Copernicus the great astronomer, died with out getting a sight of the planet Mercury, he by reading the Enquirer got the idea that the planet could be seen with the naked eye, and he actually found it as our young people do. He had seen the new comet the night before without a telescope and showed me where to find it by the map near the Great Bears feet. It was cloudy several evenings but last Sat. urday evening it cleared off and there the beautiful comet with tail three degrees long, was in the Northwest, in the Great Bear, be- low the great Dipper, with the Pointers which point out the North Star above. point ing directly toit, six or eight degrees below. Our singers were practicing at Mir. Gaylord's, and went down without delay, but it is hard to get the start of our young astronomers, the young lady who writes for the Wolcottvllle paper had found it several minutes before me. The next evening the beautiful comet had moved two degrees to the Southwest, and it is moving rapidly, apparently towards the Sun, and we must improve our time this week. if we wish to see it. IN.