Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-05
New Preston.

AI lB sufeIy spring. CdEf1crS are putttnS III oats and one thing or another in the shape of seeds with expectations of an abundant crop next fall. Dame nature generally manages things about right, SO we presume their hopes will be realized.
 Wendell Gum, the old time devil of the Enquirer, is home with hls father, J. 5. dunn, for time. He picketh the guitar sme and singeth much, for we have heard him with great pleasure.
 Charles Patrill. who has been for some ime Tn the employ of Geo. s. Cogswell lIas secured position near the city of Hartford shither his family will shortly join him.
 We hear that Walter Kinney has gone L" rhomsston to work at the stone mason 8 trade.
 -H"lt's Block opposite the pnstoffice has received coat of white paint and been other wise fixed" and Jerome Graniss, the pro rrietor. had his grand spring opening last Saturday evening. You cau always hire a horse there, get good cigar, CT buy any sort
 
 Miss Mary Bennett has returned from weeks visit at Wolcottville.
 The case of Wn. O'Hara gs Geo Fay 'r has at last been decided by Justice s. N. Taylor. Mir. Taylor IS to pay O'Hara twenty dollars and pay the costs.
 Miss Gusse Cogswell returned, last week, from long visit to Brooklyn, as also did Miss Ellen Averill They have been absent nearly all winter
 -kev. Mir. Lancashire returned Saturday after an absence of week. and occupied the pulpit as usual on Sunday.
 The Sorosis met as is it's custom on Sat urday afternoon.
 The Cogswell and Grant case receives much discussion. All the tune that car be spared from planting gardens and other neces sary business, is devoted to animated contro versies on the great and important subject A subscription paper soliciting funds with which to purchase Grants release from jail has been started into circulation by his friends and has received many names and much money. It remains to be seen whether enough can be raised to release him or not In the mean. tiuie the great question is, who's the mex. man to be arrested? Somebody's got to be tackled, who is it? The lyceum is wrest ling with this tremendous subject, and it is hoped something will be evolved eventually. Let 'em wrestle.
 The village was the scene of another dog light. last week. We report this fact fer the edi6cation of a select few.
 -Geo Lyman bss laid out in terraces a part "f his side hill pasture, lying south os the cid graveyard. for burial lots. To be buried there IS better than not to be buried at all. perhaps. more desirable place for the dead to rest could easily nave been found. bu, hasn't been. Several lots have been purchased and the bones of some of the honored dead ot the old yard are to be disturbed and hustled into the new lots. A large monuulent of Col unbian marble is being erected on one of these flats to the memory of w. Cogswell and wife. We wish It was going up in m ore desirable locality.
 AN InyL OF THE KING.
 Once, in s Village lived \ L.an
 ho :! now listen all who nay,
 Who 1t hls neighbOr got 50 III d
 He swore like Satan every day.
 He got 70 mad because the man
 Wa WI ness in d .'iquor ra-e"
 Ani s'n 6 that time this ne ghbur had
 No peace ln this Seq ueste. ed place. He swore b. 8 thatr very bad "D- ne. Til have tha, man in jailn Tnsn stayed in doors month or two And stu lied la~ s,'s to fail. Tho great in flesh, h. studied hard. He st one hund ell unde, egadi And though a shadow of himself, di- Aels hbur hated, just as bad. There was lawsuit wondrous big, Ja' knlves and dirks abounded, Anti he aId the lawyer. loudly svare And hanmered. and yelled sld poun led. He beloved lou and long, ynm He Ike an empty barre, sounded, When t,e cid r therein has been withdrsvn And the head thereof IS pounded, He pulled the wires 70 dextrously Each witness min ed, Half of the str fe they di uot see, And judge aud jury they were blinded The judge hs fined the prisoner Alas that we must it. Ahd he was poor and went to jail Because he couldn't pay it. Now I'll point th~ moral soons can, But frsr. unlike Smigeciuus, 1'd not prove reason b1on,s to man By works or logic specious. ono, who ever knew . brute Bring action for assault and battery, At law h,s ueigh0or prosecute Or friends oeguiie with lies and dat: cry 2 Ic is too true. the drvellng ape Comes nearest ma. III every fashior He's ike us all lb hum D shape, For Inaice is hls ruling passion. So thus it may be plainly seen Ma 5 not d reasonable creature, Because 'rever he has been The most uui easonable thing in nature, What want to say is his, We're far from the millennium The wicked prosper in their wsss, Misfortines to the righteous come. --The repairs on A. F. Barnes residence l are fast approaching completion. Mir Edward Hull has rented Wm. Burn. hams paint shop for the ensuing year, where he eau be f1und at all times ready to do all kinds S wagon painting In first class style. PEN DRAGON HAVE WisTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY always st hand It cures Coughs Colds, Bronchitis, Whoopipg C"ugh. Group. lntluen. za. Cansumption, and all Throat aud Lung Complaints. 50 cents anu $i bottle.
 Castoria = For Sour Stomach. Constipatiu aud Ficituiness of children. Pleasant, saf aud cheap yuo drOps: x5 dosss, 3o centA