Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-26
New Preston.

New Preston.
 Last week was good weather for ducks. ] Vegetation hereabouts will not suffer from drought for one week at least For seven 1 days we did not see the sun. and it's appear. ance was hailed with delight by every moist and saturated creature. Springs now run full head, and the lake is brimful.
 The new house at Greens Point is to be built Queen Ann style with fire places in every room on the first floor. Work thereon has commenced.
 1 Our hotel keepers are busy getting ready for their summer visitors, painting boats and otherwise brushing up. It bids fair to be a busy season for them, many having already engaged rooms for the coming summer.
 New Milforders are getting to be invete- rate backgammon players. They've got 80 they shake night and day.
 Our Teachers and those who are preparing for that pleasant vocation will attend the teachers Institute at your place, this week 1 The fishing in Waramaug Lake is ex- ceediDgly good. Most everybody can go there and in an evening catch any quantity of bull-heads and cells. We don't know how it is in the day time.
 Mrs. E. Pond, of Hotchkissville, is visit ing for few days at Mir. Hiram Bennett's. We were much pleased to hear her voice in the choir Sunday.
 1 Last week the bodies of Re N Cogswell ] and daughter were removed from the old to | the new grave yard. This week the remains l of w. c. Wooster were also removed from the old to the new yard; also the remains of Alice Wilcox were disinterred and taken to Cornwall. In all seven bodies have been re- moved from this yard within month. We have received paper from your western Iowa correspondent with blue pen- cil mark about the following, which will be of infinite interest to all ysur postmaster readers An item or tive might be added with profit perhaps, but as it is, the public cannot but find the hints very useful: POST OFFICE HINTS. | l ot. 4NCNCt uuy duJ oL0IupS I1auQ your letter to the postmaster and tell him to put stamp on it If you do not have the change tell him you will hand it to hlm the next l time you are in. It will not be necessary, however, to do so as three cents are worth nothing >'t 1 2d. When you hand in your letter be sure and tell the P. M. ts be sure and have it go, for if you should neglect to do so he may keep it in the postof6ce.
 Sd. Always remember and call the post master and hand your letters to him and do not put them in the letter box, if you do the postmaster will not have 30 much to do and you will thereby encourage Iaziness Re member the postmaster will consider it very I unkind to have your letters stamped by any one but himself. He would also be pleased | to put wrappers on papers and back them oc- l casionally, or Oftener-especially when he is busy making up the mails.
 4th It would be we'll when you mail a letter to ask how long before it will go and when you may expect an answer to it. Of 1 course the postmaster ought to know or he is not fit for the position.
 9th. If you have box do not call out the | number of 1t. or your name, but stand there I and rap. This will oblige the postmaster to l get in position to see you.
 9th. When he hands out your mail don't fail to ask if that is all (Postmasters are in the habit of holding back part of one's mail, which of course they will not do after this question has been asked).
 Eth. If any expected letter or other mat | ter does not come, ask him what he supposes is the reason, and tell him it is very curious. The postmaster of course ought to know what is wrong in such cases, after being in the business short time. It would be well to tell him where it is from, and what it is about, &c. This kind of story is calculated to greatly interest postmaster and make him good natured. You might hint to the postmaster that your letters mu st be in the postoffice somewhere. This kind of insinua-. l tion is calculated to make a postmaster feel l very jubilant and hilarious
 Sth If the man of the house does not get letter it would be we'll to send the rest of the family, one at time, to make further in. l quiries. There is no telling which one will l be successful. Each one should be careful to ask if he is sure there is nothing. This will tend to create an angelic feeling in the most cross grained postmaster in the United States -Mttes r. M in Sa6ula Gazette 1 -Wm. -Sullivan's two horses were very sick last Sunday. Dr. Johnson was called and they are much better at this writing. MT. Sullivan thinks they must have got poi soned in some way.
 Sunday afternoon we experienced hail. storm of about ten or fifteen minutes dura- | tion. The hail-stones were from the size of a pea to that of chestnut. AS the tobacco crop is not yet transplanted no damage was done. P.D