Litchfield enquirer., 1881-09-08
w Washlngton.


 Last week may we'll be called the heated term, mercury ranging from 90 to 96o for five consecutive days.
 Farmers are now harvesting their tobacco, rust
 Visitors end boarders are constantly ar irving and departing. The latest are some friends of Mrs. J. G. Fenn's, from Whining ton, Del.
 MT. and Mrs. S.sS. Logan visited their son Herbert, on Long Island, last week.
 MT. ana Mrs. Geo Hollistsr are'on q visit othefr son fa Medina, Ohio.
 Miss Jennie Hasgrave, of Waterbury, is visiting at Wm. Gillette's.
 Geo Hubbell, of Bridgeport, and Walker $. Seeley were at church here Sunday. Geo. s. Humphrey has covered his horse barn new. Charles H. Mason has re-shingled his house, and H. H.tMorehouse has built a new barn. 4f##s
 The sympathies of this people are with Benjamin Seeley and family in the loss of their only son Willie, bright lad of thirteen years who died of spinal meningitis. Saturday, August 27th. How many disappointed hopes were buried in his grave. 34: Entered into rest, Aug. 3Oth. Irene Lem- on, the faithful and devoted wife of Daniel N. Garfield, aged 63 years. The light of the household. the genial companion, the kind friend and neighbor, she will be greatly missed in the neighborhood and especially in the prayer meetings of the church of which she was constant attendant.
 ''She is not dead but sleepeth,"
 Then let our sorrows cease to flow.
 God has recalled his own,
 And let our hearts in every woe,
 Still say "Thy will be done."
 -GRoToN CENTENNIAL oept. 9th, 1881.-As we this day complete our three score years and ten, we may be allowed to observe our seventy first birth day iu eon,memoration of that event one hundred years ago to. day. We shall be there in spirit. Standing on the plat form of the depot in New London, some twenty years since. in company with Dea. Geo. Smith, of New Haven, We looked across the harbor to the fort on Groton heights. He brought before our mlnd the character of the traitor Arnold, the landing of the British troops, the attack on the fort, the surrender of the noble Col Iedyssd snr the sinBurnsa butchery that followed, not excepting the binding of several, we think thirteen, of the sons of liberty and placing, ina cart outside the fort and turning the tail end of 1t down the steep hill that they might be dash ed against the trees below, or buried in the harbor below, and their blood crimson the beautiful waters of the Thames. All this will pass Tn review and be enacted in part to-nor- row. Wehope no accident will mar the ex- ercises and events be rehearsed with gratitude for freedom, and dedication of monument more durable than granite.
 One event more in which our people were concerned. In 1914 the fort of New London was blockaded by British fleet, which threat ened landing, a draft was made on the militia of the state of eighty men. Quite number went for it's defense from this place, among whom were John M Ford. Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, Infantry, Philo Clark, Lieat. of the 7th Connecticut Military, with Con- pany of Artillery commanded by Capt Ma thaniel Farrand. When the British evacuated New London harbor they fired salute the report of which was heard in this place.