Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-09
New Preston.

In all probability hay will not be twenty dollars ton next winter. These are very growing times and farmers look as happy as clans in deep mud. Many of them have commenced setting out tobacco but the know ing early cut-worm gnaws it of early every morning. This makes the tobacconist swear some. Then another thing tEat torments the poor farmer is the indefatiga5le potato bug. He is "too numerous to mention," and Paris green seems to be as necessary to his exist. ence as oysters on the half shell are to the epicure. The farmers grate thelr teeth and the astronomical bug eats the plants Tue bug or the farmer is bound to win. Who takes the money time will determine.
 Decoration day was failure here. Ev- erybody had forgotten it till they read of It in the daily papers. Let's see, it was on the 10th of June, 1861, that the rebellion com. menced, we believe.
 Edison H. Cable, who left last October for Stamford, Vt, where he worked all win. ter, returned home last Saturday.
 AsOo3 "C oiV SOlly II NSW fTeS- tonites do shake at your saloons on Bank St. We are also sorry that you have so many saloons where they are welcome and invited to shake. As newspaper correspondents never shake, of course we are unshakable.
 The revised, corrected and inspired edi. tion of the New Testament is for sale at D. Burnhsm'ss store It beats all, how anxiousthos who never read a line of the old are for the new version. One gentleman was con- pletely dumfounded to find that the ten com. mandments had been doctored to read "Our Father which art in Heaven, 6c :" and thought such mutiating of the scriptures was appal- ling
 On Wednesday, June 1st. Mir. Charles Rowland, of Waterbury, and Miss Emma Hull, youngest daughter of Edward Hull, Esq, of this village, were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony at the residence of the brides parents, Rev. Mir. Lancashire, of this village. officiating. The ceremony took place in the evening at eight o'clock Only rela lives and few invited friends were present. NAay Joy aiWays attend them.
 You wouldn't think it, but by watching couples drive by. one can easily tell whether they are married or not. When they ride along Tn the carriage, if they are not mar ried but right in the hey-day of courting, as they ride along she leans to him and he in- clines to her like the arnature and magnet. and there is a shining, beatifc expression on their faces. If they are married, he leans against his side of the carriage and she against hers, and each gazes unconcernedly and sor- rowfnlly and silently at the surrounding land scape. In the former case the carriage fairly rings with laughter and joyous conversation, in the latter-it is as silent and cold as the tomb.
 -Nlasons have been somewhat reconstruct. ing the walls of Dr. E. F. Lymans residence the past week.
 -One of our farmers was recently driving through the street with pair of oxen and a stoneboat. On the stone-boat he had placed scare.crow-an excellent imitation of A thoroughbred tramp-which he was taking away to his cornfeld. when he met & party of pleasure seekers who wanted to know who he had there. He said, 1t may be man dead drunk. and then again it may'nt. The real fact is. tho dislike to tell it, it is the body of a man who died of small pox last night and I'm going to the woods to bury him." k