Litchfield enquirer., 1881-01-27
New Preston.

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 The ''sociabe" was held Tuesday nighiAl the residence of Mrs R. N. Cogswell. The exercises consistedsqf both dnstrynental and gNge@I psslcg g sschslion <4dffqapg. Miss 3sSehie Spe4y fead a1augliable chapter from "A Bad Boys Diary" Miss Lizzie Whittlesey acclaimed '.Who Stuffed that Owl ?" and Mis- Carrie Bolles recited Through Death to Life etc., etc. It was very pleasant gathsritig indeed. We counted thirty ladies present. and onlyssa gentlemen: WeEiye thls bit of in. formation for the solace and comfort of such old bachelors as Little Ghonnie."
 We are much obliged to some one for sending us full grown, delicious chocolste cake as a~ ~birtiIday gift last Monday the oc- cason of our-look here, we're 90 young we don't want to tell our age. Wed rather talk of the cake. Now that cake was beyond de scription. It was tootilsomes it sWas helting, it was like distilled honey, fit for the sdste. nance of the very gods. Snacking our lips in remembrance of it, with Pope we must ex- claim, Er:.EEu
 ''ses the sole blK s@H 4zvsa c1tfd o1 all b stow Which who but feels taste bat thinks Gan knows
 And of the note which accompanied It. Ot that we Say, all the hopes and good wishes therein sx2sessed rshs!f surely come to pass. that is, we mean, it will be no fault of ours if they do not. We shall use our best en- deavors to bring about the happy result thcre- in prayed for. Acespsour sincere thanks.
 "A AWe thought lasi Friday, that genuine ''bzzaid" had strayed away from it's prairie home and struck old Connecticut full in the face. I.-E
 -Wesuuderssahd that Martin Alderman at Lakeside has soId liis place to New York par ties who are to take possession April 1st Y.
 -Mr. + E. Barnes showed us a real curi- fsity -d,e k4tiief day in the shape of large sized bible prntei ia the year 16l3. Let's see, wasn't that about four years after the l King James translation was completed Fhis was probably one of; the first sditiqW Mir. Barnes says he bough, it in Boston years ago 1 for seven dollars, and a short time Mgo a | Chicago bookseller offered him five hundred dollars for it. Tine book is in an excellent state of pfeser.atinl and is well worth inspec- 1 ton.
 Notices have bcen posted, signed by the selscillel,4 pfsssoiting coastins uu lhe public | highways Inc boys are p.etty ElaI about it, and think the old gentlemen have forgotten | that they were ever young
 r EFs E&s / r. t1A :. t-Well, the "nohle Shepaug" got so thor oughlv showed in last Friday that we didn't get any New York mall at all, Saturday A fellow was oyer Lere telling .hsw the train would run up to drift, then all hands, tue engineer, fireman, conductor, baggage. man, mail agent and brakeman, and the passenger would get out, shovel and dig awhile jump fIds eosTd)@a @ lstsa"iya . Fn sA Q Aq get ou, and dig, and 50 on. It inte-fered some what the beautifI, sn)S did, with the several mails which arrive at this m,tropa!is also as well as with the aeaergetie Shepaus The mail from Warren due here at eight o'clock III the morning did not arrive til 123O D. m. Sancho PanZa says be had an awful tine. It was one continuous snow drift from here to NWaGenE Bht sJoln A. Hasc6, Aail Carrier for Merryall, arrived on time. Nothing daunts him. The r,ads were absolutely im passabe, 80 John shoulJered the mail and started on foot, walked the top rails of the fences and by dint of perseverance arrived on time. When asked how the roads were he said, By gosh, you can't get through no- where, but they've got out five yoke of cattle and may be they'll git through by night"
 -"H. N." >hast ceased star gazing and speaks of earthly things, and says, "A Gosh en lady has gone to Alabama to spend the winter and ail her plants froze one night late ly." Great guns. what's the use of being to the expeuse% off z iisIg to Atabaii a to- -have plants freeze? We know lady who only went south half mile and stayed over night with her cousin and her plants froze; and in another instance we wot of, the iady only went to bed and slept the sleep of the just, and Ger whole conservatory froze s!iffer than an A. No. 1 mackerel before morning
 rneresp6 earthly use dgoi6g tb "A labama to nave plants freeze.
 -E. J. Cable, while cutting wood in the forest the other day, accidentally drove the ax int9 bis ankle hitting the bone It, will lay him up for several days, but this is the best kind of weather to be laid up and to sit around the stove and read political economy and weather reports, eh?
 PEN DRAGON. !
 l TLe new county boom, which had assumed such promising proportions fortnight or so ago, seems to have pretty we'll petered out Perhaps our Waterbury friends have come to the conclusion that it will hardly pay to sad. ale thsnselves with 3 net iLconsiderable debt for the purpose of gratifying ther vanity by making their enterprising city county seat. If so, it is a wise c0nclusion.-Ne HaUen l PGtLGdium.
 Ash Tonic.-A Perfected. Puufyer of the fSgslelAA Ia 4fb, bottles; s75 cehts For Dys- ~psia, the many forms of Liver Complaint. Impure and Impoverished Blood, and Func- l tlonal Arrangements attendant upon Debility. For symptoms indicated by Indigestion, Loss ot Appetite, Nansea, Sich Headache, Sour Stomach, Furred Tongue, Drowsiness BlauclI- ed Lips, Sallow Complexion, Pain It the side or Back, Eruptlons, Depression of Spirits, lrrltability and Hysteria. and for Building up the system, Ash Touic is unquestionably the most prompt and energetic remedy yet devs. ed.