Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-10
Goshen. No. 4T9.

IAt shC SrOiihe o[uOot os 1IooS oeaOSes ie-Ss
 week, Frank Wadhams beat them all.
 T did, not reaize-that Forestville was so far egfE ,psl rseisssped shas hfgeat fire .aw ih ae esoathsast sa.ufdAyS evening was in that village.
 II am glad to learn from your Plymouth
 reporter that he has seen the Leather man
 again. Il
 Miss Anna Beach has closed her schooli1
 Hary4tm aadsoma home. iO
 Miss Sarah Roselle Merwin has returned
 from New Haven, having been gone three
 months F'
 Last Wednesday the mercury stood ,at
 B below, and was the toughest day of the season, the Northwest wind filling theair with snow.
 Mir Seaton's horse died few weeks ago, and last Saturday Capt. eG i6fdf horse died Very unexpectedly.
 A young u!an ill New Haven has sent me black stons ggsigriqfg gsaqpt pound, which came frohS another world. and it looks like the great Deteoric stone in the Peabody Museum at New Haven, which feli in F air field county
 -La.tssaaaala5 la5 Qsaeaseam We aese amuch interested in the remarks made by Rev Mr. Painter in re- lation to the great work going on among the colored people of the South. Mir. Painter is ths gaAosa' 'fhiey AihsiicAn Missionary, and is with the tiske University.
 Last Saturday afternoon Mir. Vining, the West Side teacher. having read in ihe N. r.. Sun tha' sfnsehipg twas the n'atter with our Sun, Went 10 Easi Street tu look at it through my brolher's telescope, @and told me about it, 50 went over Without deiuy, and We had a good ehsncfrelGni lOur before sunset, us- Ing tie fvGs W.iiciI maguiIes 55 times and an spoi our eyes. and i never SAW anything like it. A little North Of the middle of the Sun there was lsygeGaia spot Wif crooked sides; it was really two black spots almost not quite g" larg". which l,nked like a great balloon suspesndte, ip space; and five other smaller spdtS strung along down in a crooked line towards ,hr fist mentioned spot Ny brother said that the upper one was consider bic lagstr than thtteiatk spot TaaGe hy the oxiet Mercary when it passed before the sun . few years ago thought cnnll see all around the largest spot Il uarro" space brig iS- s4A, eAcf, h. he whole trouble is comet before lhe Sun put suppose ii is ;he result of some tre,nend- 'us convulsion going on, and tha; the holes We see' are large" enough to swallow up the Earth and the three planets in the Southwest. If We could only be hear by Il aul glad we ,annoD what cJninuliDu we should behold, ,ssf byIss,T secrwpanied by ] 'daAug sreassr chan aittbusahd 'dfeatifui thun. lers at once. l
 A GOSHEN WINTER 10l YEARS AGo- Il will give an extract froa ny fathers two large volumes, 'G"sife1 Statistics and Family His ory."
 The hard winter was in 1179-S0 and began 'arlY ill December. Stephen Goodwin Jr. | 4ASu ok oSSAVuRSS.. SOlu ! AAg, alAl AlS SADTI0 )egansabo1t, oae week before Ire disL There was 6 Constant succession of storms of snow md wind, and for thc space of six weeks the | water was in no case known to drop from the 1 ,aves of the houses The snow became ex- deep, and sSme orchards were SO 1 Tiled that scarcely atNig was visible. ana the | ences were alhpst universally covered. The louse ol John Thompson on the West side of | East Street was g. ,v"rcd tha: a passage was | tug from the door to the road, all the way inder the SHOW, two or three rods. In March l he SHOW. Was ioaf feel deep ih the woods, md so hard that oxen coalti go any where. |
 At the usual time for making maple sugar he fences were generally covered. And the | now hard Many sheep were buried aAd l ost, and also few cattle, and very many | houses were nearly buried in the snow r. Ehes tpeetipgs were usually held on the Sab path, but many times none could go except on 'now shoes. These were made at the time )y Lieut.. Cyprian Collins for the people, and several old horses were killed for their hides which were used in stringing them. |
 There was one horse track kept open on some or the roads, and the people drew their grain to mIll on hand sleds. Grinding was of course exceedingly difficult No business could be done except what was absolutely neQassarya and thaeare G0fnaltle, Setting of little wood and going to mill comprehended about the whole. The storms of snow and wind continued until the latter part of March when the we 'ther became more moderate, and he snow went, of, gradually. by the sunshine without flood The succeeding Spring was lot unusually late. Fortunately for the peo- ,le there was no scarcity of fodder, and al- hough getting cattle to water was out of the question, still by removing part of the roof of lis barn the farmer could feed them, and he cattle soon learned that eating snow sup ,lied the place of drink IN.
 The chief anti Chinese Journal in San Fran cisco favors the adoption of the new treaty.