Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-31
New Preston.

1 dent of New Milford, were brought here and inferred in the village graveyard, last week Tuesday.
 Mrs. Jane Moore has moved from the "old academy" into the house of Davld Jacus for whom she will keep house. This week we expect to see the streets fairly obstructed with loads of furniture, for half of our village is going to ''move." There is an immense amount contained in that mono syllable. There's the calamity of. broken crockery; the fearful swearing that accompa nies the taking down and putting up of stoves, the mighty perplexity of cutting old carpets to it new rooms, the curtains that cannot be made to fit the new windows; ill-baked bread because the new chimney doesn't draw like | the old one; the baby falls down the cellar l stairs and cracks it's cranium; the new pump | is out of order and the cistern hasn't been | cleaned out in five years; and, worst of all, l the inhabitants have not all vacated the prem ises. There they are and intend to remain for | no writ of ejetment can ever be served against them. The only known way to get rid of their unsolicited company IS to tie their four legs together, pry open their mouths with crow-bar and administer one teaspoonful of alsnic. Leave them with their legs tied and | after fifteen days they will die of starvation To sleep! Not much. For in that sleep what dreams may come of tomorrows's hear alters, and the thousand natural shocks that Q mo Hoct su hasr to puzzles the will, and makes life of quetness and home of our own a consummation de- voutly to be wished. For who would move and pack and unpack, take up and put down, roll up and unroll, walk in the April mud, and live on hash and leaden biscuit, and suffer I the slings and arrows, sooty hands and un- kempt hair of the movers fortune, and groan and sweat under weary life, when he him. self might his eternal quietus make with a bare bodkin? Echo answers. :'who?" 70. w. Pickett and wife who have been in New Haven all winter are now at Mir. W. D. ] Sperry's. If Mir. Pickett can purchase suit | able place he will remain in New Preston. otherwise he will return to New Haven.
 Mir Alderman has sold his place at Lake side, on Greens Point. to New York party by the name of Goodhue and has returned to New York City.
 The large addition to J. B. Wilson's hotel approaches completion. When inished it will make the Wilson House the largest prettiest and commodious about the lake. Mr. Wilson is bound to have things in readiness for the summers visitors.
 MT. J. F. Barnes place is being much improved by building an addition thereto with veranda about the whole. O. E. Beeman and Jesse Barden are doing the work 1 John $. Gum has come to be a hlgh-toned poultry fancler. He has recently set some eggs which are worth five dollars per dozen which came from New Jersey. They are of the new variety called Langshan because the first birds ever seen in England were brought there by Major Croad who obtained them in l China in the district of Langshan. They are said to be beautiful birds of bright glossy black plumage and very distinct from any other variety. Our other poultrymen feel l quite in the shade The veranda about D. Burnham's recent ly beautiied residence is receiving it's finish ing touches at the hands of J. B. Wilson. A bracket here and there makes difference.
 -Anson Caskey, one of Rev. H. Upson 8 pupils, who has been in Florida with his parents for the past five or six weeks, has re- turned bringing with him young alligator about foot and half in length. The alliga- tor says he expects to flourish finely and enjoy robust health, for the atmosphere of New Preston is just hot enough for him. That alligator knows suthin'.
 Frank Grant, while chopping wood some- where up on Christian Street, last Thursday, cut his foot very severely. He bound it up as we'll as he was able and cut two crotched sticks with which, using them as crutches, he hebbled to the highway where he was over taken by Geo. s. Cogswell and brought home.
 We heard one man say, with something like s sigh of sorrow, "Well, Hitchcock is sick bed, and Grant is laid up with cut foot, and now what shall we do for lawsuits" But he needn't have felt so bad about it, for last week Monday, Watson Cogswell was brought before Seth N. Taylor Esq for breach of peace and placed under three hundred dollar bonds te appear for trial next Saturday, April 3d.
 This is continuation of the Cogswell and Grant affair, and like the stories in the ''New
 York LedgerF' Weekly" and ''Saturda,
 Night" bids fair to run to the sixtieth chapter Now is the time to subscribe. Besides, tber,
 IS to be more fun this week. Lawyer O'Har.
 has sued Geo. Taylor for advice and counse
 fees to the amount of twenty dollars which h
 claims he rendered the defendant in the Gran
 replevin suit, we think it was, last summer , whereas the defendant says he never employe
 him more than he did the Bey of Tunis Bu this is to be tried the 30th inst, and will b among the things that were before this is pub
 lished, but the Cogswell and Grant case come . of at Union Hall, April 2d, at 10 o'clock a. m
 Come one, come all, both great and small {" B Last Tursday there was an elopemen 3 took place at Lakeside. While Mr. Wm. H
 Dangal was in this village at work, Ere , Ohmen,.a Warrenite, drove to his house an
 took his young daughter Sarah into his wago and away they sped for New York State, tn e lovers Utopia, where they were made one
 The young man is A years of age, whil Y the young lady is only 13. Indeed, a ' Gremio somewhere remarks in the .sTamin d of the Shrew." 'Such a mad marriage neve was before" Alas, that wicked son of Ve ]. nus, that blind, rascally boy, who abuse s every one's eyes because his own are out, int
 what troubles he snares frail, wayward hr , manity! .'In affairs of love reason hath n part"