Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-10
New Preston.

and slammed them about till they were
 excellent kindling wood, scattered raj I fences, and built snow drifts fifteen feet
 high across highways. The fast mail trains
 on the Shepaug never brought us the En- I duirer till Saturday, and the Waffeff mail
 was two days getting only five miles to
 New Preston, all on account of the Beau.
 tiful Snow" From here to New Preston
 Hill there is sleighing enough to last al I least fourtyears. Only the tap pfaireBf the
 fences can be seen there, and in Ws'ren,
 # we keep having Vennors thaws, they I won't be able to plant their, eerPTbefore I 1857: The mfllers here would ike to have
 private interview with Vennor He
 would have tofhave real, genuine thaw,
 or else he'd walk the plank, onesorl the other They're pretty mad, The Aspe- tuck is very low indeed ,-and that cold night it froze the channel at the lake 50 that it damed back nearly all the water. The millers went up the next morni z with taeir men and cut it out SO that it flows again, and once more they ar- par tially happy.
 s-The "Sociable" a Noble Boliest was fair to middling success owing 10 the very cold weather. Miss Nellie Marvin sang two songs. Mrs. F. P Bolles lender ed fine instrumental selection, and tLei 6 was a farce acted by seven young ladies, entitled The Plague of Life,'' 7 to. all of which we listened with pleasure. Theehi.r- ades on the program wer,- not -givs n, as l one of the players failed to pnt in an ap- pearance, consequently they will be c.l: ried to the next. -' ''
 --J. M. Taylor, secretary of the eonsol- idated silver mining company of Virginia City, Nevada, Mr. Lyman and wife, anda son of the Hon. James G.. Fair, all of Nevada, were the guests of Mrs. A. M. Whittlesey, last week Tuesday and We'd nesday. % F 5
 Charles Hoffman who went to Litch- field, H., last October, has returned to the paternal roof again. He arrived last week Wednesday. .
 h-Char1es Carter and wife, who have been making long visit at G 4neya. Ohio, returned last Friday. E F . Thursday was the most exciting day New Preston has experienced in some little time. It was the occasion of the trial at Union hall of State vs. Frank Grant for. assaulting Watson Cogswe:l with intent to kill. The prisoner swore that he was walking up the street an l eat ing an apple which he was slicng with his pocket knife, when he met Cogswe1 and Geo. sMcCann, Jr. McCann turned out of the road, Cogswen kept the track and he was compelled to go between them. In doing so he slipped but was not aware that he hit Cogswell till Cogswen wanted to know what he was hitting him for, and that he get pounded if he wasn t careful. Grant told him he'd better go and pound his wife as he could do that good deal easier, 1t which point the circns immedi- etely commenced by Cogsw Ills loE ngIy encircling Grants neck with one aim and and thwacking him on the nasal organ with the other. In the struggle for vic- tory Grant lost his knife, applu and nit tens. Grant swore that the knife the state had present was not his. Some witnesses for the state swofe that it was the same they saw in his hand during the melee. Cogswell. showed the cuts in his clothing Alleged to have been made by jGrantis knife, rv' See what rent the enyieus Cas-. ca made, and as he plucked his cursed steel away mark how the blood of Caesar followed not We'll, the sum and sub- stance of it was the prisoner was bound over under three hundred dollars bonds to appear at the Superior court H. Up- son furnished bonds. Hitchcock and Hollister for state, O'Ha,a for defendant. Everybody went to this law suit some because they wanted to, some because they didn't want to, but were urgently in- vited to be present by the authority of the state of Connecticut. It doesn't make any difference whether one knows anything about the Case on trial or not, one is sub p@naed just the same, just as quick and good sight quicker. Since the above trial Cogswell has sworn the peace against Grant, who was arrested Saturday and brought before G. 5. Cogswel; Ed. The case is adjourned till next Saturday. and so there still continues to be music in the air." Of course there are always two sides to question and we couldn't better illustrate the public feeling here over these matters than to give an extended re- port of the last meeting of tha Corner Lyceum where many members in fhe dis cussion were for Grant and some 1T Cogs. well, but it would take up more than two coldmns of your valuable paper It would be rich though. Now we want to say just a word about ourselves. Some of the worthy citizens of this sequestered and pestered village have exprersed to us a desire that these petty and annoy ing dis turbances and law suits might not get in- to the paper, giving as a reason therefor. that it gives the place such bad name. Now. so.long as we continue to be cor respondent we shall note the bad as we'll as the good, not doing as is done in other tlflue places we know of, report only that which is excellent and worthy. "In the corrupt ed currents of this word, offences gilded hand may shove by justice; and oft 'tis seen. the wicked prize itself buys out the law" So long as such things ara permit ted to exist just so long you'll have, trou- ble. Why don't you combin. and root out, stump and branch, ihis disturbing element, which seems to grow fat in your midst ? If the public would put it's strong = ,. Az t-