Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-17
LTTCHFIELD.

Town meeting next Monday at 2p. m. to rescind or modify the coasting bylaw adopted recently.
 Mir Abram M Turner, of Northfeld, has been appointed Trustee of estate of Lyman Tharp, an insolvent debtor.
 The Naugatuck Saturday night train was detained by an ice gorge at Seymour and did not arrive till Sunday morning
 St Michaels' Parish hold a meeting Mon- day al 3 p. m. to act on the question of nov. ing the organ and removing the galleries.
 There was a stoppage of shepaug trains Saturday. from washout of trestiework on Pond Brook. It was in running order Mon- day.
 w-Capt. Stone says it was not the seeing % many stars when he sat down that troubles him, but the sprained wrist that be now hugs to his bosOm. His wife is of tLe same way of thinking. A"ey oVu"e u"S sIugiy, etc. The Rev. Mir. Mclean, will lecture at the Congregational Chapel tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 7:30. Subject, David Living stone" This is the second in the course of secular lectures heretofore referred to, and should call out good secular congregation.
 On Monday next special town meeting is called, to repeal if possible the bylaw prohib- iting coasting on the highways. The coasters and their friends, not satisfied after having been defeated by a vote of more than two to one, will try again. Although admitting themselves the danger to travellers and others, attending the sport, they still wish to be al. lowed the privilege of coasting Citizens of LitchAeId, are you willing that the lives of your wives and children and hundreds of others shall be endangered, to give pleasure to < a few? Has not the time come when de cided stand should be taken on this important question ? Then turn out on Monday, and abate this dangerous nuisance 1--"
 AN INTERESTED CITIZEN.
 LIToHFIRLD, Feb. 18th, 1881. .r."s Mir Clay once remarked to tedious ora tor who was appealing to posterity that Che would soon have, his audience before him." There will be an opportunity to address such an
  but though posterity will be there itcannot vote. and wedoubt whether.it can secure the repeal of the by law forbidding coastihg. In the village discussions we hear on this subject we notice that those who favor the by. law are those who drive most. Nearly all of these relate instances of annoyance, and some of serious danger, from coasters" Can any re- striction be devised which would be effective Go allow suitable amusement of the kind with out endsngering trsvelers2 If boys were careful race. it could easily be done. There's the rub" An interesting pewholders meeting was held at St. Michaels chapel on Saturday. to advise upon the question of removing the gal. leres and placing the organ on the northeast side of the church near the reading desk. The meeting favored the change by . vote of two 70 one. Something certainty should be done Rbout the organ which has been greatly injur- I'd by the dripping of water coming in at the Dell deck. By moving it forward two or hree feet, and taking due measures to pre- yent leakages. the organ could no doubt be made as safe and as effective where
 is as anywhere in the church. 'he removal of the side galleries would make the side seats below much more desir. ble than they now are, and we imagine that it you'd improve the appearances. of the au- fence room. through that is more q guess than opinion. How the present windows would polk with the gallefies out, is sue of the se- ous questions involved. .,.,.,,.,. ,;.r ase, ,- We quote from the Magazine of American istory," for the present month the following Interesting statement regarding the connection etween Col 'Tallmadge. formerly of this lace, with one of the most noted portraits of ashington: st4
 Custis in his recollectious of Washington, hys: "Of the portraits of Washington, the bost of them give to his person fullness that did not possess, together with an abdominal hiargement greater than in the life, while hls atchless limbs have in but two instances been ihfully portrayed--in the equestrian DOT. ait by Trumbull. of 1790, a copy of which is the City Hall of New York, and in an en- aving by Loisler, from a painting by Cogniet rench artists of distinguished merit. The tier is not an original painting, the head be. g from Stuart, but the delineation of the mbs is the most perfect extant." A About fifty years ago the writer of this the andsou of an officer of the Revolution, call. to pay his respects to that gallant and pat. ptic old soldier, Col. Benjamin Tallmadge. Litchheld, who was one of Washington's ds during most of the war. Of course the nversation very naturally turned upon the enes and events of those trying days. Valley prge, Andres execution, and the like. Col rumbulfs portrait of the chief being men. pned, Tallmadge said laughingly, that the gs in that picture were painted from his. He id that the demands of the service made it ry inconyenieht for General Washington to ve as much time Tn sitting as the painter re- fred. that it was frequently remarked hew uch his legs were like those of the General at Trumbull pronounced them an exact pat. n. and so, with Washington's consent, hs wed as substitute, and then the artist was le to take all the time he needed to perfect at pert of the portrait, which has always Bn greatly admired. se@SseeJ. L. n - To Na Editor cf tae. Lftehfsld EnqssirerA- R:-As special town-meeting for the re. lsideration of the new bylaw against coast. is now called, beg leave to pre- pt in your paper the following considera. ms: e sst&s ta-est
 Our American boys need above all ngs tharheaith and hsrdiness which comes m abundant fresh air and exercise. These y will not seek without the stimulus oi assure. sCoasting is a pleasure to them; and
 any active person, constitutionally sound
 exercise is better than climbing up hall, es rially with moderate load. Often. through
 winter, coasting is the only feasible sport ], is always one thatqnickens faculties ane sngthens sinews. It has. there pacsica
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