Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-29

the North church and it remained until 1872.
 In 1763 the new brick State House was
 built IL stood facing Temple street, just
 north of Trinity church. It was built by
 Ebenezer Townsend, 1st, who had recently | come from Boston with his brother Jsre-
 Haiah. The two were largely progenltors or
 most of the Townsends in this community
 and of many others who naternaliy are To~nsends, but paternally are sometnln8
 else. This remained until the period Of the 1 building of the present State House. 1t was | of bfick in the Roman civic style and
 Wss indeed an elegant structure for those days. From it were meas | ured the miles the air line turnpike
 to Hartford built by James Hillhouse. A
 multitude were gathered to witness the de-
 molition of the old structure in or about
 1880, and when it's last wall trembled and
 fell, the dust rolled therefrom in great vol- tunes, and we vhe from distance witnessed it
 felt trepidation expecting to find some of the
 bystanders had been crushed. The belfry
 was hauled down by long line of men and
 boys taking hold of rope. Some now among
 us had share in that labor.
 The whipping post stood on tue east side
 of Temple street in front of the State House.
 When 8 culprit was to be punished the peo- pie were summoned to the spot by the beat ing of drum. The last man punished was in November or December, 1881, for stealing ham. The drum was beat, the culprit lashed on the bare back, his yells filled the air and few nights thereafter the whipping post was torn down by unknown hands and never again erected.
 As we have stated, the Green at an early day was not an attractive spot and in the long ago there was pen for swine at the Church and Elm street corner. This belonged to Deacon Jonathan Mansfield, whose home stead was hard by. Tuttle's Genealogy, R work reptete with curious biographic anec- dote, tersely related, states that Mansfield was deacon of the First (now Center) church, from 1751 to 1775, and was custodian of the communion wine and plate. His negro ser want got drunk several times and it was a mystery where he got his liquor until he was one day discovered in the act of tapping the consscrated liquor. The practice of keeping swine was then general. Even fifty years ago, when most families in our town owned their homes, they generally had in the rear of their gardens an architec- tural arrangement wherein was housed and | boarded what was called the family pig, his | soIe business to live happy and wax fat. One | now old tells us bis of his experience in | this line, which conveys 8 good moral. | 'tWhen, D said he 1T was married and start | cd in life, concluded to follow the general 1 example and selected pig from 8 newly ar rived litter out on Derby turnpike, as West Chapel street was then called. A friend who was with me selected large, stupid lunk- head of an animal. My choice fell on a smart, lively little fellow, the smallest Of the htters to which et l once took fancy because he seemed so lively and intelligent, and was prettily marked with black spots I took him home, dropped him in the pen, but iu less than an hour he gotsort and after hard chase, with The keep of some boys, caught him, and, holding him by the ears, dropped hiu1 in again sqaealing. closed up the gap through Rhioii l1a had escaped. when he climbed over .hs top BIG waa yut again. He gave me in- ini3e t1Ga5is ey bis numerous escapes, and although 7 fed airn well he refused to grow 1f any account and SC ever remained sort Of child pig. My friend yho selected that stupid lunk-head goe E treasure, foc when killing lime came he SGiehad nigh on Io three hundred pounds md kept his family in pork and sausases the sntira winter, Mine weighed but sixty two pounds, and liners was not much of him but 3oaes sineIs and riad. This was the first sad last of my pig raising, bat i relate the incident that yoa may remember that in this ife thera is hat Ghsy term the eternal fitness II things. and this great law you violate when 1ou select pig for his intellect ''It is ,ork yoa sant-- poEk, sir, :"