Year: 1872

hop-vine in full leaf on a red ground, witt

 numbers of gray birds, badly mutilated b.

 the seams, flying hither and yon in vii,

 dismay at the approach of green ant

 black hunter. Cavalry Mission infant clas

 was depicted on the back, the making ul

 of the garment scattering truant scholar

 up and down the sides and skirt, while

 country poultry fair and group of Amer

 ican hunting dogs, badly demoralized by

 the gathers, gave the front a remarkabl,

 appearance. The left sleeve had on it th

 alphabet in five different languages"

 Amenia. The Amenia Tunes is quite

 lively paper for country paper, but is al

 ways better informed in regard to what ii

 transpiring in other villages than in it's owr

 as witness, An imaginative reporter.

 Robert Campbells tin shop and hardwar.

 store had very narrow escape from de

 struction by fire one day last week. Some

 ashes that were thrown out of a window

 set fire to a lot of boxes that were piled UT

 against the shed adjoining hls store, but by

 timely discovery and prompt action, the

 fire was subdued before it had gained much

 headway. Perhaps as the Times, not hay.

 ing report of this, will cry, Imaginative

 reporter. "......At the union meeting last Sabbath evening, the Presbyterian church

 was filled to overflowing, to listen to the Rev. Mir. Haukhurst, the newly arrived l Methodist minister.....Geo. Williams, who has been in the carriage manufacturing business fer the past year, has disposed of hi hY1Si f1 Nc ! Amenia, and Messrs. D. Whitney and Will. liam Church of this place, who, forming d company, will take possession the first of June. There is also rumor of change in the jewelry business, but as yet believe nothing definite has been arrived at. The seminary is in an unusually fourishing con- dition for a summer term, having about fifty boarders. CURsoRY.

 Lime Rock 1nd Gree,ey.-Friend Pease : Your correspondence from Lime Rock has entirely dwindled out of late, and your readers may think we have seceeded and joined the Liberals" and that puts me in mind of the political issues of the day. I believe you advertised at the commence ment, that your paper would be strictly neutral, taking sides with no party We'll, there is fine old gentleman living down in New York, a brother editor of yours, who has for many years been very anxious to become President of the United States, but being a little one-sided, and not liberal enough in his views, he never has been able to accomplish his object, but hearing the other day that they were going to nominate president at Cincinnati, he put on his old white hat and with copy of the Tribune in his overcoat pocket, proceeded at once to the above city to tell them "what I know about conventions" The result you have heard, and he came away not only very liberal minded, but entirely neutral. Now what was coming at, it occurred to me that you could do Horace deal of good in this section and still remain neutral Nobody could find word of fault with you, for if you do your best you wouldn't know what party you were working for, but, by the way, perhaps it would be well for you to commence as soon as possible, as the Democrats may swallow him, (what a dose that would be though, and then you would have to drop the old fellow in order to preserve your neutrality. Dodge says he is a good Greeley man yet, but that Jones is an old fogy and wont become neu- tralized. Does brother Jones call that fair, to turn cold shoulder on friend just as he needed him most :? I intended this for an item of news from this quarter, but have used up the space allowed with non- sense, so will let the news rest ill next week.

 What We Need.-Enterprtse ENTER PRISE! ENTERPRISE! That word ex- presses precisely what is needed to now make Salisbury town in importance, sec ond to none in Western Connecticut. Do you call us visionary? Be that as it may, but that noO is the time for old Salisbury to " wake up from the lethargy in which, isolation from railroads has for the past century kept it, and to put its right and best foot forward in time to the music of enterprise, is as true as two and two make four, no man who is awake to his own in- terests will deny. The only difficulty in the way of prompt and vigorous start in the right direction is that the people do not re- alize the advantages everyway, which the place possesses over the majority of yil- lages. Nature has generously bestowed upon us some of the best ater.prlvileges in the country and the lay of the land is such as to favor almost any enterprise The town is full of iron and men and mon- ey, and possesses every advantage that could be desired for the benefit and aid of any business enterprise which might be started here, and is such as will stamp suc- cess on it's banners the moment it is sub- located here. Men are born into this world, who at the age of twenty-ore years, appear to arrive at the sum init of their earthly existence. Nature has completed her work, and grown the animal part of man to its allotted size, after which there is no more progress. He is at a stand still. Opportunities pre- sent themselves and invite him to grasp them and step up higher on tue road to wealth and fame, but he cannot see that old ways are not as swell as any, and be turns cold shoulder on them and asks for ''a little more sleep and little more slum- ber."

 It is sometimes so with villages. Being accustomed year after year to sec the old wheel of time revolvc, and every time around find themselves precisely where they were when the previous revolution was completed, they come to think the old stand still way is as we'll as anyway. None will admit that in the case of a man at the age of 2l years, it is as well that he should