Litchfield enquirer., 1860-10-25
Superior Court-sept. Term, 1860

JUDGE SEYMOUR PRESIDING.
 .loshna T. ,ssadgey ys. Catuin T. Peek Ac- ton of trespass, and verdict for the defendant. For plaintiff Smith and Stoddard. For defend ant, Graves and Peck.
 Sate vs. Milo Pero-Assault and battery Plea guilty. Sentenced for 30 days in Litchfeld County Jail. Sedgwick, States Attorney for State. R. Hitchcock, for defendant.
 Stae vs Josiah c. Wads,cora- Complaint for selling liquors Tried on l3 counts. Found guilty on and acquitted on six. Defendant filed motion for new trial. For the State, Sedg- wick, Hubbard and Ransom, and Giddings. For defendant, Webster and Gillette.
 Ssate vs. Anthony PauAInformation for an assault, with intent to ravish one Alice Shook. Tried on two counts, and found guilty of the as- sault only. For State, Sedgwick and Barbour For defendant, Peck and Dutton.
 &ate vs. Ebenezer Cark-Informed against for theft. Prisoner plead guilty. Fined one dollar, and sentenced 30 days in Litchfield coun- ty Jail. Sedgwick for State.
  for carnally knowing and abusing one Alice L. Cole, a female child under the age of enyears- also for an assault on the same, &c. Four counts in the information. Found guilty on the third, of carnally knowing and abusing. Defendant filed motion for new trial, and carried the case to the Supreme Court of Errors, and said Court refused a new trial. He was then by the Superior Court sentenced for seven years in the Connecticut States Prison. Scdgwick and Wheaton for the State. Graves and Dutton for defendant.
 Orsemus Gilbert vs. Sarah W Gil5ert-Pe- tition for divorce. Charge, desertion and adul- tery. Bill granted. Hubbard and Ransom for petitioner.
 EsaAer 4. Cdrturigh rs. Ansel Cmtrright- A divorce in this case was asked for various req sons, together with alimony. Bill granted, and S350 allowed as alimony. Hubbard and Ran som for petitioner.
 The November Magazines.
 Each opening month brings round to us the pleasant monthlies, which gather within their ample pages-each in it's class endeavoring to out vie the other in interest and excellence-so much that is pleasant and profitable to read, beneath the cool shade trees of summer, or before the cosy fresides that blaze never more brightly than through the long nights of November.
 GoDEY's LADIES Book, is the first for the con- ing month, which we have opened-and in it are all the rich delicacies, which SO long an exper- ence has made famous the veteran editor and pub fisher of Godey's." Two handsome steel en- gravings-a new style of colored fashion plates and innumerabe " patterns" for the ladies and children of both sexes, are given, with many pleasant stories and tales of wonder. R. Marsh has it at the County Book Store, Ltchfield, and receives regular or transient subscriptions for it Next on the list is PETERSON s-the far.ous Peterson of Philadelp elphia--whose magazine has long been so justly popular from it's superior en- cravings, both on steel and wood. it's mczzotints it's fashions, taken from the latest par;sian modes and it's varied reading matter-in which are min glcd the grave and gay, tales. stories, noveettes and useful receipes for the household, farm and garden. It is dirtcheap at S3--for it's twelve welcome visits per annum, at any home in the country.
 ARTnuRs HONE MAGAz1SE-not to be behind hand, among it's contemporaries. offers itself at g. and is warranted to give satisfaction from its very name. T. $. Arthur, whilhom worthy tailor, now turned author and poet, (would there were other tailors who might mend their ways T and Miss Virginia F. Townsend-one of the most popular and fascinating female writers of the day-beating your F. D. E. N. $. o. P. E. Southworth's and Ann s. g. Stephens hollow are the nomianl editors of "Arthur's Home" an many another sparkling writer contributes month ly to its pages.
 The ATLANTIC MoNrHLY-comes next on our | list-gleaming with hrighter light as we open its daintly brown covers-the Prince of the purely Literary Magazines in our land, and head and shoulders above all it's contemporaries. Why should it not be, when Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe, Miss Harriet Prescott, Dr. O. W. Holmes, H W. Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne @, R. w. Emerson, J. H. Whittier, Rose Terry of Hart ford, and host of other celebrities contribute to its pages The November number is an un- usually brilliant one, even for the Atlantc-but Messrs. 7fcknor G Fields, the publishers, an. nounce even superior attractions for the forth. coming volume in the shape of new novels by Mrs. Stowe, Chas. Reade and Miss Prescott which will add largely, as it ought to the already extensive subscription list of the peerless Ar LANrIC.
 HARPER's-the old original Harfer-follows last, but not least The November number if we'll worth buying and reading--provided the History of Capt. John Smith, superbly illus trated, has not yet lost its interest to Americans and we'll told account of Pearl Fishing, will prove an attraction for those who seek the pearls of knowledge Patton, of Waterbury sells HARPERs publications, as he does almost everything else in the periodical line.
 BLAcKwooD for October, we would not pass over-containing as it does so many papers which have already interested us, even beyond the wont of Ebony" An entertaining article on Proverbs" and an instructive biography of Sir Robert Peel, are among the most interesting L. Scott < Co.,, of 79 Fulton st. New ' York, re- publish this as they do the English and Scotch Ouarterlies