Litchfield enquirer., 1860-01-26
LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS.

eAceilenJ nlts ana lLuStfatlOnS Will not soon be l forgotten, and ought to make salutary impress sion on those who are too fond of meddling with 1 the business of other people. The lecture will well bear repetition, and We trust that those of our citizens who ought to have heard it. and didn't, will have another opportunity. Next Sunday evening, MT. Booth will lecture from the text " Owe no man anything Services to con- mence at half past six.
 -Ihe Court organized on Tuesday Judge
 l1lnman presiding, The jury were ilnpanneled from this part of the County It is probable that the present, will be but short term lasting not more than two or three weeks We shall commence our usual Court record next week The Mangun. and Barnes case, we are pleased to learn, has been settled. A case from Salisbury IS now on trial, Frederick A. Da,nhy rs. Town of Salisbury the evidence is all in and the are,- ment is in progress.
 The Great Pond affords excellent fishing about these days, and parties from this and the nelghborng towns are improving it. MT. W, II. Hull caught four and half pound pickerel one day last week-the largest of the season.
 The young ladies are improving their leap year privileges by invitations to the young men to sleigh rides, dances, &c. On Monday even- ing, the Wolcott House in South Street, was the scene Of a very agreeable gathering of somet twenty couple, who feasted and danced till the small hours of the night, at the expense of the fair ones of the village
 A Hop and surprise Party came off at Mr. h. Bentons on Thursday evening last, which was largely attended by parties from this and neighboring villages
 CoRSWAIL.-A pot of Japan took fire in Card her x Co.'s Shear shop few days since, when one of the workmen caught it in his hands and cast 1t out of the door, by which courageous act probably,the building was saved from destruction The man vas severely burned. .v- r-eJhe o.-of Births in Cornwall the past year was 36; Deaths IS; Marriages 10, and si | certificates ofmarriage issued that have not hee j. returned
 MeRR1s-The Republicans of Morris held the first caucus under the Township organization Jar Zoth' The full attendance from the different set
 tons of the town, together with the patrioti Q speeches made, showed the spirit which animate ,- the Republicans of the daughter Town of ol + mother Litchield. The following is a list C s delegates appointed to attend the different COT Q ventons, with liberty to appoint substitutes z; stae.-T. J. Skilton, Silas Stockman. j. County-Wm. Hall James NJ. Benton. Senotorin.-George H. Daley, Robert Pie,
 pont. i. P7'obote.-Beebe s. Hall, David c. Munson. l. NoRFoLK.-John Parrot, Frenchman, whil chopping in the woods on Friday of last week V received severe cut in the arm, from the axe Q + companion, which accidentally glanced o , , from tree he was felling. The joint at the e] f bow is probably stifened and rendered use]es for life.
 The following gentlemen are elected Ju TOTS for the year 1860:
 Erastus Burr, Horace B. Knapp, Austin Woo. ter, Elizur Dowd, Henry I. Holt, Robert P. Pen ' dleton, Matthew P. Bell, Thomas s. Curti, Ralph Brown. 5 NEW HARrFoED.-Fifty New Hartford Ladies most of them married, left town Tuesday Jan, l1, for sleigh ride all by themselves. N, ! Man was allowed to accompany them, except thu
 drivers. They visited Hitchcocksvlle and Win sted' where good dinner and the agreeable wa served up to them at the Beardsey House. : We hear that Leap Year ride was threatened the next day by the younger tribe who remained at home This might be expected, for we under stand the Pastor of that Village in his New 3 Years discourse, suggested that there had no been half as many weddings during the past veal as the interests of the community required. } NEW PREsroS.-Mr Bushnell takes posses
 sion of his property in this village, lately occupi ed by D. w. Patterson and others. Mir. Platter | son has bought the house and store occupied h, 2 Vim. c. Wooster. -lsaac D. Patterson has leased his farm fo,
 term of years, to James Barton.
 NEW MHFoED.-The pastors of the severn churches have had their donation visits latel,
 with the following result: Mir. Stebbins Meth
 odist,) s75; NIT. Acly, Eriscopal,) $50, Mir
 Murdock, S2OO.
 On Thursday night next (the 26th.) the tai
 ented and popular Professor of the elocutionarz
 department of the Housatonic Institute ia tc
 have an exhibition at Wright's Hall. SHARoN.-The number of Births in ls5e 5a Marriages, IT; Deaths, 27-an. unusual season
 of health. ,I WAsH1Scros.-The following gentlemen were appointed Jurors for the town of Washington Il Garry Newton, Stephen s. Baldwin, Samuel Collins, Henry N. Seeley, Richard A. Bryan
 SJ. Nettleton, Noble Bolles, Henry s. Whea
 ton, Abel s. Lennon, George W Beardsley. ,| WooDBURY.-On Tuesday evening the l7th inst, Hon. Henry c. Deming of Hartford de. liyered before the Young Mems Institute, his
 Lecture on General Putnam and the people went ont in mass to hear him.
 f line Republicans held meeting on Friday
 evening the 2othIinst., and appointed the follow. ing named persons delegates to the several Con-
 ventions:
 &ate-William cothren. C. J. Minor, ". A. l Strong, 0. 4. Dayton.