Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-19
LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWs
LitchfeId.

bury Savings Bank and the Charter Oak Fire
 Insurance Company.
 The case has gone to the jury. and has beer
 very ably conducted by Messrs. Cothren and
 K ellogg for the Plaintiff, and by Messrs. c. R
 Chapnan and Hubbard for the defence. Mr
 Kellogg in the closing argument justly compli
 mented Mir. Hubbard fer his ability to interest an audience in dull case, and referred to his pathetic efforts in previous groundless land cases and t,.y water cases.
 By request, the Rev. David L. Parmelee will deliver lecture before the Litchfield Count, Historical and Antiquarian Society on Wednes day Evening, April 18th at seven o'clock in the Court Room. Subject 1.-The Steady Habits o Litchfeld County in the Olden Time" Should the evening be stormy, the lecture will be post poned till the next evening The public gener ally are invited to attend.
 Barl1l.amsted.
 On the morning of the 9th inst, the dwelling house of Henry Hurlburt of Pleasant Valley wa. consumed by fire. It is supposed to be work ot an incendiary.
 Harwinton.
 Justices of the Peace elected in Harwinton
 April 2d, 1860. Abijah Catln, Lewis Catlin Augustus S. Johnson, Sheldon Osborne, Angus tus Alfred, Lewis Smith, Charles Wilcox. Norfolk.
 A1fra1 r nonrio E-o hos ,ro,o1y sented to his sister, Mrs. Samuel Shepard, his
 fine summer residence in Norfolk This is but one of similar late instances of liberality on the part of Mr. Dennis to other members of his fami ly. Mir. and Mrs. Dennis are expecting to make a short tour in Europe the coming season. ..... Mir. o. J. Wolcott expects to leave, with his family, for Cleveland on Thursday. He will as sist the proprietor of the American Hotel in that city, Mir. John Ensign, in the manageme mt of that we'll known and popular house. Mr. Wolcott will no doubt have the pleasure of vel coming many of his old friends there. .... The creditors of the $. D. Northway Manufacturing Company met the agents of the Company at Rockwells s Hotel on Thursday last. The Com pany offer to secure to the creditors fifty cents on dollar of their debts The offer will proba ply De accepted.
 New Hartford.
 The dwelling of G. R. Jewett was entered ly an unknown burglar on Monday morning the 9th Est who was repulsed by large watch dog. The da1 ! Al, which pressiled at that hour, escaped ...., Business is very brisk in New Hartford are high and not enough to supply the demand Business men are kept out of the place, by the lack of place to live.
 North Canaan.
 The North Canaan Seminary closed its winter term on Thursday of last week with an examina- ion, which occupied the entire day. The exami- nation was largely attended by the citizens of North Canaan At the close of the examination Miss Sarah Stevens, in behalf of the pupils, pre- ,ented the principal, Mir. Wn. G. Pierce, with $ beautiful copy of Irvings Washington, vols. on tinted paper, bound in half-calf antique. They .lso presented Mr. Pierce's assistant Miss Ann Fitch, with very handsome copy of the |" Poets # the Nineteenth Century" The gifts were an ntire surprise, and very expressive commenta y upon the relation which. has subsisted between he tea hers and pupils of the in <titution.. The following gentlemen are the Justices of the Peace elected ill North Canaan, April 2d, 1860 Vim. G. Pierce, Alderman Ives, Geo. Adam, Charles Kellogg, Francis Donalds, Daniel L. Pierce, NJ. T. Granger.
 New Milford.
 The Weantinang Boat club of thls place have operations for the year eighteen hundred and sixty. The club is now beginning the second year of its existence, and is in $ much more fourishing state than even its best and most sanguine friends ever hoped it would be. The complement of members 'l4,) allowed by the constitution is now com olete, and Boat stock is above par The We ,ntnang" herself is a twenty six foot boat, pulls 'ix oars and weighs about four hundred pounds At the race between the Weantinang club of New Milford and the Waramaug club of New Preston on Waramaug Lake last summer he Weantinang made three miles in l9 minutes md 2l seconds. John NJ. Buckingham, Esq ,f New York City delivered capital lecture on the " Practical teachings of the age, at Wright r Hall on Friday evening last, after which part of the audience, including the orator; adjourned to Lums Now England House and enjoyed themselves in tripping the light fantastic too till the small hours of morn" ... The concert of the Episcopal and Congregational churches Of on Wednesday the llth inst, has been unayoid ably postponed until Thursday the 26th inst . . The workmen in cxcavating the cellar to Mir Rogers, new school house in New Milford, dug up the skeleton of an Indian, the bones, or at least what are left of them are very large,and are in a very good state of preservation. A round
 hole in the fore part of the skull loads to the be. lief that he was shot, ROxbury. .ss
 Justices of the Peace elected in Roxbury April 2d Chas Beardslee, Herman E. East man, Albert L. Hodge, Elisha A. Weller Hen ry l.. Randall, F. II. Lathrop.
 Salisbury. .-- .....
 The Lakeyille Gee Class, assisted by Mir. Aug Michaelis and his pupils gave Musical Concert at Salisbury Wednesday evening, April llth. On account of the cold stormy weather for the