Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-17
LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS.
LitcIlGeld,

dry and balmy. The trees are all putting forth their leaves and buds and the hills and meadows about have assumed their vernal green. For the next month Ltchfeld will rapidly assume its Summer comeliness and the most lovely village in Connecticut become radiant with all it's famed andinvitlng magnifcence and bloom. Judge Seymour held an adjourned session of the Supe rior Court at the Court House. on Monday, May l4th. It was very short term however and not avery "hot' one as there were but three lawyers We were half in error last week, when VIC called the celebrated Don Juan Dddcr, half In dian and half African. The mistake lay in the Indian part which we supposed, lay in his hair; but which has since becn the means (by a bloodless scalping process which he received in Brdgeport,) of revealing the entire African in the fence. We arc now of the opinion that he belongs exclusively to the woolly horse" tribe. and can only congratulate our community and ourselves, that he has thus speedily been repaid for "wooling' us, by having the wool pulled over his own eyes. A |" free lecture" by Dr. Ad- dison is announced for Friday evening in the Court House. What the subject is we don't know, but something pertaining to health we sup pose, which is topic all are interested in.
 Cornwall.
 The first Sunday in May there was forty-two persons added to the North Congregational Church, two by letter, and forty by profession. The occasion was one of much interest The private schools are again in session, and all full except the one located in South Cornwall which has barely had an existence the past year. =.
 Farming work is well advanced for the season, and with seasonable rain the prospect for abun- dant crops would be very fattering, but ct pres ent there is great scarcity of that article All kinds of fruit, except the peach, promise well.
 Rumor has it that E. Burton Hart pripcipal of the West Cornwall Institute has purchased the homestead of his father, Mr. Julius Hart and is fitting it up with much taste. Goshen.
 An enthusiastic meeting of the friends of the Rev. J. r. Bingham was held ct the house of Noah $. Wadhams, Esq, in Goshen, to express their sympathy for their Pastor and wife, on the eve of their departure. Resolutions denunciatory of the course of the petitioners for Mr. Bnglam's removal, and strongly disapproving the course of the Consociation in acceding to their request, as an uncalled for exercise of arbitrary power" were adopted, and a hat being passed around over one hundred dollars were collected on the spot, as material sympathy for the pastor. Ad- dresses were made by Deacon Harvey F. Mer- win the chairman Rev. Robert Norton of Lock port, and Rev. Wm. Ross of West Goshen; and at the close there was general hand-skaking all around. Our space does not permit us to give further particulars.
 Norfolk.
 The Hosiery Company at Norfolk. have sold several knitting machines. to be operated at IEol- yoke, Mass, and have received applications from several quarters for their use ... On Thurs day evening of last week, the Clerk ot the Nor folk Bank, desiring to enter the vault of the Bank, found that he was chectually locked out and that he could not insert the key into the lock Of the vault. Norfolk Bank circles were immediately in "panic." Cruel rumors of an immense robbery pervaded the streets and arous- ed the hastening- tobed officers and directors. Their combined efforts to get to their specie, however were unavailing; and the next day, they were compelled to send to New Britain for an eepeytto pick the lock. Meanwhile, through out the whole of Friday (during strictly business hours) the officers cashed all checks and drafts out of their own pockets; which isn't so surprising thing, perhaps, as the amounts were probably not enormous and it is no uncommon thing, i've believe) for the cashier to carry the vault in his pocket. On Friday night, however, the New Britain locksmith ar rived, much to the relief of tho anxious Board. opened the lock in about three minutes, found a slight displacement in the fuck, but none in the vault; and Norfolk bank circles subsided into their usual placidty, with prolonged but pain 1 full sigh of satisfaction.
 New Milford.
 The Hutchinson Family gave two concerts in New Milford, one last week Friday and one on Monday evening. The old favorites were warmly greeted and well appreciated if we may judge from the audiences they had. ..... F. Rod
 man Hine of New Milford has some big eggs A hon of his, cross between the Java and Ma
 lay breeds, which he calls the Royal Burmese breed" laid five eggs last week, the smallest o
 which measures : 34 inches one way,by l8 inch es the other, and weighs seven ounces. .Mr
 A. s. Rogers new school building is in proces. of erection, and he expects to open his septem Der term here.. ..... Two large turtles wer,
 caught in the Housatonic River last Friday by ,
 son of Constantine Ferriss, one of which weigh ed fifty one and the other sixty pounds. It ap
 pears that like all other sporting gentlemen jus now, they were very much excited on the sab : ject ofprizefghting, and were engaged in prac
 ticing the manly art of selfdefence," when thu f police, in the person of Mir. Ferrss son, effected thsircapturs. They are now lodged in jail. an,