Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-12
LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS.
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l ford to give our ieaueiS ihS DcHenG OI 8 small ,jokes tho it hasa squinting toward worthy and indefatigable member of aour side". A few days before election this .member" who shall be ameless,happened to pick up small slip in the street on which was written notice in legible character, that "The R. R. Committee will meet at my office this evening at o'clock precisely and signed by our distinguished Representative elect from this village 5It Here was a mystery, unaccountable, severe serious, and involving immense interests to the party. Enquiries were immediately instituted, very privately, by our friend as to whether the Democrats had this secret organization, how long it had existed, and what were it's aims and ends. An immense guffaw greeted his enquiries from one source, which modesty forbids us from mentioning, and when our friend was informed that the R. R.s were plain, unoffend- ino committee on our new Rail- Road there was q looking around for his venerable hat! Our friend has since been busily engaged in knowing" The old sign that has hung and swung for quarter of century, more or less in front of the Mansion House, in this village without other wis itation or molestation than from Providence or Boreas, was last week taken down, and repaired to final oblivion. We miss it's familiar face on the corner we shall hear no more it's melanchol- ly shriekings in each breath of Zephyr, and we turn out still for It's invisible posts, between which it so long swung as we did of yore for it's visible May it's rest be peaceful after 30 long a hanging. As the poet has it,
 = It died
 And left no sign"
 We learn that an old lady between sixty and seventy years of age, by the name of Emmons living about two and half miles west from this village, drowned herself in stream just back of her house on Sunday night. Caused by temper ary insanity.
 The April term of the Superior Court for this County, opened on Tuesday afternoon in the Court House in this village. Judge Park is tho popular presiding Justice.
 Tho following gentlemen were elected Jus tices of the Peace for this town for the ensuing year. ...
 George c. Woodruff, George M. Woodruff, G. A. Hckox, Henry M. Dutton, John H. Hub bard, William L. Ransom, Charles Adams, F. D. Beeman, Henry B. Graves Jacob Morse Jr., Stephen Trowbridge, Edwin B. Webster Angus tus Mercy, Abner Landon, Chester c. Goslee, Andrew J. Pierpont, Royal A. Ford, John Cat lin orI ~ D. Wheeler.
 
 Fast day was very generally observed, and the meetings ill the several churches well attended
 The Rev. Mir. Wetherby pastor of the North Church preached a discourse up- on the state of our Country. It was vigorous and manly expose of the gradual and persistent encroachments of the slave power over the free territories of the Union and the departure of the Federal government from the policy and prac- tice of the fathers of the Republic.
 In the evening the choir of the South church gave rehearsal of Sacred Music under the lead of MT. H. Milton Hart who has had the instruc- tion of the Choir the past winter. The house was crowded, and highly pleased with the per formance, and proficiency of the choir.
 Justices of the Peace elected April 2nd.
 Myron Harrison, R. T. Miner Theodore Kel- logg, Phnehas R. Baldwin, Philo c. scdgwick, E. D. Pratt, A. L. Futile, H. M. Hart, John P. Stone, Gustavus Rowe, John Jennings. 
 We take great pleasure in announcing to our readers the return of Mir. Samuel D. North way to his home at Norfolk. He came back from Kansas, quite unexpectedly, last Friday the 9th inst, and he was brought back by a statement which originated in the Hartford Press that he owed the company with which he was connected SG000. He returns ready and anxious to meet all the liabilities he has person. ally assumed for the company in case their prop erty is not sufficient to pay all indebtedness which he supposed was the case when he left. The embarrassment of the company and his per sonal relations to it, MT. Northway assigns as reason for his going off-and that he had for long time been harrassed with the large debt of the Company, which,in good part,he was obliged to carry through the banks. the Stockholders being unwilling to increase the capital stock of the company though often urged to do so.
 Justices of the Peace elected April 2d.
 Daniel Hotchkiss, Wm. K. Peck, Jr. Horace $. Knapp, T. s. Cowles, Myron c. Johnson, R. Tibbals, Heman Swift, John P. Hawley, Timo- thy Ryan.
 Sharon.
 During the winter past, there have been "so- cial Gatherings once week, at which each per- son present gave ten cents, to be appropriated as committee shall judge best.
 Last Wednesday evening was one got up by the BACHELORS The preparations were made, the entertainment furnished, and the whole af- fair conducted entirely by them.
 The Gathering was held in Sears Hall spa cious room tastefully ornamsnted with ever greens, and presenting truly attractive appear ance. At 7H o'clock, the company began to assemble, were received by the gentlemen with genuine gallantry, and soon the room was sound ing with the happy voices of more than one hundred guests. The beauty and fashion of the