Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-08
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 The town is more quiet. The Farmers gen. orally embrace this excellent "hay weather" to secure their bounteous crops, the " seceshers" are quiet under the warning they have received, and the loyalists sympathize, in the heat of the season, with the condition of our brave boys in Virginia, who must be sweltering under this torrid sum- If the /" oldest inhabitant' ever knew of greater or longer continued hot weather at this season, we should be obliged to him for statistics of previous years heat. It might go somewhat toward cooling us all off! MT. W. ". Wadhams of Goshen has sent us a specimen of herd grass growing on his mead ows, measuring siz feet eight inches in height l! Beat this who can! - The game of Baseball, played between the Town Boys and the Elm Park Institute, last Saturday P. M., resulted in favor of the nine town boys by one tally. They made forty tallies and four |" home runs" to thirty nine and two
 "home runs'' by the nine of the Institute. We understand that "return game is to be play
 ed next Saturday on the same ground. 'Bets''
 are rather more even, the Institute s Orphans
 are not so confident of success as they were,
 while the "town boys'' are correspondingly
 hopeful
 l Pursuant to "general orders'' from the
 Adjutant General, 8 company of Light Infantry
 is being enlisted in Litchfeld to serve in the State militia under the new law. These com
 panies, of which Litchfeld County is to furnish
 six, to be raised by voluntary enlistment. or | if they cannot thus be raised, then Jy d,afting, but if any moro troops are wanted from this State for service in the Federal army, they will be raised as heretofore, by volunteers, and the active militia under the new organization will be ordered out only in case of emergency.
 Capt. A. B. Shumway has the necessary blanks for voluntary enlistments, and we advise all of our able bodied young men, between the ages of IS and 45, who don't want to wait to be drafted, to |" fall inA
 MT. Charles J. Deming 0. this town, son of Vim. Deming, Sen. has gone on to enlist in the 4th Reg. Conn. Volunteers. He hopes to get place as prirate in Company I. The best wishes of all who know him go with him, and we trust the brave boy will confer that credit and honor upon himself and his native town which he needs only the opportunity to attain.
 God bless and protect him, and all of his brave companions in arms from Litchield!
 -Growl. Growl. Growl. Such is the nor nal condition and running commentary the passengers upon the up and down '' noon trains on the Naugatuck Rail Road keep up necessarily, not to speak of those, who, all along the road wait for the daily mail. As for the people of Litchfeld, we understand they are getting up a monster petition to superintendent Waterbury to return to the old order of things, and if that don't do they will appeal to the P. o. Department or if these won't work change, then line of fast stages will be immediately started to the Housatonic R. R. to bring up the mail, as has been done in Woodbury and is to be done in Winsted. We are only thirteen miles from the II. R. R. and people wont consent to go down to Bridgeport on freight train, when by riding nine (stage) miles further they can get to Bridge port quicker and more comfortably.
 It is quite too slow, this new arrangement, and hope MT. supt. Waterbury will see quickly that it is quite for the interest of his road to run separate freight train up one day and down the next, otherwise he may save a dollar and lose twelve shillings on the present $ runnins(: time.''
 A call for Union meeting, to be held on the 27th inst, without distinction of parties, to take into consideration the state of the country, and if deemed expedient, to nominate Union ticket for town officers at the ensuing fall cleo tion, is being numerously signed in this town. We shall publish tho call, as it is signed, next week. We trust the call and the meeting will be almost unanimous.
 - The County Teachers Convention is to be be held in this town early in October, and will continue about week. Particulars hereafter.
 We shall publish the premium list of the Litchfeld County Agricultural Society, to be held Sept. 18th and 18th, next week.
 trict, returned home on Tuesday. His votes in Congress were almost uniformly patriotic and in favor of fully sustaining the government and the war.
 Another young man formerly connected with this office is enrolled in the army, John A. Belden, who has gone on to Harper's Ferry with the 5th John s'scceeded" once from our camp; we trust he will stick better to the camp of the army, and never ssecesh in the face of the ene- my.