Litchfield enquirer., 1861-11-28
gofal ana County News.
LITCHFIELD.

Thanksgiving week opened in the orthodox way OH Monday with snow-storm. The first fall of snow for the season occurred on Friday last, the 22d.
 | At town meeting legally warned and held on Saturday last, it was voted with but one dis senting voice, "That the Committee appointed by the Town to furnish supplies to volunteers are hereby instructed to pay each volunteer from this town or his order, the sum of seven dollars. when such volunteer shall be sworn into the ser vice of the United States.''
 So we hope this matter is finally settled. Town Hall on Thursday afternoon and evening last, the ladies provided a bountiful and liberal collation-a large attendance honored the occa- sion, and something over ninety dollars was real ized over and above all expenses.
 - John W. Watson, formerly student at law in this village, has enlisted for the war, in an Iowa Cavalry Regiment, as Quartermaster Ser geant, and is now in Gcn'l IIalleck's Division, St Louis, Mo.
 The deccase of 8 venerable and we'll known townsman, which was briefly announced in our last weeks issue, is an event which seems to de- mard more special and extended notice. The HoS. WILLIAM BEEBE who departed this life on Monday, 18th inst, at the advanced age of four score years, was man whose removal from among us must be regarded es public loss.
 His funeral was attended on Thursday the 2lst, in the Congregational church, where he had long been a member and Q worsllipper, by a 1 large concourse from this, and the neighboring towns. The exercises of the occasion were the reading of appropriate selections from the Holy Scriptures, and prayer by Rev. George Richards acting pastor of the church, who also spoke ot the religious character of the deceased, cspec ally as that character had exhibited itself during his last illness. Brief addresses were also made by Rev. Messrs Parmelea and Vall, themselves now aged men, both of whom had becn for many years, most intimately acquainted with the man whose character they described, and whose death 1 they mourned.
 From the tenor of their remarks and from the | but feel that the subject of this sketch was no ordinary man. Descended from one of the pat riots of the Revolution, tho son inherited and manifested the patriotic spirit of his worthy an' cestor. Endowed by nature with well balanced mind and judgement; having acquired large knowledge of men and things; frank and out spoken in the utterancc of his opinions; every one believed that, on all occasions, he spoke the honest convictions of his heart This town has often chosen him as its representative ill the State Legislature, his influence has also been felt as a member of the Senate, in both of which offices he gaue honor to his stot'on rather than received it. As man of public spirit his life and labors were devoted to the public welfare of large and tender sympathes with humanity he was cmphatically the aims giving friend O the needy kind and wise counsellor of the young, and of all who sought his advice; and { staunch lover of Freedom, as he hoped and be lieved it would yet erelong exist in all this land In his family father, in the world blessing in the church a pillar, the Patriarch, Patrio and Philanthropist the humble disciple of Christ and friend of God, no more on earth, now lives as we believe, with " the spirits of just mel made perfect"