Litchfield enquirer., 1863-08-06
9pfal ana oCnnttg Neips.
LITCHFIELD.

In view of the Great Victories of the Union Armies at VIcKsBuRa, PoRr HuDsoN and GET rYsBuRG, and to recognize in q becoming man her the Presidents Proclamation, the ci.izens Of Litchfield propose to celebrate tiis day, Thursday, August 9th, in the following man- ner. At sunrise, noon, and sunset, salute of 90 guns each will be fired. Religious Services will be held in the Churches at II A. M. In the evening, at s5 preoisely.a . grand display of Fireworks will be given from stand cree ted directly East of the West Park-fronting the East-interspersed with short speeches from several gentlemen from abroad, and Mu- sic by the Litchfeld Cornei Band. As this is to be the largest and finest display of Fire works ever given in Litchfeld, we presume it will be worth seeing. Citizens from other towns, with their families, are specially lnVi- ted to be present.
 LEcruREs.-Professor Hoppin's Lecture oe- fore the Library Ass sociation was attended, on Monday evening, by small but very ap- preeiative audience Perhaps the intense heat | of the weather was instrumental in keeping people at home-if SO, the heat is responsible to them for the loss of rich intellectual treat The subject was "A Visit to the English uni- 1 versities," and was handled in the graceful, scholarly manner peculiar to the lecturer, and the lecture afforded very grateful hours en- tertainmeut to the audience.
 Rev. Silas Livermore, Refugee from North Carolina, for many years citizen of the so-called Confederate States lectures up l on the Great Rebellion, next Monday Evening, at the Court House. See adv. REAp1Nas.-Mr. Gould's final Reading be- forethe Soldiers Aid Assoeiation,is postponed from this evening, on account of the Celebra- tion, to to morrow evening, at the Court House.
 Mir. Gould has kindly consented to read the play of "Hamlet," before the Library Associa- tion, on Friday evening of mezt week.
 THE CIRCUS, with it's Big Tent, Horses, Ri ders, Aerobats, Gymnasts, Performing Mules and Clown is coming. to town on Monday next, and gives two performances, for the ben eft of old and young. The famous Mile. Mons. Zoyara is with the troupe, as are the world renowned Nelson Brothers. The Mules name is Barnum, and the Clowns Stickney. Enough said. For further particulars see big bills everywhere, and advertisement else where.
 TIE 18TH REa1xENT.-Several changes have recently taken place in our County Regiment. by the resignation of some of our Litchfeld men. Capts. Peck & Bissell and Adjutant Deming have resigned on account of i'll health. The former is already home, and the two lat ter are expected to arrive next week. It is stated also, that Col. Vessels may be expect ed home within week or two, his health hay. ing again become very much broken. The Regiment will be very sorry to lose these ex- cellent officers and popular men, and we greatly regret in behalf of the Regiment, that i'll health necessitates the measure. We do not learn what promotions, if any, have been made to fill these vacancies. The 18th is just the crack Regiment Tn the service, and thvso important vacancies should be carefully and judiciously filled.
 We notice the smiling and fantastic coun- tcnance of Orderly serg'tD c. Kilborn, home on furlough for a few days. One side of it has turned gray in the service. We trust the other side will be ever green!
 -Pocru;fo ora oono;po ;p 6no1y pou of bo Headquarters in this town, for the 18th. Cor poral Spencer leaves to day or to morrow with a squad of the fine fellows for New London, to be there mustered into the service.
 TEE FARMERS have no complaints to enter now against the Clerk of the weather. It's excellent Hay weather. If it was all the same, though, we should judge that the sun at eighty odd degrees above zero, would do as much execution in the drying line as at nine. ty odd. It has tendency, at the latter fig ures, to make us the opposite of dry.
 An excellent passage-at-arms is going the rounds of the streets, which took place the other day. between our Shakespearean Scholar and Professor Dana of New York, now providentially with us. The joke is rath- CT too pointed to print, but can be learned 
 "A notice of the Catholic Fair will be found in our advertising columns.
 Two of the Tale College ':Dons" are spending the summer in Litchfeld-Profes- sors Hadley and Hoppin.
 We should like to tell the story of how one or two drafted lawyers went down to Jsr- icho in pursuit of substitutes, how they got them, how they guarded them, how the sub stitutes watched them to secure their money, how thsy finally got them mustered in at New Haven, mutually satisfied. But werefrain, for fear of limbo. Ask lem.
 
 SHARON.
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