Litchfield enquirer., 1864-03-24
Anfal aud &sssutn Bstrs


 Iastotally consumed. together with four or i've oattGildings. The house was occupied
 y two families,--Samuel Youngs, consisting of himself, wife, daughter and a grandehild- who all escaped in sIeir night clothes-and by William Kelley. respectable Irishman, whose family consisted of himself, w!fe md three children. Nr. and Mrs. Kelley hrst es- capped in their night clothes. Mrs. K., taking with her two of her children. UEon getting safely ov. ofthe building Mrs. K, discovered oue of her children to be missing-tLe oldest, a boy of about fivo years of age,-aud reques- ! ted her husbaad 10 save him. He immediate ly re.entered the building, and succeeded in reaching window, with his boy in his arms, when ho fell back svsreems by tho heat and smoke. Mrs. Kelley reached tho window and endeavored ts gave her Lusband. and even caught hold of him, but wss unable ts drag him out, and was herself severely burned in the attempt
 . Yesterday morning the charyed and black cned trunks were all that remained of the , brave father and shild-a,ke heads, arms and ; legs of each, having been burned 10 ashes. /! Tho origin of tho fire Is unknown. Wheu . first discovered, by kelloy. it WAS breaking : out from the northeast side of tho house. A violent gale was blowing iron. the northeast, on Tuesday night. which accounts for She rapid spreat ofthe hra,aad tho isARossib!lity of 'av-- ing anything froM the burning mass. Tho fire comln.uaaiea,sd to sh. adlaseut barn and oas i buildings. taining hay and farming utensils, which were consumed, together with 6 60 7 1 belonging to Kelley.
 :, The house aud buildings were owusd by Messrs. W. F. and c. Il. Baldwin, and valued at about $l,5sA+ Insured fy $70o, in the LitcLfcld Mutual
 ! We are requessed to call the attention ei the charitable 10 tho destitute condition of ,hs suHereFs by thls terrible calamity The wife and two little children of Kelley, and Mr. Young and family, are left alike entirely dss- l titute. Not aA article of clothing even do they possess, except as they escaped from their beds. We need hardly say that theirs Is case calling fer immediate action. We cannot doubt but that their wants will be mot l by a prompt and generous charity. l The seastergood Society" has come to grief. Not that there arc no more shirts, masculine and feminine, 10 make not that the little hot,ento,s arc ungrateful 1 for the efforts in tha. line that hAvc aIread Y ] been made-but the "scattergood' Ia litera- ry as we'll AS sanitary Society, md labors to mako itself ornamental In It's day as wcll as use /. ful !n its generation. And the Scattergoois are at loss for suhjee. of discussion. All the literary, scientific, geological, soological and metaphy sieal topics have been discussed and dsoidsd. They rcacbed .he tai! end of !aen al! at lisr last meeting. This was waas they came to: ''Query If two m,n started 10 run ] A raoc, ono of Ihc.n 3 white man ani tls other black man. which Of thesn would reasb the { goal first! r Ee understand the snhIec, gave color 10 a literary production as profound as the subjcc. itself. Ihe inevitable African w.s were pleasantly msr.ionel. Whether thsy were held sufficiently rcsponsitle for ,h,s "eruel war" our reporter do,s not precisely remember. He aenfsssss that h. fell asleep onslaught upon the cdorous suojcos sf the performance. Hence he is at loss 10 reu .m- bor distinctly who came out a.oal. Nc thinks, however, 1t was the "black man'-a littlo. We think we can suggest one moro subject 10 tho scattergeodics. II is-"Cack- ling Hens"
 We would respectfully suggest to those rapid individuals, who prefer to use tho side. walks, in South street, to the middle of tho street, to drive and ride over, that they wait . few weeks, and the Cors which are to be per nitted to roam at large as usual this Sumner will sufficiently sishguro tho sidewalks with out human holp.
 --Cold. clustering. raw. wlntry~ weather, th,s, as VIC write on Wednesday, with strorsu northeast wind and good prospect of "li fas storm"
 Moro 'wili geese" have been flying 0 Ec, 4s in . northsriy direction during the pes week. Foolish gandsrs.
 --Dis.inguishsd arrival. Vim. II. Or zen Esq, from Canada.
 BErHLzx.-Ai tho closo of tho aeads, nleal term of the Bethlem Institute, taught by tha, long tried and excellent teacher, samu q M Ensign, of Morris, prize of Webster's Ena- bridged Hictsrial Dictionary was awarded ts Miss Katie r. Bloss, for being the best prtho graphiss In the school for form .cf d, months.
 ConxwALt.-J. Sanford Johnson, 4sq., o North Cornwall, has sold his fns resid Ss,cs and farm, near the Congregational Churei to Mir Rogers of that place.
 The Alger Institute, in South Cornwall has been purchased by MT. Dsdleys of New Haven. the Principal of 6 fourishirsg Young Ladies' Institute, which he intends Ao remov, to the former place.