Litchfield enquirer., 1867-10-17
COUNTY INTELLIGENCE.

WoLCoTTvILLE AND HARwINTON We extract the
 following from the Wolcottville correspondent oi
 the Hartford P0st:
 f WoLcorryILLE, Oct. 9.
 Among the various institutions of this village which have not yet been discussed in your recent
 correspondence from this place, the Wolcottville
 library association is the most prominent. This
 association possesses large and well selected i-
 brary, and maintains free reading room, contain
 ing the different daily and local papers, also seve-
 ral religious and literary journals and the various
 magazines and quarterlies, numbering about fifty
 in all. At the annual meeting recently held, the
 following officers were chosen: President-Geo.
 Chapman Vice Presidential. R. Merrill; Secre-
 tary-F. l.. Hungerford; Treasurer l.. Bar
 bollr. ,ht
 The association is maintained by voluntary sub-
 scription and membership. The report of the
 treasurer showed that there were in the treasury five hundred dollars the result of last years
 subscription aside from several hundred that have
 been paid for new books and for the support of
 the reading room. 't :A
 | The contribution of the Coe Brass Company dur
 ing the year has been two hundred dollars. D. W.
 Coe twenty five dollars; the Union Company one
 hundred and twenty-five; Turner, Seymour and
 Judds one hundred and twenty five. The other companies contributions vary from twenty-five to seventy-fve dollars each.
 The officers and managers of these companies are men of intelligence and education and pos- sess an amount of public spirit rarely equalled in manufacturing communities like this. Six thou sand volumes were taken from the library last year, making an average of four volumes for each man, woman and child in the village, which fact speaks well for the general intelligence of the peo pie. The interests of capital and labor mut,l- al, and if manufacturers would generally provide for the moral and intellectual wants of the people, they would benefit themselves and others at the same time. t5t';as }..s4 f-
 Yesterday morning, We, your humble correspon- dent, having secured Q fleet steed, and what was of more importance, an, agreeable companion, turned our face eastward destined for the HarWin- toY1 1n ftara an art tf,a hills we arrived at the place of our destination, where we found a large .concourse of people who had early. assembled, and to all human appearance bringing with them the s'cattle of a thousand hills" The display of cattle was very fine. In this department, Harwinton cannot be surpassed by any town in this part of the State.* Her fiocks and herds are her pride and boast:
 The exhibition of fancy goods and manufactured articles was small, but equal to the average of such fairs. The address was delivereds by Hon. Abijah Oatlin, a native and resident of the town. heard the venerable Judgo deliver, he referred to Harwinton as wholly an agricultural community and though the sound of tho wheel and the buzz of machinery was not heard within her borders, yet she occupied high position among the neigh- boring towns, and had sent forth men into the world who were an honor to the town and to the State. The exhibition of fine horses was very good, of which Harwinton has more than an ave- rage numbers, r...
 Harwinton is situated on along the range of hills which separate the Naugatuck from the Connecti- cut and Pennington valley, thereby furnishing one of the best grazing districts in the State. There are two churches here, both located at the center and Episcopal, the former under the pastoral of Rev. c. H. Bissel recently of Windsor. The other church does not maintain regular preaching and has no settled minister at the present time. <. @Iss..lf E..e E4. j.
 There is an academy here, which for several years past, has only been open during the fall and winter terms. '+s
 At the town meeting on Monday, the Republican ic1x yEas Inv ma A desperate effort was made by the Democracy to | gain possession of the town offices, but they made a complete failure of it. fl f@ q |
 In our morning walk this morning, we gained | many new ideas, also received polite bow across the street. We met a youthful specimen of young America who, i'll answer to our question concern i ing his immediate Occupation, informed us that he was minding his own business, and that this occu- pied all of his time. Truly the world is moving | and we are moving with 1t. OUILP. Y |
 (* These statements show the utter unreliab;litv of newspaper correspondents The Assessors of Harwinton, who ought to know best, listed the 1 cattle of that town last fall, at an average of s per head, s9 less than the general average of the county; and they listed their horses at an average of s49 each, while the general average of the coun- y was SIS per head!--ED.l f. l.: s; Il A correspondent of the Waterbury Anae,1caa is rather sarkustikar on the Horse trot of the last lay of the ToFrington Fair
 ! A ten dollar bet was made on Turner and taken. The drivers, after duly settling preliminaries, and making their wills, took their positions, on the rack and started on the wings of the wind, reins ,rasped, feet braced, coat tails lifted, and hair srect in true artistic style. In his Enthusiasm, Turner's driver frequently rose from his seat as-i ,nnlne "a horizontal attitude, adding not little to he picsuresqueness of the scene. M The : home ,ad Ssaked,is on Turner ss The race Is not aI- Tays to the swift nor the battle othe strong" In word, Turner didn't win.