Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-24

beeoe, Rufus Smith, Edwin McNeil
 SENAToRIAL.-Daniel c. Churchill, Amos benton, Leonard Stone, Geo W. Mason.
 PROBATE. E.-Jason Whiting, Henry Bis sell, Samuel H.. Dudley, Harris B.. ;Gib- bud
 TOWN CoIAnrrEE. -Chas. B. Andrews, Edward o. Peck, Daniel T. Wooster, H. s. Gr1swold, Howard E. Gates.
 The bad travelling prevented large out side attendance but pleasant little reunion this caucus certainly was. Nothing more Christian like and forgiving than the spirit manifested by the late Johnson men, can bs imagined. They came in and took up the business of nominations as kindly, and as much as 8 matter Of course, as though they lad never been absent, or had step ped out for a moment unobseryed When the late head of Johnsonism in this county, nominated his old ally, the sheriff, to go down and labor for the renoInination of our present Representative, at Bridgeport, and was himself appointed to assist at the renomination of Gov. Hawley at New Ha- ven. We wondered whether we had dream ed that there had been reign of terror Ill the county, heads falling in quick sue cession into the guillotine basket, ,innumer- able funerals of postmasters, and ols the way to onr office we were on the point of dropping into the late Variety, Store of R, Marsh, for our mail. 4. T ... .-.,..
 The demeanor of the newly reconstruct. ed'' was great improvement on that oi the original Prodigal. There we radicals stood with open arms and with tears ,oi thankful1less iii our eyes a scene seemed inevitable, but their self-possession saved Us the unmanly exhibition They forbore to harrow our feelings with complaints of Dem. ocratic huslis; neither did they demand the fatted calf, as they had a plain constitution al right to do; but applied themselves con sideratelly, quietly, and modestly. to the business in hand, that of nominating each other to the various positions the meeting had been called to fill. This business ac. compiished, and the point being establish ed that a man can no more secede from the Republican party, constitutionally, than q State from the Union, the caucus adjourn ed. ,...,a.
 So complete is the fusion and so thor ough the reconciliation, that but single Union man is now to be seen outside, the Radical lines; and he, as he stands at his post, cold, exposed, and solitary, wraps his classic mantle around his head, and bitter. ly exclaims that, ''there is but one Conser- vative left in Litchfeld." .'-,.i- -',' f.'
 - So heavy fall of snow and such an uninterrupted term of severe weather as She last fortnight has witnessed are almost unparalleled in the remembrance of the present generations Friday night was to .our taste the worst; the thermometer fell but little below zero, yet there was no eva- ding the wind which came swift and full oi fine snow,eyen though closely housed. Tbe last, most Ill timed, and inexcusable storm of all, burst upon us Sunday night iust when, in any we'll regulated season, we might have expected warm change. it was followed on Monday afternoon by an unnatural, unhealthy calm, soon succeeded by the perpetual, high, keen wind of this cold winter. Of drifts we have never seen such an exhibition. The village seems to have been overwhelmed by frozen sea whose waves have dashed high over fence and sidewalk as far as the eye can reach up and down it's main streets. On our right we find half our neighbor's house hidden from sight by atremendous intervening bill low, while, on the left, above another almost as high, loom the port holes of the Ssnti,ae! deck of the Mansion House. Dangerous and unusual height for such heavy metalD. The road, however, in the centre of our wide streets remains open, and such busi- ness as Litchfeld transacts in winter pro. ceeds without interruption. d, -. -.
 -The stages have been unable to run with any sort of regularity. The New Mill ford and Cornwall Bridge stages went out on Thursday last and did not return till Tuesday. The West Cornwall stage going out also on Thursday, came back Sunday, and has not been able to make return trip since. Altogether the prospect of a full State Convention to-day is not as fair as we could wish.
 - The Roger Cook place has been sold by Chas. L. Perkins to Chas. s. Buel, for the accommodation of Rev. Wm. l., Peck, family and school, for the sum of 5000 and possession to be given on the 1st of April next.
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