Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-13
COUNTY ITEMS.

The up train on the HousatoDic road last Sat urday night ran of the track The engine ran over 276 ties before the train was stopped. Pas sengers who were aboard say that some styles of railroad travelling are not much superior to the western corduroy roads.
 have sold the past year $36, GOO worth of castors for tables chairs sofas, bedsteads and other uses also. during the past months they have sold over B, 900 sets.
 Seth Walton, who has been superintendent of the Davis iron ore bed, in the town of Salisbury, for the last twenty years, has renqushed the bu- siness for the present, and Mr. Harrington takes his place. During the 20 years, Mir. Walton has raised about 900 tons of the to the surface and the yield of iron IS about 4o per cent, about 8O 900 tons of pig iron has been made from that quantity of ore which at $35 per ton amounts to 8 8O0 GOO, and as the other mines ill the same town have in the same time produced & still lar ger quantity of ore, the aggregate value of the iron, even in the pig, would probably exceed hve and one half millions of dollars.
 The Middlesex Congregational Association and the Ltchfeld South Consociation, have passed re- solutions repudiating the Independent and dlscour- aging its circulation among Congregationalists.
 We clip the following from the Winsted Herald:
 wssrEp.-on Saturday the premises of Philip Shelley, near the Catholic Church were searched for liquor. Shelley and Mrs. Ouinlan resisted Officer Horne With an axe, while Shelley's son held large stone in each hand, req dv to fire While Capt Horne went for assistance, numerous jugs were hastily lugged of, and when he returned no liquor could be found. They were arrested for resistance to the lawful authorities and punished by fine and imprisonment. Shelley applied to Squire Hitchcock for legal assistance and advice, who told him that he would have noth- ing to do with man who resisted the officers of the law. ,r,,.
 - John Mccarthy was arrested on Monday night for assault and battery upon Mrs. James heenan, and placed under $1OO bonds to answer the charge It is said that Keenan has converted ms property into greenbacks and left for California, leaving ms wife. whom he married on compuislon a snort tune aoo to the very icy charities of Elm Street.
 VCoLEBRooK,-Mr Theron Parsons has moved from North Colebrook to the Center.-Wet wealth CT has greatly hindred the progress of the spring work of all kinds. Many have not Pionghed ther gardens, while large proportion or tne farmers have not begun their corn-plantmg. Apple-trees did not blossom till June 1st, but the prospect IS very fine for all kinds of hult.-Mr h. Rockwen IS making preparations to erect large barn on the site of his old one and there IS an average amount of activity in the improvement of buildings and their surroundings.
 From the Waterbury American: WoLcoTrvnLE.-Buildingi is having brisk run, and improvement is the order of the day. The Allen House has been enlarged and repaired. H. 5. Barbour has made additions to his house and has broken the monotony of white paint by neat fancy color; his law-ofice has also undergone re- pairs and reflects the same color as the house. On