Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-12
L7th District Senatorial Convention.

AStO biStf1CC 5SQaCCTlaI ICsltSAtiCH.
 The Senatorial Convention of the l7th District assembled at the Village Hall in West Cornwall, on the 5th day Of March, 1868.
 temporary organization was effected: and tho Committee on Credentials were as follows:
 G. B. Bgrrall of Salisbury. 

 J. W. Books of Goshen. 55F < Dr. H. NJ. Knight of Salisbury.
 A permanent organization was then made. appointing J. K. Shepard, Presi- dent; c. E, Baldwin, Secretary. and D. P. Baldwin, Assistant Secretary.
 COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
 c. E. Burrall, Salisbury.
 L. l.. Whiting, Norfolk. . s. G. Dean, Sharon.
 FOR DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
 Lyman Cunning, Canaan. :..
 J. K. Shepard, Norfolk.
 Nathan Hart, Cornwall.
 After little informal balloting, Theo- dore 5. Gold, Esq, of Cornwall, was unan- imously declared the Candidate for Senator for the 17th Senatorial District.
 The following Resolutions were adopted unanimously:
 ResoIoed, That in the present action of Congress ill view of the usurpations and treason of the President, We see signs for good; and while We endorse the action of the House of Representatives in present. Ing articles of Impeachment, we call upon Congress to stand firm for the right, and hurl from power Andrew Johnson, who has persistently dlsIegavded and obstrUcted the proper execution of the laws.
 Resot0ed, That We endorse ;he action of the Republican party of Connecticut at the last State Convention, and call upon all voters to rally Ill support of Marshall P. Jewell and tke Republican Ticket.
 Resotrea, That We present to the voters of the l7th District, Theodore s. Gold. as worthy of our confidence, and pledge him our hearty support in the coming canvass
 c. E. BALDWIN, Secretary
 ssz7" We notice in the Watertown cor respondence of the Waterbury -4nericas, an account of the celebration of the birth day of an old lady, which came off at that place on the twenty-ninM day of February. She was born on February 18th, 17o6, and as there was, Of course, no intercalary day Ill the first year of the present century, her first birthday came on February %, 1894.
 9S- The Naugatuck railroads ultimatum is 10 ran milk train when the farmers will pledge 4JCO quarts daily, bat the farmers are backward about pledSIng So much.-PGdaliuna.
 Are not our farmers making a great mis- take? Judging from the eagerness shown on the line of the Housatonic, where the experiment. has been tried, they are likely to miss au excellent chance for both ma- king money and saving labor
 ase~ Professor Loomis of Yale College makes the following statement regarding the extreme cold of the past winter:
 Summary ToT Me Nt,ee Umter Eont|ts.-The mean temperature of last December WAS 24.3 the mean temperature ofJanuary was 239o the mean temperate of the last three month was 22.9o The mean temperature of the three winter months of 1856 was one degree lower than this With this sing exception the past winter has been the coldest known in New Haven during period o ninety years.
 The amount of snow for the three months was 1; inches. The amount of rain and melted snow was 792 inches which is but little greater than the av. craze fall in two months.
 The mean temperature of the month of Februa- ry at New Haven was 20.5o which is 7.06o below the average temperature of this month, and this has been the coldest February known in New Ha- ven since 16a3.
 bs7~ Tho Republican Senatorial Conyen. tion for the 18th District, held at Nolcott- vile, on Wednesday, nominated Charles B. Andrews, of Litchfeld, for Senator.