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Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
WOODBURY.

Mir. David O. Bacon, aged 70, his brother William H. Bacon, S1, and sis ter, Mrs. Timothy Terrell, took their Thanksgiving dinner together, last week, at the house of the former-all in good health, and promise we'll for years to come.
 Edwin Lemon has sold the George Belts place to Stephen H. Crane.
 - On Thanksgiving day, Rev. MT. Wins low, of the South Congregation Church, preached very able and interesting dis course from the words, ''When the right eous are in authority, the people rejoice. ; Prov. xxix, ?; showing that government is from God-the advantages of Liberty and Justice to nation, &c.-also, vivid picture of our late national struggle, it's re suits, and our glorious prospect for the early future. The day being stormy, the sermon was repeated on Sabbath evening, by request. The house was full, on tho oc casion.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
WASHINGTON.

lThe following communication, received sometime since, was mislaid. d.-ED. :-
 F. w. Gum, Esq, is digging cellar at the North end of his residence for an addi- tion of twenty feet, and intends toraise the two story part, and make large school room on the third floor, thus having large and finely remodeled house.
 E. J. Hurlburt's store is fast approach irg completion, and is to be as fine one as is often seen in the country.
 Oliver Gum has gone into company with John H. Logan in the Axe-Helve fac tory. He was in North Carolina peddline stoves, was thrown into jail, at the break. ing out of the war, lost all his property, but broke from prison and escaped with others, enlisted and served through the war in the 11th West Virginia. being taken prisoner three times and enjoying the delights of such democratic resorts as Libby Prison and Salisbury, besides acting as scout and participating in some of the hardest fought battles. 45a si
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

CoNNEcTIcUT WESTERN RAILROAD. We sec by the Winsted Herald, that the Presi- dent of that road stated to meeting in Winsted, last week. that the building of the road now rested with that place alone, and that the moment Winchester increased her subscription Sl0,O00 more, the work would be commenced. S160,000 have been raised in that town already, and commit tee has been appointed to procure the rest.
 Mir. Barnum said the road would pass through Bakerville and New Hartford Cen ire. if the people of those localities could raise $500
 Simsbury voted their subscription foul to one, last week.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
FALLS VILLAGE.

Hunts Lyman Iron Co.'S, furnace at Huntsville was completely destroyed by fire last Tuesday afternoon, together with fonr coal houses, two of which contained nearly eighty thousand bushels of coal Tine coal was by great exer5isr1 c6vercd over within twenty four hours aftor the fire, aal they will probably save tIitty five thousand bushels of it. The loss is nearly $50, 900; in sured for$ 15,000. They will rebuild imme- diately. c. C. Potter's house and bnillngs were damaged about $500.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
MARRLEDALE.

Bishop Williams made visitation of St. Andrews Church. Monday afternoon, the 23d, ult., and preached and confirmed 20 persons. ....-.
 It was five months and ten days, from the last snow storm of Spring to the first snow of this Fall
 = Mrs. Eliza Peet. has sold her farm to Samuel Millington of New Milford. for $6,5OO.
 Il. II. Clark has sold the McBath place to s. Miiington, price $3, 900.
 - Ezra Hendrix has sold his place to s. H. Hill
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Miscellaneous Items.

1 Steam-hcaters arc being put in operation in tho cars of several of our American railways.
 There arc $7 ,5GO,O OCO invested in the National Banks of St. Louis.
 The Imperial Library in Paris, it is stated, con- tains 100, 900 printed and LOCO manuscript vol | umes.
 It is predicted that in ten years the Ncosho Val 1 ley, Kansas, will contain million of inhabitants. l Troy proposes to have fire alarm telegraph. 1 Are the people who live Tn Wolcottyillo Wolcott- villious ?-N I. Commercial. l They shoot swans in Virginia and sell them in 1 market for g. 50. l The minute hand of tho British Parliament clock moves seven inches every half minute. A Lowell, (Mass.) voter put five cont stamp on his ballot, thinking It essential. Plantations are in demand in Louisiana, since the election of Grant. phyician for the insane says that Wall street is the field from which he gathers 'h0m General Humphrey estimates the cost of ship ! canal around Niagara Falls at $12,000OO0 Low-necked dresses are going out of fashion in Paris. .-
 Not less than throo hundred ladies arc now prac-
  is increasing every year.
 :, The slaughter of wild ducks on the Susquehan- nah and rivers of Maryland, commenced about two weeks ago. The first day that the law allowed gunping over f. G00 ducks were killed on the Sus- quehanna.
 All the post office clerks in Cleveland are wo- mon. country paper advertises for an 'honest boy to make devil of'' , The new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, with single span of 1,264 feet, will be completed i'll few weeks. Sincerity, says MT. Emerson, is tho sheet an- chor of the scholar.
 Alboni and Patti were among tho singers at Rossini's funeral. What is better than promising young man? paying one. Lemons are now sold in Boston by retail at less than one half the price asked for apples.
 Transported for hfe-the man who marries hap oily. Senator Summers residence in Washington is heinz newly fitted in elegant style. Mrs. sumner will ioin her husband ill Washington shortly. can the secrets of nature be learned of babbling brooks rhieaoo has thus far packed hardly more than ono third as many hogs as in the same tune, last year. proof-readers society in Boston calls itself the "House of Correction" The new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls has : single span of 1,264 feet. The Czar is the best, crowned horseman in Eu- rope.
 The Queen of Portugal has crowned Mile Ni- son with golden coronet.
 The peach trees arc in blossom at Tallahassee. Florida.
 Patti is reported to bo busily engaged paying oil her husbands old debts; and he, Tn contracting new ones. F
 Minnesota pays s1O apiece for wolf scalps, and in tho past year has expended s1O,OOO for such purchases
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
The Shepaug Valley Railroad.

1 Litchfield gives this undertaking q fine
 start On Monday, this town, by q vote of
 434 to 151, authorized Judge Seymour to
 subscribe $94, 300, one fifth the amount of Jour grand list, to the capital stock of that
 company. If the towns equally interested
 do as we'll, the road will be built
 That any town on the proposed line can
 lose anything by subscription, the statis- tics of towns on the Naugatuck limo we published not long since, would show to be impossible. Tho grand lists of the towns on that road were increased within the five years after it's construction, far more than the pr cent that these towns can snb- scribe. Gan any one seriously suppose it possible that road through the towns on the Shepaug Valley line would not raise their grand lists at least 5 pr cent, whatey- CT might be the value of its stock?.
 But great. perhaps the chief merit of the proposed road is that it is competing line both with the Naugatuck and with the Hou- satonic. It will be shorter than either; it will be independent of both; it will run directly towards our great commercial cen- Ire, New York; and, when the Brookfield and White Plains road is completed, it will form the upper portion of line radiating directly from that centre. Those who have compared the rates on the Housatonic and with those on roads that are within reach of competition can guess how much the business men near the Shepaug Valley line, who may still do business with the old roads, will gain by the reduction of rates that must necessarily follow the con- of the new line
 We hope the matter will be thoroughly ill the towns that are yet to vote. Wherever the undertaking is fully under stood, it's success is certain.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

Ten thousand dollars insurance on the life of Edward Remach the poet, expired the day before lis death
 It is stated that since Fisk, Gould x Co. became managers of the Erie Railway Company, it has cost the Company one million of dollars for executive, legislative and legal services.
 of King Diops in the following manner "T The Alng wore q dress coat-and nothing else; his fIrst minister wore shirt without sleeves s-and nothing else his second minister wore necktie and nothing else but tho Queen varied the fashion by wearing an umbrela-and nothing else"
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
POLITICAL.

The overplus of Democrats ill Kentucky Is accounted for by the tremendous amount ! of business they do up Salt River. SENATORS. Private advices say that Sen .tor Ramsay will be elected from Min nesota. DooittIe will probably be sue ceedel by Hon. Matt. Carpenter, from Wisconsin. Morgan will probably be TO- elected from New York. Chemung county, Now York, was carried for Grant by one vote. A gen tleman with d broken leg, who insisted on being carri- ed to the polls, is lauded as the |" banner voter"
 The Mobile Register says southern plant CTS are better off to-day than they were be- fore the War. They are free from debt. Formerly they were, always one crop in debt, aud belonged to their factors.
 General Grant told an old friend of his recently, that he did not propose to desig- nate his Cabinet until February, as he de- sired to acquaint himself with the views of the Congresslonal Representatives of the party which had elected him.
 Grants official majority in California is 50G
 United States Commissioner Holiday on Friday, rendered decision on the case of county, UhIo, cnaTgeehd wrtan r4Fas4pklin $ ulent naturalization papers. Judge Pugh has been bound over in the sum of S5,OOO to appear before the United States circuit court. 1 Seymours majority in Kentucky is 76,' 32O.
 A despatch from Omaha says Grants of fcial majority in Nebraska is 4,29O. But Ter for Governor, has 8 majority of 2,41O, and Tatfe, Republican, for Congress, 2,436,
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

large scale. and have been very successful Ill accommodating fortune in tho business Bridgfpo'f Gaadard @ SALISBURY. The. engineers. iii the cm- ploy of the Connectieut Western Railroad Co, commenced their locating survey at the State line on the western border of this town, last week, Ut q point where tho sur yey of the Duchess and Columbia E. R. from fishiill terminates, abont one mile east of the Harlem R. k. and Millerton de- pot The party at present consists of eight men under the charge of Mir. Schenck, an expert Clvll Engineer from Pennsylvania Near the end ot the first mile from the State ilne they encounter a mine of iron ore called the < 'Old Hill" To pass this without interfering with the mining opera tions has caused some delay. Short trial lines are being run. The ore bed is sit,a- ted on the summit ill the pass of Taokonac range of mountains through. which the Railroad must run to avoid the orc and al : so the hard crest rock of the mountain, which in several places comes to the sur lace Tn the gap or pass, requires very skill ful engineering.
 = Tho new cave Is now open for visit OfS.
 
 the brook in the centre village
 - The telegraph line on the Harlem is being connected with that up the Housa- tonic, by an extension from Lakevile to Millerton -SentiaeL
 From the Winsted Herald:
 NEW HARTFORD. l.. Loomis of this place, has fulfilled his contract with a Windsor man to walk from this place to Windsor, ln the event of the success of the Grant electoral ticket in this state. MT. Loomls walked the twenty fiY, ,eilse, i,, i've hours! Norman Harris of New Hart lord. with a four horse coach fuil of sym. pathlzing friends, accomp lnied the walk ist. The day would have been one of rare fun, had not Mir. Harris met with an ;.cc dent while going down Indian Hiii, by which he will probably lose two horses, the the leaders becoming unmanage4b!e by the unlocking of the whifiatrea5 Harris loss will be about $5OJ
 COLEBRooK RIVER ntiey's duckiug works are doing q brisk business Mr Iorrey proposes to erect factory for the man utacture of silk thread The main building, seventy by twenty four, IS 10 stand on the elst slie Of the river, and the power is to be furnished by 8 belt from the Ducklng Factory on the opposite si,l>.
 tzxg~ Squire McMahon, o: New Milford, at noon of eIectian day, predicted demo cratic majority of eight. in that iowa. The count showed a republican majority of five. Only eighty five out O. the way! Very wild guessing. When a party gets SD Mighty as that, 1t is not long for this world -Vi"ste0 Heruil.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

De~ An atrocious murder was commit. ted at Richmond, last week. One Pollard, editor of the Opinion, rabid fire-eater, has taken of late to labelling ladies in the place. He accused Miss Grant of un. chastity Her brother lay in wait for Pol lard aud shot him from three story win dow as he was passing in the street. The murderer had locked himself into the room and had several pistols &e. He was arrest. ed but the crowd cheered him as he passed the Coroner's jury found that Pollard was killkd by ''some person unknown" and he was set at large on ball. Although griev ously provoked, young Grant is none tho less most cowardly murderer.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
NEW PRESTON.

A post mortem examination of the body of MT. Isaac Brown disclosed the presence of a cancerous tumor upon the left side, which was doubtless the cause of his death.
 Smith x Burnham have started their twine factory after suspension of opera tions for several weeks.
 As Dr. E. P. Lyman was return ing home from professional visit, some two weeks since, at late hour of the night (l2 o'clock), his attention was arrested by an unusual light in the di- rection of our village church. He urged his horse and found it to proceed from the burning of wood and chips in close proximity to the building In very short time the ediice must have been enveloped in flames as the wind was blowing strong in inc direction ofthe church. The fire origi- hated from a pail of hot ashes and embers which had been left standing upon the chips.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
LITCHFIEID.
oh Monday the vote was taken oi the town subscription to the Shepang Valley Railroad. Itresulted as follows:

- p'ioil 10 the oHepatiB FaheJ i'aiifoad. 1t resulted as follows: Yes Aei
 No 157
 lhls carries the measure by an excess oi
 lo1 over the requisite two thirds vote. Oi the l5l negative votes, at least 130. were on the slope towards the Naugatuck. Hence westward of and including Che;nut Hill about mile east of the village. j the vote stood twenty for, to one againstI the sub scrlptlon. When we consider thatIthe whole population of the towns that are b vote on thls matter, hereafter, is similarly sit,,ated With reference to the road with this latter section of Litchfeld, this result would cer- tainly indicate very heavy mabrities in fa- vor of the measure.
 -E!iada P. Bronson has boF Fnght the old Buel place on Chesnnf Hill df Alexander J. Grosiean. Price $1, 400.
 - David H. Warner and vie ouit-claim all their interest in. the old Filley place to George Chipman for $25 5,0O.
 - It is reported that the opponents of the railroad subscription h4 ye determined to try to rescind Mondays vote It is a hopeless undertaking Much moro than g majority of tho whole numb Der of votes on our list were cast in fa-or of the measure. How then can the majority be obtained to rescind? n.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

CHARLES W. TUTTLE of Collinsville has an old copper coin, ''Brittania Rex" dated 1736, very distinct, and another dated 1739 The coin in question IS probably Aan old helf-penny with Georgus II 'sBrittaine Rex, "&c. inscribed thereon,
 THOMAS MCDONALD drank himself to death at Hartford, on Saturday last.
 A STORE in Southford was burned few nights since.
 Coal is selling at Ss15 per ton in Dam bury.
 THE clock on the Sheffield School of Sci once, in New Haven, communicates with q clock III a jewelry shop, nearly half a mile distant, by means of an electric apparatus, and they strike the honrs of the day in un- ison.
 A SWORD has been found in the old Wash ington House, Stanford It IS inferred that Washington once wore it and it will bring great price THE up freight train on the Naugatllck rairoad,o Tuesday afternoon, lost a wheel just below Naugatlck and ran q mile with a three-wheeled truck. Finally the truck gave out, and the car fell, throwing five cars from the track, and injuring them considerably
 A NEW Haven lady recently engaged q daughter ot the Emerald Isle to sleep in the house during the absence of hes husband, as the recent burglaries had rather unset- tied her nerves. Not long since her hus- band returned, but before starting for his house, stopped to take a few smiles with some friends, and was delayed till a late hour. On reaching home, his nlgnt-hey rsaiainp. and SO he crawied as quietly as possluro ...I- the kitchen wingow. Bridget heard and saw the burglar, however, and after he had divested himself of his boots, made a spring for him, caught him around the body il such q manner as to pinion his arms, and then shouted for the mistress to come to her assistance. The unearthly cries of Bridget soon brought the lady, who, on perceiving her liege lord, said: 70 speak, if voice thou hast; ... | Tell mo what sacrifice can soOtlc thy spirit" or words to that effect, which brought the man to his senses. An explanation follow ed, aud all retired to bed, feeling safe with such st guardian as Bridget.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

DanThe Presidential electors of Connect icut met at the Secretary of States office, Tuesday, to perform their important func- tion. Whether they conclude to vote for Hiram Ulysses Grant, Unconditional Sur render Grant, or Ulysses s. Grant, for Pres. ident of tbe United States we have not heard. Its about all the option allowed them.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
HARWINTON

A son of Russell scovile aged about 12 years, was kicked by horse, he was leading him to water He was hit below the eve. a bad wound inflicted, and it is feared the sight of the eye destroyeI The wound was dressed by Doetor Hanchett, Of Wolcottville, and is doing welt.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

TYNa--A--LINC-.T .TYNa.--The Protestant Ohurchman mentions case in New Jersey where the vestry of an Episcopal congrega- tion have resolved unanimously that their rector be requested to make such exchan- ges, or hold such fraternl relations with non- Episcopal elergymen, as he may think desirable and pledging to them their hear ty sympathy and support and adherence, whatever may be the consequences.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

THOMAS R. AaNEw the celebrated New York Grocer and Tea Dealer, No. 26O Greenwich Street, New York, Is now offer ing the greatest bargains ever offered to the public in that city, to close his immense stock of Groceries, Teas, Flour, Molasses, &c., for New Years. Now is the time to purchase for the Holidays. 2w34
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

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 the appearance of our paper; but the giving
 out of a roller has made bad work with our outside page.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

DJ~ The town of Waterbury has clerk of school district who can neither read nor write.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03

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