Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-04
COUNTY ITEMS.
H. N.

CORNWALL. MT. c. w.. Marsh raised hls new house last week, which promises to be one of the plasantest ill the village.
 Work IS being vigorously pushed re- pairing the damage done by the late fresh. ct, and the roads are in aaquite passable condition again. stz . t.,a..l a0i.. :
 CANAAN. Kennedy was tried De- fore Justice Gillette, on Saturday last, foi assaulting Nicholas Smith. He was found guilty, and sentenced to pay fine and costs amounting to $1l l95.-Sentinel.
 We have hitherto been skeptical about the Shepaug Valley railroad, but it now looks very much like coming reality The Litchfeld individual subscriptions have nearly reached the required amount F-$9O, ,0OO-and men have got hold of the enterprise who mean business. We hearti ly desire to see this road built, and we OK. hort the friends of the project to- strike while the iron is hot It takes . great dea of concuf7'ence, in effort, interest, and time, to build 8, railroad; and if our Shepaue friends fail thiss time, it will be twenty years before they can again command so many essential elements of success as now. Wherefore, las they Say at a raisii0 "Now then, all together!" !"-W Wiasted Herald.
 
 From the Winsted Herahi:T 1gg@ { PLEASANT VA1LEY.-E. J. Youngs has a COW, half Alderney, whose milk in, June last yielded at the rate of fourteen and a half pounds of butter per week, and that with no other feed than such as she ob. tained from an ordinary pasture. 9a, CoRNwAL.--Hon. H. J. Simmons has bought the Land of Lorenzo Smith, west of the river, for $1, ,O00.
 - J. A. Blerce has bought of D. F. Gold the property between Cornwall and Corn wall Bridge, for $4, FOG, ,and proposes to en- large the works, and carry on several bran ,ches of business, including saw, shingle, and blaming mills, wagon making, and general blacksmithing.s fas. noi3THo
 a- The Furnace Compahy's dami will be completed in about two months. ,f, et7s | R1ynRToN.-D. H. Stevens is putting up Q new horse barn. u
 HI. J. and G. H. Ward arc about go- ing into the piano business 13 jeta E Col Justin Hodgeis spending few days in town, y--t5 4s.r-f,..rf 41,a ~-
 - The minstrels performed ill New Bos- ton, Friday evening. l"' '''a ~aG , -Geo. Afford has commenced the study of law with Hon. H. Goodwin lIsIaa o NEW HARTFORD. Clara Louisa Kellogg has returned to New York. jgls} 1T Trse so :. ', r7- 7--The new, Singing School under the di. rection of Thomas D. Bentley, Jr., com naenced at Academy Hall on Friday even- ing the 18th. ar sa3sln8sib 5asa 3.s.13
 = MT. Churchill, the former contractor on the new railroad between here and Col insville, has been succeeded by Cephas Roberts and Caleb O. Goodwin, who will push therWork at once. f,aE.feaY seff l4+ 2
 - Wm, Fl. Bushnell's new residence is approaching completion, and the grounds are being laid out in a tasteful man her. 2 WeH. Barnann,l President of the Lee and New Haven railroad, will visit Lee in a few days, to look over the entire route of the road, foot up the stock already sub scribed, and to consider the matter of put ting the road under contract this fall. af
 The caves on the Miles estate in Sails bury have been increased 3to three, the last one discovered having among its at l fractions al room eighty feet in height. a.agt
 The contract for grading that section of the Connecticut Western railroad, extend ing from the Housatonic railroad on one !; tide to the Harlem on the other, has been made, and the track is to be ready fer the l 'ails by the lst of October, 1870.E
 The negro, George Smith, who a attempt d to murder Mir. J. s. Wheeler in Cole |