Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

.ake4 MT. H. 5. Barbour's law office Mir. Melch IS a graduate of Yale College and Law School and comes to us well recon mended. Mr. Barbour leaves us this week with his family,-he has our best wishes for his success. .-HeraId N-se
 WooDBURY.-Mr. NJ. c. Curtiss. the art. ist under whose direction the First Gong fegationai Church was decorated at the recent Bi-centennial celebration, has pre- sented Wm. Cothren Esq, a picture of the interior of the church as it appeared on that occasion. It is finely executed sketch about 18x24 inches in size.
 Maker, the great dispenser of physic and healing potions and plasters, has both his eyes closed in consequence of a recent visit to Waterbury. He supposes he posened his hand with some sumack bushes, aEd dcommunicated the virus to his eye by rubbing It is nothing unusual for people Ste return from Waterbury with swelled heads. but seldom from such inno- cent causes It Is warning however against picking berries.-Americdn a LAKEvIILE. ,,~.-.-
 Philip Wells, IT,, of Amenia, was ,seyere- ly injured last Tuesday morning in Lake- vile Conn. He was riding before the plow. a young and spirited horse, which is sup posed to have been startled by the whiftie- tree striking his heels; he ran through the field which is on hillside, and the child was thrown from the saddle near barn, probably struck the building, and his feet through, and he was dragged long dis. tance, his head downward. The entire body was bruised, especially the head and o11 ho Ha Iv0 m up immediately in semi. conscious state and remained so for some hours. Dr.. Bis sell made a careful examination, and found no fractures. Under his kind and skillful attention the lad is steadily improving, and if no injury developes, it is hoped he will recover. 4f s 1r~ .
 The accident was witnessed by several men but no help could be given. The lad held bravely the running horse, but his was inadequate It was won derful and providential escape from instant death -Amenfo Times.
 KENT.-Mr. F. A. Mallory has two lady boarders from New Haven. We can call them the lone city stars of the place, they being the only city boardeIs in town. I hope they are influential personages and can, by their influence. call more just such to this place, for there is not a more healthy place in the Housatonic Valley, with such variety of scenery, and MT. Conn has a large house and is ready to take all that may come on modera'e e terms.-Sentinel B THoMAsToN.- Clock shops in Thom- aston have smut down for two weeks, or until it rains. The Knife Shops have also sed,-men all out of employment. Many of the emyloyes of the Plymouth Woolen Company are also out of work, and the opinion now IS that the machinery can run but short time longer with the present supply of water. The mountain springs and streams are nearly all dry, many wells have failed entirely. There are ten fam lilies in this section dependant on never failing well.
 The children belonging to the 14th District, celebrated the closing of school in very neat and appropriate manner.
 Last Thursday, (July 18,) Mrs Fred Nichols of Harwinton, while driving near the clock case shop, with a load of eggs and huckleberries for the Thomaston mar ket, was upset. A severe cut over the right eye and the loss of her merchandise was the result. - VaNey InQec.
 Jacob N. Blakesee, of Watertown, 82 years of age, during the having season hired two able bodied Irishmen to help him, but after working il the field day or so, they found it impossible to keep up with him in the meadow, and left in great disgust at being ''outdriven.'
 The stoppage of the work on sections oi the Connecticut Western railroad through Winsted, does not give satisfaction to the company, who will in the course of two weeks cause the contractors to put on a force of men, or will put them on themselves at the contractors expense.
 Our Winsted correspondent writes: On Thursday morning fire was discovered in small gin mill situated on Main street, Winsted, nearly opposite the railroad depot, and before 1t was put out the building was seriously damaged. The fire evidently started in the cellar, and, as the owner says, but few minutes after he left it It was we'll ihsured.-Cowant.
 MT. c. James, late principal of St.. Paul's School, in Brookfeld, has purchas- ed the property in Sharon known as the Sharon institute, and intends keeping a frst-cass school, the fall term of which will commence the second Wednesday in September.
 Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has recently purchased J. s. Hallock's farm in New Hartford for $6, 900, and intends to remove the house and out-buildings, which stand upon high eminence overlooking the village, and build on the site fine resi- dence for herself. The grounds will be handsomely laid out and graded, and the house will be reached by a broad carriage drive winding around the hill. f
 The reunion of the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery takes place al. Thomaston on Wednesday. the 7th of September. On the same day, tine corner stone of soldiers monument will be laid on the green at Plymouth Centre, with appropriate services including an address by Col. Erastus Blakes- lee, of the First Connecticut Cavalry Haytford Post.
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