Litchfield enquirer., 1870-11-10

State.
 ,- = We understand that a movement is on
 foot for the early, closing of stores in this
 village. Itis proposed to shut up at eight
 o'clock of every evening except Saturday
 For the store keepers and for business,
 such an arrangement would be an excellent
 one, but what that important class of our our
 citizens who are too moral to haunt bar
 rooms, and who must haunt somewhere,
 would do after 8 P. M.. we are at a loss to
 guess They do not seem to be wanted at
 home, and if the gentlemen who now en- joy most of their society are so ungrate-
 iul as to turn them out of doors so ear ly and in such an indictment season of the |year, we see no other way but to open our
 chapels and conference rooms, and minis.
 ter religious consolation in place of the
 diet of ossip on which they now feed
 The Temperance address of the Rev.
 H. W. Elliot on Monday night was. one of
 the most eloquent and powerful appeals to the sluggish conscience of the limos we have ever heard Greatly m owed with the importance of his subject, speaking ex- tempore and most earnestly, Mr. Elliot presented the plain facts of this plain case in the most effective manner. Avoiding entirely the absurd mixture of buffoonery and sentimentality, the doubtful scientific statements and the strained scripture in- of the professional temper ance lecturer, the speaker confined himself to the practical question before. this and every other community. Taking the great fact that the use of intoxicating liquor is ruinous to many and necessary to none. he thoroughly exposed the selfshness which pleads for personal indulgence. knowing all the time that the example of such in- diligence will almost surely lead others to destruction. In conclusion he said he could see no reason why the kind of effort which had proved eficacious in other com munities should not prove efficacious here. that the people of Litchfeld ought to be the last to desert the glorious enterprise which started in our midst under the of Dr. Lyman Beecher." l-s1 .&- A Salisbury liquor-seller named Beers, and Salisbury contable. came down here. Monday, with mittimus committing the | former for unlawful dealing in liquor. We 1! suspect that on the road the prisoner, the liquor, and the constable, got little mix ed, and on their arrival here, they were at loss how to. wind up their business. Final y, the prisoner gave his parol of honor a: the jail, ana went across the street to en- joy himself, while the constable went nome. It was sometime before MT. Beers discovered that it was his duty to stay where he boards F%9fi ses'5Fss #
 The cou.ruittee to procure a ooIulers Monument have contracted with Messrs. q. Bissell & Sons, of Poughkeepsie, to erect for $2,O0O a Soldiers Monument in his place Relatives of deceased soldiers Ire requested to furnish the Committee with full information regarding name, age, ime and cause of death, name of regiment, sc., in each case, so that errors may be Ivoided. Ia.. s~s4 .p,.,I4l "- Anson g. Knox of Woodbury, is on he jail limits, the first instance in many ,ears of confinement (?) on civil process.
 - Michael Burns of Waterbury, sells bout 45 acres of land in Milton,, to MT. r u w.:ht UJl ,I5~ia| - = I.E.a Nat&u!au*~