Litchfield enquirer., 1871-12-28
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= -Aes v Dccu E6cclV6Q Ill the tWO interesting cases tried before Judge Gran ger at the Novembef term of our Superior Court. n the Hodges cass no frand is found, but the trust deed is set aside on account of the incompetency of the grant- or. In the Goshen dog case the owner of that expensive brute pays s100 and costs. Why didn't the Union Reform Party adopt resolution aga;nst dogs2 They have been decided by our Supreme Court to be nuisance They eat more than their weight in mutton every year. They bite women, children, each other, end everything but burglars on all possi- ble occasions. They bafk, snarl, growI, yelp. howl and otherwise disefsify our summer evenings. Next to rum they are they are the worst curse of the poor man
 If we prohibit the one why not the. other ? There would be the best ::possible oppor- tunity for StatesC Constabulary to regain the popularity it would inevitably lose stopping rum-h holes, in shooting all the dogs of . suffering community. ha
 = is SO seldom that we: find anything to commend in the Sentinel that we take unusual pleasure in supporting it's call for practical help to our young men way of giving them some form of evening amusement less dangerous than thatto be found at the billiard or barAroom. The plan of establishing rooms where people can meet, read. talk and play at gaines, is an excellent one if it Willaoogks Let those who orthe experiment take hold of it and do something more than talk and it WILL work. Just here itsoccurs1to us that the two newspaper offices might, and mo doubt would, spare from their exchanges papers enough to go far towards supply ing reading room.sF gla sEslw si 6sstraera
 We think the Sentinel nistakensin set ting down temperance organizations as useless. They may not reach every yorng man who is in danger of forming habits of incompetence, but they cannot fail to restrain some. At any rate there is no need that people who practice different modes of fighting intemperanceaIshould fight each other. Let those who believe in Total Abstinence form their society. Let those who have more, faith in the in direct influence of a, scheme of good amusements, try their plan and let both remember that they should be allies and not enemies i; that they can, render each other valuable assistance against the common enemy.ss a4 ss sx8fasl,4s astEy s
 The charge that Litchfeld society is neither oyer-rch nor oger-intelligsnt yet exclusive enough stoa close itss4doors to most of the young men who are in pecu- liar need of the restraints and enii oyments of society, is very serious and a very just one; but is not every other village of this size, and especially every city, liable to the same charge? It is true that many Christian women meet each other in this and other places, year after year, yet never speak. Men are not so exclusive
 Any man who cares to talk tosany other man does so. Why:.this differencee Sim ply because woman finds herself in a "sphere" out of which che is not allowed to stir, which she is told that God made for her, yet which confines her within such narrow. bounds as to entirely destroy her influence except within the marrow circle of a family or clique. When the Sentinel touches ..'society, . ''siit it must re- member that it tstonches the awful Woman Question 1sfsss aa3aess ae s1sIs ats3 zsb
 In looking over the list of appoint Ut ments for the next Junior Exhibition at Yale we notice that Old Litchfeld recieves special honor in herdescendants. William Beebe, son of Phillip S. Beebe, late of this place, takes one of the six highest ap- pointments in the class, doing credit to the sound old stock he comes of Mr. F. Q. Webster takes high. oration, and is therefore cue of the best fourteen in the class. Among those who take s.sorations wenotice the name of II. W. Lyman, son of Rev. Ephraim Lyman, one of the Go shen family of that name..s sagsss bgida haa ss..t4e34ssz5s .sEkfl&yS 9#s sg ssNssHs rF
 The rain of Saturday night did some, but not very serious damage, down the line of the Shepaug. A small culvert near the west burying ground proved iin- sufficient and a large space about rod in length and eight feet deep was washed out under the rails. it having to be block ed up with ties so as to allow the Monday morning train to pass. We also under stand there was a considerable hole washed in an ernbankment beyond the Housatonicl 4sal9W sos es l3ts@ s5
 -on Wednesday of1ast week Mir. Ed win McNein and several of the shepaug directors went to Hawleyyille in the first passenger train ever run over the road
 They ran of the track and were detained for two hours just above the Washington station, gd s33 bsas ees SE8taa fse.sisau fHe "A boy of MT. S..!A. Wheeler made an exploration of one of the ash-pits at the engine house Sunday It wasn't as pleas ant a performance as it would have been if the pit had not been level full of water.
 li-The First National Bank of this place declare five per cent dividend payable on Tuesday next, On Monday. the 1st of January, the Bank will be closed, thatbe- ing aslegali holiday. oaa ifssz1 asss gsssa.aal
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 The grand list of this town for 1871, as returned by the assessors, is $1 ,s12, ,69S. The similar return of last year footed $l 1928, 7s9; . falling of of, over Silt, 900. We are not quite certain whether to- morrow Thursday) is Innoeents Day; at any rate Litchfeld Innocents have theil festival in the evening" te .
 I 1.-The Railroad Commissioners have accepted the Ss R. R., and arrange SS-ss& -s