Litchfield enquirer., 1871-01-19
COUNTY ITEMS.

that he should be absent some four weeks, to obtain medical aid for his wife, they gem erously give him vacation of that length and put into his hands a sum of money sufficient to pay all bis expenses both of travel and physicians bills. Herald.
 NEW HAIR RTFoRD.-Th Rev. s. s. Mar tyn, pastor of the Congregational church in New Hartford, informs us of very ele- gant new years gift from his people in the shape of $1O0 black walnut book case with rosewood and polished oak trimmings, accompanied also with handsome study chair to match.-Heraid
 s MT H. M Gates has purchased build: ing lot of MT. E. Carter, and is erecting nice set of buildings thereon,
 What we need more than anything else is water to fill the Pennington river. The cotton mills and scythe shop are run ming on half time now. and unless we have rain or thaw soon they will have to stop entirely.-Sentinel.
 FALLS VILLAGE. J. B. Bradford has commenced rebuilding his house which was burned Nov. Both. +,>z8s.f
 Rev. B. H. Burch of the M. zE. Church administered the ordinance of baptism to 19 persons on Sunday the 8th inst
 ,. The old Cobble-dale lyceum of ofSoutb Canaan has been revived and rejuvenated, and now fourishes and rtjolces under the name of South Canaan Literary Society.
 The new depot at - station IS rap idly approaching completion; the station has not yet been named. .eA
 The Litchfield' Ssntiners Canaan corres- pondent who reported the marriage of Mrs. Hayward some time ago is knoocn and re- garded with the contempt he justly merits -Herahl ae
 BETHLEHEM.-The Epis copal Society have raised between three and four thousand dollars, and voted to enlarge and repair their church in thorough manner. Mr. H. R. Whitlock is supplying the dt six as lay reader. A trifing additional amount of money would enable the society to put up an entirely new church, which on many accounts would be preferable 10 expending so much in patching up the old building, AnaeTicdR.
 CANAAN.-Mr w. H. Hobrook met with ai accident. few days since, which will probably prove fatal. In undertaking to get off a wagon loaded with ore (about thir- ty cwt he fell, the wheels passing over his body.
 
 residence of the Rev. Mir. Swallow in South Canaan one afternoon and evening in the neighborhood of the New Year, had good time generally, and on leaving forgot to carry away with them some $150 Ill green backs, any quantity of cakes, pies. chickens and many other good things. The Rev. gentleman has expressed no regret at hav- ing larishioners with such lreacherons memories -Sentinel
 WooDBURY Missionary. Convention was held in the rstCongregationa Church on Thursday the 22d ultimo. It was con vened at the suggestion of Dr. Gulick. District Secretary of the Amercan Board of Connecticut. The neighboring church es were invited to participate in it, and many availed themselves of the privilege. The exercises consisted of familiar address es from missionaries, interspersed with singing and prayer. Dr. Gulick. the son of missionary, born at the Sandwich 1s- lands, and laboring for years there and at Micronesia, electrified the audience by his vivid and life like descriptions of tue hea- then and the methods of civillziBg and blessing them for time and eternity. He also kindled it into glow of hope by tracing the hand of providence in forming a missionary arch across the continents, on which the churches may safely pass to the corners of the world for Christ. Rev. MT. Sturges gave simple aud stirring outline of his nineteen years work at Micronesia, with it's blessed results in civllizing and christianizing that besotted people. Rev. Mir. Grout, of South Africa, traced his thir- ty five years labor in that dark land, stat ing marvellous facts and incidents of good, with great tact and skill, and showing that he had exhibited an apostolic spirit and been blessed with apostolic success. As the convention was new thing here, and the speakers of tue right stamp. the at- tendance was large and interested, great good must tresult.-Americ0n
 WATERTowN.-Alanson Warren has sold his trotting mare ''Belle of Watertown" to a gentleman in New Haven for SC, 300. t.'
 = The Watertown railroad, which none of the stockholders supposed would do enough business to pay expenses, is now earning more than enough to pay for rum ming it. There are two trains day, con- meeting with the regular passenger trains on the Naugatuck railroad. The stock holders were we'll pleased when the lease for five years was made to the Naugatuck railroad company but that company is go- ing to make good thing out of it. The success of this little branch shows that in these times railsoads do pay. -SentineI.
 WINsTED. water in Long Lake is so low that the street mains are now filled with water from the Beardsley Scythe Compa- ny's dam. The mills are running only a part of the time and unless there is raid or a thaw soon all of them that depend on water must stop.-Sentinel @
 CoRNwAL1.-Mr. Warren Dibble has leased the hotel at Cornwall Bridge for three years, and moves there this week.
 = At the annual sale of seats in North Cornwall abont $1 300 was realized. Ser tinei
 - Hon. H. W. Franklin, superintend- ent of tue Housatonic railroad, has receiy- ed a New Years present of valuable gold-headed ebony cane. The gift is iD of kindness shown to Mir. Fish, come months since, when he had paralytic stroke on one of the Housatonic trains. -D Danbury NeaCs
 SHERMAN. has been one fatal re- suit of the cattle disease in this place.
 KnLED-John Cassidy, living in the town of New Milford, was killed while at work in the woods, last Wednesday. The