Litchfield enquirer., 1871-01-05
COUNTY ITEMS.

.''''@..ss.'.. -4... COUNTY ITEMS. E PLYMOUTH The foundation walls 'afe mostly laid for Catholic Church to be built of wood just below the depot. It has been remarkably quiet here among that people during Christmas festivities, considering that there are nearly a dozen places about here where liquors are sold. But few fights or drunken brawls are re- ported for the last few days.
 The Congregational Church, Plymouth, had their Christmas Tree on Monday even :
 ing last. for the benefit of the Sunday school.
 = Trinity Chapel. Thomaston, followed suit on Tuesday evening. ltla
 KENr.-The lecture of MT. Gold, of Corn wall, before the Young Mems Chris Church, on Tuesday evening, Dec. l2th, IS highly spoken of by those who had the pleasure of listening to it. O#l = The Association Is increasing in num- bers and influence, and We trust will ac7 complish much good. An Interesting meeting was>held at tue l., cture Room of the Congregational Church, on Tuesday evening, Dec. 20th.
 = MT. and Mrs. John Slosson, and Miss c. A. Slosson, returning from the "Mite Society,"" ran against pile of cinders carelessly left in the road by the furnace store, and were all thrown violently out, injuring Mrs Slosson very seriously, so that she was insensible for long time. She was taken into the furnace stone, and after awhile revived sufficiently to be taken home s 8 \ EA A -@ Il B. - Mir. and Mrs Barker were also thrown out on Sunday evening, by coming in con- tact with pile of ore.
 - The furnace road is getting notorious ly unsafe, particularly on dark nights. Two of the best paying express routes in New England, owned by the Adams Elk press Company, are those over the Housa- tonic and Naugatuck railroads.
 Patrick Miles, who recently completed the masonry sections of the Connectic ut Western railroad in Canaan, had effected an indebtedn ess of abonts $2,O00, to meet which. the contractor Barnes furnished him $2, 200. including horses aud imple- ments. He took the money and abscond- ed, leaving his debts for his creditors to arrange among themselves.
 MT. Blake, contractor on the Connecti- GU, Western railroad. at Winsted. gwas pre- scented by his employees. Ghristmas ye7e, with gold watch worth $175.
 The mills aud shops at Winsted are run- ming part of the time, and if January thaw does not help them, they will be compelled to lie idle the greater part Of the winter.
 The Union Hardware Compahyiof Vol cottvlle are shipping large quantities of skates to the far West.
 The new .manufactory of the Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville will be finished according to contract, on Satur- day. .vtlc.g,aus=s
 An important case has just been decided in Stamford by the Supreme Court of the State, which endorses the principle that all land for which the holders or claimants have not duly received deeds, reverts to the town. This decision is said to be. worth SIC, ,000Sto the town.
 NEW HARTFORD. -In the last commnhi. cation from this place something was said respecting the temperance movement then commenced. Within two weeks two so- ! cieties havesbeen formed; one of them com. posed principally of the managers and oper- atives of the Greenwoods Company's mills, and called the Greenwoods Temperance Association, the other the New Hartford Temperance Union, composed in part o1 l members of an old society with others who had not before signed the pledge. In each society are found many of our best and most reliable men. On Sunday evening the Hutchinsons sang and speeches were made in the Congregational church, and Monday evening at the Baptist church which was filed The singing and speeches were all frstrate. We are looking for good results from the efforts which have been and are to be made for reclaimipg those who are in She habit of using intoxicating drinks The present movement is rather for moral suasion, yet dealers in the poison need not make too much Sof that, as when the tide turns they may be dealt with in an hour when they think not. a -Tenements are getting scarce and rents advancing. Desirable building lots are not plenty, which induces some of our peo pie to build on the side of the mountain south of our village, where houses are be- ing built. They will look we'll and make pleasant dwellings, but how to get to and from them is 6 question not yet settled. --~ Hpral112S 2S D1A sIfEa-t -t4c- t&9S-i@' tfz-' 3 x
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 Milk for the New York market now nets the dealers six cents per quart, delivered at the depots. on the line of the Honsatonic Railroad. -.-