Litchfield enquirer., 1871-12-21
EXPLICITLY sketenssrNos. .9l.

In No. 90. your .correspo ondents made 8
 mistake in regard to the cost of the me- morial window in St. Matthew's church.
 He has since been informed by the Rev.
 MT. Potter, who made the purchase, that
 the cost of said window, at the manufacto- ry was ono hundred dollars; with the ad-
 dition of some fifteen dollars more for sash
 and transportation. .iai .afa4ssa3 .,5'.
 \ On Tuesday evening, the l2th inst, an
 oyster supper,s with it's usdar sccompani-
 ments- was held at Town Hafl,, for the
 benefit of the Sunday School of St. Peter's
 parish. The amount raised was about
 seventy-five dollars. rod lad sifi5saa 1a bsa On Saturday evening, the the 18th,
 concert by the Hutchinsons' took place in
 the first Congregational church. $sni'1gad
 As usual at this season of the year, pre-
 parations are being made. to adorn the Episcopal, and perhspsi other churches,
 with evergreens. beasse5 ts't} f.9llehs5 9i'f
 assisslaH FisalAl sdj lcPLYmoTHEAN.t
 Dec 18th, 1871.w 7asd izasI a'ai@i
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 41o1 nib sssigs ;sls-ea-sll sts li9gysdI i.atswo e1 On one of the coldest days last week ia
 stranger, whose name, for reasons best
 known to the writer, we withhold, passed
 through ourtown, but stopped by the way
 to take g little refreshment for his stoaa-
 ach's sake, leaving his horse unhitched out7
 side. When seen, next day, he was in g.
 lumber box wagon with the remains ofsa very nice looking buggy box. shafts, broken wheels, Be- He said that the walk "'of fourteen milssheme was thelongest hechad ever taken in such a cold clustering day. l. sHsgc JabstlG docet' t'-when yon want to smile it is best t6 hitch your horse. i.Ssa | Religious Meetings are being held in the south part of our. town at which a con siderable amount of interest is manifested; and according to Madam Rumor another kind of meeting is being held hereabout at which only two are. allowed toEbe pres
 ent; but they are supposed to be of 8 very interesting character on account of the regularity with which they are attended. Your eorrespondentfe fears that they have "a pugilistic tendency as he witnessed the breaking np of, one of themeetings ashort time since at which he saw. gentleman try to bite piece out of g lady's cheek. B An attempt. was. made to enter the
 house of Cook, ". Pratt, on Friday night,
 but the would be burglar were scared of by the barking of the dogs. Another and more successful one was made on the store
 of Gaylord and Underhill, Saturday night. The robbers got in by cutting away oneoi 1 the shutters on back window and carried ! away about $1O0 worth of Clothing, Sc. It is thought that they must have been disturbed as great many articles were got down from the shelves as if to be tar
 ken away. which were left. Suspicion rests on one or two, who have been hang ling around for quite time. a safa $ The last Mite Society was held at the
 house of John Hopson, Esq, and as has
 been the case of every other ofthese gath erings was appointed on stormy night The good days spoken of in Holy Word are almost here. esWhen seven women shall take hold, &c." Here. as every where, the ladies were in the majority, there being no less than six unmarried women tp every one of the opposite sex. Will not some of the bachelors who may chance to read this article please take pity on their poor and unoffending breth- ren and come over and help us out of this difficulty by relieving the town of some of it's surplus staple
 The Housatonic is frozen hard enough to bear up crossing teams K. O.