Litchfield enquirer., 1871-09-14
THOMASTON.

Mir. John Mullin is now refurnishing his hotel and putting it in thorough repair
 The Catholic committee are negotiat- ing for the completion of their church, the foundations of which are already laid.
 Quite an interesting case was tried here on Saturday. Mir. James Nicholson was complained of by the Grand Juror for assault and battery on his own son George Nicholson, who is 20 years of age. Both work in the knife shop and the evidence showed that the father without provocation knocked his son to the floor as he was at work. The trouble seems to have been that the boy belongs to the temperance as- sociation and the father is angry in oonse- quence. The defence was that the boy was minor, and that his father had right to punish him. He was fined five dollars and cost, which he paid. A. H. Fenn. of Ply mouth and H. R. Morrill,, of Litchfieid, ap. peared for the State, and R. B. Gwillien, of Waterbury, for the defence.
 
 THE GREAT SHOW! O'BR1EN's MENACE RE AND GYMNAsr1o ARENA. 'Brien's Grand Caravan and Marvellous Menagerie E. give two e.nea.3na hsfe sas isfactory assurances from our cotemporari. es not only fills the bill as geological gar den on wheels presenting the most varied resources of interest, instruction and amuse- ment, but also fills it's own bills by present. ing every feature as advertised. It will be born in mind that it is solely menagerie; depending entirely upon enterprise and magnificent outlay in securing Natures liv. ing wonders to attract, and contemning the vulgar jokes, indecent posturings, improp- CT exposure and cruel compulsion which form the hackneyed stock in trade of the pestilential score or more of circuses, per- ambulating and robbing the land. We cannot pretend to individually specify the vast collection gathered from desert, noun tain, plain, forest.jungle, river and che up- CT air under the great 'Brien pavilion, but among them the three elephants; the beau tiful rare Bland and, last but not least, the monstrous Rhinoceros, recently captured on the banks of the mysterious upper Nile, will undeniably challenge attention. No specimen of the last named animal has ever UOcu CAuIU1tcu uCIcs nuO W0 USllCF0 uO OO4- CT living one is in this country. The enor- nous cost involved prevents their impor- tation, and great care and an intimate knowledge of their habits is required to preserve their lives in foreign climes.
 The Imaginable and ludicrous arenic es- says of the monkeys mounted on ponies; the man in the dens of the lions, tigers and leopards; the ride on the young ele. phant, ,and the entertaining lecture of Prof. Whitaker are special features that should be borne in mind. The procession made by the menagerie in entering the town will be by far the most gorgeous and unique spectacle ever presented in our streets; and from what we hear bids fair to attract the population en masse from the adjacent coun. try.
 Among the newly engaged members of the acrobatic cords, Mir. O'Brien has this season secured the worlds astonishing At- allie, known as the man of the Iron Jaws, whose prodigious exhibitions of muscular power are almost miraculous, The. .Trapeze performances, horizontal bar feats, vault ing, ,tumbling, Sc, ,are all claimed to be of the highest merit, and the clown is origi- nal and witty.