Litchfield enquirer., 1871-11-16
couMTY ITEMS.


 series of week day services. .son Wed nesday eyening, says the Index, "a com Rany of bretherenefron Waterbury took charge of the meeting, and exhorted. prayed and sung with much of the fervor of old fashioned Methodism.' The church here, which for the past year has seemed te losing it's fire and activity. IS waking up and begins to manifest some thing of it's former earnestness and power. -l'-Mr.- Win. A. Gordon has bought out MT. W. A. Strong of the corner store, and is going to try his hand at storekeepinas s,,s ...i At LIME ROCK the local Jenkins reports to the News that, MT. NJ B.. Richardson IS excayatlng for the foundations of a pal atial dwelling for his own use, the gossips reporting his early marriage to an intelli- gent and highly accomplished young lady of an adjoining town. He says that .Mr. Barnum gave $1O, ,OOO for one. of his pair of trotters and is confident that with proper training and care Darkness and sPlympton' will make the fastest team in New England" He further eulogizes ssmy excellent friend Norton, of Lakeville, so zeaaiousiy engaged in the temperance cause, He's so winning am afraid of him. Ihope his aoife ,eogat think Ioae'a e lady. y.''
 At recent meeting of the ssGood Sa- maritans rty-th3'ee' names were added to the pledge. ,' lsl At CORNWALL, week before last, a little son of Vim. Bennett met with an accident while playing with an axe The News re- ports that s'he severed nearly the whole oi his left hand at his wrist;'' the Sentinel, that, tthe cut off the first three fingers o1 his hand, above the k3aackles. ? g.s
 The COIN. WESTERN has received two new engines, the Salisbury" passenger engine. and the s'Norfolk" a freight ditto. The passenger engines on that road are to be supplied with the Nesting house At mospheric brake which will stop train in half the usual time. The News remarks that regular trains do not yet run on that road. d.H' '"'' 1.' t' '. 'a..t''@
 < SoUTH CANAAN enjoyed Josh Billings on 1t IS q ''land flowing with milk and hon. ey probably suggested the subject d F. NORFOLK had an extremely unauiet Sun- day of 1t last week. Just as the bells rung for church, says the News, construction train of the Conn., Western came along. The godly grieved but the ungotlly jump ed on and took a trip to Whiting river and back. The next Interruption was still more remarkable: Shortly after divine ser vice had commenced and just after singing, the pastor and congregation were astound- ed to see gentlemanly appearing man in the rear part of the church, arise and re- quest permission to speak for a moment, and without waiting launched out into a harangue, advertising lecture or show to be given by himself on Monday evening, and as he expressed it, tickets 50 cents; children % cents; and money refunded if any one was dissatisfied 7 au,i-jgat-i
 CANAAN is anything but a ''happy land'' for the colored citizen. Three were snap ped up by the sheriff last week. says the Berkshire Courier, yet ''it wasn't consid- cred much of week for catching snie's' | either ''+ '"''" II ''. 8N7' ...1 "
 1 By the death of MT. J. Adam, last week, Canaan lost her oldest and wealth fest citizen. .'~' f'f. 'ta..'.' .5E t,'--
 The Literary Society is meeting with unlocked for success. 1 .''-s' t*@ @T tti
 s The RIpERToN correspondent of the Winsted Herald !deprecates a Riverton squirrel hunt as t'Wholesale slaughter of animals. , Such entertainments are noth- ,ng like so bloody in this section. s3aa
 SHARON has new dentist ''No cards. 9 has been in 'Fone continual whirl of excitement" for two weeks, says the Amenia Times. A Methodist Sunday School Exhibition, George Maxwell's The atricel Troupe, and Philip Phillips, the great Methodist songster, combined with the mad rush of Conn. Western construc- tion trains drive the population nearly frantic. 1.- .es,f.,-.a. ..,,t.g =, f.t,4 ...
 .,-The Depot is raised and slate-roofed, and the grumbling at delays in opening the railroad, prevails to the extent usual m such cases. aaisga a ?. GsaI"
 21 WrNsrED is to have new hotel keeper in MT. R. P. Reed, formerly with the Ad- ams Express Go. in Hartford. 4" '-~-
 NEW MILFORD, Savings Bank subscribed for $1l ,0OO New Haven Sewerage bonds at par. bisa ta1 aaE4 e. ..55s.ls-s. .as g1ts.-
 GOSHEN has not seen drunken man for over year, say the papers.
 ;, TWISTED Second Cong1 church has lost its pastor, Rev. Chas Wetherby. Es<s T WARREN. - -Messrs. Taylor X Hine are doing aheavy business in beef cattle. They are very stirring business men. @'.-aa8
 MT. F. H. Starr has just commenced the freighting business, running to New Haven and back, every week Judging from the amount of goods brought back h., T v The long expected organ for the Con- gregational church has not yet arrived.
 f---Mr. Merrett Weeks has built a large blacksmith's shopson Town Hill, the past season, which is now in full blast The location is a very convenient one. yll E. Methodist church is alive to the interest of it's members A clergyman has been secured and regular services are held Carpenter Hoyt has put new roof on the church edifiee which improves its looks considerably. sSas vfg .s55es. 8g sasu