Litchfield enquirer., 1871-04-20
LITCHFIET,D
In the Superior Court last week the fo lowing cases were tried ta tba iurv.

I sault anu patCery, Verolct TOT pIalntln to re cover $333. Seymour and Johnson fo, plaintiff, Graves for defendant.
 Conlaa vs. TuAle-Trespass for injury by dog. Verdict for defendant. Graves for plaintiff, Andrews and Seymour for de fendant. 4 The court is engaged this week with the trial of court cases. In Geo. P. Shehon's Appeal from Probate. the charge for sup. port &c., was reversed but the rest of the probate decree affirmed. Seymour and Woodruff for appellant, Goodman and Huntington for appellees. 9a
 Next week trial of criminal business will commence, Judge Seymour holding court. A Grand Jury, summoned last week, found true bills for murder in the first de- gree against Joel Perkins of Cornwall, for killing one of his incestuous children; and against Frederick Hall, colored, for killing negro woman in Cornwall; and against Maria Jackson of North Canaan, for murder in the second degree.
 Within few days subscription books have been opened, to Stockh elders of the Shepaug Valley Railroad Co.,, for the first mortgage seven per cent. bonds of said company, to complete and equip the road to Hawleyville. Only 1850. O.OO9 are now offered for sale for that purpose, and al- ready over $lOO, ,OOO of the amount have been pledged.
 The offer to take the bonds at 85 and accrued interest, from lst April, is open to stockholders only, until the 25th instant. After that date any balance remaining will be offered to the public at the same price, the company reserving the right to advance the price without notice.
 Stockholders subscribing on or before the 25th instant, can pay for the bonds so subscribed on or before the Sd day of July next, thus giving ample time to convert securities they now hold. to meet such sub- scriptions.
 The Annual Meeting of the County Medical Society was held at the Mansion House, on Thursday last, over twenty members being present. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year
 President-Henry w. Buel.
 Vice. President-J. w. Bidwell.
 Secretay-H. B. Gates.
 Felloacs-J. w. Bidwell. Orlando Brown, 0. W. Bull, T. s. Hanchett, w. J. Beach.
 Delegates to Nat Med. Assn.-Wm. Dem- ing, Wm. Porter, R. Goodwin, D. B. Bost- wick. -,..
 Drs. Franklin Booth and Robert B. En- sign were elected members of the Associa. tion. Appropriate resolutions of respect to the memory of Dr. J. G. Beckwith were passed, and the following miscellaneous business was transacted: The time of hold ing the Annual Meeting was changed from the third Thursday in April of each year, to the second Thursday fee table was discussed and adopted; Elias B. Cady, of Norfolk, was recommended for gratuitous course at the Yale Medical School lily drate of ChloraP' was discussed it was voted to keep up quarterly meetings, the first to be held in ,Winsted on the last Thursday in June next subject for dis. cussion, "The Bromides ; Dr. Buel read a paper on "Loco [something] Ataxla," for which he was thanked by vote. and the paper sent to the State Society for publi- cation in their report.
 The Board of School Visitors ask the especial attention of the District Com- mites and Teachers to their advertisement of Meeting to be held on the 29th inst, and also to the following extract from the Statutes "No teacher shall be employed in any school, supported by any portion of the public money. until he has received a certificate of examination and approba- tion, signed by the majority of the board of visitors, or by all the Committee by them appointed; nor shall any teacher be entitled to draw any portion of his wages, so far as the same are paid out of any pub lie money appropriated by law to schools, unless he can produce such certificate, dated previous to the opening of his school but no new certificate shall be necessary when the teacher is continued in the same school more than one term. un- less the visitors shall require it..
 -Public-spirited people living on and near the highway west of this village and about three-quarters of mile long, which leads from Deacon s. H. Dudley's to Deacon Henry B. Bissell's, have set out naples at proper. intervals throughout the whole length of the street. It is now proposed that the highway thus improved should be hereafter called "Maple Street" instead of "Skint Lane" as heretofore. The man. fest improvement in it's condition certainly justifies the proposed change in name. Smiths celebrated Sleigh and Wagon Factory, in Milton, and other valuable property, is to be sold by the Trustee on the 10th of May. A rare chance for an en- terprising business man. See adv.
 -Harper's and the other May magazines can be obtained at J. W. Wheeler's. West Street.
 The Rev. B. H. Pratt, of Woodstock,