Litchfield enquirer., 1871-06-08
COUNTY ITEMS.

OOUNTY ITEMS.
 THoMAsToN.-The Good Samaritans now number about 300.
 - The one sermon question is now agi tating the Congregational mind.
 - Business here seems to be from fair to good. .f,t.r
 Several Winsted men are at work in our shops since theirs burnt out.
 - Our select men are cutting down the hills and emptying them into the valleys oi our high ways, both north and south of us, which will hereafter raise us somewhat out of the mud and water.-- Herald .2i -- Some of our liquor .selle 8 are signing bonds to keep the law for five years to come. rather than to be annoyed with pros. cautions and costs.
 Three or four houses are in process of building, just now, one new drug store, &c, &c.-A ADsericGn.
 TEKRYv1LnE. Decoration Day was ,luly observed, and an address delivered by Rev. Lewis Gum. The Independent Cornet Band of Terryville furnished music for ths occasion, this being its first appearance iu public. This band numbers 17, including Messrs. Geo. II. Bates and Geo. T. Cook, formerly of Go. D. 2d 0. v. A.
 - t66V. ME- Me6u, lUV0 LII undo6 ID tO OS installed pastor of the Cong. Church next Wednesday. - Herald .l.s.
 FALLS Vu.LAGE.- It is reported that B. J. Bradley has bought the Brewsters Hall property of D. Brewster, price $3,0O0.
 The German Fourth of July-7th Sun day after Easter-was celebrated in good old Teutonic style by nearly all of the Ger man citizens.- Herald.
 Da~ The Shepaug R. R. Go. is desirous of extending it's road to the Conn. Western on the north and Daubury for it's southern terminus. We are willing. If our She- paug friends will run fast trains perhaps we will go to New York that way some times.-Herdh.
 TWISTED. -E. M. Munson has raised the frame of his new mill on the north bauk of Mad River nearly opposite the Clarke House. He intends grinding his grain by steam power, and will eventually extend the upper part of the building across the river to the track of the o. w. k R., for freighting convenience.
 A very beautiful national flag, the gift of the ladies of Winsted, was presented to Palmer Post at Camps Hall on Saturday night. Appropriate speeches were made on the occasion by Rev. s. B. Forbes on behalf of the donors. and by H. M. Calder on behalf of of the soldiers Herald.
 WArERrowN.-A A telegraph to Waterbury is building and will be completed in a few days.
 .-Workmen are engaged ''surfacing" the new railroad, The track. as all new tracks will, sank in places and became uneven.
 We have got court house and jail in the i A. l-@v. v..-1,. .t....k going to Waterbury to pay anything for the privilege Sentinel.
 BETHLEHEM The grass crop is smaller in this town than it has been in many years In some of the meadows the roots of the grass appear to be quite dead. On land that was seeded last year there is not much except sorrel and weeds. It is hard season fer farmers.
 The town has voted to join it's fortunes with the projected new county at Waterbu ry. There is little interest felt in regard to the matter. The new county business now looks as if it were mostly played out. -Sentinek . s.,... ...... ...sr
 Christ Church Episcopal Society have given the Rev. J. N. Marvin, of Weston, a call which he has accepted, and has just entered upon his duties. The Society are now remodeling, enlarging and beautifying their church at an expense of $3,OOO. It will be ready for occupancy about the middle of June American.
 CORNWALL Decoration day was too much for Lyman Dow, of Cornwall Bridge, 8 returned colored soldier. He attended the exercises at West Cornwall, got drunk. and after being left by the train, started to walk home on the track, fell asleep half a mile below West Cornwall, and was struck by the up milk train and his skull crushed in. Passers by discovered him in the morn ing still breathing, and took him back to the day.-M H. Courier. .tc
 SALISBURY. fires of the past week have done much damage. The Lime Rock Iron Co., losing from 125 to 15O cords of wood in the rank. William Clark has about 100 acres of sprouts burnt over and tbe Milerton Iron Go. have from l, 900 to 5000 acres of young timber and sprouts burnt.
 Mr. George Shelley has opened stone cutting establishment on Main street.
 - Herd and Rickets have opened first class livery stable. rrsIaEyIl-#
 -The Center Base Ball Club, which has just organized, met for practice on Satur day afternoon, and the first hines were beaten by the second -Sentinel ssEs
 INoENDIARIsM!-Anot fire broke out in a coal bush belonging to the Millerton Iron Go. on Thursday the 18th, in which some 200 cords of wood in the rank were burnt. The fire was the work of an incendiarys as a man was seen to leave the woods as the fire broke out, and fire was discovered in other parts of the bush.
 SHARON STAT1oN.-A couple of boys at tending district School, last Friday got in- to an altercation which finally resulted in an affray worthy of the recklessness and desperate measures of practical veterans. One of the lads drew Q knife and stabbed his victim in the back. one of the blows penetrating the lungs. The instrument used was a, common jack-knife, and the wound although serious, it is thought will not prove fatal.- Ameni0 Times There are three sisters born in Litchfeld county, in this State, S4 years ago, ct one birth, who are now living in good health, two in Wayne and one in the adjoining county in Pennsylvania They are work ing people, still do their own washing, walk one mile every Sunday to church, and in most respects looking and acting as though they were but 5Og Their parents name