Litchfield enquirer., 1872-05-30
LitchHeld.

On monday next the Shepaug railroad will commence running two trains daily. connecting with Housatonic trains at Flaw leyville. By this arrangement passengers leaving New York at a. n. and D. m., and New Haven at 9:45 a. m. and D. m.. can come direct to this village by rail-. Tickets should be procured and baggage checked to Hawleyville. Trains will be enabled to shorten the time to this place upon completion of the Bethel connection. From the best information we can get we doubt whether this connection will be ef- fected before the first of July.
 The concert of the New England vo- calists was 8 much better performance than we had anticipated The voices of the quartette were very sweet and sufi- ciently well trained to make the general effect very pleasing. MT. Fenn has 8 fine baritone voice of considerable power and compass, and very pure, sweet and sym pathetic in quality. MT. Rowe, the tenor, hes pleasant voice, not equal to that of MT. Fenn, but very pleasant nevertheless. MT. Deming, the basso, could hardly lay .claim to the ''profundo" of the bill, al- though his low notes were quite strong and good '
 Of the music sung we cannot speak highly. The melodies were mainly and the harmonies altogether common place. and the sentiment Sabbath Schoolish. The best piece of all was ''Hark, Apollo Strikes the Lyre," with which the second pa1t commenced. The only operatic selection was s'Hail us ye Free," dilution of the smashing old chorus from Ernani
 The comic character" performances If MT. Deming were hardly a success; those of MT. Rowe were reasonably good and took greatly with the audience.
 We speak our minds the more freely of the style of music sung because we know that these performers have sufficiently good voices, and judge that their voices have been sufficiently cultivated to enable them to give us much better kind of music at their neat concert in this place. We hope to hear from them again soon, and they deserve a full audience instead of the corporal's guard that attended Fri day night.
 There was an ineursion of hand organs, Tuesday. The instruments kept near enough together so that listeners had the advantage of hearing two or more tunes at once. The result may have been good double counterpoint but as music it was tride mixed By the way, why don't Gilmore assemble chorus of say 15,000 hand organs for street music during the Jubilee? It might be a little hard on Boston, but what blessed relief it would be to the rest of the country!
 Persons having books of the Circulat- ing Library must return them on or be- fore Thursday (tomorrow). The annual meeting of the Library occurs on Thurs day evening, June 9th; and the books are to be returned for examination, repair and recovering, week before that meeting, on penalty of fine of 9 cents for each volume not so returned
 A location for the old Congregational church has finally been found ill the rear of its present site, upon the Wolcottville road, between the residences of T. s. Sedgwick and C. s. Buel. The founda- tions on which it is to be placed are being prepared and the removal will be com pleted in about fortnight.
 The opening of the new Puffer Soda Spa, at Vessels & Gates, last Wednesday evening, was success. The number of youngsters present was surprising, we are told; their capacity still more surprising. Nothing brings custom like liberal adver- Using.
 The members of Go. H, are hereby notified to meet at their Armory, at 1 o'clock, P. M., sharp, on Thursday, Decor otion day, in full uniform
 - MT. F. W. Northrop has resigned the position of Superintendent of the Shepaug Valley Railroad, and MT. A. W. Greig has been appointed to succeed him. Mir. Northrop will remain in charge until Mir. Greig's arrival, about June 1st,
 So. H has received $350 check from the State to recompense their fatigues at New Haven. They don't feel so hungry as they did.