Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-11

Watertown, on the life and death of Rev. Dr. Holcomb.-There are four croouet sets on the park and around one the grass does not grow in abundance.
 WoLcoTTv1LLE now has a full delera. tion of ministers, teachers, doctors and lawyers.-The Rev. Dr. Perrin has accept ed the call of the Congregational church and society, and begins his pastoral work newt Sabbath. Salary, two thousand dol lars and parsonage About one thousand dollars will be expended on the buildinos this ssummeF.z-Hhe public schools aelose on Wednesday, of this week, for the long vacation. During the warm weather the committee have, allowed the afternoon session to be one hour shorter than usual.
 Nearly dozen pupils outside the district have attended the high school during the year.-New buildings are going up in va rlous parts of the village, streets and fences are being improved and signs of thrift are everywhere evident. nt.-Heratd. CANAAN profits by a change of the time table of the Conn. Western R. R. which
 went into effect last ,s Thursday. and the Canaanites are movable, by taking train which leaves this station a few minutes after six o'clock a., m., to remain in New
 York clty over 5 hours and return to Ca naan again beforeS9y o'clock. D. ma; the same day. y.-Berkshire Costrier.!Bs ttassl At WEST CORNWALL. on Thursday even ing, June 27, Mir. and Mrs. R, F. Foster gave areception to their numerous friends, in honor of their fifth wedding aIniversa- ". The Cornwall band was in attend ance, and the affair was first class in all
 it's appointments. All present were well pleased with the evenings entertainment. ] Foster never does any thing by halves.-- l The thunder shower of Friday afternoon, | June 28, was terrific, and damaged crors
 good deal IF. Cochrane suffered tothe
 amount of fifty dollars on tobacco. H. l Hatch's crop is almost total loss. Corn ] and potatoes are fattened to the ground.-- 1 Weare happy to announce the recovery of 1 Dr.. Sanford. His wife is also convaleSCenf. ] R. A. Cochrane is so as to be about his business, but has not fully regained his 1 strength. .-S. A.. Nickerson and wife of I Jersey City are in towa. I; Dea. Pratt and Dea. Beebe are both out of town.=-
 mer boarders are beginning to arrive, and
 our village will soon be filed with that
 class of people who think they have
 right of way through every one's meadows
 and grain, and that country people think l it an honor to have them around.-Nes0s, 1 At FALLS VILLAGE on the 23d ult., J.
 8. Brewster met with an accident ! which came ~ yerry a near proving
 fatal While driving a pair of noted
 runaways he stopped for short rest at the Dudley House and when he again re-
 sumed his ride they started rather
 abruptly. When Brewster attempted to l gather up the reins to check them he 1 found that he had but one to depend up-
 on. In this plight his only alternative
 was to turn short corner and go through
 8 stone arch under the R. R.. or turn still
 shorter and go over the crossing. He 1 chose the latter The wagon was demol-
 ished, and Brewster was carried home,
 where he remained in .semi-insensible
 state till Monday noon. His collar bone
 was broken twice besides receiving several
 minor injuries. "A. l.. Reese, the railroad I Go. s agent at the Ames works, is to be I provided with the dummy engine former
 ly used on the Brpokfeld and Danbury
 road, to be .used here as switch engine
 -W.%J. Garfield has bought . acres of
 land of Sylvester Barnum, which he pro-
 poses laying out in ] acre building lots.
 The plot will make 12 nice lots after talk I ing out the necessary roads.-Her0ld.- .--
 Croquet seems to be the reigning amuse- | ment. The lot by the Savings Bank is | we'll patronized Robert Rogers has sold
 his restaurant to Adolphus Decker of East f Sheffield. The weather has been very
 warm for the past few days. On Sunday | last, the thermometer indicated 99o in
 the shade.-Net0s. - GOSHEN crops suffered considerably l from the thunder shower of the 28th ult Weeks & Howe have adopted novel
 way of supplying the wants of the people in 'sNorth Enc" and Lower City" which
 consists of a wagon loaded down with groeezies and dry goods, and taken right to the door, where can be had anything and everything in the country merchants line: The plan meets with universal aR- probation.