Litchfield enquirer., 1872-03-14

Omcefs recognize the new DOarU. 1nlS coup de etat is looked upon as the death blow to the Ring.
 Litchf1eId.
 On Friday evening of next week, the Washington Dramatic Association will give the final entertainment of the season, consisting of ''The Sheep in Wof's Cloth ing" and concluding with the "Very Tragic Pantomine of Bluebeard, his Wives and Children" Another excursion from this place is talked of It will be neces- sary, therefore, that all persons desirous of going should leave their names at the post-ofice; since an excursion train will not be run unless the number of names so left warrants it. People in charge of af- fairs in Washington must also be notified of the number that may be expected, or there may be danger of insuficientacco modation. Transportation to and from the Station in Washington to the Hall will be furnished as before.
 A queer illustration of the evil effects of editorial business on penmanship oc- cured in this village, recently. The ed itor of the Sentinel, wishing to take the early Naugatuek stage, made an entry on the Mansion House stage book, which he has since interpreted as follows:- .a+1 ..r Seat U. s. Hotel, No. 13. -'-'
 The next morning, Snow (early this year, examined the stage book for pas sengers. He could make nothing of the foregoing entry. The Moabitish stone or the profoundest enigma in the Winsted Herald would have been comparatively easy to him. Then he called sort of council of war, or coroner's inquest, of Mansion House officials and bystanders. They could make nothing of it, except that they declared the 13 at the end to be capital B. At last MT. Crossman, who, like David, is nasty man, remarked, eff the d-d fool can't write his own name, he can't go over in this stage,'' and the concern drove off just in time to present 8 hopeless rear view to the editor of the Sentinel, as he came down the steps of the United States. .5 ?. e.~,
 Village idlers who have picked up few printers terms think something must have happened to pie the entry in stage book.
 We observe from the Hartford pa pers that Leonard ". Richardson, nephew of the late rector of St. Michael's, and formerly of this place, takes the first ap- pointment in the Junior class at Trinity college, this year. He was prepared for college by the Rev. MT. Peck, late of this place, and now principal of the Water town Academy. .-.,
 We clip the following noticfE F. R. Starr's resignation of the aG9nexi Agency of the N. Y Mutial Life Insur- ance Co.,, at Philadelphia, from the Even ing Bulletin of that city: 2a-5s. THE NEW YORK ssMUTIAn LIFE. What the growth of the Life Insurance business has been in this city and neighborhood is strikingly exhibited by e few figures in connection with the Mutual Life Insu- rance Company of New York.
 Fifteen years ago this Company estab- ished an agency in Philadelphia, cover ing the states of Pennsylvania and Della ware This agency was entrusted to the management of MT. F. Ratchford Starr, who undertook it while wholly stranger to the people of Philadelphia The total annual premiums from this field in 1857 were not quite 5000. The total premi- ums from the same source, for 1871, were S1, ,22O, 900! @ 5 =A This enormous increase in a single de- pertinent of the Insurance. business has been realized under the able administra- ton of gentleman, who, as we sincerely regret to learn, is now constrained, by continued ill-health, to retire from the post which he has so successfully filled. MT. Starr has come forward to the atti- l tude of honored and valued citizen of Philadelphia, step by step with the extra ordinary growth of the business which he has SO skillfully directed As the sen- for General Agent of the great Insurance corporation which he has so long repre- sensed. he has won the most enviable rep utation for himself and for his Company i; and his retirement from active business, in the prime of life, will be widely regret ted throughout the large circle in which he has long been such an important ele- ment. f k-ssszs
 Although not native born to Philadel- plna, Mir. Starr has become deeply identi l fled with her local interests, and we are glad to learn that, among other practical l illustrations of this fact, he has recently brought to the serious and favorable con- sideration of his Company the erection of a building for the purposes of it's General Agency here, which will be one of the most striking architectural ornaments of the city. %e
 We are glad to learn that MT. Starr will probably spend much larger portion of his time at his residence in this place than heretofore,
 | - Mir. Nelson H. Barnes has bought about three acres of land of Hiram Merri- man, west of the village, for $7OO.
 -- Mir. Daniel III. Peck has sold lot containing about three fourths of an acre, with house and barn thereon, to David Dugan, for $950