Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-11


 of Ohio stone, and does credit to both artist and donor. May they all have their reward. *.*
 WOoDBURY, April 1st, 1872.
 MIR. EDITOR: Perhaps I have a mania for Temperance, but it is certainly not 8 n'onomania. For another equally favorite theme of mine is ''the wrongs of the poor" A few weeks since, a scene oc cured in our village which, if the actors had not been the sons of rich men, and the victims people who are poor, would have been chronicled in all the papers. refer to rude attempt of some young men to enter home in the vicinity of the pond where they were skating. from which they were only driven by the uplifted axe of the day-laborer. But since, .one of these youths has joined the Good Temp lars-and we trust his example will be fol- lowed by the rest-we will not tell of it.
 Orenaug Lodge has been having, not 8 "spree," but good time, certainly. Last Friday was the first anniversary of our birth; but, on account of fast, we celebrat- ed it the day before; first, by open ad- dresses in the town hall, and then by a supper of our own, to which each mem- Der might bring one from the outside. Our worthy chief, Rev. Mr. Moves, opened the pnhlin nxarnisos with Frayer, sz.Sa a sketch of our life, lucid and brief. An address was then made by our Grand Worthy Chief, the Rev. MT. Winter, warm, genial and fresh, in spite of his name, showing that, while total abstinance was not religion, it had proved, among the Good Templars, beautiful handmaid to it. Being disappointed in the other speaker from abroad, Rev. MT. Banks, of Bethlehem, was invited, and introduced as minute man" ready at short notice. MT. Banks, however, began his speech by saying that he belonged to class less highly esteemed that-he was only 8 substitute. When the house allowed him to go on, he told us what he had just heard about our town: that it had seven places where liquor was sold. But he could hope for better state of things soon, when he saw one hundred good templars and such fine audience before him. It really paid him for the six cubic miles of mud he had been through in get ting here. Rev. MT. Churchill made an impromptu speech, also, of great interest. It was calculated to be useful to young men, as showing them there was nothing in the way of their becoming our best cit izsns if they would be sober. He be- ieved that signing the pledge forty years ago saved him from being drunkard; such was the state of things as to liquors, that some of his early companions were now in drunkards' graves. These exer- cises were interspersed with nice singing, by little choir of good templars, and af- ter the benediction by Rev. MT. Winter, we adjourned to the supper-room. T. CONCLUDED NEXT wKzK.)
 At meeting of the wardens and vsstry of St. Johns church, Washington, Ct., held on Easter Monday, April list, 1872, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:
 Whereas, On Christmas last the parish received from Mrs. s. Morehouse, of
 this place, the gift of beautiful bronze
 chandelier. And,
 Whereas, On Easter Sunday the parish
 received from Master Charles W. Til
 hnghast, of Troy, New York, the gift of
 an elegant Communion Service. And, Whereas, Also, on that day, Mrs. Han
 nah Morehouses sWadsworth, of Hart
 ford, presented the parish with font
 of Ohio stone, valued at $75s Therefore,
 Resotved, That the parish greatfuliy acknowledge the receipt of these generous and costly gifts, and tender to the kind donors their heartfelt thanks for the same.
 Resolved, That copy of these resolu- hons be sent to the persons herein named, and also to the Ohurchman and 1itchfield papers for publication.
 A. c. BAKER, Clerk.
 James Prior, of Bridgeport, met with 6 fatal accident Monday afternoon. With s party of two others he went out shooting near Stratford. The deceased carried a double barrelled gun, one of the barrels being empty at the time of the accident. The hammer to the other was up, and, in dragging the gun along, the trigger was caught by some obstruction and the gun was discharged, the whole contents enter. ing his throat, and killing him instantly. | A FROSTY YALLKY.-Sierra Valley is | basin nearly on the extremity of the Bier, ra Nevada, enclosed on all sides by noun tains, and lying nearly six thousand feet above the leyeIof the ocean. In winter, when the snow lies to the depth of ten ol twenty feet on the surrounding peaks. it seldom exceeds two or three feet in the valley. In favorable seasons the cattle have been known to find a scant pastur. l age here even in winter. Frost visits the valley every month in the year, and per haps as often as ten or fifteen nights in