Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-06
COUNTY ITEMS.

At1Aco oai HIS nic.-IAd second COng1 SO-' .ciety have ayailed themselves of the ser vices of Mr. Bartlett to get up tableaux &c. The programme is much the same as that presented in Litchfeld. Six cases were tried and seven defaulted at the last term of the October District court.
 WoLcorTynLE merchants complain of of light trade. says the Index.--The High School committee offer reward of S1O for the discovery of the person who broke window in the school house, recently A. s. Lake. ex-principal of the High School here, has located in Shenandoah. Iowa, where he runs post-ofice and ex- press office. a The WATERFRONT and Woodbury stage broke down recently and half & dozen passengers missed the train conseauence.
 THoMAsroN loafers seem not to be very considerate lot. Mir, Thayer, of the .Thomaston Hotel is sick and one evening last week. was thought to be dying Just at that time, says the Index, a fight was going on in the bar-room. during which the stove was upset and fears were enter tained that the house would be set on fire. Mrs. L., wife of the proprietor, went to the bar-room and begged them to leave the house as her husband was dy- ing. This only enraged the drunken gang, and the din was louder thaa before.
 The FALLS VILLAGE literary society has reorganized with the. following ufficers |: President, J. s. Judd: Vice President, W. H. Dean; Secretary, D. E. Dean; Treas urer, J. A. Decker.-The Citizens Hall building is now completed and will soon. be furnished and ready for dedication.- The advent of the repair shops has given everything cheerful aspect, improved trade, and occasioned large amount of repairs, repainting, Sc.
 At WEST CORNWALL, James Cochrane has been rebuilding the barns on his farm to large extent. Adam Yutzler is building new barn on his place, and has given his tailof shop new coat of paint. -Witherell's horse, buggy and harness were found at Dover plains.
 The SALISBURY Wachicastinooks are ar- ranging for course of lectures this win -ter.-The Washinee mill was sold, last week, to Messrs. Bowers & Edwards of Pleasant Valley, N. r., for S7,O0O. It is their purpose, says the News. to move to, Salisbury, and put the factory in running order ready to start as soon as the panic will allow. E E
 At CHAPINvnIE, recently, Mount Wash ington beat Joyceville at base ball.-Ths flock mill at Hammerton is nearly closed. A Hammerton female disposed of her cat recently and took her pay in kisses A neighbor who happened in on the day of payment thinks it must have been 8 very valuable animal.
 The CANAAN side of the Graphic bal loon business represents the conduct of the seronauts to have been rather shabby. They offered $1OO reward for the recovery of the balloon, in the first place. Then, as the land owner where the balloon was recovered. claimed that soaae damage was done him, they incurred the expense of a writ and service to recoveris. Alter hay ing it moved to the depot, and loaded on a car, they left without paying any of their expenses, ordering the balloon sent on to Winsted. The Ganaanites who were out of pocket had seen enough of Graphic humbugs. sent over sheriff. and secured their pay-a fact which snffiei,,nt- ly explains the way the Graphic gna. hes it's teeth.
 T The CORNWALL correspondent of the Sentinel tells another '.good story if true'' (the size of that tsif'' was fully explained by Mir. Gold. last week.. He says gay and festive tobacco buyer visited several of the leading producers, had free enter tainment and transportation for day or two, and then F'vamosed the ranch. g Several of his victims had proftless ride to Goshen deliver their tobacco. Miss Wilson. a graduate of the Hadley Seminary, commences her select school this week.-The grading of Bolton hill is progressing rapidly. .-Mr. T. s. Gold de- lvered his lecture on Monday evening of last week. The News says of it.:
 CANAAN is doing large amount of painting, repairing, &c. The old windows in the Episcopal church have been re- placed with new ones of stained glass; The public buildings at Hartford are to be built, it seems, of stone from East Canaan. A survey has been made for a spur track to run to the quarry.-The first lecture of the course was arranged to be delivered on Monday by Kate Stanton.
 The NEW MILFORD lecture association has revived, ,and proposesto start alcourse. ". R. Giddings again resumes business in the little grocery store he formerly oc- cupied On West St.-Lucetta Myers, the woman made notorious by the Goodrich tragedy, was at New Milford, recently. She has been confined in Brooklyn but managed to escape. Last week, detec- tive followed on after her and found her in Sherman where she had gone to see her relatives. He took her down to Brooklyn again on Wednesday.
 ToRRNGToS has been the scene of sev- eral bad upsets recently. Mir. Abel Pen dleton, from South Norfolk, was thrown from his wagon, last Sunday afternoon, as he was driving away from the Torrington church, and received serious injuries upon his head and face. The lower lid of the left eye was torn from the nose so as to hang down upon the cheek, leaving the eye-ban entirely bare. Mrs. Junius Baldwin aud her grandchild three years old, son of James B. Baldwin of Wright vile, were also thrown out and consider