Litchfield enquirer., 1873-02-13
COUNTY ITEMS.

ft'rnned' lila LAknrrs shs's new hotel The Miller House. is;now open to the public.
 The SALISBURY Washicastino6ks are at it again. They went for scalps on the Educational Suffrage Qualification, Mon- day evening, The editor of the News has been presented with brace of prairie chiexsHs. They titled his sout with joy, 5 he says.-Two Irishmen were fined $14, and s1l. respectively, fora row, by Justice Tupper. Two colored gentlemen followed suit and one was fined S12.-Mr. Hurd has been arrested for selling spirituous iquorsc contrary +olaw.r1 aA1i4a~o } aa CORNWALL BRIDGE enjoyed party at Mrs. oWadhams' week before last, says the eNews.-PeopIe are reported much 1 disturbed about one Simmons, who has beenlgo three days. @s< B. ;ss2 "l t:,a ..
 An honest NEW M11FoRDRR picked up 8 gold chain last week, and the. owner can have it, says the Journal, merely by en- quiring at the barber's shop: The stream of applicants at the shop is fully equaled by the 'counter-current" going to look at the wonderful man who gave up the ] chain. --M MT. ,Bonar was the recipient of 8 handsome purse at the donation of Thursday evening last.--Ths men who were hurt at the LanesvilIe accident are I recovering. "A broken rail came near causing railroad accident near Stepney, recently The Journal expresses d will tlingness to receive Valentines containing $2-Mr. Booth received $l00 at his do- nation. Hine lost horse, last week. It ran and broke it's neck. Mrs. Stephen Morehouse broke her leg, recently. y.-The Housatonic Agricultural Society shows a I5balance in treasury of S655 Officers for the coming year; .7,'T = .' President, Albert S.. Hill. Vlce-Presidents, Homer Buckingham, J. Leroy Buck, Geo. N. Squires, John s. Titus, K. N. Coggswe1l, Seth W. Hopson, Sheldon B. Smith, Harley Sanford, W. Wanzer, Seymour D. Weltont Chas. E. Beeman. .
 Recording Secretary, O. H. Bucking- ham. i-., -. Corresponding Secretary. Frederick E. I Starr -
 | Treasurer, c. A. Todd.
 ] PLYMOUTH sends the following delegates the Republican conventions yet to be holden:
 SenGtoriat.-B. D. G. Curtiss, Wm. s. Judson, Elliott J. Tenn and Orange D. | Hunter. s. ,.....
 1 Congressionat- George A. Stoughton. and Jason C. Fem. The delegates will all turn out and go. ---
 Justin O. Stoughton has been sent to jail 30 days for vagrancy. . .-
 RrvERToN protests through the Herald agalnst the misconduct of its single eli censed dealer.n-The assessor has added $60, ,00O to the on-attested hsts h. stead of swearing to their lists taxpayers are now swearing at the assessor.
 KENT young people enjoyed a dance at Merwin's hotel in Gaylordsville, Friday night last-The stockholders of the Kent Seminary will meet at Judd's hotel, on Friday, the 14th inst, for the election of officers and the transaction of other busi- ness.-Mr. N. Bates Chamberlain, living in North Kent, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, Monday morning, at one o'clock. Mir, Chamber lain seemed to enjoy good health and was | apparently in good spirits the evening be- fore the deed was done He retired .early to his bedroom, and the house remained quiet until after midnight when his daughter heard noise which she thought was the slamming of blind, but further examination revealed the fact that Cham berlain had shot himself as above stated
 He was .fifty-eight years of age and by oc- cupation farmer. The funeral took place Thursday Registrar report for 1872 l shows, Fl births; IA marriages; and 10 deaths.-Mr. E. M. Judd is taking an in- voice of hotel property, preparatory to a sale of the same to Mir. David P. Com stock.-JOurldl.
 BRDGEwATER preserves a cat that IS IT years old-The singing school goes on smoothly. Some of the apt scholars are instructing themselves in the jubilee songs, and we have no doubt could give our citizens good entertainment in the way of concert at the church. Journal,
 From CORNWALL six two horse sleigh loads of school children took a ride to Lime Rock, recently.
 CORNWALL BRIDGE reports the thermom- eter at 30 below zero in the recent cold snap. Whiskey froze in the decanters. WEST CORNWALL reports the theremom- eter 26 Q below zero on Thursday the 30th u1t-Tramps are uncommonly plenty this seasen.-Sentinel.
 The Gold s. H. Go. have sold over nine thousand dollars worth of heaters during the present season.-The W. c. Farmers Club met at T. S. Colds last Friday night. Dr. Greasy of Middletown delivered an address.-Geo. c. Harrison Is going to build 8 new house during the coming summer.-1,7OO cans milk ship ped from this station in January ry--Ne,Vs.
 THoMAsToN grand jurors are looking af- ter the children who have not attended school for at least three months during the year. The record shows that there are 65 delinquents.
 NEW PRESTON reports the thermometer l 9 below zero in the recent cold snap.- The fishing party from Bridgeport re- turned last week after fishing week in the coldest and most stormy weather that We have had this winter. They, however, had passable luck fishing off Sucker Brook, catching about 75 pounds of pike, pickerel and perch; they secured from the "Old Fisherman" (Harrison about % pounds, making in all a respectable mess to carry home. They boarded with MT. George Taylor while here.-Am,erican
 WArERTowN turned out, on Sunday, to very pleasant gathering at the house of Mir. Hiram French, in the northern. part of the town, it being the occasion of his seventy-fif birthday. Most ofthe child ren and grandchildren were present from Brooklyn, and elsewhere, to congratulate the veteran of French Mountain, whose vigorous old age is source of gratitude | to all his friends. MT. D. Grandson Merwin died at his residence on Friday after long and painful illness of about | six months -AUaericQn.