Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-19
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4a .l C0uNTY3lTEMS..t E44 The WoLcoTTvILLE trot of the 7th inst. resulted in the victory of Lady Hudson, a New Britain horse. The running race was won by horse belonging to Mr. L. F. Gilbert of Northheld. Messrs. Earn ham and Eastwood lost the road and were upset on their return from Waterbury during the thunder storm of the night of the 9th inst. horse smashed new buggy and anew fence in front of Col. Brady's, recently The rumored small pox turns out measles A Newfield girl tried unnecessarily to kill herself with laudanum, recently. .-Messrs. Migeon and Hotchkiss have. returned from Maine with l25 lbs. of trout. One John Kear- ney gets 60 days imprisonment and $50 fines and costs for drunkeness, and pound- ing his wife. -dlIo au-Tze Ei be4.sogsl
 THoMAsroN Good Templars are prepar- ing for public entertainment-''S Nights in Bar Room, be given sometims during the summer Oliver Smiths stolen horse and buggy have been found in New Britain. As tu -s.elr -dI.}
 EAST CANAAN is trying the fragrant ker- osene on the persistent apple-tree worm with indifferent success. : A few outsiders are cooked though, but the average in slider is only made callous by the process. Young men who fish Sundays, and ''coal bush whackers" who improve the occasion1By getting drunk, are warned not to do so any more by the Winsted Herald. A fire has burnt over considerable wood land, near the Indies.
 The NEW MILFORD Journal considers the Sentinel article to which %e print 8 letter in reply on our first page as an at tack on MT. Turrill, ..tfor the sole purpose of running his chances of the Judgeship, though censuring Mr. T. s careless book keeping.-Daniel Marsh hasbroken ground for his new house,-S. R. Hill has made an assignment of his property for the benefit of creditors. His older brother Sherman A. Hill, town collector, defaulted recent ly to the amount of $10, $40 and deeamped. s. R. Hill was one of his bondsmen and G. G. Potter, formerly of Litchfeld upon whom the loss will chiefly fall, is another. -G. $. Erwin's news room closes by fail ure. He will be succeeded by Mir. Levy. The new Water Go. propose laying six inch pipe to the head of Main St. from which four inch pipes are to go down each side of the street. .. ... ........ - |. : WAIRRTowN remonstrates in the Valley Sentinel against that powerful songster, the peacock. He is a beautiful ssdresser," to use a ladies' word; but those who have lived next door to him. say that his voice asea musical taso sre decidedly defective.
 FALLS VILLAGE enjoyed visit from gang of burglars, week before last. They experimented upon the store of U. H. Miner from which they were driven by dog. They then went to the store of Brewster, Garfield < Co.,, where they open ed safe but found no money. It is SUD- posed to be the same party that robbed the Great Burlington post-office the. next night. .,.t ..rr. .a5tsal a. ....ss- :. HUNTSVILLE furnaces are busy. Mir. s. W. Bradley is agent at, Lower City, land is undoubtedly the right man in the right place, says the Herald. He has an able assistant in Mir. Wm. Evarts, son of ?. P. Evarts, Esq, of Salisbury. ~-s~a {.
 The KENT Banner reports the farmers of that place waiting anxiously for rain. to set out their tebacco.-A sister of Moses Smith who resided in Sharon, was brought to Kent for burial last Wednes- day.-North Kent is getting little noto- riety: The school committee has recent ly locked the teacher Miss Sarah Nor gan) out of the school house.-As Mrs. Walter Page was driving over East Noun tain, recently, her horse took fright and ran, throwing out Mrs. Page and her child and finally injuring itself fatally. It was "a marrow escape for both mother and child. ''- 7s47-'' ''-'' .''
 NEW PRESTON HILL reports the follow ing accident, to the Journal s-- -f. f.s 6 While Noah ". Hatch and family of Upper Merryall, where driving home from church, Sunday, the pole of the wag- on dropped, starting the horses into run. The occupants of the wagon were thrown out, and daughter of MT. Hatch's about f4 years old, was run over and badly injured, though not fatally. .asz7t F. RoxBuRY reports as follows to the Stan dard.: 4 -
 s5 ''An enterprise of great value to this community is quietly organizing in our midst, which will soon add greatly to the business, and wealth, of eqr town, and also to the Shepaug Valley railroad, I refer to the Stone Quarry Co.,, at Mine Hill. They are now preparing to get out vast quantities of that beautiful granite, for which theEe is great call. One thing peculiar to this stone Is, that 1t is fire proof, besides they can be got out and split about as easily as chestnut plank. It IS really wonderful to see the hill, now il is clear of debris, 2 solid val of gran ite, with it's regular seams, inviting as it were only chisel to move them The prospect certainly looks fair that mine of wealth is in the grasp of the enter pnsing gentlemen who have started this business, and think all will wish them success in their venture,a
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