Litchfield enquirer., 1873-05-22
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 -.rouUIug oI JIG IIIt"nneIu County Agricultural Society is to be held at the Mansion House on Monday next, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. A full attendance is requested as ''the farther usefulness of the Society depends upon the prompt and decided action of all who wish it success, 5 There certainly ought to be no division of opinion on this point in Litchfeld. ?. There should be large meeting and general determination to "to put the thing through. ''s'i -. ssT l... .'' -''..'
 On Thursday evening of last week an excellent Temperance lecture was deliver ed in the Court Room. by the Rev. Dr. Per- rim of WolcottYil1e. Avoiding all discus sion of disputed points, the speaker took the firm ground that abstinence from al- coholic, drink was a t'good thing" for men and women, young and old, to practice. Therepcould be no denying the fact, he said, that naultitudes were injured by the opposite practice; for, However much we might preach ssitempersncea in the use of such drinks, undoubtedly a large percent age of those who drank at all, drank too much. Aside from the risk that every md6erate drinker himself ran of ,oyer-in diligence, isexample could not but coun- tenance social customs that lead others into temptations they. cannot withstand. He thought it, therefore, the plain duty of Christian to abstain from an indulg- ence that caused s'his brother to offend. ''
 We were especially pleased with the charitable tone of Dr. Perrin's address, so different from the harsh denunciations that disfgure the lectures and. editorials of men who make writing and speaking on Temperance profession. An impro- vised choir sang two or. three temperance songs with admirable feryor. asz e,t.-
 : The report of Dr, Mayer, Prison In spector, makes the following mention of our jail: 3hht neo5 cit d. a7ga# .aa
 The prison is pretty clean. and the pro- | fuse application of whitewash and lime keeps the cells fresh and bright. But the discipline is very lax, and no attention paid to the personal neatness of the in mates. The fact that all the ventilators were stopped up leads to the suspicion that the air was really neither fresh nol pure, but that indications of impurity were covered by the pnngent smell ot lime and whitewash. The provisions i1 store proved very good; the food, accord. ing to the testimony of prisoners. was ample and we'll cooked, and the treatment lenient, and even kind. More neatness good discipline, open ventilato--s. orderly cells, q pump, bath-room, and priyy would make Litchffeld jail as good as any of the smaller.C County iails.
 Moving is great undertaking in any case. and the noging of all the furniture erockery, trunks, guests, clerks, &c, &c in the Mansion House over to the United States must be a. specially big job All that, ,however, is to be accomplished this week; and now the sun will set quarter ot an hour later on the south side of East Street, and quarter of an hour earlier or the North side, than it did before the sylph-hke form of our typical landlord Jeff it's old place on the Mansion House piaz za to occupy similar station in front of 1 the United States. ei-a latl a.- s--
 We regret to hear that Dr. Charles Vail, a native of this place, who practiced medicine for most of his life in this coun. ty, died at Rochester, last week, in the 7Otf year of his age. He removed from here to Rochester in 1852, was many years city and county physician, and had good private practice. Dr. Vail was most genial, estimable man and an excellent physician, and his death is greatly regret. ted by a host of old friends.
 The annual meeting of the Circulat. ing Library is held on the first Thursday in June, and as a flaw of that associa tion requires the return of all books $ | week before that meeting 6or repair, re covering, &c.) they must be sent in, on O, before Thursday of next week on penalt, of the usual fine for non-return of books | The late Mansion House people have a handy way of disposing of the truck in sheir garret; only 1t isn't every passer. l by who is presented with a length of six inch stove pipe that appreciates the com pliment.
 1 The case of ''small pox'' reported east of the village is finally decided by the doctors to be only measles.
 1 The slips in the Episcopal church was sold on Monday, for S1 ,254, with quite number remaining unsold.
 Attention is called to new advertise ments of cheap goods by Bishop & Sedg wick, and s. G. Beach.
 -Braman X Deming continue to sell their stock of dry goods at low prices. They still have good assortment of Dry l Goods .s.sa ' 9.es ss8f..v s.sz
 John Catlin has deeded his store in Northfield to F. s. Porter.