Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-30

of which. has uniformly been purchased heretofore, before Oct. 15th This year. however, With yellow fever raging in the South. coupled with the financial troubles. very littie cheese has changed hands and farmers are said to he mani festing anxiety for their crop.
 Tln THoMAsroN Clock shops have shut down for tive, weeks. The Plume < At wood Manufacturing Company eommenc- cd working eight hours. last Mondays The Woolen Company will not rebuild immediately. Rev D. U. Bishop has left to take charge of a parish in Ridgefeld. .
 ,WoLcorrynLE Adyentistss haye been holding; a series oi meetings il tent east of the high school pulling. Tine schools are unusually. full this term, the high school having about sixty over; the aver age.-The Hook k Eye Go. and the Brass Mill, go on half time.-There have been eight marriages in Wolcottville. within the month past. t.-Phe principal merchants of the village have agreed to close their stores in the evening at s p. ,in, during the winter vz,.-sis -5 e-.-.15 ..~
 The SALISBURY News reports passen- ger car belonging to the ore train of the Conn. Western badly burned, recently The News threatens it's delinquent sub- scribers with postal card bills, Good. The postal card is about the only redeem ing feature of the recent postal law.
 FALLS VILLAGE has. not yet revived the lectures, &c., of last year.-A Chapin- vile team had a smash up, recently, be- fore Fuckers block ii No one hurt. 'd CANAAN listened with delight to a con- cert by some Winsted artists under the direction of Mir. R. S. Frary, late of Thomaston..' Among the performers we notice the names of Messrs. J. H. Vaill, tenor; Eggleston, futist; Briggs, violin ist; Lyon, basso. Among other pieces performed was the 'sWrecker's Daughter" which reminds us of the old quickstep of that name, performed by the ':Judea Screamers' in the winter of '43. We recollect it because of all extremely in- genious substitute for double tongue ing" invented by Charley Hayes, one of our fellow performers on the flute. He used to give two fingers of his right hand a rapid sidewise vibration over the highest open finger hole on the left hand, produc- ing an extremely comical version of the triplets with which the old "Wrecker's Daughter" opened. :.
 In WEST CORNWALL apples are selling for one dollar bushel; potatoes at 50 cents bushel; cider at 5 a barret- Geo. A. Wheaton has produced & Peerless potato that weighs two and quarter pounds Thieves broke into the Union Shear Go. s factory and the wagon shop, on the evening of the 22d. They then broke into the barn of B. B. Witherill and took his horse, wagon and harness and started towards Sharon. No doubt they purposed going through the store of Pratt < Foster, but. for, some unknown cause did not make the attempt. ao...... ..,
 !. h HARw1NToN apples are so plenty that they are sold for cider at twenty-five cents a bushel, and cider sells. there at from four to five dollars barrel Cider mak- CTS elsewhere are giving from forty to. fifty cents per bushei for apples and sell ing cider at from six to seven dollars per barrel. ,t: e..sta- tr, III" IT
 The RoxBURY Congregational church was reopened Sunday The new track scales at the depot are now ready for their work ,s
 -a KENT reports several cases of typhoid fever.-The y6ang people had pleasant dance at Miss Flora Straight's on the 10th inst. .,is .s......"' .-.-. .si-
 Ebenezer Marsh, of NEW MILFORD, who Hives over the River," shot two foxes on Wednesday afternoon. Mir. s. c. Lan- don, our artist, has made some very fine pictures of Steep Rock--Mr. $. E. Bost- wick is experimenting with new kind of walk, that of laying concrete oyer flag ging. It is said that the tar will adhere Co the large fiat stones just as well as to the small cobble stones that are general ly used for underpinning.-The Pastime B. B. O., went to Danbury on Tuesday, for the return game with the Wooster E. B. C., of Danbury. The first game was played in New Milford, and was won by the Pastimes by score of 27 to 5 Tues days game resulted in another victory; 54 to 19.-Fifty hands have been dis charged from the button factory. We know some of those discharged are em- ployed by Bristol & Isbell; but there is still room for just the same number of OF 5000 a month, which in these panic times is 8 large item.-Journ0l. ..
 At WATFRTowN, Mir. Jacob N. Blakeslee, g man over 70 years of ago, while attend ing to his work at the cider mill, made miss-step and fell backwards some seven or eight feet, striking on the back of his neck. Up to this time 6 days) he remains insensible. Speaking of aged people re- minds us of an aged person in this town, whose life is worthy of record We have often heard it said that every young lady in the land ought to read her history. The lady in question, Miss Osborn. is .86 years of age, has always been very in- dustrious. and has for years past had the entire charge of family of three or more persons, six cows, and all the. attending duties of farmers kitchen. The present season she had made six hundred pounds of cheese, butter to match, does all the family sewing. and walks a mile every week to see sister, Valley Sentinel
 The WEsT NORFOLK silk mill is now running, and gives employment to fifteen females. Their shop is neat and com nodious one, and they will defy the cold northwest blasts this coming winter with steam heat from fifteen horse power boiler, now being set into the rear part of their works. The axle shop in the old gun shop building is doing fair busi- .noaS, sJslln y,iIdin ot iY1ak al,nca f9,4 aYla