Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-03

fore the new law went into effect she did
 sell; he used.to see men from his office
 windows crowding in.there to bay. Since
 that time he had noticed change-her
 neighbors know that. Mir. Graves paid
 hls respects repeatedly to the chief wit
 ness and the editor of the Sentinel; also
 an eloquent tribute to the high character of his client and closed with the assertion that the State had failed to make out the
 case beyond reasonable doubt.
 Mir. Andrews claimed that there was
 sufficient evidence for binding over the
 prisoner; that they were only bound to make out 20rinaG .facie case, quoting Judge Reeves lectures to that effect. He
 spoke of McDermot's story, claimed that 1t was told while he was too drunk to frame a lie. He spoke very forcibly of
 the demoralizing business the prisoner
 confessed to having been engaged in,
 until recently, Mrs. Weller, and Mrs. Daly, he claimed, ,contradicted each other;
 the former swearing that McDermot did not ask her for liquor, and the latter that he had asked her for it and couldn't get any. ' 4
 MT. Graves closed with powerful ap- peal for the prisoner He claimed that she ought not to be bound over unless the justice thought there was probable req son to think a jury would convict her. He referred again to the outside clamor for conviction, insinuated that the Sheriff and the Sentinel had combined to persecute this woman, and said they were to cow ardly to attack a man. He enquired why the Mansion House was not prosecuted when the evidence showed that McDer-
 mot while intoxicated had got liquor then? Justice Meafoy acknowledged that coun- sel had shown commendable zeal, but thought the State had failed to make out case and dismissed the complaint. Our report of evidence is so full as to leave no room for comment on this inter- esting case. ''Obfuscation'' was 8 lead ing peculiarity throughout. and it is put
 ting the matter very mildly to say that the statement of the prisoner was great surprise to this community. For three days it has been threaten ing rain with no appreciable results Cis- terms show perhaps half gallon each (wine measure) as the result of Monday nights performance. It is very aggravat- ing under such circumstances to see that they had barn struck by lightning, a house blown down, cellars flooded and a glorious swash generally, at New Haven, Saturday. rv ..f e...- ---s-... -.....t. The First National Bank divides per cent on the First, as will be seen frora adyt in another column. .t .. . After hearing Mrs. Weller's testimony Saturday forenoon we were surprised to see the Hon. Michael Bray haunting her premises an hour or two afterward, and to hear it rumored that an iron bound cask was delivered there at noon. The Savings Society held it's annual meeting, Saturday, and elected the fol- lowing officers: G. c. Woodruff, J. l.. Judd, F. D. McNeil, G. M. Woodruff, Chas. Adams, Board of Direction; E. W. Seymour, Pres. Gason Whiting, the form CT president declining re-election); D. c. Bulkley, Vice Pres; H. R. Colt, Treas
 urer; c. M. Woodruff, Loan Agent.
 Judge Seymour has received the de- gree of l.. l.. D. from Yale College.
 MT. c. B. Lane is to have three of the incest lambs in the State, fattened by Gen. Cook of Goshen, for sale at his mar ket on Saturday morning.
 The State Librarians report credits Litchfeld with only 16 births and 9
 deaths, whereas New Hartford, with less than our population, reports S7 births. The county averages one birth to each 50 of it's population; while Litchfeld appears to
 average only one to every POO. This is not really the case. The fact is that one of our physicians having large practice made no returns whatever, last year, of births and deaths Our State returns of marriages are, no doubt, reliable; but we have little confidence in the returns of births and deaths. A very large propor- tion of these are never reported to town registrars. ..-...-...
 The Circulating Library holds its
 monthly sale at the Town Room, on Thurs day, at 7 P. M ...'