Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-27
COUNTY ITEMS.

COUNTY ITEMS.
 1 NEW MILFORD ''Liberal Republican"
 of the ''rale, ould shtock," says the Stan-
 dard, recently cautioned the village un-
 dertaker not to have "nigger" ride on
 the hearse when he WAS buried. It is i pleasant to know that his funeral did 1 come off short time afterwards and that 1 his prejudices were respected in the mat i ter of hearse driver.-New Milforders i have tobacco on the brain to the extent of comparing sales between services on Sun ! days.-Soule Bros. are building a house for Mrs. Geo. H. Noble.
 {. Not only do the residents of this place , shun lectures themselves but some of them actually stole jug of molasses from
 the sleigh of a patriotic NorthviIlian while
 he was listening to Mr. Murray.-The ] voting list this year numbers S54 Mir. Emmett drove forty miles and transacted
 two funerals, one in Bethlehem and one
 Tn Brldgewater, on the 16th.-A new street IS to be opened through the land lately purchased of Dr. Hine by 4. B. Mygatt and the Soule Bros.-The Journal strikes out nobly for graded school It is what ! every village of the size of New Milford wants
 The KENT Episcopal church is about completed, says the News.-Mr. Wm. Edwards has moved to his new farm on Kent mountain.-Mrs. Dr. Camp occu- pies the parsonage the coming year, Brown rs. Benedict called out an audi ence of POO, last week. It was an assault 1 and battery case about turkey and cost Benedict S7 and costs, and being apealed will cost the parties a hundred or two apiece. ''Thus ended" says the Journal,
 ''the happiest day K ent people have seen for months
 WoOD3URY reports to the American that
 Mir. Traver has nearly finished the repairs on his new hotel, barn lSc-The Demo- cratic Senatorial Convention has nomina- ted Mir. Bristol. It was festive gather lng.-Some three or four houses are to be
 built this spring, quite all unheard-of event for this town, except by the oldest inhabitant. A new firm begins business at Hotchkissville, soon.-Mr Bull leaves the old store in the Hollow and devotes
 his time to the new Savings Bank, which has an office over Walkers drug store. SALISBURY enjoyed an interesting lecture from Mir. Northrop and remarks from Yung Wing, one of the Chinese Commis sione1s of Education, on Tuesday evening of last week. The latter claimed an an- tiquity of 4000 years for the school sys- tenn of China and seemed very proud, ac- eording to the News, ::of the literature of that country. From the specimens we have perused on tea chests, We judge that it is 8 very ingenious literature. e.-The estate of the late Geo. Coffing turned out to be worth S2OO, GOO.
 The epizootio has just reached NORTH WILLIE, according to the Journal, and F. Camp regrets it's appearance one horses worth. Nathan Penney has sold his moun- tain house to Richard Bedding. He in- tends to fit it up for boarders.-There was a surprise party at A. N. Baldwin's last week, and sleighing party of Merryall- CTS at Heman Buckingham's.
 Hoouv> ,.aooo,,;uo, NF. n.:.I N, cas as its "Mayor. Chief, Executive, Sc. &c., says the Sentinel.
 The WEST CORNWALL authorities do not seem very anxious to bring the tin-ware and chicken thieves to justice. Why is this thus ?-R. R. Pratt refused to have his name used as candidate for Senator in the 17th district.-On Wednesday, April 2d: George Huges and his scholars, whom he has been teaching to sing, will give concert in the Village Hall.-L. H. Howard has returned some of the chickens he found on his wood pile to the rightful owners.-Ne,0s.
 Our tailor, Gutzler, has bought H. c. Crandall's place, and CFandall has rented the Wheaton place. e.-,Senti9ael..
 THoMAsToN district schools closed their winter term last Friday. The pupils of the first department under the charge of MT. Cole, gave reading exhibition We'd nesday. The successful competitors were Joseph Binn and Florence Palmer, who received as prizes, Goldsmith's Works and the Sayings of Napoleon I. The prize for scholarship and general department was awarded to Miss Blake. The schools have been especially fortunate in keeping the services of its three lady teachers for 8 long time, and the committee regret the resignation of Miss Woodward who has had charge of her department four years. The Reading Room Association held it's annual meeting on Tuesday evening. The room has been we'll patronized and is success. An effort is being made to place the books of the Village Library Association in the reading room.-A part of the family of Dr. Woodruff left early this week to spend few weeks in the more genial climate of Aiken, s. C.--Seth Edward Thomas, Esq, who has charge of the business of the Clock Co.,, Tn New York, and is also President of the Con- monwealth Life Insurance Company, leaves for Europe the middle ot April. He expects to visit Vienna during the Exposition, and thus unite business with pleasure. new office of Edson Thom- as. near the depot, will soon be complet- ed,
 At WEST NORFOLK, on Monday morn ing last, MT. J. K. Shepard commenced the erection of his new tannery. He in- tends that these new works shall be of & capacity for doing much greater amount
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