Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-09
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following are the officers chosen:
 Assessors; E. P. Moulthrop, Darius P. Griswold, Jerome B. Wheeler, Henry
 Board 0f Reief: l.. O. Meafoy, George Cook, George W. Bement, T. Leander Jennings, Linus T. Gilbert. Is
 Selectnen; Jacob Morse. Anson c. Smith, Garner B. Curtiss, Harry Clemens, Clifford o. NeHberry. ..a...s.e...zsess.zs.as,.
 Clerk aud Registrar; Willis J. Beach. Treasnrer;; George M. Woodruff. |
 COnstGbLes; o. F. Peck, Eugene Ward, Geo. W. Seelye, James Campbell. James Morse, J. W. Ravenscroft, Seth 0. Pond.
 Grand Jurors; William O. Buell., Jo- seph Tanning, Horatio P. Griswold, Al bert B. Halloek, Homer fl. Hopkins, Charles Carter.a sit1 tlsI Ess ..-..t1
 School Hisitors; Benjamin W. Petit bone, Louis J. Blake, H. R. Merrill.
 Regastrors cf Votefsi lst Dist. Alex. B. Shumway, G. H. Baldwin; ad Dist. Abram M. Turner. Geo. Guernsey. -,t44
 The contest that seemed to excite most interest was over the capital question. New Haven had some very active canvas sers and the ''No" vote was much larger than any one had expected, the final count showing TIT Yes 10 136 No. We have a strong suspicion that the unusual inter- est manifested by those who don't usual ly care much about capitals was owing to an infusion of stamps
 At the Town meeting in the afternoon the usual reports were read and accepted, the smaller offices filled, and the follow ing votes passed regarding schools;
 l VOTED, That there be appropriated for the maintainance of District Schools for the coming year the sum recommended by the Selectmen and School visitors viz: to those districts in which average at- tendance does not exceed 15, the sum of $8 per week for the time the town is re- quired to maintain schools in such dis tricts; to those districts in which the aver age attendance exceeds 15, but does not exceed 20, the sum of $8.50 per week for said time; and to those districts ill which the average attendance exceeds 20, the sum of $9, 50 per week for such time; pro- vided the sum shall be expended during such time F. .-fe.5.-.s s.f T.. 'aF |'-
 VOTED, That there be paid to the sev- eral school districts in this town the amount to which they severally would have been entitled had they expended such amounts in maintaining their sever al schools for the time required bv law, so said far as said amounts have been ex- pended in maintaining schools for longer period than the law requires.
 The Selectmen showed gratifying re- duction of expenses and the payment of $4.000 of debt, and we sincerely regret Mir. Adams retirement from office NIT. Morse his successor, however, is good and experienced selectman.
 The Superior court finished it's Sept. Term, last week. The little darkey re- ferred to ill our last was acquitted Ben jamin Powers, a New Milford negro, was convicted of placing Instructions on the track of the Housatonic railroad in Kent, and sentenced to four years imprison- ment in State Prison. Geo. Truman, an- other colored man, was convicted of theft and sentenced to six months in jail The trial of Henry Fenn, of Plymouth, for the murder of Mir. Hart, was tried and re- suited in a disagreement of the jury. There was no question that the prisoner committed an assault on the deceased and struck him severe blow. but the inry could not aoraa in findir,. ,--. -. ,.'''-..- was occasioned by that blow. :lt-sa,.
 The following divorces were granted during the term tt 4-r
 E1nor from, T.ouioa M
 George from Augustine Millett. sle
 Nancy M. from George A. Prince.
 Mary E. from Martin J. Norton.
 Anna from Ashbel Miller. ti'
 Thomas from Sarah Linski. .1'''
 Charles F. from Caroline D. Cain.
 Jane B. from Gregor McG. Bradalbane.
 Elias from Mary E. Booth
 Fanny G. from Theodore B. Bailey.
 Simon from Hannah Plumb.
 Jane from Eli s. Gaylord.
 The great Graphic balloon passed over this town at noon, Monday, with three persons in it's car The eronauts hailed Mir. J. B. Peck, near whose house they passed, and asked' where they were. He gave them to understand that they were still in American air, and they went on slowly northward. A large rope was dragging from the car which tore few shingles off Mir. Levi Goes house, and made consider able commotion in the tree tops over which they passed. The concern went on as far as Canaan. where the voyagers were caught in the storm and ran good deal of risk of striking Canaan, Ct, and that other 'happy land" where all good Graphics go, at one and the same instant Donaldson and one of his companions finally saved themselves by jumping twenty or thirty feet to the ground, luckily hitting the sacred soil in soft place. Lunt, the Graphic corres- pondent, was taken up into the mountain, where he managed to jump into tree and escaped unhurt. It was extremely fortunate on the whole that the farce of a transatlantic balloon voyage did not turn out tragedy. -i1 .1.
 A superior fifteen horse power steam engine, for the leather works of J. Will Hanson & Co.,, iH this village, came up the Shepaug road, recently This re- minds us of an incident that occurred when Mir. Perkins was canvassing the valley in favor of the enterprise He was speaking of the great benefit and conyen- fence the road would be to the towns up-i on it's line. when some one inquired how much business the old tannery in Litch- field would furnish? He replied that even 1t would feel the new Efe and impulse, and it would not be improbable to sup pose, if the road was built, that the. old tannery would run by steam ill less than three years. Singular as it may seem, one year has passed by and the first steam engine, for manufacturing p,lrpo- ses, comes up for the old tannery. Ai |
 -fhe Danbury Agricultural Society hnid their annua1 fair oil fh;S ,vrolr ana