Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-03
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sAasS :" SChI HI tHc shape or contest over the probate of the late Thomasa A. Stiles. This worthy Received from s5o, ,0oO to ESQ., 600 from the estate. of his father, and leaves from $40, 900 to S45,0O0 worth of property which he gave his wife by will. The News gives the testimony in the case and sums up rather feelingly as follows: .
 Oh God! Thou art the Lord-but what man Is this, ,and what an existence! One continuous. nncessing drunk of five years duration: A brain that has laid in a pickle of alcohol for five years may make a reasonable disposition of his property, and ii It can we arc willing that 1t should.
 What an obituary to go out to tho world IS this We have been writing
 tOf course a drunkard can make d valid will unless so intoxicated at the time as not to know what he is doing The coun- sel for the contestant, Ball, were Messrs.
 Warner of Salisbury, Sheldon of Miller ton, and Graves of Litchfeld. For the will were Messrs. Seymour, of Litchfeld; Smith, of Millerton, and Hardenburg,. of Canaan. Carpenter Niver IS repairing and arranging the old store building near the hotel for dwelling house for two families. D. T. Warner Esq, has gone to Columbia Springs, x. Y, for his health. ...,f..- -.......
 The NEw MILFORD lecture association find they, have $52 64 in the treasury The barber shop moves to the premises lately nsed for harness shop. Eleven new voters were made, Mon. day. The Adelphic had pleasant and successful exhibition, last week. Mr. Isbell has patented a mode of making buttons out of compressed wood.-New Milforders. male and female, are extreme ly reckless about getting on moving trains. They are not singular in that respect It Is proposed to change the name of Chicken Hill to Prospect Hill. The peo- pie who live there are not cl,icken-hearted enough to stand such an appellation any longer Clark. of this town, acci- dently cut his sons head open with an axe, Wednesday morning, says the Standard. It appears that Mr. Clark was chopping wood and the unfortunate son stepped in the way of the uplifted axe and was killed instantly.
 The CANAAN snake is being stirred up by the News. We had supposed that animal to be the property of the Amenia Times- Judge Granger has purchased the house and store known as Dr. CarHp's property, and 1t Is rumored a son of the Judge, Dr. Samuel Granger, is to commence practice here. MT. James A. Root of Vandeusen. vile has rented his farm in this place to MT. John VanDeusen. The house is to be occupied by MT. Edward Smith.--Mr. E. P. Hunt has sold his farm just east of the depot to Mr. Chester Deming of South Cenaan.-Mr. Charles Lane removes this week to Harrington and the pastor of the M. E. church will occupy the house MT. l.. yacates-Ar Sedan, of Ashley Falls has moved on the Harlow Peet Place. Secretary Northrop lectured on the 4Ctu, O1l cuuCdG1OA 1SOUC4p uAACu- sen was "surprised' on the evening of ths 18th. '+..'
 NEW HARTFORD returns to the two ser mons a Sunday plan, after trying one ser- vice during the winter. You sec those who do not care for more than one ser- mon are not obliged to hear it, and those who require two diseourses to keep them straight for the seven days following, are accommodated also.-Dr. Bunnel is slow ly recovering from typhoid fever.-The great want of the place is new hotel It is understood that J. G. Goodwin has sold building site next south of his store to the town.-W B. Loveland is fast ,renovating the store. formerly occu- pied by H. l.. Jones, and apparently in- tends to make the inside and outside at- tractive.-The Catholic church has bought three acre lot of Cephas Roberts.
 BuRRv1LLE is to have new bushes intro duced, reports the Herald. Henry Kavill, of Boston, has bought the building, pow CT and land, now occupied by the Nauga- tuck Valley Milk Go. MT. Kavill has for several years carried on business in Bost-
 on, manufacturing pianoforte tops and trimmings, parlor and saloon billiard tab
 les, alleys, &c., having given employment to as many as forty-five men.-The Naug-
 atuck Valley Milk Go. will still continue their business OH the first floor. They
 use up now about sixteen hundred quarts
 daily and will increase to three or four thousand the coming summer.
 RoxBuRY is considerably stirred up
 about local politics, says the Journal Work has commenced once more at the stone quarry at Mine Hll.-George W.
 Thomas, the man who swindled the War
 ren farmers by buying their cattle, and
 representing himself to be worth large snm of money, escaped from the officers, by
 whom he was taken to New Haven, on another charge, last week. His sister and her husband have been arrested for help ing him 'steal away"
 
 Woncorrv1h1E. E.-The Knights of Pyth- ias are amusing themselves with weekly surprise parties among the fraternity.- Business changes are numerous this Spring. l.. l.. Johnson, the hat man, re- tires in favor of Vibberts S Deming, who purpose to ''drug" the community Joseph Slack, of Litchfield, has purchased the ice business of T. W. Austin, for a r.. is negotiating for E. H. Seoville's livery stable. John Ashborn has leased his bil- Hard saloon to John Herman, of Falls Village.-The wife of John Kearney pre- sented him with triplets last Friday morn ing, two girls and 8 boy.-E. F. Weston, E. c. Hotchkiss and several other of our citizens, will sail for Samana Bay next May, to look at things and perhaps settle down.-Iader.
 Walter s. Barber, of this place, who recently graduated from Bellevue Medical