Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-19

At HARwINroN recently Alr Cyrus Will son had valuable pair of oxen killed by Naugatuck freight train near Camps mills.-The academy school taught by Mir. E. P. Farnham of Morris during the winter was very successful and he endear- ed himself not only to his scholars but to
 the church and community during .his
 brief stay in Harwinton, His school
 closed with 8 public examination on the
 27th ut. and his scholars gave him sur
 prise in the evening.
 KEET had an educational meeting on
 Monday of last week. and addresses were
 delivered by Sec. Northrop and Prof. Bodwell.
 SALISBURY held town meeting on the 7th inst. to decide upon the question of license A vote leaving it optional with the seletmen was finally carried. The News says that the meeting twas
 probably the most shameful and altogeth- CT disgraceful of any ever held in this, or any other town ill New England" \ dis orderly lot of lmbibers stood as thick as they could perch themselves on two or three benches in front of the moderator The most influential and respectable men in the town stood in the back of the able to see or hear the moderator. Final 1 ly vote was passed instructing the se-
 lectmen to enforce the law requiring li- l cense. The News sums up the moral con-
 dition of Salisbury as follows:
 That the whole town of Salisbury is debauched, everybody knows.-Rum sent bullet to the heart of one of it's citizens; plunged the knife to the hilt in another and makes an imbecile of the third, who selects the wife of his bosom from g New York dance house and wills to her his fortune. Is it necessary to enumerate
 more evidence of Salisbury's debauchey?
 Buildings are erected and consecrated to
 rum. Rum hells spring up like mush- 1 rooms and flourish like a Green Bay tree
 and nobody dares say aught against them.
 "AsH1NaToS.-A correspondent of the | Derby Transcript speaks as follows ot
 the last performance of Uncle Toms 1 Cabin:
 1 We were soon at Farmers Hall, where the drama of ''Uncle Toms Cabin
 was given for our entertainment, under 1 the auspices of the ''Gunnery." And g
 most remarkable performance it was Bristling with difficulties and stumbling blocks, it was carried out without hitch ol 1 drawback. Some of the characters repre-
 sented by outside talent were sustained 1 by members of the Gunnery corps, either ] teachers or pupils, each role from the l ''Deacon" down, being done to a turn. 1 And, by the by, what an excellent thing ! 1t IS for these same pupils to be give1
 such opportunities of learning, in an at tractive way. self possession, control O 1 the voice, easy gesticulation, clear artic l ulation, as we'll as rigid attention to tho
 duty of the moment, keen tax upon thu 1 memory. and, wlthal, pastime, which under such auspices, can be only produc
 tive of good.
 1 WooDBURY.-- few cases of measles
 -Frieddie Partree is quite feeble and fail l ing ill health rapidly.--Bradford Richards d 1oIu AcSIueL' ol NoouOufl recently l died in Southford; his weight short 1 time previous to his death was thirty-ont 1 pounds. His wife died three days after Truman Judson has been deacon of the l North church over twenty years, and has
 now presented his resignation
 In WATERTowN town meeting was helC 1 at which resolution instructing the
 selectmen not to recommend any persons
 for license was indefinity postponed. ] Yesterday, Thomas Colwell, who three 1 weeks ago was injured in the back at 1 Plymouth by the revolving handle of a
 hand-car, so that he is deprived the use of his lower limbs, was transferred to the hospital in this city by the town authori- ties of Plymouth. Colwell has five child
 ren living on the town of Plymouth and
 his case is very sad one.-Pal1adi"m.