Litchfield enquirer., 1874-07-09

| THoM.sroN s.old folks" had a picnic | on the Fourth.-A party of pleasure seek CTS visited Bantam lake on Saturday. Their faces, as we'll as their tongues, gave
 us glowing accounts of the days enjoy
 ments. s.-The public schools close to-day l FridaY) for the Summer enjoyments- 1 Issder.s
 | Sunday School teacher Next Sunday we'll have the death of Moses" O4erioy- | cd pupil-''Then he did die at last.
 The Concert and Festival of the Ply
 mouth Library Association passed off very pleasantly last Wednesday evening. The Plymouth B. B. c. played match
 game of seven innings with the Stars of
 tho same place, on the 20th ult., resulting | Ill a victory for the former-the score standing 105 to 17.-Rev. c. P. Corner is spending his vacation in Canada A little | unpleasantness occurred last Friday even ing, up the Railroad track, resulting in a few bloody noses and black eyes.-E;s-
 press
 WINCHESTER CENTEE Is fuller than usual | of city sojourners. Jos. M Marsh has q
 house full; Henry F. Chapman has como | with his family to occupy the Huflbut homestead, and NIT. Brett of New Haven | IS encamped for the season with his farai- ly at the Hatch place. Arrangements
 have been made to repair the parsonage. Elliott Bronson, youngest son of the
 late Theron Bronson, is quite seriously 1 i'll of infammatory rheumatism Rerold.
 At HARw1NroN Albro Ely had two COWS killed by lightning during the storm of
 last Tuesday. worms destroyed
 nearly all the fruit this year.-G. w. ftoflinsc cavu 1,xall fF n Pa1-o, 11r,1JJor N ! was started, last week, and runs to a charm. The first floor was laid, mill put OlS and frame sawed at the mill,-a very
 novel way of making one hand wash the other. Mir. c. expects to raise the build ing this week. A correspondent at ORE HILL writes us that about o'clock on Monday last terrific tornado passed over that place doing considerable dam age. MT. James Van Deusen who was
 driving on the road had his horse and carriage taken up and set one side though doing no especial injury. Mr. Geo. Bushnell had TOW of his finest pear trees torn up py the roots. The Chatfeld Mining Go. had number of apple trees blown down as we'll as a large number of forest trees. Fences were all laid fiat, and the gale was conceded to be the heaviest ever known within the memory of. the''old- est inhabitant. "-Herald.
 The werkmen employed in the ore beds at Orc Hill were discharged Tuesday, Net0s.
 TWISTED is making efforts to raise mon- ey to continue the Episcopal service at Music Hall on Sunday afternoons.-The School Exhibition at Music Hall last Thursday evening was q rare treat, and was financially success. The exercises
 consisted principally of chorus singing, chorus, gymnastics and solo reading by
 Prof. Hubbard, Gay, Esq, started for the West on Tuesday and will probably go as far as Colorado before he returns.- Tho venerable Dr. Leonard Bacon was in
 town on Saturday-enroute to Colebrook 1 where he and his family are now summer ing at the residence of Edward Darlington Esq, Principal Peck of the East Village High School took his pupils to the Pine Woods in Burrville last Friday ts a plc-
 nic, going down by special Naugatuck trains.-Owing to the sudden illness of
 Miss Ella Knapp Seager, who sustains
 the role Of the Queen in the Opera of
 'Esther, Prof. Seager has been compelled
 to postpone the production of the Opera
 at Music Hall until Friday evening of next
 week, July 10.-Herdld.