Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-13
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 LlTCHFIELD, CONN.
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 Mrs. A. c. Hassard has leased the Dr. Osborn place for five years.
 Judge E. K. Foster, of New Haven, is at the Mansion House.r,.
 People were distressed to hear, ear ly this week, of the dangerous illness and afterwards of the death of Gerard Wiggin. There will be funeral services at St. Mi chaeIs church this Wednesday, afternoon at 5 o'clock. a' .@ t
 Col. William F. Baldwin is in town for few days. We regret to hear that he has sold all his real estate here to his brother the sheriff. We had hoped he might take mp his residence among us again. ....
 The City Savings Bank of Bridgeport has been selling portion of the Hollister property in this place: about 3 acres to Robert Stevens for $500; about 12 acres to J. W. Biglow and Thomas Bell for $1 200; the Jonathan Buell. farm, two miles cast of the village, to Joel Tharp for $500
 The latest at the 'fUnited States" is the placing by the ladies of the Hotel tastefully arranged, button hole boquot beside the plate of each guest at dinner. SOME do not seem to appreciate. X
 We understand that Capt. Moran of the Lake View Wicket club has challeng- ed the Old Gentlemen's club to play a game on the Lake Viewgrounds on Satur- day afternoon. We mourn for the van- guIshed.
 A press dispatch dated at St, Joseph, Mo-, says: "Reed Thompson, supposed to hail from Litchfeld, Conn.,, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself through the head. He left letters to his mother and brother, saying that he was out of money and tired of life. ."-Ananr- icdn.
 We know no person of that namc ill this town. perhaps it is some one hailing from the county instead of the town of Litch- field9
 Chief clerk Mason, of the Waterbury post-office. is spending few days at Litch- lield. He is reported to have had good luck at bass fishing on Bantam lake, ill company with clerk in the Litchfield DOst-oflice. ice.-American.
 Clerk of the Litchficld post st-offlce! Chief of the Postal Department in the Sanitary Emporium of Messrs. Wesscles and Gates, you meanl No ono thinks of accepting the pOstmasters receipt unless it is count ersigned ''Pcr E. s. Munger"
 Rev. Charles s. Walker of Brooklyn gill preach again at the Congregational church on Sunday next. At p. m. ,Sun- day evening, he will deliver lecture at the chapel. his subject being "From the kanawha to the Big Sandy, or Life in West Virginia" His description of the peo- pie and places of this Back Country of the south is said to be very interesting.
 A party of WolcottvilIians undertook some bull-head fishing at the Lake, Sat- urday night. It started to rain and they started for tho shore It was so dark that they couldn't find the shore, and when they found the shore they couldn't find anything else. So they kept to the lake and staid out till daylight Sunday morning. It was pretty moist night and the situation couldn't have been a pleas ant one. The effort to secure a concert of the Mendelssohon Quintette Club of Boston for a concert some time this month seems likely to be successful. The Club is con- posed of quartet of stringed instruments with flute or clarionet, and the music they play as we'll as their performance of it, is of the highest order of merit. The gen. tlemen who are laboring periodically pro- curing subscriptions for tickets have se- cured Sl5O, and need $50, more to make 1t success. If the 300 boarders at our hotels will subscribe moderately, it will ensure them fine musical entertainment. l