Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-15
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HEkSGReN sAhN G4y9t A3shefe 1oi lew oays
 this week preparatory to his removal fo
 Stouington where he is now 'preachings : a. The Litchfeld County, Home ENis- .-'s siohary Society will hold its anniversary ] : at the Congregational church in this ssil-
 Iaee. on the afternoon of Tuesday the
 2Oth inst Reports and addresses wiifba -- made. 4 full attendance is hoped for
 The Litchfield County Foreign Mis-
 s;ouarv Society will hold its anniversary meeting this year in the Congregatiqhd church in this place, on Tuesday the2QtE inst at 10a o'clock a. m. Reports S@ih11 be made and a sermon preached 1"'1"-"&-3-1 The Rev. Mir. Hiram Stone. who flor
 the past ten months, has been supplying St Panl church Bantam Falls, and5 TlEin. ] ity Milton, from Sunday to Sunday as .hia ]
 health would permit, has we regret to'
 learn been obliged to suspend for the pre- sent, all pastoral labor. The Rev. Mr.
 Wilkins of St. Michaels, takes eharge of
 the parishes, holding service in alternate Sunday afternoons. 70 On Saturday afternoon through ati,e earelessness of some person unknown, switch was left misplaced below the istaa. ton and the engine of the down train rani
 of the track. Conductor Bradley: walked . to Bantam, took hand car and went to
 Romford where the gravel train was -then
 waiting and bringing up that engine
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 vile about seven. The misplaced engine was got on the track Sunday morn- ing. .''":,,1s 7,
 The County Commissioners hold their next meeting in this place on the Sd of November, instead of the 9th, as announc-
 ed in their advertisement. On Tuesday they appointed the following prosecuting
 agents for this county: Eli M. Town,
 Hotchkissville; Augustus HI. Fenn, Ply 2 mouth; Arthur D. Warner, West Corn
 wall; Hiram P. Lawrence, Winsted; Fran :cis M Hale. LitchfeM. =
 --On Monday of last week the 'Island
 Hotel Co.," organized by appointment of
 the following directors: Wm. H. Braman,
 E. s. Van Wrinkle, o. H. Woodruff, A. H.
 Beach, E..W. Seymour. Dorsey Neville, A. A. Lord, H. E. Gates, w m. L.. Ran
 som, Wm. Deming. E. s. Van Wrinkle,
 Esq, was chosen president; w. H. Bra man, secretary; and William l.. Ransom,
 treasurer .-,--,-- -- @< AAeameeting df the School Visitors on
 Saturday of last week. Geo. NJ. Woodruff
 was chosen chairman; and Henry R. Mor- Till, secretary. HI. R. Morrill,, l.. T. Gill
 bert and T. l.. Jennings were chosen act- ing visitors. Messrs. Merrill, Farnum,
 and Gaines were appointed examining committee. !,!':a .
 The following votes were passed regard
 ing text books: -~i
 Toted.--That Greenleafs Series of Arith- | metics, comprising the Primary, Intel l ;ledsual, New Elementary, and New Prac-
 tical; ;also that Greenleafs NeE Elementary Algebra, be adopted for use in the several schools in. this town in place of the va- rious Arithmetics now used and that the School Visitors see that no other Arith-
 VoGed.-That Hillard leader including ~' the New Franklin Series Mitchel's Geogg6bhies, and the 6pencerian System | OF PenmanShip including the Speneerian' -. Copy books now in use wholly or in part 1 in the Various Schools in town be cons l tinuef where they are in use and intro- l duced when they are not now used and
 that no other books; in these several de-, l partments be used. -~~ ---.-- -. | Thefoliowing votes pass ed regarding examination of teachersi '-' -.--~.t
 Voted. That at the regular annual ex: aminations of Teachers said examine ton. be written, and that Also teachers 'a1lall pass an' oral examination if in the opinion of the Board the same should be deemed necessary. aud that all teachers not having permanent certificate be re- qnired to pass said written and oral ex- The Superior court was occupied, We'd r " nssday, Thursday and Fridd dy, in the trial of the ease of, Galpin P! Br pnson vs. Jos, 9sIh q. iBeckiOith for the ,recission of cer- ;tain.aeeds.cn:the ground of the incompet-
 :shcy of: the grantor :. It al ppeared that f while laboring under great hental depres- : SSsdon, after the death of his daughter and
 only child in 1855. the petitioner gave a voluntary deed of his farm in Goshen,' |: IlA4RsRo $1 ,5OO, to one Watson r Kelley to whom his daughter had |. been, Islgagsd toibs hiarriedI resetving 8 life in
 terest to himself and wiie Being much | embarrassed. and being ndebted to Dr.. | 3 Beckwith, he gave him m6rtgage to se-i cure note of S630 in 1871, and advised | him to buy in the Kelley title which Dr. -. Beckwith did. Subsequently he and his wife quitclaimed all their interest in the l premises to Dr. Beckwith, upon: which l She tpwh 4f Goshen, finding them thus left
 without means of support, and that the | respondent. though willing to assist them
 largely would not give bond obligating l Z himself td support eshen If pr life, com menced proceedings for the setting aside | to the deeds. The evidence taken in the | 'I case was mostly regarding the sanity of the petitioner which was questioned by a | largo number of the petitioners wit nnsses and sustained by sev eral witnesses On thenther side. :; fl; I 1; On Monday. tue court rendered it's de- cislun. setting aside the deeF given Kelley on:account of the mental VI dakness of the
 peeztioneE which the court thought had | been taken advantage of by Kelley; but, inasmuch az the respondent had bought | in that title at the. suggestid dn of the peti- tioner, and in us much as tAe transaction was 0f.no benefit to Beckwith, baselsatgd - away the cloud on the petitioners title, the court required the petitioner to repay to Beckwth the amount he paid Kelley for that deed. The .qnitclaim fresA Bton,