Litchfield enquirer., 1874-09-03
COUNTY ITEMS

tuEec PldceS WueIc Suy IlhA OI DOy WHO has ten cents can get drink that in a town which has voted no license. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is now boarding at Mr. E. E. Carter r's.-Six children died in New Hartford of cholera infantum, during the week ending Aug. 24th.
 . At ToRRISGToN, on the 18th ult- son of Willard II. Barber was badly bitten by a dog-The hailstone Of the 221 ult. ruin ed tobacco and broke nearly every window The eastern part Of the town suffered less.
 PLYMOUTH sends out party of 20 or 30, week 5 ezcurslon on the ''briny deep." They expect to navigate the Sound, to visit Block Island, and to take look at the Atlantic. The boat carries 115 tons burden, and ilas 80 feet of sleeping room. Two Wolcottyillians have been prosecut- ed and fined for trotting over the covered bridge, and insulting Selectman Matoon.
 EAST CANAAN farmers lave sold nearly DO eases of tobacco to New Milford buy CTS, recently, at pieces varying from 15 to 2 cents.-One of the big Hoosac tunnel stone has been shipped from the quarry. It weighed over II tons.-It is said that the insurance on the Pierce and Lawrence lime Kiln had expired inst before the fire. Another illegal rider on railroads with out paying his fare has beer put through; fine and costs amounting to <S45.
 \ LAKEvILLE tobacco grower ''brags on" q leaf 3 feet by 20 inches Business is improving.-Rey. Geo. E. Ferguson com mences a select school about the middle of this month-One store in Lakeyille has taken in over an hundred bushels of berries this season.
 The KENT correspondent of the News asserts that the Plains ''enumerate" thirty widows (n,inus one recently married. J. The scholars of the Congregational Sab bath school had very pleasant picnic at the parsonage grounds recently.
 WEST CORNWALL seems to have suffered the severest damage from the hailstorm mentioned in our last Mir T. Gold loses some hundreds of dollars worth of property by it, says the News-Col. Blinn has been spending few days here.- There was dance at Mr. Huston Coch- rane's, recently, to the music of Whites band.-A 'tthree card monte' man has been gulling the unsophisticated.
 ELLSWORTH has been sending out va r1ous successful fishing parties to Goshen ponds. \ four pound bullhead was one of the captures they claim.-The Congre- gational Sunday School held a successful ''concert" recently.-Misses Libbie Hop kins and Ella Everett are reported quite in.-Mr. Ava St. John of Chicago is visit ing friends here; also Mrs. Dunbar and Mrs. St. John. Of Bay City, Michigan The arbitration of Berry and CartwrigLt's case before Mr. Fitch Landon was decid- ei in favor of Berry.
 CoLEBRooK Congregational ladies raised some $20 or 20 by a fair, recently.
 EAST LlrCHFIELD was quiet all last week. The schooner Monitor of Branford took club of dozen or more to Block Island Mir. Wallac Scoville, of Milford, Mass, has been visiting old friends here. ,i
 NI,o nj, hoe ,ek ed it's new organ.-The new bridge near the Housatonic depot is nearly completed, says the News.
 Tie FAILS VILLAGE camp meeting has been unusually we'll attended, this year. The News reports over twenty wooden cottages and twenty or thirty tents on Tuesday of last week Bro. Pease calls with much feeling for pianed seats: ''The expense of having them planed on one side cannot be great, and that We think would be repaid hundred fold, by the greatly augmented success that would at- tend the efforts of the preachers in intro ducing gospel truths with telling effect upon the audiences who will occupy those seats. It must be plain to all, that nest ling among slivers on unplaned pine boards cannot conduce to that peace of mind so essential to the reception of reli- gious consolation"
 The WATERTowN Agricultural, Horti- cultural and Horse Association will hold their annual cattle show and fair at Hill side Park, on the 29th and 30th of Sep tember. Last year the fair was very suc- cessful, and this year the officers will do their utmost to make 1t superior, if possi ble.-The Methodist Episcopal church, which has been closed for a number of weeks, IS tore open next Sabbath. The former pastor, is expected to preach. improved the condition of the building, grading Of the road and grounds in front zens favorable to improvements IS fixed for next Tuesday at o'clock a. m. -AmeI'i- cdn.-The recent reunion of the Skilton family in Watertown, at Mir Julius Skill toms residence. was attended by 76 per sors The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year; H. B. Skilton, Watertown; vice presidents, Cap tain Ava Skilton, Monroeville, O.; Julius A. Skilton, United States consul to Mexi- co; Merritt Skilton, Watertown; Dewitt c. Skilton, Hartford; G. $. Clark, Mid dlebury; s. W. s. Skilton, Morris; Will
 liam Bowker, East Herrick, Penn; Mer- ritt Clark, Prospect; Raphael M. Skilton, Geneva, N. l.; ". W. Kimball, Chicago, H.; chaplain and chorister, the Rev: T. N. Laine; secretary, A. s. Clark Last evening. detective Reilley returned from Litchfeld with Charles Lawton, the thief who is charged with stealing $1OO from John Russell, Of Stony Creek, few weeks ago, Lawton was arrested on the strength of letter sent to Watertown by the police authorities of this city, they rightly suspecting that he would return to his old haunts after leaving this city. Lawton had six cents and a cigar with him when arrested. He was incarcerated 1 in Litchfeld few days. It IS probable he will be arraigned before the city court | uo 1,,&