Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-22
Ibe Eitrbhslo Guquirer,
 IIrcHFIELD, CONN.
LITCAFlELD.

Attention is called to the new Advt. of A.. s. Wright & Co.
 There are now two mails down the Shepaug railroad every day.
 Col. Vessels has removed to the Toutine Hotel. New Haven, preparatory to his usual winter sOiourn south.
 Mir. wm. l.. Ransom is secretary of the Island Hotel Co.,, and not MT. Braman as announced in our last.
 . The third game between our Picked Nine and the Milton club comes off at the Fair Ground at P. M. on Saturday next
 The Episcopal horse sheds are finish cd and nicely painted. There are twelve stalls and the sheds will be great con- venienee.
 The County Medical Society held ameeting at this place on Tuesday of this week. There was a fair attendance and the usual matters of professional interest were discussed
 MT. Seth Pratt had top buggy con- siderably smashed, Saturday afternoon. He had sent one of the Sentinel boys to bring it down from North street It came in pieces.
 The entertainment given by the Corn wall D. Y. W. Y. K. Society at Milton, Tuesday night, was very enjoyable affair and was we'll attended. Some of the Litchfeld boys. however, thought the music little too slow for dancing.
 On Monday afternoon Peter Ryan was shot at the billiard room by the acci- dental discharge of a rife in the hands of Charles Traver. The ball glanced from bottle and inflicted slight flesh wound in the breast.
 The Missionary Societies held their meetings at the Congregational church, Tuesday. The sermon before the For eign society was preached by Rev. Mir. Bonar, of New Milford. Addresses were made before the Domestic society ill the afternoon by Rev. Dr. Coe, Secretary of the Society, Rev. Mir. Bassett of Warren, and Rev. Mfr. Backus, of Thomaston. Be- tween the services bountiful collation. was served in the church parlors to about an hundred people from out of the village.
 The New Hartford correspondent of the Winsted Herald tells the following story of an escape from our jail:
 Anthony McMahon, who has been so- burning at the free boarding house in Litchfield for few weekS-awaiting the convenience of the court to hear his case, came home few days since, but didn't stay long. The Sheriff, it is said, is anx- ious to learn his whereabouts. A few prisoners were digging a we'll at the coun- ty seat the other day in charge of keep sr, when something bothered the work man in the bottom of the we'll. There not being room for all of the party in the well Anthony had to come up to make room for the keeper to go down. While the keeper was down in the we'll Anthony got little absent minded and strayed Of.
 We forgot to mention, last week, the exhibition of drawing at Miss Smiths rooms at the County House The sketch es were those of her pupils here. and cer- tainly showed very great degree of pro- Aciency. There is so little general knowl- edge of the difficulties of the art of draw ing that we imagine most parents hardly appreciate at its true value the progress their children have made under Mss Smiths tuition. Most of us would find it difficult to draw a horses head that by stander might not mistake for flour bar rel with ears, and are therefore little able to judge of the proficiency of others
 We received recently an excellent ar- ticle on our highways, but it came to us anonymously and we cannot break over the usual rule against publishing anony- nous communications Occasionally, in- deed. we have published mere news items that came to us without the name of the writer. obviously from mere inadvertence; but the editor owes it to the public as well as himself to exclude anonymous con- tributiOns save in some such exceptional case. We can assure contributors, how ever, that we have never yet disclosed the name of contributor or correspondent except with his own consent although threatened with suit in several instances for not doing SO.