Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-30
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1n0 TWISTED EEeSS dIIFHS tIlAtS never
 was there more liquor sold sill tbvn
 than sim since it was yotee4 t}l TilAbbeld li-
 eense, x IT f..,sfsni Let HIS hawaLicepsesE We
 have tried No Lieenseeiandait has failed
 utterly" The Hesaldtadsisea temperance
 men, to stick? iSatafaayp hhiidtning Frank Mitchell was killeaias the Thayer
 scythe works by the bursting of a stone
 at which he was grinding His brains,
 were, literally dashed ont against the tim4
 bers of thesbhilding. Mitchell leaves a wife and a child but a1few' days old. He
 was badly hurt by the bursting of stone
 two years since and was expecting to quit
 the business soon- IlrJos DzIoD 4 CANAAN DEror reports to the Herald
 the loss of a large arniocoupied by Mr..
 R. Vandeusen for pressing bay for ship: ment, which was burnt on, Tuesday night
 of last week. Mi. Rorabaek, recently burnt. out, has new office on Main street. Mir. s. Barnes has just fnished his new barn Mir. Spaulding has finisl.sd a new dwell
 ing house on the 'proposed new readoyest
 of the depot, and has the material ready
 for another when the road is opened.
 The NEw MMFoRlgp TiiIlage Improvement
 Society have reelected their officers They
 spent $6, ,582 last year and have $20O left.
 MT: William Ford has had another horse given him, and SIS hesides,l ia. place of
 one he lost recently. ..-g-..a,-,......,,.9. .-g :.
 ,4 I. N. Bartram Esq. of SHARON is ship ping stone from his qusrries on Sharon
 Mountain, to West Firginia; to be used
 for hearth stones in furnaces there. ag This sharon granite must possess rare aprnper- ties for furnace purposes to pay ifhe expense of transportatioff from such dis tance to West Verginia There are frn- mors that 8 new frmis to be formed tOcar- " on business at the old stand of Gager Brothers. Mir. Charles Platt lJs, and fam fly, arrived here from the South last week.
 MT. Charles Williams, formerly with Gager and Brothers, has bought 'outoRR-
 ley < Gilbert's stock of candies, notions,
 soda apparatus, &c., and will carry on
 business next door to the Post office
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 Mir. Stiliman Tibbals of NORFOLK fell dead instantly on the green in that vil-
 iage on Thursday last. His father died
 quite as suddenly near the same place seventeen years ago. The death of both father and son wass it is supposedi the re
 suit of heart disease. .-NeaUs.
 Montford B. Tobey, .of, CANAAN VALLEY,
 went to WaterloO, 3I0Wa, a-si0xt- time since, to settle up the affairs of his. broth rL1~l 5sco time ago, andSwas taken sick himself and died in about six xhours.-Herald. I III At WEST CoRNwALn hay is sla@f fffssrg scarce md potatoes are selling for eighty cents per bushef. y Deacon Pratt is putting up atenemeHt house near the foundry. HI. Dean is . candidate for messenger in the House of Representives. The parsonage at North Cornwall is un-i il dergoing extensiye repairs. yL,- l ,h, EAs4 CANAAN 4s%1 depot d,p fifteen tons of iron work lie on a freight,car, Eteady to be moved to. the stone saw mill At the quarry. AMr. Everaftus Ives has retired from II the mercantile businsss. David Walters l is Keeping the quarry boarding house. HeTntd.qfruL ftuu3 .fi ,i9di9i fl If s.-U t. T 4 dIQf GoT I .' At NoRTHFIELDi ren, Friday last, MT. l Henry Munger, in attempting to mount a 1 load of hay, stepped upon the cart tongue, when the cattle started and he was thrown 1 off, one of the, wheels passine over his back just below wthe,shoulfiers;h ;he remark | ed to the man wh6 was helping him, esSteve, I'm done for,'' but 1as he is young | and strong bnilt, he escaped with one broken rib, and is now doing well. There l was from 'I2OO to 15O0 lbs. of hay, on, the | cart, and 1t seems str ranrge that he escaped l as he did-,77S,llgaat silSaaata Miller" is sick r1IerGldsisil,i,iiI ii aus9lf