Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-13
2 COUNTY ITEMS.


 Watertown chaps, Daniel Flynn, Geo Baben, and James Lemon, ransacked the house of Asahel Tyler who lives mile be-
 low the village, evidently supposing that
 he was at church. Luckily hired man,
 named Geo. Shea, was at home, and com ing in from the barn, caught the fellows
 in the act They gave up an umbrella, l and q pocket-book with $2S, they had ! stolen. They were arrested, Monday, and bound over for trial before the Superior
 court by Justice Tuttle.-A rattlesnake, captured i'll Thomaston, recently, which 1 is 4 feet long, 6 inches in circumference 1 and swings nine ratles, is on exhibition at l a Waterbury saloon. If that saloon keep ! CT would lock up his ''pisen'' wiiskey just
 as safely as he locks up his ''pisen sar-
 pient, it would be the safest saloon to l visit ill Connecticut.
 WArERrowN base ballists have beaten the Oakyille Unions twice i'll succession;
 the last score (of five innings), 90 to G.
 EAST CANAAN has pear tree in full l blossom. m.-Timothy Colnan was struck by
 a revolving derrick crank at the quarry,
 last Tuesday, and it is wonder he was not killed.-Some Frenchmen have been danc-
 ing, Sundays, on the mountain south of the furnaces.
 WEST CORNWALL shipped 2,551 cans of milk i'll July.-Samuel Beeman recently killed rattlesnake with thirteen rattIes, on Sharon mountain. .-''One Eyed" Cum
 nlings, who was charged with committing rape upon Mrs. Milo Van Alstyne, has
 been acquitted. Mrs. H. c. Crandall and children have been spending a few days at the sea side.-T. $. Gold and R. ?. I Foster are off with the seInnocents," on | the raging Sound. D. |. ". '. K. society continue their very interesting | and successful entertainments with the proceeds of which they hope to establish
 a free reading room.
 The new TWISTED silk factory is com ! pleted and work began in 1t last week ! The building is 140x26.-Messrs.H H. P. Law | renee and F. D. Fyler have been on g visit l to Massachusetts and climbed Greylock, l the highest point m that state.-Dr. Bacon preached at the Second Congregational, ! Sunday before last.-The sidewalk i'll l front of Camps Block has been thorough ! ly repaired.-Miss Closson, for six years 
 a missionary in Cesarea, and in the seEv- ice of the ''Woman's Board of Missions since its organization, addressed large | and interested audience at the End Con | gregational Church on Intervening of Sun l day before last-Thc excursion train l down tho Naugatuck, on Thursday of last | week, took down 1000 passengers for tSip over the Sound to New London, return \ ing Friday night. It must have been a
 very cheap and pleasant trip.
 LAKEvILLE Catholics were addressed on. on temperance by Father Sheffry. recent | ly, at Academy Hall Nearly all present ! signed the pledge.
 TERRYvILLE school-house (Dist No 9.) ! has had its windows broken out by some unknown scalawag for whose carcass the Dist Committee offers S5., dead or alive,- | all 1t is worth.
 The FAILS VILLAGE Catholic church IS
 undergoing repairs.-The new houses of l Messrs. Spur and Canfeld resemble the
 Cathedral of Milan in grandeur and in- l completeness, thinks Herald correspon- dent.-Ilr. G. A. Randall has charge of ! the news ronte over the Housatonic- Camp Meeting begins on the 2fth inst The WEST NORFOLK Axle Shop has stopped to repair its main gear.-As MT. Henry Smith was holding ''twist" on l horses nose while it was being shod in
 Corbally's blacksmith shop, recently, he Twas thrown violently to the floor and trampled on by the horses feet He lay ] unconscious for two or three hours but at last accounts was improving.
 The CORNWALL HOLLOW school closed on the 31st ult with an exhibition that was extremly creditable to the teacher, Miss Emily F. Marsh, and the scholars concern ed, among whom were Miss Hattie c. Yale, Mss Nellie c. Harrison, Miss Hat tie R. Harrison.
 WoLcoTTvnLE has lost it's cheap cash
 store by Hopkins collapse.-Mr. Welch and wife are rusticating in East Haddam;
 Deacon Wetmore and wife arc at the
 White Mountains; and Mir. and Mrs. c. McNeii, with M. Hemihway. IT,, and wife,
 of Watertown, are making tour of ob-
 servation among the Shakers of New Leb- anon, N. Y.-The Valley Park-Co. adver- tise races in Sept.-Five Irishmen were fined, last week, for drunken row. Rev. H. o. Judd was disabled by illness from preaching on Sunday of last week.-Some
 rascal has disfgnred the fence recently built by MT. F. N. Holley around his res idence; reward of $50 is offered for his detection.-The 'Allspice" B. B. c. were to play the Nationals" of Campville, at the Valley Park, Saturday. A Wolcott- vile base ball club is nothing if not aro- matic, says the American. | ELLSWORTH has finished its lawsuit and nearly finished it's haying.-Mr. Wm. Whitney, who was so seriously injured by his cam running away short time ago,
 is slowly recovering. The former pastor | of tie Congregational church is here on visit presume the trout will now
 have to suffer.-The Sunday school of Soutl Ellsworth held concert last Sun day evening under the direction of Rev. l Mir. Lee.-It was very pleasant affair 1 and passed off very nicely. The ladies of l the Congregational society seem to know I just now to do 1.-The colored man who l was 50 badly injured July 3rd is lying in l n critical condition. The assailants have
 fed.-We have half dozen or so city
 boarlers and might have hundred if l someone had spirit enough to build q
 boarding house.-Ne,os. -..- | CapEain Hayes. of BETHLEHEM. empIey l