Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-21
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 Mir. George Kenyon caught two pound trout in the mill pond, Monday night.
 -S R. Conklin and wife have sold their place on Chestnut Hill to Abram NJ. Turner. for $5. 900.
 The seats were sold in the Congrega- tional church, Monday for S2,2OO with enough remaining unsold, it is estimated, to bring the total amount up to $2,70O.
 --Mr. Clarence Deming, late of the New Haven Palladium. went to Europe a few days since on a three months tour, with Mir. Thomas Trowbridge of New Haven.
 The new hotel is near completion. The plasserers are putting on the last oi the last coat of clustering to-day (Wednes. day). Mir T. H. Richards, the prOprie. tor, will open the house about the 2Oth of June.
 Books belonging to the circulating library must, by the rules of the associa- tiou, be returned on or before Thursday of next week at the store of Buel &. Wheeler, for examination and repair previous to the annual meeting which is held the week following.
 A delegation of from forty to fifty Sons of Temperance went over to Wolcott- vile, on invitation of Cold Spring Lodge, Tuesday evening. Two plays; 'The First Glass" and "The Last Loaf" were admi- rably performed, which, with appropriate music, made a very pleasant evenings entertainment. Coming back one of the teams became fractious, upset the hack and broke away, without, however, doing any very serious injury besides breaking the pole and one spring. The occupants of the carriage luckily got out before the upset and were none of them hurt.
 Company II have engaged the servi- oes of the Wolcottville cornet band for Decoration Day Saturday, May 3Oth) and the citizens of this place will have opportunity to show their grateful re- membrance of the services of the sol diers whose sacrifice of their lives for their country is that day commemorated. Ladies from the village and other parts of the town are requested to send in flow CTS to place which will be designated in the village papers next week. All vet erans of the late war are especially re- quested to participate and an order of exercises will also be announced.
 An infamous attempt was made on Saturday nightto fire the Methodist church in this village. Some one wet the clap boards at the southeast corner of the church, where the little addition joins the main building, with kerosene oil and then lighted the oil with matches, the re- mains of which were found on the ground the next morning. The clap boarding was much scorched and in one place near ly burnt through but finally failed to ig- mite. No one can guess who made this atrociOus attempting. Had it succeeded the lire could not possibly have been stayed before it reached the Beach block and might have swept away the entire business portion of the village.
 -The Sentinel sees no imrrnr,riAty i.a giving voters on election days gratuitous ''Oystsrs. &c..' dudicions editing, that! ''besrs. &c.," would have had different look). Why. then, is Representative who distributes gratuitousiy among the electors any spirituous liquors" to lose his seat? Plainly, the editor of the Sen. tinel is at issue with the statutes of Con- nectfcut, and, although 34 ':beers'' are no great matter as political wickedness runs in these days, our sympathies are with the statutes rather than with him.
 The Sentinel further suggests to the Enquirer ''that its game in this instance is rather small for 90 heavy an ordinance as the editor of the Enquirer to be firing at" We have been called good many hard names by former editors of the Sen- tinel but never anything so unkind as an ordinance" Our readers can judge for themselves of the size of the game. It is big enough bird if we are to judge from its sthutter."
 Our friend further suspects that Repub- hcans have spent heaps of money in this tOwn to buy votes. He cannot be so"un- geutlemanly" as to say out aloud whom he suspects, but if we will call all alone at his office he will whisper name or two. Strange that it never occurs to him to mention the name of Wm. H. Barnum as one who has been something more than suspected of corrupting votersl We sus- pect as well as he that both Republicans and Democrats have bought votes in Litchneld. but we have no proof of it. HAs the Ssntinel2 In place of huge sus- picions. however, we have been able to place before our readers the tact that the Reform party furnished its voters with grAtuitOus "beers. &c.. ," on election day. The evidence of this fact was furnished us by Democrat who dislikes that style of electiOneering as thoroughly as we do, on condition that we should publish it. NOu If the Sentinel has any Iacts it is afraid to publish, let it send them to this office by all means.
 sharon.