Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-06
COUNTY ITEMS.

are also SenuInS OH lew heatefS.-Ihe temperance society were to give another, entertainment, Saturday evening. g.-s'One- eyed'' Cummins, State Prison bird, has been assaulting colored woman.-Ed. Potter is competing with Capt Cole in sold his boat to R. N. Cochrane. Steve is building a boat specially adapted to fishing purposes.
 FALLS VILLAGE farmers are hard at work at having to be ready for the camp meeting of the 24th inst, says the News. The District Cont commenced it's Au- gust session on Tuesday.-Mr. G. A. Ran dall has bought out Mir Charles Cor hams news route OF the Housatonic rail- road and has taken possessiOn.-The work on E. W. Spurs ney house is pro- gressing finely, and promises to-lnake one of the pleasantest residences in toWn.-W. J. Garfield has raised the frame of his new dwelling, 90 X 70 feet, on Maple Avenue. This building he intends for his own use, and when completed on it's slightly loca- ton it will be an ornament to the place. A new road is being laid out from this avenue to Prospect street.-The Red Caps defeated the White Caps of Clayton, re- gently, by score of 66 to 35.e
 Rev. Mir. Hillard, of PLYMOUTH, Is ab- sent on four weeks vacation.-On the 24th ult. game of base was played be- tween picked hines from the East and West sides-mostly mullins. East Side won, 31 to 26.-Mr. Winton, boss carpen- ter over the wood work of the Eagle lock shop at Terryville, has decamped with tine earnings of several poor men (carpenters), amounting to upwards of S6,OO0, says the American. The foundry people lowerwages just as the store pe"ple are putting up prices.
 The THoMAsToN correspondent of the Valley Sentinel reports that John B. Hop kins, the dry goods merchant in the brick store, has failed and signed over to .Dr. B. w. Pease.-Two people have been bit ten by dogs recently; Frank Hotchkiss. in the hand; John Wolf, in the thigh.-Mrs. Hart, of New Haven, president of the Wo- mans Board of Missions, held meeting at the Congregational church on the 18th | ut.
 At CAMPvnLE MT. George Curtiss has built a new house on the site of the old one recently burnt.-A Sentinel cores pondent thinks two burglars went through Campville recently though how he can tell tt burglar from a lightning rod man is not explained.
 1 SALISBURY was the scene of ser1es of outrages committed recently by two drunk en half-breeds Indians, says the Herald. They began with an attack on the house of Nicholas Van Deusen. MT. Van Deu- sen is helpless invalid suffering from paralysis. and the rufians, after abusing him and his family, went away threatening to return and murder them and burn the house. Messrs. Robert Van Deusen and Mir. Heister want to his assistance They found the family afraid to go 10 bed, and, soon after. there came poor white family consisting of man, h1s wife and and three little children, who occupied part of the house with the half breeds They had to jump from their beds and flee for their lives through the fields to the house of MT. Densen. ThsseEWere | foJtoroa L 41-.-.o the drunken D4uSes, who succeeded in making their escape after being kicked, whipped and beaten: Mir. Heister loaded double barreled gun with buck shot, and stood sentinel outside the house while the younger Van Deusen went for an officer. came towards the house but, on MT. He1s- ter's giving him warning that he should shoot him if he entered the premises, final ly went away. In a few hours Robert Van Deusen returned with tho sheriff and the three arrested and handcuffed the fel- lows and took them on to Salisbury for trlal.-Parties from Hartford and from Princeton College arc camping out at the Twin Lakes. .-.... ToRRINGToN Congregationalists have in- structed their society's committee to hire Rev. Mir. Oreutt for three months.-Miss Eva Newbury, teacher in the school, went to Brattleboro, last week, to testify in a 1 reed organ case between the manufacturers Burdett and Estey. CANAAN MOUNTAIN has its scandal in the shape of attentions from white youth to a :colored damsel, much to the disgust of those who consider themselves responsi- ble for the former.
 There are to be services in the Chapin- vile Methodist church, Sunday after moons, Rev. John Food, of New Haven, officiating.
 WATERFOWL base-ballists beat Water. vile club, 19 to 5, on the 25th ult. The Lime Rock iron bridge is finished.
 
 barbers from Edward to Charles Ety. The new Gas works are fast approaching completion.-Mrs. Sally Catlin, residing with her son-law. H. H. Churchill, on High St., recently fell down stairs and broke her hip. She is in a critical condi- tion.-The Good Templars will dedicate their new Lodge Room in Music Hall Block Monday evening, and are to take the Sovereigns ofIndustry into co-tenancy. A fellow misnamed Carpenter (for he is bricklaeer by trade) recently migrated without settling his board bill. He was traced with considerable difficulty to Nau- gatqck were the Sheriff prevailed on him to pay up the debt with a considerable amount of costs added.
 NORFOLK quarry which is furnishing stone for the Hoosac tunnel is thus describ- ad Inv a corrasDondent of the Courant.