Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-05

has nearly completed new barn surmoun- ted by beautiful cupola.-AIr Horace Ball, Jr-, has laid the foundation for a new house on Freight Depot Street.-Mr, Charles Decker is bottoming chairs for Frank Richardson.
 NORFOLK sent ill delegation of II to ssawtAs.= seeeastsBlaek Crook performance at Winsted. The excursionists had ;! hours after the entertainment, waiting for the tetarIr train, wherein 10 ponder on the ''leg business. - Mir Buckingham's school etoses soon, but practice will con- tlnue through the winter conducted by home talent. g |, .Hl',,. ~. The new CORNWALL conference room s to Dea very fine building, says the News. fine yearly abstract of the town regis trar shows B. births, 9 marriages and II deaths
 At WEST CORNWALL, Prof. Everett gave an exhibition ofc magic to large and highly enthusiastic crowd on the 24th uit. Some of his tricks were very cleyerly per formed.-The Friday prayer meetings will Hereafter be held in West Cornwall every alternate Friday afternoon. Theso prayer meetings have been held for nearly fifty years at North Cornwall. A special meet ing of the Litchfeld Northwest Confer ence was held in the Village Hall, Tues day, Jan. 20th, the object of which was to adopt a plan to be submitted to the churches for Q more thorough and sub stantial work, in home evangelzation. The meeting was we'll attended, and deep ir- terest was manifested by all present. C. B. Maltbie was chairman and Rev. N. c. Bonney clerk of the meeting.
 Mir. Atwater of PLYMOUTH writes to the American that his arrest of Mr. Charles Page for embedding funds of his was a "blunder," that the circumstances that led to it have been satisfactorily explain l ed by MT Page, and that he deeply re- grets his precipitate action iu the matter. l The TERRYvILLE band gave their second
 annual concert on the evening of the 21st
 ut, Notwithstanding bad weather and
 bad travelling over $50 people attended -
 MT. and Mrs. W. H. Scott were surprised recently, by a company of 100 or more,
 laden with an abundant supply of oys-
 ters and other refreshments. It was the
 tenth anniversary of thelr wedding and a
 handsome set of tin furniture was left be-
 hind by the surprisers. A frosted tin 1 brides loaf whetted the capacities and
 dulled the knives of many present.
 SOUTH CANAAN Congregational church sociables started a. .Mr. John C. Sturges'
 on the 21st ut. The Sentinel correspond
 ent seems greatly enlivened with the kiss
 ing plays and the good music of the oc- 1 casion.
 At NEW MILFORD on Tuesday of last
 week new Housaonic Milk Producer S ] Association was formed with the follow ing officers: President, Eli Smith; Sec yy,-T. s. Gold; Vice Pre8idents,- ,-S. L.
 Warner, M. H. Wickwire, L. s. Bailey | Director8,-Eli Smith, Leonard Futile, H. A. Barton, l.. H. Lake, s. H. Lake,
 s. Hopson, D. H. Wanzer. The Journal
 says the result of the discussion was that
 the milk producers of this valley would
 continue their affiiation with the Farm CTS Milk Co.,. of New York city-The
 New Milford Journal has added to ths list of it's friends the Catholic priest of l that place who attacks it from his pulpit l also with a cane.
 NEPAUG reioices in the return of Frank
 sence of two years in Colorado.-Miss
 Julia Kellogg daugh ter of the late James
 H. Kellogg, has gone to Chicago to re-
 c9ive Q musical education. After agoniz .
 ing Bakerville for time the "mumps"
 have retired to the South District.
 SALISBURY expects soon to have a teleg-
 raph office The News gives the following report of the death of Mrs Frost at that place recently;
 Last Friday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, MT and Mrs John F. Frost, who live in MT. BunnePs house, located about half mile east of the town house, on the road leading from Lake vile to Falls Village, started on foot at tend prayer meeting on Washinee street
 in this village. When only about thirty or forty rods from their house, she exclaimed l suddenly, I am dying Mir. Frost caught her in his arms and endeavored to sup port her till they could return to the
 house, but could only get just inside the | door yard gate, and about twelve feet from
 the door, when she expired. and her hus-
 band carried her into the house dead.
 The cause of her sudden death is said to be disease of the heart. Her funeral 1 was attended at the church in Lakeville
 last Sabbath.
 | LOST Our readers will perhaps remem-
 Der what bitter night followed last Fri day, how the wind howled and dashed l about our houses, and we were glad of
 fire and home. On that day Mir. Marton of Cornwall bridge, living on the Brook road, little below the saw-mill, went up on the mountain to do days chOpping; the hill lies just behind his house, and as day fell, between four and five o'clock, his wife told their little boy, only three and a half years old, he might go up the road and meet his father; but the father | came Dack Dy 8 dlHerenG paIn rom tnaI the child took, and, finding him gone, di ] rectly went in search of him. There was | no child to be seen; he searched and call ed in vain, and as night darkened fast he 1 called his neighbors to help Soon the 1 mountain side was glancing with lanterns, for forty men turned out to find this stray lamb. All night they looked and found nothing;, by daylight the whole neighbor- hood were reused to the search, and at ten in the forenoon he was discovered on the north side of the mountain about a mile from home, lying at the foot of rock, quite dead. On rock were found one little shoe and stocking. Tired. and lonesome, and sleepy. he had tried to go | to bed on the cold stone, and rolling off on his face below 1t, the bitter wind had sung him to sleep forever, and the chill frost sealed his eyelIds. Poor little aoulf Cofo io o 1oDd xrh hora tbaro iS paifh-