Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-22
COUNTY ITEMS.

! SOOMt tE"Ss
 1 NEW HARTFORD voted No License at the
 annual town meeting by 12 majority The town debt is now abont S12. .000- The Winsted Press says:
 Miss Julia Kellogg, daughter of the
 late James Kellogg, who has been resid-
 ing in Chicago the past year, returned home on Saturday last. Her appearance
 in the choir of the Cong. church at New
 Hartford South, called forth more than a
 usually full house.
 KENT has sold most of its tobacco at prices ranging from 16 to 24 cents.-John W. Lane has purchased the old freight
 house, and is to move 1t away. It is said
 he will convert it into a dwelling house.
 Another new barn is soon to be erected
 west of George Bolt s.-Dennis Stolen
 had an upset, recently, while returning to
 his house on Fuller Mountain
 i MILTON has select school taught by ] Miss Gertrude Beach-Miss Mary Dug gan keeps the District school
 NEW HARTFORD is expecting new hotel
 keeper. The property is now in the hards l of the administrator of Mrs. Healy's
 estate.-A young fellow named Frank
 Barnes has confessed stealing a harness from Dr. Hagen and another from Jeffrey i O. Phelps of Simsbury. Col. Henry Jones, U. s. A., is having a residence built
 near the north end of the trestle bridge i Smiths new Hall in Pine Meadow will be dedicated by the Meteor Base Ball asso- ciatlon on Friday evening of this week,
 Oct. 9 The new hall is quite an acquisi- tion to the twin sister village. It is 72x33, and will be lighted with gas and heated
 by steam. The dedication services will consist of 8 promenade concert and ball. Taylor and Tiffany are building new store opposite their present location. Its
 size is 75x2S.
 1 At SOUTH NORFOLK, last week, Mr. R.
 P. Pendleton had leg broken.
 i WARREN has fine school kept by Miss
 Stevens of New Britian. Mrs. Carter,
 widow of the late H. W. Carter, is slowly
 recovering. Her only remaining son ! fully recovered some time since. These
 two only remain of family of five. --rarv-urU5rrD Ine DISLrlct
 Court is held by Judge Briscoe of Hart
 rushed matters-he adjourned court on
 Wednesday noon until next Tuesday, Arrangements are being made by Palmer 1 Post G. 4. R.. for the production of the
 Military allegory ''Post of Honor," which
 has had such successful runs in many 1 towns ard cities through New England 1 and the West. A good deal of local tal-
 ent will be employed in the production of
 the piece.-The long needed railing near 1 the Rock House has been finished and l painted. Geo. W. Phelps is about i having new fence built in front of his residence.-The former residence of J. E.
 Sheffield, near this office on Willow St., 1 is being painted.-C. J. Stevens and fam
 fly, late of this. town, have located at
 Rockfort, Ill.-F. D. Fyler Esq. has near
 ly completed his new residence in the
 West Village, on Main street, nearly op- posite High. His law office will be on the 1 ground fioor-convenient for his clients. ' Herald
 i The NoRrHFIELD Knife Go. have nearly
 completed repairs on their dam which
 burst several weeks ago; a grouted wall i has been built close to and on the upper
 side of the old one, thus making a very i thick, strong wall of solid masonry, which, when completed, will make the dam three : feet higher than it was originally. It will i be remembered that the water forced a 1 passage under the dan leaving the great i CT part of the masnry entire: over the
 aperture thus formed, was suspended from the bottom of the wall a stone which
 would weigh over two and one-half tons. with apparently nothing to keep it from
 falling. We mention the above to show
 the cohesive power of good cement when
 properly applied. The Knife Co, have
 also strengthened their main reservoir by
 the addition of grouted wall in front of
 the dan,.-Mr. Vim. Cooper has just re-
 turned from three months visit to Eng
 land.-The Rev. M. J. Callan has taken a
 vacation during the past two weeks.
 At the EAST CANAAN quarry they are
 preparing to get out some large marbles
 some of which will weigh 20 tons.-The
 ''Bee Hive" has been taking on some ad-
 ditions and improvements Roubi-
 lard has sold his place to Jules Bojean,
 and moved to Wisconsin. Albert Mohler of THoMAsToN was at
 the Merchants hotel on Courtland street. New York. a few days ago, and met a l young man, named Charles Paulson, who l represented himself the agent of & fcti- tious railroad out west. The latter prom ised to get Mohler permanent situation on the road at salary of S1.8O0 for the consideration of 150 cash. Mohler agree ed and paid the money and accompanied him to Boston, where he was to receive the appointment. Paulson then pretend ed he had received an important telegram requiring his presence in Washington, and of course left his dupe in the lurch. Mohler finally got tired of waiting for Paulson's return and went back 10 New York where he happened to meet the swindler and had him arrested. The lat-, ter confessed to having attempted to de- fraud Mohler, and was locked up to await the action of the grand jury.-T Valley l Scntine6.
 SALIsBURY.-We near whispers that sound something as follows: that Col. Hubbard, who has resigned his position as express messenger on the Conn. Vest ern road, has in contemplation the erec- tion of fine hotel near the station at Twin Lakes.-Neirs.
 l NIT. E. Winckworth, ofLAKEvILLE, sail ed Wednesday of this week on the steam ship s'State of Nevada" ot the State Line. for England. MT. w has been in this country seven years, and goes now to spend the winter with his friends in Lon don. expecting to return to Lakeville in the spring.-Neacs
 NEWS OF THE WEEK.