Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-28
American. The West side band is also progressing finely.

1 progressing finely. .
 TERRYvILLE has new physician in Dr. Kessler; recently of Harper's Ferry. MT. and Mrs. Samuel Smith had pleasant surprise recently on the tenth anniversary of their marriage. Elizur Fenn has be- gun a new House on the Main street west of the village.
 The NoRrHFIEID Red Caps do not reor- ganize this year.-The Congregational society has called MT. Callan'of Torring- ton at a salary of $500. O.-Harris atias Lin scott, was caught by Sheriff Chatfeld in Rhode Island recently. bought back, tried before Justice Porter and fined $14 on two prosecutions. The total costs amount to s17O.
 The FALLS VILLAGE temperance move ment has not been a success the Sentinel reports correctly about the sa- looms. MT. E. W. Spurr is laying the foundations of new house.-Frequent prayer meetings are being held in various parts of the town-A dog has been among Mir. Geo. Doty's sheep.-The Good Tenn plars Lodge organized recently number some fifty members.
 SALISBURY loses Dr Blodgett who has removed to Housatonic, Mass. ,-Dr. Camp of Great Harrington was thrown out of a buggy while driving through the village recently and had his shoulder dislocated. Church going peoples horses have near ly eaten up the new fences on both sides of the Congregational church. Their pro- l prietors inside the church deserve just as dry spiritual diet and we know parson or two who could give it to them. The News had subscription paid in' on the 18th. and challenges the public to do it again.-A little boy six years old was bitten, last week, by one of the CUTS that infest the village.-A destructive fire occurredBald Peak on the 16th inst.
 A MORRIS family recently had lively time from eating the root of poke berry for horse radish. Luckily all recovered.
 NORFOLK IS again agitating the burylng ground question. The present generation there will probably have to rely on ere nation, as their seems no chance for @ settlement of the cemetery difficulty in their time.-The new house of R. I. Cris- sey is rapidly approaching completion and Mir. s. s. Whiting is preparing to build just south of the Norfolk House. Mir. E. s. Gaylord is thoroughly remode- ling and repairing his house. Winsted fellows come out Sunday afternoons, get drunk and make matters very disagreeable for order-loving people.
 GOSHEN has disposed of most of it's sur plus hay to Cornwall farmers. Aca- 1 demy opened, on Mohday.-Rev. MT. Hagen and Miss Etta Wadhams were chosen as delegates to attend the Sunday School Convention in Meriden.
 At WEST CORNWALL, on the 14th inst, Philip King a brakeman got caught bet ween two cars he was coupling, and had his shoulder broken.-Mrs. Rhoda Reed has had several sheep killed by dogs re- cently.-R. N. Cochrane and George Hughes went to Hartford recently as del egates to the Grand Lodge.-'Tommy Dodd" was to entertain the D. Y N. Y. R. on Saturday night last with some new songs and dances.
 At CANAAN VALLEY. recently. Jonathan nnx,sn1o had ho1 el,a I111a1 l,x dogs gs--George Thompson will enlarge his combination grist. cider and saw mill.
 Tho THoMAsToN Catholic church was consecrated, last Sunday.-Centre St. people are raising funds for side walk. Geo. Stoughton, Daniel Car, W. A. Thomas, and John Mullen are building, W. H. Buel lost $200 horse recently. E. F. Gates has been reappointed post master.-Rev. MT. Elliott, of Litchfeld. preached in the Congregational church on Sunday of last week.-The Episcopal par son was called up in great hurry few nights since to'see sick woman. On his arrival it turned out that it was Q doctor not @ minister that was wanted. Dr. Wright was substituted and mother and child are both doing fnely.-A livery sta ble man cautioned customer. recently, against fast driving. says the Express. ''Look here my friend" remarked the young man, "I'm going to funeral, and I'm bound to keep up with the process sion if it kills the horse."
 The EAs1eCANAAN boarding house and restaurant at the juction of High St. and the Sheffield road has opeued on the European plan, with fresh barrel of cider and box of cigars-A party from here visited Tobey's pond in North Nor folk one day last week, capturing forty two suckers weighing eighty-two lbs net-Mr. Hiram Briggs has not had first rate luck planting his spring chickens. The hawks made rad on'a brood of IT and by calling often, and when Briggs wasn't there, have pulled up all but of them. Some one has poisoned Will Hayward's dog. We know of plenty more that can be spared until after dog days, if the fell low would only be so accommodating as to pass round the plzen.-The bridge on the Greenwoods turnpike near the big fill has been replaced, and now we wait for the R. R. Co. to repair the road un- der the arch.-Herald.
 The incendiary Bion who tried to fire the parsonage recently, has been caught in Massachusetts, brought to Canaan and committed in default of bonds.
 Wm. Hotchkiss, of NORTH Co1EBooK, recently lost horse valued somewhere from sixty cents to six hundred dollars. Disease supposed to be spinal menin- gitis.
 MT. Geo. Beardsley of NEW MILFORD has been laid up for the past week with danger ous erysipelas swellings D. E. Soule and Geo. Anthony, with their wives, visited the scene of the late disaster in Massachusetts this week.-The case of Baker vs. David W. Knowles was given to