Litchfield enquirer., 1874-07-09
Vbe Eit6bhtlo Gnquirer,
 uTCHFIElD, CONN.
LlTCHFuELD.

There was a Sunday School picnic at Maple street on the Fourth.
 See adv of Samuel Clock, in another column
 An apprentice wanted at this office, sec adv.
 The Rev. Mir Staats breaches again at the Congregational church on Sunday next
 A colt belonging to Mir. Dwight See ley, of Milton, had quite an independent excursion of three or four miles with skeleton wagon, short time since.
 The place owncd by Rev. D. l.. Par melee during his residence here and since his death by his widow, has been sold by her exscutOr to Mir. Joseph Wooster, of Goshen, for S4OOO
 - The Strawberry festival of the Sons of Temperance. on Saturday evening, net ted $S7.7O which. bad weather considered, was e great success.
 An Irishman had a pint bottle filled with whiskey at one of our stores, Sunday, and then "slOped" without paying for it. The clerk chased him down the street, quite distance, to the great amusement of bystandera. but the law against Sunday sales was not broken that time.
 A new lamp and side curtains in the telegraph window of the post office set off the good looking clerks Of that establish ment to the best possible advantage and nov and then a rose comes in with the letters tO cheer the Postmaster General in his arduous labors.
 At 6 F. M on Thu rsday last the barn occupied by Mr. John Candee, on Pro- Pect St, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. MT T. R. Trow- bridges carriage had just been driven in Oa their arrival from New Haven that day, when the bolt struck the barn. The coachman. seeing the hay on fire on the floor. removed the carriage and horses at ~ace. which was all of the contents of the barn that Was saved. The barn, which belOaged to Dr. Buel. was worth S3OO and there was perhaps 50 worth of hay and straw burnt Insurance S2OO.
 The annual meeting of the Litchfield Aat1Al Fire Insurance Company was held =t the Oalsce of said company on the 9th Snz4-. whenJ&sOn Whiting, Charles Adams, GeOEgeC Woodruff. Abiiah Catlin, Henry R Goa Edwara ". Seymour, Henry W. Baea and William H. Braman were chosen directors for the year ensuing. At a sub- ssq1ent meeting of tho directors, Jason Whiting was elected President, Charles Adams. secretary. and George c. Wood EzG treasurer. The receipts for cash pre- liz@s for the past ysar were S5.O75. .69; lO=zo%. S2.5eO; expenses, salaries, and oOsa@izssons. sl.4SO.45: gain sl, ,Os5. .24. As~etz m the treasureris hands S54, ,945. 72.
 -LAxR VHw HOCEE.-In the building oG thSs h0Use. Mr. Richards has made the experiment. that every one wished tried, bzt whscA nobody else seemed inclined to Ezaths nsk of trying. Shut off by its To- c&ESon from tho ordinary New England sa<@ oG village growth by manufacturing sm1szFHsse. T1krhaead has stiIl its atsrac- azve souneEy. cool atmosphere. and beau- tzsna zEzceGz. that fit it admirably to be- ca@e a summer resort for city people. use oaa hss6ls Of tho place have always 6een well pMErOnized, and all the houses oPe1ra tc bOaraeEs have been easily filled; S1K mO PrOvisioa has heretofore been m~ae fsr the accommodation of the in- cT1&soA uzmsx of visitors which the aEs@zlg of Ozr railroad would naturally zEsE~c4 Co 0wr bcautlful village. The aschltect who drew the plans and specz3czas0ms for the new hotel was NIT. ESAex4 W. HIIl. of Waterbury, and the ca@kxme4 Eor ats construction was taken by ME- Gc0- Trary. of that place. It is a S@e 6~z1izg. four stories in height, with ulnuay-ssur fset froat. .forty-twO feet deep. s@1 a wzag cxtnading from the end of the @azn bmIAAing about @ feet It will lodge @A.szt Fzs gucsta. and ats fine dining room, whscA 0cczpies the whole first stony of the wlag. @na Is about seventy by forty fer& m sise. win dine 200 guests. The RlscAua m the basement, the pastry and S<aaex UOO@s connecting with it and tho alnilg rOOm. arc fitted up in fine style zl w7tA an the modem cOnycniences.
 The vlcw from the near rooms of the z&Sa eailaing and wing. and especially frs@ the observatory at tho top. is ex- oesaiRgay fine. Indeed this is a hotel in whscA tAe highest and back rooms are de- es2edly preferable to tho lower and front umeA
 Dlse fzrz1tzEe has not quite all arrived H~a thc l4zt carlSad is expected up early @ext week Thcre are now between severn ~ @n2 cighty bOzrders at the Lake View HSuse. ~sfA nearly eUery room engaged, and tAs s1ooess oE the undertaking, with god m&maeemcnt on Mr. Richards part, oaeAk ~at to Dc dOabtfuL