Litchfield enquirer., 1874-03-26
COUNTY ITEMS.

NEW PRESTON correspondent of the Salisbury News ayers that on Saturday af- ternOon the 14th. Mr Fred F Jenks. a clerk, started from New Preston to visit the parental roof at Lakeville. He was accompanied by relative of about the same age. They left about p. m. on foot for Cornwall Bridge. After walking the II miles, and reaching the depot, they were informed by the station agent that the train had been gone about ten min utes. Nevertheless they resolved to gaze upon Lakeville before they siept-which they did, at about three o'clock Sunday morning, after walk of 2S miles, That same afternoon Jenks took passage on the milk train, got of at Kent, and walk ed to New Preston a distance of twelve miles, arriving thereat about g o'clock p. m., a mere "shadder" of his for mer self, looking more like a No. 2 mackerel than like the F. E. Jenks of Saturday morning.-The Dramatic Asso- citation performed "The Streets of New York" and ''Solon Shingle" at Lyceum Hall on Thursday evening last. They talk of giving an entertainment at Wash ington; under the supervision of Mir. F. w., Gum, before long.
 Messrs. Gager Bros. of SHARON have made an assignment with liabilities esti- mated at $28,000; assets probably less than half that amount. MT. Geo. Gager Is also forced into bankruptcy by his sons failure.-The west road of Sharon street is being macadamized with cinders. The new street from the Congregational parsonage to the road north from Sharon Valley will probably be opened early this Spring. Robt. Hunt of the M. E. Church leaves, this spring. g.-Sharon has several places where liquor is sold, yet no dealer has been licensed. A cor respondent of the News says, "We ap- pointed committee last Spring to enforce the law, and when one of that committee was informed that in certain place it was sold to any one who asked for it, dis puted it on the ground that he had spent a great deal of his time there and had not seen anything of the kind. We think if he had kept his eyes open and mouth shut, instead of vice versa, he would have come to different conclusion"
 At TWISTED, last week, the clock shop elevator descended on the head of James Ramon, son of Timothy Barnon, injur- ing him seriously about the head and shoulders. IA Glee Club has been form ed and are to have weekly rehearsals un- der the direction of Hon. Robbins Bat- tell of Norfolk. k.-The Opera House was filed to hear Beecher.-T Herald chronicles the wonderful coincidence of the death on the same day of a husband and wife who had been married over sixty years. Their names were Daniel and Nancy Albro and they were formerly resi- dents of Winsted. They died at Spring field, Mass, on the 12th inst. ,rs --e.., ,,~l
 The THoMAsToN Express still fourishes and we condense the following items therefrom:-Mr. Enos Blakeslee is report ed the best chequer player in Plymouth. --The milk train, on the 18th, ran over and killed horse, just below Platt's mills. MT. Wm. s Witherell, whose eye was injured by an accident at the Plume < Alt wood works, is seriously ill from erysipe- las in the wound.-On the afternoon of 1 the 11th. man lay beastly intoxicated in l one of the principal streets of the place, in which condition he was dragged back wards and forwards through the mud by ! two companions almost as drunk as he.- The wife of Alexandre Curdey, says the Valley Sentinel, was found dead in her bed on the 17th inst. t.--A water cure doc tor who left without paying his board was by an officer to Wolcottyille and persuaded to settle.-Mrs. Frank Hotch-