Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-06
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 uTCHFIELD, CONN.
LITCHFIELD.

The Namelcss B. B. c. play their ''hOme and home" game with the Gum nery nine on Saturday next, probably at Washington.
 Rev. Charles s. Walker of Brooklyn breaches at the Congregational church on Sunday next. Mir. Sbaats supplied the pulpit, most acceptably, as usual, on Sun day last.
 Mir. Charles Snively, and party of friends from New York, are camping out at the Lake. On Tuesday they presented Capt. Shumway, of this office, with cou- pie of fine bass weighing 6 tbs.
 Light colors seem the prevailing fash ion in paints, this season. Mrs. Lewis residence looks very gay and pretty in it's new coat of cerulean yellow-which is as near the exact tint as our edition of Web ster's Unabridged with take us.
 The ladies and gentlemen of the Lake View House are perfecting themselves in the noble game of wicket and the Old Gentlemen's club are in daily expectation O: challenge. Betting is wicked, but all who sin that way will do well to bet on the Lake Viewers.
 The circus of Monday was we'll at tended and on the whole satisfactory. The horses were not the lank, tired looking animals usual at circuses but were in very fine condition. The most interesting fea- 4u~a of all ,voo kha ~;I;nr o4 Ef%Io Topu There was the usual amount of hard drinking and disturbance about town af- ter the evening performance, and three or four of the most noisy were accommodat- ed by Mir. Ward at the brick hotel.
 The Lake View House continues full to its utmost capacity. While referring 50 constantly to the new enterprise, we onght not to forget to mention the pros- perity of the two old hotels, now both in charge of MT. Wm. H. Crossman. These are also both full, accommodating over one hundred boarders. The Mansion House was newly and very nicely furnish cd thoughout, under the late manage ment. MT. Crossman always sets an ex- cellent tablc and is in fact one of the most liberal and judicious caterers to be found in any country hotel.
 Frank Evans, of Morris, came up to the circus, took little too much liquid refreshment, insulted woman and as- saulted officer Ward when arrested. On Tuesday he was brought before John R. Farnum, Esq. who "rattles around" in the place of trying justice, of late so ably filled by MT. Meafoy, now disqualified by age. The prisoner pleaded guilty to two complaints, was sentenced to pay $S, fines, and over $20, costs, and served him right. We use the expression "rattle around" in no belittling sense. It was first employed, if we recollect, by Oliver Wendell Holmes who remarked, when ask ed to speak in place of Daniel Webster, that he couldn't undertake to 'fll" the place but would "rattle around" in it for little while.
 The appointment by Gov. Ingerson of George M. Woodruff, Esq, of this place. to fill the vacancy in the railroad commissioners, is approved by the jour- nals of both parties throughout the state. This is by all odds the most important, as it has hitherto been the most useless, of our state commissions. The place to which our townsman is appointed needs an extremely cross man. The rail- roads arc insolently careless, to say the least. about the returns they make to the railroad commissioners, and need pretty sharp lesson to teach them their duty of obedience to the Statutes of Connecticut. Oar great fear is that Mir. Woodruff is not ugly" enough to make first class com missiOner-yet his temper may improve. At any rate it will be very pleas ant having some one who is largely re- sponsible for the conduct of our railroads sO very handy.