Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-23
couNTY ITEMS.

timers left soldering stove on the roof or MT. Agard's barn, to blaze awayin the nlght and raise an alarm of fire.-Two persons have been bitten by dogs, recent | ly.-Considerable effort has been made by Temperance ladies to obtain signers to the pledge, going from house to house l for that purpose. Dealers have also been requested to stop selling.
 The THosfAsroN Woman's Missionary Circle got S100 from recent Necktie Festival.-H. J. Spellman, late of Thom- aston. has purchased of Mrs. Mallory a place in Bristol, for about S, ,000.-Mr James L. Pardee has sold his place near tho 1.-two mile bridge" to German from fWinsted. d.-Mr. Thomas Scott removes to Vernon, Mich, this week.-On Monday ] of last week, a Mrs. Davis got bottle of liquor at the drug store at Plymouth Centre and soon after assaulted NIT. Tyler with whom she lives, with an axe, infict- 1 ing serious but not dangerous wound on the side of his head-s:Last year. says the Sentinel, ''the town voted i- cense, this year no license, and we ven- tuse to say that rum can be bought at twice as many places as 1t could last year " 1t is reported that new gin mill is to be opened on North Main street. What are the T prohibitionists of Plymouth do- l ing?
 A NoRTHFIELD painter who recently borrowed money of several people to buy lead and oil seems to have been unex- pectedly delayed in making his purchases. | A board bill of $50, is also anxiously waiting his return.-Mr. Hopkinson, silver smith and designer. recently gave | up his business and bought farm to please his son Freddie, but scarcely had he completed the arrangement, when the son was taken with consumption and died.-- Henry Bamforth. formerly cutler in the employ of the Norshfeld Knife Co.,, died on the 20th ult., at Sheffield, Eng.-Rev. s. G. Rankin who has been supplying the Congregational pulpit for few months past, preached his last sermon on Sun- day of last week.
 1 One of the TWISTED representatives elect is in Michigan selling clocks and likely to remain there.-The "Campbells'' were failure.-Mr. Lyman Baldwin, treasurer of the Winsted savings bank, has been seriously ill.-Martin H. Brad ford has bought the Shunk place, on Monroe St.-The shoe store formerly run by ". B. Phillip has been bought by I. W. Adams of Mill River, Mass.-Mrs. Della R. Beardsley has given $1O, GOO to found a ''Beardsley Library" In addi- tion to this noble donation she fits up fine room in the Beardsley Block and guarantees the free use of the same for five years for the library. Half of the cash donation is to be forthwith applied to the purchase of books and the rest is to be set aside as fund the interest of of which will be used to replenish with new books.
 | The NEW MILFORD Water Company are soon to comm snce work. Less rum and more water IS what good many vil- lages need besides New Milford. d.-Mr. Isaac B. Rristel has sold otu his interest Tn fhe button business to Wm. Schoyer- ling. New machinery has been order cd and the new company expect to do an in- | crease1 buSinass Mr. n "a Co,,lo ko. bought part of the property of MT. A. B. sMygatt between East Main St. and the. railroad. d.-The new block to be built on the late Noble property is to be of brick, 78x60 it., 31 if. high. The first story will have an iron front, the stores to be 12 it. high, with plate glass windows 7x6 feet. The front is to be adorned with a metallic cornice.
 MORRIS recently offered s15. diction- ary to the scholar in it's public schools who would spell correctly the most out of 200 words to be selected by committee. There were twenty-two applicants each of whom wrote out the words as anno unced by the committee. On examination it was found that the best paper had 193 words correctly spelt; and the worst, on- ly 5. The prize was taken by girl (oi course), Miss Abbie s. Randall, aged II years, daughter of Mir. T. B. Randall, formerly of Bridgewater.
 At WEST GOSHEN, Mr. E. Wickwire has rented the old mill and is grinding, saw ing and running shingle machine, day and night.-Lucas, Hurlburt < Co.,, are buying up all the cheese as usual MT Huntington has rented the old tannery.
 The FALLS VILLAGE Literary associa- ton held its last meeting, Friday night, for discussion of the law of hbel.-It took two bbls of ''forty rod'' whiskey to prime the electors for their grand effort on the 1st Monday in Aprll.-Owing to 8 scarcity of houses Dr. Averill has moved to Ames. ville.-The ''Henry S. Leavitt" banged its smoke stack badly at the Lenox Furnace bridge recently. ..-
 NORFOLK chose the following list of Justices at the late election: --
 Horace B. Knapp, John K. Shepard, Hiram P. Lawrence, Samuel D. North way, Henry J. Holt, Plumb Brown, My ron 0. Johnson, Alya Cowles.
 The NEW HARTFORD Temple of Honor dedicate their new Hall, May 1st. The Icommittee of arrangements are Messrs. 1 W. E. Stanley, o. T. Hungerford, Grove 1 Tanning, D. T. Lane and James E. White.
 The SALISBURY Washinee factory is to begin immediately the manufacture of its old line of weolen goods called "Repel- lants." 1 A LAKEv11LE boy named Robert Drum Imond had an arm broken recently by a fall in barn in which he was played with