Litchfield enquirer., 1875-02-11

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 It is with sincere regret that we hear of the sudden death of our former townsnan and brother editar, TheodoreF. Vai,l, of the Winsted Herald. "A cola he took a short time since derelopedinto typhoid pneumonia, and he aied on Monday morn ing of this wesk. Mr.. vaiil enlisted as . private in theOld Nineteeth Conn Regi- ment at it's formation in 1s62, and served through the remainder of the war. He rose from the ranks to the position of Ad- ;;atasss whieil, he held fsllf mustered eas-He was promoted to captaincy. March 2, 1865, and was wounded at Fort Fisher on the 24th. of that month. Soon after re- turning from the army he become editor of the Winsted Herald. position he has held ever since. He married a daughter of Hon. George Dudley of that place whom he leaves widow with we think two children. -.
 Mir. Vaill was & man of large reading, a ready, witty, and able writer, very decid- ed in his views a very frank in giving them expression. He was perhaps too earnest and conscientious a man to be po- pular in the lower sense of the term, through the prosperity of his paper cer- tainly indicated no lack of appreciation on the part of the public. His history of our county regiment is the best regiment al history we have ever seen; and his comic translation of part of the Hneid is real ly capital thing in it's way. Indeed we have always believed him capable of much higher literary work than he ever seems to have attempted.
 Personally we mourn in his untimely death the loss of friend whom We have al ways held in high esteem and regard.
 AGRICULTURAL AL CoNvENrIoNs.-The Board of Agriculture propose to hold single day conventions in different parts of the State, on invitation of the citizens, at which, s.Milk and its Products" '.Ag- ricultural Experiment Stations,'' Fruit Culture, 'or other topics of interest to the farming community, will be discussed. Profs. Johnson and Atwater, P.M.Augur, Pomologist of the Board, and other gen. tlemen will lecture and answer inquiries, the programe being varied to suit the convenience of the speakers and the wants of the different parts of the State. The oF @NA 6ne question box to which all are invited to contribute One of these meetings is to be held at Washington on Tuesday next.
 The Bridgeport Farmer is greatly en- ragged at the Washington correspondent of the New York Times for saying that the sewing machine monopoly had been expending money in Congress to get an extension of their patents which are about to expire. The Farmer is no dopbt re- joiced, however, at the adverse decision of the Senate committee, although it for gets to give expression to that joy. It is said that the net gain to the public by the termination of these patents will be about two-thirds of the present cost of sewing machines. With the patents of, machines that now cost s6O can be sold at reason- able profit for $20.
 We are indebted to Messrs. Brown and Gross, Hartford. for copy of the Conn ecticut Register, the most valuable com pendium of state statistics published. It contains full lists of town officers, of pro- fessional men and full tables of votes &c., Sc. -.-
 For sale at Buel and Wheeler's.