Litchfield enquirer., 1875-03-11
LITCHFIELD.

MT. Beach IS dlvldlng ms Hall 1nto rooms.
 Hon Ssth s. Logan, of Washington, was in town on Saturday.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. W. Seymour were in town over Sunday.
 The Rev. William L. Peck. of Marble dale, was in town in Monday.
 Mir. Frederic Jennings removes to Wolcottville this Spring.
 The Mansion House Billiard Room is again closed.
 Mir. George Wadsworth was i'll town for short visit. few days since.
 We are glad to learn, that Mir. Major Slocum, was at last accounts, somewhat better.
 Attention is called to advertisement of very valuable real estate by MT. E. McNell.
 The genial faces of our County Com missioners were visible at the Mansion House, last week.
 The Sentinel employees are on strike claiming that $2OO are due them for wages. The paper may be late this week. pr. Scudder, Presiding Elder, will visit this Methodist parish on Sunday next and will will preach at II A. M.
 Attention is called to the notices of the Registrars of Voters in another col umn.
 The total assessment list of the town for 1874, as completed by the Board of Relief foOts, s1, ,939, ,593, gain of s67,917 on the list of 1873.
 On Monday thirty acres of land of the estate of the late Harriet Buel, on Jeffer- son Hill, was sold at auction to Charles D. Buel. for $500.
 Willie, son of Mir. T. s. Sedgwick, was badly hurt Wednesday by blow on the chin from ''shinney" stick. His jaw was not broken as was feared at first. Judge - asked MT. s. Rowe, recent ly. why he did not dig the path in front of Braman's straight. Solomon replied that most of the lawyers he knew seemed to like their paths crooked.
 The following communication speaks for itself:
 LrTCHFIELD.-Mr. Leo, Catholic Priest, < Buys a horse on Sunday, he Disgraces the rules of his church for doing it. M. B. Our devil enjoyed a ride of over elev- en hours mp from Washington on the Sunday evening milk train. He de- nOunces the Shepaug sleeping car as an unmitigated fraud.
 On the 18th or else the next week on night to be announced, we hope to greet an Excursion Party from Litchfield. We have fixed the number at one hundred and fifty: but are willing to meet more if they come. JUDEA.
 The agent around with new Bible canvassed Mrs. Xerxes on Meadow street. She referred him to Xerxes, ,swho remarked that he wasn't going to buy anything on an uncertainty. If the sev- enth juror in the Beecher case got well, he shouldn't want any more books, this sea- son.
 A party who opened the road to the Naugatuck Station, Monday, dug out, among other things, sleigh left by cou. >ple of young fellows who had been sparkling Sunday night" The ''beers" it took to redeem that sleigh cost just Sl. 60 Oysters will hereafter be sold at the old price, on South Street.
 There are 37 tickets spoken for al. ready. for the excursion to Washington, next week. We hear of many who intend going whose names are not down. Hurry up the signatures so that we can announce definitely, next Wednesday, whether an excursion will be runl
 Last week the WiAsted Press, speaks Tor its co-Organ of the Democracy in this county in the following delicately eulogis- tic style:
 The Litchfield Sentinel seems to think that we get more editorial help from the ardent spirit than the :'just made perfect. 3 spirits of departed genius. Brother Earn. ham is wrong. We don't drink-can't af ford to. But we would suggest that lit. tie spirit, even ardent spirit, infused into the columns of the Sentinel would very much improve it and set its readers te querying if Johnson hadn't returned,
 A meeting of the county commission CTS and of the selectmen of this Probate District was held t'the Mansion House on Thursday of last week. Rufus Cleve land, Esq, of Barkhamsted, was choser chairman, and Garry H. Miner, of Morris clerk The meeting was held pursuant tt the statute requiring provision to be mad, for keeping probate records in fire proc safes. It was voted unanimously to keel the probate records of this District il Judge Seymonr's building, and George M. Woodruff Esq, was authorized to i'm prove at his discretion the present saf, nsed in That building so as to give furthe security from loss by fire.
 A letter was mailed at Thomaston re gently. addressed to Mfr. Jerry Hoar l.itehfield, Conn.,, with an additional ex paanatory superscription: = "Dishwipe and bottlewasher at the Mansion House. -Index. , l
 Judge Seymour of Litchfield has beel holding court at Putnam, Windham Go. acting as arbitrator. Some thirty case were referred to him.