Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-23
Milton.

SecoHu Acctufe ou WeuQesday Eve. OI nexi week, Dec. Subject The Great West. Lecture free. His former lecture was lis. tened to by a large audience and was very instructive and interesting.
 Mrs. E. P. Dickenson who was so suddenly and severely i'll, is slowly recoy. ering.
 Charlie Page, who has suffered 50 much and so long from spinal difficulty, has returned from his visit to New York. The result of his examination and treat ment we have not learned. Everybody is hoping for his permanent benefit and final recovery.
 Uncle Hiram Bissell, the oldest man in town. holds his own remarkably this cold weather. How the life blood can course it's way through his veins-with the thermometer at zero and he up among the nineties in years-is almost a mystery to us young folks who shiver and shake in the cold. The kind care and attention of his children are undoubtedly essential.
 This is the week of the year for tho juveniles. What dreams and visions they have just before the arrival of Santa Claus and how ready they are to tell of them.
 The case of - vs. -, before Justice Beach on Saturday last, was quick ly disposed of by an appeal. What it was for no one outside of the parties, seems to exactly know, but it was evidently all about certain :'hoss." It certainly gave the lawyers a good chance to get the cigar smoke out of their overcoats in facing the northwest wind from Litchfield, at 8 6. m. :, with the weather at zero. We suppose their services were entirely free. x.
 SHARON. Dec. 20.
 MIR. EDIToR:-It is just ten years to-day since Rev. Dr. Bullions preached his first sermon in this place.
 Several sales of building lots have re- gently been made. Dr. Knight has sold his house and lot to Edgar Reed, and re- port says the tavern stand at the south end of the street has just been sold to John Luckes. sia.'
 The store in the Valley has just been sold, and is, we learn, to be filled with goods in the spring.
 Several marriages have been solemnized of late. and several more, ,it is believed, are in prospect.
 Our cornet band discourses sweet music on Saturday evening of each week at the town hall
 The late rains have filled the springs and the ground is in fine condition for snow which we have no doubt will soon come. and nature will again put on her new. white dress. v \
 The furnace in the valley is now in full blast
 - The hay crop here, as in other places, was light, yeti do not learn that there ls much anxiety about getting stock through the winter. The potato crop was very heavy, and of course the price of potatoes will be low.
 Just before the panic came on, large sums of money were sent west for invest ment ln railroad bonds, a large portion of which will remain there for e long time to come, it is believed, yet not drawing the stipulated ten per cent. and payable semi-annually. in gold. If the money which was sent West. had all been put at interest at six per cent and we'll secured, here, there would have been no excuse for raising the interest from six to seven per cent. and many thousands. if not millions, of dollars would have been saved, which will now be lost. at least to the present gen. eration. When will men learn to be wise. When will they learn that bird m the hand is worth two in the bush. O. P. Q. ooshen.-Mo. Si3.
 Tae Justice, before whom the case ''State vs. Soudant's Liquors" is to be tried has been informed that Mir. Graves of Litchfeld has been retained as Counsel for the defense. and that the lawyers will soon agree upon the time to which the trial will be adjourned. probably about Jan. 3d. The court is to be held at the Town Room.
 The Sabbath-school at the Center havea very fine cabinet organ to take the place of the old melodeon. H. N.
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 At West Goshen. Dec. 17, Rodney Bragg and Eliza M. Colby. sa. Deaths.
 In this town, Dec. 17th, Wm. c Ken. lock of lWilIbrid- Se0klandn a Haraford