Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-29
Tbc fittbhel0 Gnquirer,
 LlTCHFIELD, CONN.
LITCHFIELD.

South street side of the Mansion House.
 Mir. John Shanks has returned from his trip to Scotland. ...... ..
 Prof Peck, of Cornell University. has been in town. .
 Two large bass were taken from Ban tam Lake, one day last week.
 Notice new advt. of Buell. X Wheeler in another column.
 Tine grass Tn the West Park has been cut by Mir. George R. Prescott, who bought it for S15.
 MT. ". H. Gillette, who gave read ings here, recently, is to play next sea- son at the Globe Theatre, Boston.
 MT. and Mrs. David T. Welch, of New York, formerly of this town, have been here on visit.
 Mrs. George F. Lord, of Hartford, has been spending few days with her friends in this place.
 Tine case of Robert H. Isbell vs. Bost- wick BFps., tried at the last April term of the Superior Court has been decided in favor of the plaintiff.
 The Nameless B. B. 0. play the Nut megs of WoIcottvilIe, at that place, on Sat- urday afternoon, at 3 P. M. They will probably play the Red Caps of Northfeld, at Norhfeld, on Tuesday of next week.
 A party of Milton Shear makers gave an open air vocal concert in front of Beaeh's Block, on Thursday evening of last week. The solos were ludicrous but the choruses were side splitting.
 One Of the carpenters in the employ Of Mir. Leonard Stone, and working on the new barn of Mir. F. R. Starr, was con- siderably injured, on Saturday, by the breaking of a staging on which he was standing.
 People were.startled at 4a.m. this "Wednesday morning by what was gener- ally supposed to be an earthquake. It be- rumbling shake of perhaps q second or tEO. If there was powder mill near we should expect to hear that it had explod- ed
 On Sunday morning, of last week, Mr. H. H. Prescott drove up to the War ner House, Canaan, for Mr. Graves. Soon after arriving there the horse he had driven dropped dead in the harness. Such bits of bad luck take of a good deal of the profits of the livery business.
 On Wednesday evening of. last week the Wolcottville band paid us a visit. They play street music very well and the entertainment was highly enjoyed by our people. They paid visit to J. Deming Perkins. and if any of them went home hungry or thirsty, we imagine it was from choice and not from necessity.
 While the family of MT. Nelson Barnes were at church, on Sunday after noon, tramp entered their house and after devouring such eatables as were to be.found, appropriated purse contain Ing q small sum of money. belonging to a young lady visitor, and went on his way rejoicing.
 Among the bills before the Reform legislature was one introduced on Thurs day evening last proposing to divide certain stout member into voting districts It was appropriately referred to the com mittec on Humane Institutions of which our first representative is chairman.
 The grounds of the Island Hotel Go. are becoming a very popular resort for pleasure parties. On Thursday afternoon Ot last week about fifty person from this village held picnic in the grove. Tables were spread and the swing and croquet ground were liberally patronized. During the afternoon eighteen of the party took a pleasure excursion on the lake in the little steamer, which they seemed to enjoy vory much.
 Tomorrow CThursday) the distin- guished orator and lecturer, Henry Armitt Brown, of Philadelphia, will deliver a lecture at Congregational Hall, for the benefit of the Village Improvement Socie- ty. Subiect-"Hundred Gated Thebes," with personal recollections of a visit to the locality. The subject is an attractive one, and glves opportunity for the oratorical powers of this gentleman, who has already won for himself an enviable reputation as n speaker indeed as one of the first young. rising orators in the country. The audience may expect a rich treat. The lecture will commence at 8 o'clock.
 Last Wednesday evening the band from this village gave an open air concert on the square at Litchtield. They receiy- ed the highest praise from the Litchfeid people for the excellent music rendered. The leader and members of the band wish to return their thanks to the citizens of that village for the cordial reception they received and to several in particular for the entertainments presented to them WotcOttriitc Register.
 Thursday evenings lecture by Prof. Hoppin, of Yale College. was a very schol- arly and instructive production. Begin ming with one or two definitions of Art which. by the way, is no easy matter, to define, his discourse "widened out' into very fine exposition of this great sub- lect. We have noticed that College pro. fessors who talk excellently from their chairs do not always find it easy to "get the hang" of the platform. It is their business to be instructive rather than en- tertaining. and when the tables are turned and they feel that they have to be enter ta'ning rather than instructive, it seems to bother them prodigiously. Prof. Hop pin, however. isn literary as we'll as a scholarly man, and succeeds much better than most of his class in adapting himself to the necessities of the popular lecture. The audience was rather too select fo ha crofskahIa huk vouck