Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-23
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 LtTcHFIELD.
 St. Michaei's will not be quite so elab- orately trimmed as usual this year.
 MT. Marshall l.. Tompkins has sold 2 place. near Bantam, to F. B. Hand for S45O.
 -Chas. DeIliber, of Salisbury. has .Opensd . harness shop over Bramans- See advertisement.
 We hear that Mir. McMarten, of New York. has bought the Gilman place on North Street.
 -irs. Elizabeth B. Camp has sold to Nathan c. Pond of five several pieces of land in Northfleld for $2, 15O. .S-gf
 -Mr. s. G. Beach has opened Q gro- eery. provision and reireshment store in the Eoom lately occupied by Mir. s. D. WhAeleT.
 -Fishing is1good at the Lake. Messrs, Levi Parmeiee and Edward Jackson caught one hundred and thirty perch and twenty-five pickerel there. Saturday. One of the perch weighed one and one-half pounds.
 There was change of thermometer from SC below zero to 34 above be- tween Monday morning and Tuesday morning. A leap of forty-two degrees in twenty-four hours is little trying even sO the New England constitution.
 The exhibition of Dibble. Bros, on Friday evening, struck us as . very good thing of it's kind. The public has been % badly sold on Gtsreopticons that the akkendance vas small; far below the deserts of the entertainment.
 Henry Decostaz. the young Swiss recently sent to jail for breaking into Mir. David Warmers house, tried to hang him. self, last week. He had the moose pre- pared and the rope fastened above his cell door xhen the jailers attention was called By another prisoner and stop put to the RM1eeeding.
 -WsasAer permitting. there wlll no dsabt be . good turn out for the Cough lecture tomorrow (Thursday) night at the Congregational church in Washington. There is to be an excursion train on the Shepaug road, starting from this station st 5:S0. and transportation to and from the church is furnished as usual. Tickets to the lecture are sold at the Stations.
 We have been requested to remind the members of the Masonic Fraternity that the annual meetings of the different branches i'm this place occur on Monday of next week. Darius Chapter meets at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and Buel Coun- ,cil immediately after tho close of the chapter meeting. St. PauPs Lodge will meet at o'clock in the evening. Agfull sAttsndance is particularly requestsd.
 Richard Lane. prisoner. ran away On Thursday night. stealing an overcoat and shirt from the jail kitchen. Jailer Blakeman started after him. set two men to watch the Milton bridge. went ever to East Cornwall and staid out all RlgAk tvaicAing for him. saAabeut snid- night haSe undertook to cross the Milton bridge and wss taken.s A week before that another prisoner who had escaped was captured by the jailer down the Shepaug track. The Litch6eld iail.seems not so easy place to elope from as formerly.
 Sunday vas frosty. The ,thermome- ter stood at 12e below zero at the South Bridge. and at 100 minus at the Nauga- tuck Station. Mir. Richard Goodwin, who ''presides at" the bellows of St. Michael's organ, froze both ears on his way over in the morning. John Dugan. an employee of Mir. Geo. Kinney. had still worse lnck. On his isxetutn frOA woleottane in the evening no iroze both his hands 60 severe- ly that he will probably be laid up for months. A young man froze both his feet in the Congregational church in the A'HOtn'"e rkTDNnQ lI0WQA ..
 The idea that anyone could make a tChristmas gift to an editor was one that ten years' experience had thoroughly erad- icated from our mind. Not that this-is an mngrateful community. bat their gratitude has never manifested itself in gifts., IL would not be best to set the steady hand with whieh the local editor holds the scales Sdjastiee "webblins" in any such way, Bat. aAat Week. ME Wood, our jewelerI who was not bora in Litchfeld and who has only lived here year or two, did ac tually present the editor of this paper with . gold pen Akin, Lambert & Go. E make, handle. case and. everything complete. Our first feeling waa that oifunmingled =amazement at the audacity ofthe perform =ance. We were on the point of exclaim ing. 'Ts shy servant parson that. h should take this thing !" He seemed tt mean well. however; there vas something very seductive in the thought of .onc< more writing with gold after years O steady scratching with steel. and W, yielded. Having accepted so fine pres ent the nsrs li1lcpity vaa low to express the requisite gratitude. That is Q sentimen that comes Iiitle hard to those who hay, little to be grateful for. The parson. .now Aeqaires an astoniahins power. that way He is not only eternally grateful to proyi -denee for making him ministar. but hi congregation ksep him In splendid train tng. He grows 50 expert at lastth whel a aeso5 donation is made he can hand bacl