Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-02
LiTCHEIELD.


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 Harris Plain Library meeting on Fri day evening next.
 MT. Lewis s. Kilbourn. of Paxton. Mass, one of our former residents IS in town on a visit.
 Mir. DanIel E Buell. has been putting an extensive addition on her barn. oppo- site his residence on the Milton road
 David D. Guild has sold five acres of land in Milton. distributed to him from the Albin Guild estate, to Mr. Everett H. Wright.
 The Rev Hiram Stone will lecture in Bantam on Wednesday evening Dec. s. at 7o'clock Subject. Astronomy, and it's relations to Divine revelation"
 Mir Henry Frisbie has sold farm of & acres in the western part of the toxn to Mir. William W. Wheeler for s.. OOO.
 Edward E. Champlin and wife have conveyed to Samuel Clock their interest in farm of about sixty acres of lapd in the northeastern part of the town.
 On Thursday afternoon, MT. Curtiss Wedge, of East LitchfeId, was badly kicked in the face by horse he was train Ing.
 We learn that Mir. John Ruwett. the Town House keeper, caught his arm in tlfrasliug machine, this "Wednesday morning, breaking it badly.
 Rev. NIT. Taylor, former minister of the Methodist church, spent Thanksgiving here and preached at that church on Sun day afternoon. His presence was well comed by numerous friends made during his stay here. Rev. Dr. Henry, formerly of Litch- field, preached a very interesting dls- course in New Haven, Sunday, the 14th, in regard to the Indian question and the duty of the Christian Church Tn their be- i;4alf at this tIme.-ABlerican. We have before noticed the purchase of the business of Mir. Samuel Clock by Mir. Edward E. Champlin. The room has been repainted. renovated. and presents a very neat appearance. Mir. c. will do q strictly cash business in hardware, crock cry. and groceries.
 Mir Foster, of the firm of Foster & Hurlbut, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Wessells < Gates, on Monday next, with a choice selection of foreign and domestic woolens. prepared to take orders for anything in their line. Persons wishing good custom work done should give them Q call.
 Major Chester c. Birge. "A years old, and Free Mason of 5 years standing, died at New Britain, Thursday. from inju- TieS received by fall from his carriage while driving at Cornwall recently. Major Birge was former resident of Litchtield and was a brother in-law of Dr. B. B. North of Cornwall. - IVinsted Herald.
 On Thanksgiving night, as MT. Har- ley E. Morse was driving home from this village he met two tramps at East Bridge. One of them seized his horse by the bri- dle while the other told him to''get out of that" Mir. Nj. gave his horse. which is a spirited animal, a sharp cut, and it started sharply forward, throwing down the fel- low at the bits. and running over him. By the time Mir. Morse could get the horse under control again they had gone entirely out of the reach of the would. Se highwaymen, of whom no further traces have been found
 The circulating library holds its monthly meeting on Thursday evening ol this week. .>
 The following new books have been re ceiVed Fsted To Be Ere, Jean Ingelow FOregOne Conclusion, W. D. Howells Mine Little Go~lings Susan Coolidge Tnles of the Axwsnaats Breka Harte. speeches of Pope Plus K, t;Iaas,ope Ralph Wsltons wslrd, Mrs Alexander MOhAnmed and Mohammedisu, R. Bosworth smith 1nvusfpn of the Crimea, HI, s~ Kingake We anu our Neigh6ors, Mrs H. B. Stowe SeveHoaks, Holland The Way ws-Live Now Anthony Troiope Three Feathers. William Black
 The Superior Court is occupied thi week with the trial of criminal cases. Or Tuesday Charles Miller pleaded guilt, to burglary, entering the house of RhodI Reid in Cornwall. and was sentenced t, two years imprisonment in State Prison Richard Lane pleaded guilty to stealing watch from Algernon H. Taylor of Corn wall, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail
 A prosecution against Adolph Steme for assault on Mrs Mundry, sixty eigh years old, French woman in Cornwall
 
 is on trial. The parties and witnesses ar all French, aud Prof. Laslier acts as in terpreser. Warner and Huntington fo