Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-21
ASSESSORS BLANKS
 Furnished from this ofhce on SHORT NOTICE.
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-IW8 41@&g VA@W 4&V1@~ AAA~ ~a~~~N~ A~" Che season.
 A concrete walk has been laid in the yard of the public school house.
 Nov is the time for the early boy to gather the early chestnut.
 The South Bridge over the Bantam River, has lately been rebuilt.
 -Mr. Geo. Emmons, of Morris, has lost valuable horse from ths "epiEootic. |" -air. JOhn Williamson has recently bufIs sn addition to his tannery near the Depot. sa.
 Rev Mir Easton. of Darien, will preach st the Congregational church next Sun daY. ,"
 MT. s. E. Cheney has sold the Jones farm of 130 acres. in Harwinton, to Law renee Doyle of New York, for S2.OO0.
 -MessEs. J. c. Beckwith, Vessels & Gates, F. M. Hale. wm. H. Crossman, and Harry ScovilIs have applied to the select men of this town for license to sell liquor. The first number of . monthly paper will be issued early in November, by the sehoIars of the Institute. to be known asI Che ''Etudenes Record" We wish our usw eotemporary success. f"t
 -Charies F. Sedgwick. of Sharon, JOhn M. Wadhams, of Goshen, Asa White, of COlebrook, Henry H. Prescott. Charles Adamm and George A. Hickox, of Litch- 6eld, kave been appointed commissioners of che Superior Court during the present teEm.
 -Frank Bissell, formerly of Litchfeld, hes gone into the partnership with Frank E. Cleveland, Esq. at Winsted, for the practice of Iaw. Their office is in Wet more's Block. opposite the Clarke House. -.Fraak and malicious" is the kind of ad. vice they give.
 -Mr. Foster, of the firm of Foster & HnElbut. of West Winsted. will be at the store of Vessels & Gates. on Monday next, with . 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 a call.
 -Mr. Wm. ". Fiske will probably commence the canvass of Litchfeld and neighboring towns, next week, with ''Pho- aographic Fern leaf Mottoes," designed 6y Mrs. Ann K. Weaver. of Salem. Ohio. They are said to be very beautiful. The object of the sale of these "Mottoes" is to sustain Mir. and Mrs. Weaver, who have go0e. at their own expense,as missionaries sO BoeoGa. in South America. t4 s @+
 In the Superior Court. trial of the Atwood divorce case was finished Thurs day; no decision. Three suits of Mr. SAaldOn Whittlesey. of New Preston. AsAinsa Messrs Curtis and Dudley, of WIsated. growing ous of the renting of . 6xm by Whittlesey to Curtiss. were then tried. Graves and Andrews for plaintiff 1; Seymour for defendant. On Tuesday evening Fowler vs. Beckley was disposed og and Libby vs. Butler is now on trial.
 States Attorney Huntington has ob- taised from the Superior Court an lorder SOrtbe removal of Betsey Wadhams to the State Asylum at Middletown. She is an inhabitant of Goshen. but was placed in oar pOOr-hOuse, where, in 1856. if we re- collect right. she murdered another pan per. The jury acquitted her on the gsoand of insanity, and she was confined nm our iail in accordance with the statute then in force. There she has remained for nearly twenty years. none of the stat. mtes aathorizing transfer of insane prison CTS tO the State Hospital reaching her ease. till Mfr. Huntington obtained the passaes of on aet at last summers session nneehiae psdsieion tor sueh easss es lhesst'
 -1he Hartford Post says that it ia aamEed by Litehfeid gentleman that the Congre@aaional church In that place closed its doors against White6eld, and that there was not conversion in the church for forty yeaEs or untii every peraou whe had voted against the grest svangelEst'i preaching had died.-Wat. American. - We did not see the original statemenl in the Post. but the foregoing is certainly incorrect. We do not know at what pc riod in his American ministry Mfr. White 6eld proposed to visit LitchAeld. Hs first came tO America in 1739 and his final return was about 177O. He visited Sharon in this county in the latter year. Ths records og the ICougregafionAl church o 4hia village ahow constant accessions, yea, by year. during all the period from 17At to l7g9. Between 174O to 175S. eighty six persons were admitted to church mem bership. Betwsen 1758 and 1799. t,ct Anndred aud eighty were SO received There is . tradition that there was ns TevivGf during the life of Che generation that refused tO allow WhiteAeld to preacl in this church, and 1t is no doubt iron this trsdition that the above mis-stats @ant asoss. There vas great objection Anoug New England Conereeationalist sto Whi1s6ald's revivalism and . grea saany churches besides that oe Iitchnels ssfsssa him thsir pulpissE