Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-02
COUMTY ITEMS.

- minstrels the editor was thinking of?-Mr. Fl. A. Beers is putting an extension on his barn.-Mr. Harvey Fellows and Mr. Frank l. Stocking will start for Florida week after next.-Mr. c. P. Brooker has gone to Europe on business for the Brass Co.,, for three months.-The needle works have topped off, recently with a belf-y.-The new street lamps give the village quite 8 metropolitan look.-On the 21st MT. Hook CT of Litchfield read servic at the Episco- pal church, Rev. MT Ensworth being indis- posed. d.-Thanksgiving was duly celebrat- ed, the Needle Go, presenting each of the families of its employees with the festive turkey.
 TWISTED is talking of a course of lect ures and the News blandIy suggests the names of all the ministers in the place of Dr. Steele and T. M. Clark as lecturers. Modesty of course forbade any reference to editors but where are the six or seven lawyers?-Mr. H. H. Rowley, proprietor of the Winsted House, is sick with ty- phoid fever-The ladies of St James Church give supper at Camps Hall, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.--Mr and Mrs. Charles I. Norton celebrated their golden wedding on the evening of 17th uit.-Mr. Abel Snow has completed the repair of his house which is now one of the most attractive residences in town MT. George B. Gilbert, the man recent ly arrested for horse theft, proved an alli- bi and was discharged--Mr, J. J. Whit ing has foundations of his new store com pleted. It is to be 7Ox3O, 3 stories high, and to be finished by April 1st.-David | W. Coe was home from Brooklyn recently for a short visIt-Miss Maria Cone has returned home for the wlnter.-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clark spent Thanksgiving in Nor~ich.-Drs. Edward and William c. Welch are taking medical lectures in New Haven.
 THoMAsToN Methodists and Congrcga- tionalists held union Thanksgiving ser vice, last week.-Mr. Bunnell, the amateur detective, has given up the lost Ross boy in disgust. newspaper war over the nine thousand dollar legislative item con- tinues. Most of the money went confess edly to ''extra counsel" Did 1t stop there? If so the extra counsel were plain ly Overpaid. Was it disbursed on "addi- tion, division and silence" account? Then ought the new town to make itself part ner in the iniquity? On the other hand, Mir: Thomas may very well say to his youngest born. By repudiating this debt you acknowledge the illegitimacy of your birth. don't like to see you start life in that way"
 The SALISBURY depot has been robbed again.-A Mir. Johnson of Hartford has rented the Augustus Miles house at the Twin Lakes for a hotel next season. Some seventy people celebrated the golden wedding of Mir. and Mrs. Simeon Miles at the Centre, on the 18th, says the Berk- shire Courier. The ladies furnished the eatables and the gentlemen made up a purse of S60. Rev. William A. Johnson and Daniel Pratt were the instigators of it.
 
 somewhat infirm couple-Mr. J. R. Ward whose sheep have been much dogged late 1 ly has turned the tables on the canines and slaughtered several-Mr Russell has closed Maple Shade for the winter.-W. B. Holmesihas bought the 'Alex. Bearse" farm and stock for S3,5OO. Mir. Bearse paid Myers Tripp, deceased, ,$4 900 for the farm not long since.
 NEW MILFORD is still "on the improve" T. Soule < Bro. have bought an interest in real estate of H. E. and W. B. Bost- wick and propose an extension of West Main St. to the south, thence easterly to Grove St. which opens up some nice build ing lots. This firm are also building a house on the V. k. Giddings lot in West St.-The Brookield Dramatic Association give Shakespeare's Henry ", and the Stage Struck Yankee" as an afterpiece on Wednesday evening of this week. Aren't they Stage Struck Yankees any way, to try Henry Iv?-Mr. Schumaker is going ont of the tobacco business. Mir. Bonar was run away with, recently. but not hnrt.-Mr. Wilbur, of East St., has just completed his new barn.-Two balls were announced for the 24th ut. night, but neither of them was we'll at- tended. d.--Charles W. Couch, of Bennitt St., is quite ill with fever.-East St. is having some street lamps.-On the 24th ult., while Mr. Knowles was driving up the hill this side of Town Bridge his horse suddenly dropped dead.
 WATERFOWL enjoys unlimited liquor li- cense. The American gives an instance where a drunkard habitually compels hls wife and children to flee the house in the night. Why do they not prosecute the per- sons who sell him the liquor, on the bond required by statute ?-On the 16th ut. the State Treasurer assumed charge of the Watertown and Waterbury railroad, in behalf of the bondholders.-1wo Minor. town negroes, arrested for burglaries com mitted at the residences of Mrs. Hoicomb and Mrs. Warren. have been discharged for insufficient proof.-Fred. D. Hard, drowned on the Pacific, was of Watertown descent.
 TERRrvrLLE is nearly over with typhoid fever.it is hoped. family recently came near being suffocated by coal gas. The baby cried and saved all their lives, so ; says the American Unexpectedly useful } thing to have in the house, is 6 baby.- , The Eawla T,nok Co aurv;vo &ha IA. T.
 lection of some of their best men. Things , go on in the old groove and the shops are running on eight honr time.-The Rev. Mr. Griggs has been opening his batteries , on the village gin mill, says the American. RrBRvILLE finds. times dull with no