Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
Village lmprovement.

D~4VEO U0OMCottUus
 Village Improvements.
 There is probably no place of the size and opportunities of Litchfeld in the State where there has been so little..organ' izsd effort for the improvment of its streets, parks, and public grounds as il this village. Some half century since il was incorporated into borough by [ special act, and this borough has beer barely surviving in a state of suspended animation ever since our acquaintance with the place. In seasons of unusual ac' tivity it has elected officers, and in ordina- " years it has failed to give even that ev. idence of vitality. Its treasury has had to rely on the sale of grass in It's parks, and even this starvation allowance has been shortened of late years by a refusal of the managers of the West Park to pay the income from that source into the borough treasury.
 In the meantime by far the most inn portant work ever attempted here has been prosecuted to completion. We have railroad, and, notwithstanding it's heavy drain on our resources, many evidences Ofa rapid and solid growth since its completion are already perceptible. A fine now church and @ fine new hotel have been built; and we do not believe that a lower estimate than $lOO, 900 could be put on the amount expended for new build inss. and permanent improvements of old ones, within the. past three years.
 But public improvement is evidently behind private improvement. We have bored our Hoosac Tunnel but we have not built its approaches. Considerable Improvements have been smade by the town Oh our West Hill road; Still the laying of . good sidewalk from. the Center @ the Station is conceded on all hands to be the prime necessity of the village. Then the parks need vastly more atten- tion than they have ever received, and there is need of good sidewalks every where. The growth of our village, curiously en- Ough, is directly dependent on it's beauty. N is the influx of city people attracted by its cool breezes and pleasing scenery that have raised the price of real estate and ,es- pecially of residences and building lots, to figures that show no signs of abatement even in times that are shrlveling values to very perceptible leanness everywhere else.
 Everything, therefore, that means beau- ty means business in Litchfield. What we most need now is some judicious improve ment of streets, parks, sidewalks, &c, such as can be accomplished without heavy ex- pedituro and yet produce satisfactory re- suits. To this end we learn that 0 village Improvement Society is soon to be organ ised similar to those which have been so successful in Stockbridge, New Milford, and elsewhere. Such society will need good deal of hard work on the part of a few and the hearty cooperation of all, to accomplish it's object. Let us give it the support its importance deserves
 The great series of battle centennials of tho the seven years war of the Revolu tion commences at Lexington and Con cord on Monday next. The Presiden and Cabinet are to be present. Poems b, Whittier and Mrs. Howe, and orations b, Emerson and Richard H. Dana Jr., vii be among the features of the occasion Counting the importance of wars by thei misery, bloodshed and devastation, ther have been much greater ones than tha which commenced on the 18th of Apri 1776; but. counting importance from re suits, it is not so easy to find It's equal.
 The total figures of last weeks electio, give Greene A,301 votes; Ingersoll, 53, 7s6; Smith (Prohibition), 2,sO9. Tn Prohibitionists fall of about 2,OO0 iron last year. on vote the largest by 1,5O ever cast in the State. The Democrat plurality on Congressman is less thal 4.0OO. showing that, either the Republica nominees were especially popular; tha the Democratic nominees were speciall unpopular; or, that Mir. Greene was exten siyely traded by friends of our Congres asonai nominees. We judge that all thes influences contributed to the result. Ce, tiAcats voting largely increased Demo cratic maiorities in the cities.
 HARPRR's MAGAZINE contains: The Cor cord Fight Qllustrated); Yes or No? Ga, feature in the Puritan Period, by Jame Parton Qllustrated); Under the Star, Rape of the Camp (csnclusion); Religio and Doctrine. by John Hay; The Ston Age in Europe, by Prof Charles Rau q lustrated); Psyche; American Humor, b Hon. 6. S.Cox Qllustrated): The Judge Daughter; The Republican Movement Earope. (xVIT by Emilio Castelar; 'Ne body but Jane Rossitur;" The First Ger tury of the Republic, Agricultural Pros ress, by Prof. w. H. Brewer; Katy; Mis Angel. by Miss Thackery; Editorial Art clea.
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 The license question was voted upo in Roxbury on April 9th. Result: F Ii favor of license; opposed, 107.