Litchfield enquirer., 1875-05-06
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 A meteor of unusual brllliancy was visible on Friday evening last.
 The ice in the Lake broke up a few days ago.
 MT. A. E. Fuller is digging for the cellar of his new house, on Meadow St.
 A. E. Fuller offers for sale the Chas. s. Buell. place in this village. See advt. Master Frank Fowler goes to Wash iagton this week, to the family school of Mr. H. H. Morehouse.
 MT. Willard Deforest has given up "going West" and will remain here for the ensuing year.
 MT. E. K. Loomis takes charge of the .'Sentinel' office in tue capacity of fore man.
 The pews in St. Michaers church, will be rented for the ensuing year. on Monday next, May 10, at P. M.
 Monthly meeting of the circulating Library, at the Town Hall, tomorrow, (FhursdaY) evening. at P. M.
 Mir. James H. Potter of Bristol has sold farm of about 106 acres in North field to Wallace Barnes of Bristol.
 MT. Hurlbut H. Hotchkiss has sold his place on South Plains to Mir. Edward B. Mason for g, 500.
 Mir Andrew D. Smith has sold A acres of land on Chestnut Hill to MT. S.J. Marsh and wife.
 Meadow Street shows more signs of growth than any other in the village. The frame of John MalloY's new house is up and enclosed, on Leonard St.
 Master Charlie Shumway caught trout in the Bantam river, near Stones Bridge. .on Friday last, weighing one and a half lbs.
 The spring term of the Center District school began on Monday last. It is taught by Miss Perkins, who conducted the win ter term.
 The monthly meeting of the Fifth School Library will be held at the Harris Plain school house on Friday evening next.
 Henry R. Merrill, Esq. will, we un- derstand, remove to Waterbury, very soon. We shall be sorry to have him leave town, but wish him success in his new field.
 Mir. Francis Bissel, who has been a student in the Law office of 0. B. An drews, Esq, was admitted to the Bar in Wednesday last, passing an excellent ex- animation. He will locate, we understand, in New Hartford
 We indebted to Mir. James E. Bishop of Thomaston, for beautiful fuschia. This gentleman is large dealer in flowers and furnished the greater part of those used at the recent Easter decoration of St Michael's church.
 -LitchAeld has two or three talented lawyers which she would be glad to swap of for one decently respectable tailor Winsted Press
 Which suggests the conundrum: "If it takes three lawyers to make a tailor and nine tallors to make a man." &c.,, Sc. Evidently the editor of the Winsted Press is not lawyer.
 The members of Go. H. 4th Regt, o. V. G., are hereby notified that drill meet. ings will be held every Monday evening until after the May Parade, which it is ex- pected will take place in this village dur ing the last week of the present month, al though positive orders have not as yet been issued.
 In the Superior Court during the week past two appeal cases have been tried to the jury. Frank Shaw recovered a verdict of S41. 16 of Cleveland Atwood, and Warren W. Bissell a verdict of S76. 10 of William H. Woodruff. Trial of the Win -sted case COe vs. Coe was begun this week, and the parties were insparling at latest accounts with expectation of a settlement.
 A meeting of the Litchfield Agricultu- ral Society will be held next Tuesday. at the Town Hall. to consider ways and means for the improverlent of the Fair Grounds. 4 subscription paper is in circulation and strong effort is being made to raise the money for erecting permanent buildings and draining and fencing the land now belonging to the society. A meeting oi village merchants and others was held Saturday evening, and every disposition was manifested to help along the enter. prise. Hour of meeting at p. m.
 The Village Improvement Go. held its adjourned meeting at Mir. George M Woodruff's, and appointed the followin Executive Committee: F. Ratchford Starr J. Deming Perkins, Edward W. Seymour Harriet B. Belden, Mary J. Buell., Cornelia Hinsdale, Fanny NJ. Colt, Mary Crossman CT o6icio members, George M. Woodruff Mary c. Hickox, Grace N. Gates. meeting of this c0mmittee will be held al the residence of Geo. M. Woodruff, Esq. on Monday evening of next week at 7:3t PM. The constitution has been left al the pOstofiice for signatures. .ahdall personl interested tand who are notO should giv, the movement their support.
 In these centennial times the name O Paul Revere Is frequently coming up il song and story,as the messenger who rod'