Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-09
3be GitfbaeIS Guquirer,
 L!TCHFIELO, G0AN.
LiTEHEGELD.

MT E. E. Champliu starts new cash store, as will be seen by adyt.
 -Attention is called to Vessels & Gates column advt. of Holiday Goods.
 On TnesdAy Mc Lawrence Bissen ca. his hand very badly with bash-hook. Mr. John R1wett, to whose injurT we re- ferred last week, has had his arm amputa- ted inst above the elbow.
 Mir Charles Kirchberger recently had fall from a ladder which slipped on the ice ; he sprainei an ankle badly.
 The Convocation of Episcopal minis ters met at this place on Wednesday. Ten of the clergy were present but the attend aace of the laity was small.
 MT. Jason Cnrsiss, of Northfeld, an old man of eighty one, was killed by a fall on Wednesday. He was going up a ladder in a barn for a bundle of straw, when he fell backwards, breaking his neck and crushing his skull.
 Henry Decostaz broke into the house of David Warner, on East Chestnut Hill, on Friday. and stole some money and few articles of clothing. He was arrested, tired before Justice Farnum, Tuesday, and fined 5.
 On Friday as the people attending the funeral of Mrs. Rourke were returning from WolcottviIle horse ran down the hill just east of the Bantam and Mrs. Thomas Conran was dashed against the side pie@e of the bridge and very seriously hurt
 On Tuesday there was hearing be- fore the county com IS on remonstrance against granting Accuses to Meyers & Cor ydou. There was . remonstrance and a petition in aid," Mir. Robert Smith urging the remonstrance and D. c. Kill bourn the recommendation. The com'rs granted the licenses.
 The Superior Court was engaged most of tina past week on criminal business. ad- jOurning on Friday. AdOlph Steiner, the Cornwall Frenchman, was convicted of an assault on an old woman (his aunt, if we EecoIIect right), and sentenced to two months in jail.
 Thomas Grant and John Callahan, the men who troke into Jones milk house, recently, were acquitted. The proof was pretty strong but the crime was not very great one, and the verdict was more mer- ciful than just.
 net Iy ! Involving the legality of posting notices against fast driving ill the middle instead of at tine ends of a bridge as specified in the statute, was decided in favor of the accused and agmnst the legality of the notice. Three liquor cases were tried. In the first, against Francis Nebo, the jury dis i agreed, one juryman refusing to assent | to a conviction. We hear it stated that l this one dissenting juror, Mr. s. Marcus | Marsh. of New Milford, in the course of the discussion in the iury-roon, declared that he had once been prosecuted in a liquor case himself and that he should never agree to q verdict of guilty in such a case, or used words to that effect. If such were MT. Marshs views he was guilty of a very grave offense in ever acting as iuryman for trial of an indictment of that 1 character.
 Obed Messenger, of Colebrook River. was found guilty. His defense was a lease of the premises where the liquor was sold 70 a third person, but the jury considered the lease a sham.
 The most interesting case of all was q prosecution against Mir. Lyman Munson of Falls Village for drunkenness. Mir. l Manson Is the justice before whom sever al dealers in that place were convicted, and the prosecution was evidently a mali .cious ons Several witnesses swore that l Mir. M was very much intoxicated but l there was strong rebutting testimony and l the jury acquitted the prisoner almost without leaving their seats. Mir. Munson | admitted having drank twice at the Miller House in Lakeville. and he was very prob- ably little under the influence of the liquor he drank, but he was not "drunk." " He Prove1 good character and habits.
 The following divorces have been grant ed during the term: e-
 Georgianna from Benjamin r. Hummis- ton.
 Harriet from William Taylor.
 Lucinda NJ. from Darwin T. Baldwin.
 Mary E. from Addison Johnson.
 Estela J. from Fred. s. Jewell.
 z Frederick $. from Jane E. Beebe.
 Melinda ;. from John F. Gillette.
 Olive J. from Harvey E. Perkins.
 Andrew F. from Emily Pelton.
 James R. from Lemira Neil.
 Catherine from Henry X. Dayton.
 Eliza from George W. Curtiss.
 Eliza NJ. from Jabez Blackman.
 Rosetta from Frederick O. Curtis.