Litchfield enquirer., 1875-02-25
COUNTY ITEMS.

COUNTY ITEMS. RE
 WATERTowN had an educational meet ing recently and enjoyeath reading of Prof Russell The G. AZ Woodruff farm has been sold by Dr. Whitemkfe to MT. F. B. Hand of Litchfeld. gentleman whose ''friends" all declined coming to 8 party he gave concluded it was because he didn't belong to the Hypocrisy.
 BETHLEHEM reports to the American that the ice has speilt the sleighing.- There's some sickness and no doctor- Hon. Abraham Beeher was buried on the 18th. He was staunch Democrat and during his thirtv-fve years residence in Bethlehem held various offices of respon- sibility. represented the town frequently 1 in the legistatuoe. and was once chosen Senator from the Sixteenth District.
 ''The deceased was a sturdy farmer, and one who has done his full share ! of improvements, by making a poor, worn out farm into a smooth and fertile one thus causing two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before. The town has lost in him, good farmer, a w1se counselor, an honest and upright l citizen"
 At THoMAsToN, 9 recently, little daughter of Rev. c. P. Corner came near being burned to death. As she went to put something III the stove her dress who was up stairs, and he came down,
 caught shawl and smothered the fre.- A needle Mrs. Daniel Sullivan stuck in her hand three years ago came out at her shoulder, week before last-The Nauga- tuck R. R. Go. have put up platform at Terry's bridge to accommodate travel, now that Reynolds has been washed away Frozen water pipes are giving the farmers much trouble. The Judson boys have eighteen head of cattle that they have to carry water for, and D. J. Bradstreet has forty.-Mr. l.. D. Kay has opened sing ing school in Bradley's Hall, near the Thomaston hotel. It meets Tuesday and Friday evenings-Mr Parker of the Mia gara works has at last obtained a patent on his wise.
 A SALISBURY man had his house fired by the rain of week before last, paradoxi- cal as that may seem. His cellar was 1 flooded and the heat occasioned by the slaking of some barrels of lime ignit- ed the barrel slaves and would have burnt l the house down had not the fire been dis l covered in season.-The News tells a story of thinly-clad woman being made by her husband to walk from Sheffield to Town Hill, and carry child. in the cold air of the 18th inst. She came into Rich ardson's store about o'clock in the even- ing. almost frozen, but was uregd on by her inhuman husband. She died the next morning.
 WEST CORNWALL reports a specially dull railroad trafic.-Mr. Isaac Marsh is quite sick-Bunker Hill is almost impass- able from ice three or four feet thick.
 It is hoped that 1t may thaw in season for the centennial celebration of the battle
 fought in that place on tine 17th of June 1775.-There is much sickness 1n the vi-
 ty.-Tramps are extraordinarily nu- merous and importunate foundry took fire on Sunday from defective stove pipe, but was discovered in time to save the building. David L. Smith of Sharon
 is to succeed Noah Rogers as produce
 agent for Pratt 4 Foster for the cushing year.
 CHAPMv1LLE is busy vaccinating it's youngsters.-Mrs. Emily Wright had her
 wrist broken, recently, by fall on the
 ice.--Congregationalists are making clothes for poor children.-The Washinee
 mill is closed.-The late Henry Clark be- queathed in various ways some S18,OOO for the benefit of St. Johns church.-A l quarter of the laborers in town are idle,
 but labor is as high as ever. The town of PLYMOUTH has not had
 single person arrested and tried fo, intoxication since last October, when
 the town voted no license, although several dealers have been convicted on reputation. ."-Messrs. A. c. Blakeslee
 and Edward Parker have begun manufac-
 turing a new style of button-hole scissors
 at the Niagara Works.-D. W. Roberts
 has bought the Beach place north of Ter
 ryville.
 The headquarters of the TWISTED Bible 1 Depository are now located at the Boards
 ley Library.-There were shipped to New l York from West Winsted, during the
 month of January last, ,636 cans of milk
 Our citizens will be pleased to learn that
 the Naugatuck has a new Conductor on
 this end of the route. It is tin one and
 is nailed on to the west end of their de-
 pot.-Wing Persons, whose coat is his
 trademark, has recectlY purchased of the
 Winsted Hoe Go. the brick shop and wa ter power in rea2 of the Beardsley House,
 and proposes to build feed store there
 on.-The School Visitors report shows
 919 school-children in Winchester, of
 whom, all but fifty of them that are old
 enough, attend school-HerGld.- The
 Grand Army Ball is down on the slate for
 next Tuesday ntght.-The Knights of
 Pythias had very jolly time at their
 masquerade ball last Friday night. The
 store and goods of O. D Hunt $ Go. were 1 damaged to some extent last Friday night
 by the bursting of water p1pes somewhere
 overhead.
 NORFOLK Congregationalists met last Friday to vote on 8 new minister. Rev. J. W. Beach was the candidate, but 10
 out of 26 voted against him. A stormy debate followed which ended by laying the whole matter, minister and all, on the 1 table, Wisasted Press.
 CONGRESSIONAL.