Litchfield enquirer., 1875-06-17
COUNTY ITEMS.

WATERFOWL enjoys tomorrow (Friday) evening popular reading by Prof Hib- bard.-The Warren House is filling up with summer boarders-There was fam fly gathering of the descendants of Sam uel Merchant at the house of Philo Hard on the 25th ult. Five sisters were present; one, the oldest, now living in Wisconsin, was unable to attend. The eldest brother, Ira, Merchant of Layport, Indiana, left his home at the age of II and returns af- ter an absence of H years. Three broth CTS were absent, and three brothers and one sister are dead. There were present seven of the brothers and sisters, the eld est 80, the youngest 63; thirteen of their children, and thirteen grandchildren.
 The PLYMOUTH granite company are sending great deal of dimension stone in the rough to Ansonia and Bridgeport, as we'll as to Pittsfeld, Mass. Some of these stone weigh from eight to twelve tons.-Mr. Dayton is putting up six new houses on Hillside avenue-The tramp Moran, if he is tramp, has been bound over.-The Reynolds Bridge piers and abutments are up, and everything ready for the iron.-Col Fem is about moving to W1nsted for the practice of his profes sion.
 The THoMAsroN cornet band give fine kopen air concerts this fine weather-Miss Sarah Woodruff is now home from the South and improved in health.-Esquire Pierce is quite low with consumption.
 WooDBURY Good Templars have decided that they are not a failure, says the Amer ican.-1he Woodbury cornet band recent ly gave an open air concert at the house of Edwin Pierce in South Britain.
 CoLEBRooK received its first installment of boarders on the 4th inst MT. Almon Burr, son-in-law' of MT. Daniel Grant, preached here recently. He is principal of the Hallowen Me.) High School-Mr Wm. A. Smith returned home from his western tour on Wednesday of last week, after an absence of nearly month.
 ToRR1NGroN Hollow enjoyed a very pleasant Sunday school Strawberry Festi- val, recently. About 100 people were present. most of whom came mp from Vol cottville.-Mr. Levi Hodges has gone into trout raising quite extensively. He SUD- plies ''young fry for stocking ponds and nice grown specimens for the table, Sportsmen can show splendid catches" by judicious fishing in Torrington.
 The PINE MEADOW Savings Bank office was burglarized recently ,and s4 or $5 sto- len from a drawer.
 SHARON has four gin mills in full blast, every day, says the News, and on the 9th inst, there was general fight between a dozen negroes of both sexes.
 ORE HILL reports resumption of work by the Brook Pit Mining Go. They en- ploy 15 hands and are shipping three car loads of ore day.-Mr. H. A. Gibbs has built new barn, and MT. James Van Deusen has been rebuilding his house. Our school is taught by MT. E. F. San ford, teacher from Maine.-Mr. Weaver has recovered from the effects of his re- cent blowing up.-There was dog fight for $10 on the 9th. A Jew peddler named Moses fought dogs with young Irish boy. After brutal fight of an hour and half the Jews dog was killed.
 ' The CORNWALL correspondent of the Winsted Herald attributes the recent fail ure of Col Dwight w. Pierce to the fact of his having been 30 years a bachelor. Perhaps thls dreadful example accounts for the recent lapse of another distin- guished Cornwallian into matrimony.
 At SALISBURY, Mir. Jewell has his store completed and ready for the goods.-Ma- ior and Mrs Martin have returned for an- other summer.-The Barnum Richardson Co, had 1000 cords of wood burnt in Cole brook, on the 7th--Mr. Geo. D. Bowers, of the Washinee Woolen Co.,, who had been married but few months, lost his wife, after few hours illness, on the 7th inst.
 Messrs. Cowles & Eldridge, of NORFOLK, have put chronometer lock on their bank vault.