Litchfield enquirer., 1875-01-28

NOhrOhA man came near Dolng q
 4dem'd" moist sand uncomfortable body
 Dy submersion in Biglow Pond, recently.
 He was fshed out by Mir. Chas Hollister.
 John Christian. soldler in the 2d H. V.
 A.. has received a pension he very much
 needed. d.-Scott Beach is acting as clerk
 for Q. H..Welcott, who IS in precarious
 health.
 SOUTH NORFOLK milkmen have harvest
 ed fine crop of ice.-R. P. Pendleton
 has ridden out once or twice, and is im-
 proving rapidly. Noah Miner is gaining
 strength and rides out every pleasant day. 1.-The excellent school in South Norfolk
 is under the charge of Mr. Ellis, a grad
 nate of Williams College = Jeremiah IJohnson has returned to Iowa.
 THoMAsroN IS excited over the arrest of
 . number of boys for fooling with bar
 ber's sign.-Miss Mary Keeler recently
 sprained her ancle badly by fall near the
 depot.-Rey. W. W. Clark has been lec-
 turing on the Spirit of the Age.-The | n.
 $1 800 from the aid society of which he
 was q member. says the Valley Sentinel
 -The Catholic Fair was in full blast, last
 week, with large receipts.-Mr. Mir. Seth
 Thomas is still in town, newspaper re-
 ports to the contrary notwithstanding.
 PLYMOUTH reports 34 marriages, 67
 deaths, and 156 births for 1874 She will
 soon be entitled to her second representa- tive at that rate of increase.-The Con- gregational church has chosen two dea- conesses. A temperance meeting was
 held here recently at which vigorous campaign was urged against liqnor sellers. LIME Rock loses several valuable dogs. They ate the carcass of sheep poisoned to kill foxes.-The new church is we'll fill ed and theFe is a Sunday School of 50 members A son of the Rev. Mr. Whit tlesey is organist.-Mr. Rowley, the new proprietor of the hotel. conducts 1t on temperance principles.
 SALISBURY Congregationallsts visited their pastor, Dr. Reid, on Wednesday tevening ast.-The judge of probate de- Icides that the Riga stream is lower. than it has been for hundred years before.-A person learned in ''hosses'' has secur- ed class to whom he gives course of lectures for s each.
 The LAKEv1LE Catholic temperance society is thriving. with membership of 60, besides children. Father Sheffrey has alse organized a society in Falls Village and is moving ill the same direction in North Canaan. It is great work and he deserves every encouragement.,g~ At ToRR1NGroS recently Mn M. H. Wetmore cut his foot badly while chop ping in the woods. -WolcottviNians have been stealing John Jacobitz's hens.-72 births, 9 marriages, and 82 deaths are reported fof 1874.
 WoIcerFvILLE reports the thermometer in that place as low as ITO below zero, Last week. Surprise parties are raging, says the Register, at the frightful rate of two a night MT. George P. Roberts is very dangerously sick.-A child of MT. F. c. Alldis was recently burned very severe ly by falling upon a stoye-The gross re- ceipts of the Catholic fair were S1, 100; net proceeds, $9O0.-An appeal has been taken from the decree of the court of pro- bate admitting tho will of the Noah Drake to probate.-Cold and low water have prevented the factories from run- ming much more than half time, of late.- Mir. John Bishop had bad upset result ing in dislocated shoulder and smash ed sleigh, Tn Winsted, last week.-The re- opening of the American House was a grand affair, closing with dance at Gran ite Hall at which 100 couples were present. The following delegates have been ap- pointed to the Republican conventions: Congressional-E. s. Miner, J. N. Whit ing, W. Spittle. J. B. Rose; County-L. Hodes, B. Woodward, G. H. Welch, c. M. Ladd; Senatorial E. Brooker, B, R. Agard, 0. F. Smith, J. P. Reed-On the afternoon of the 18th two drunken tramps, a man and wife, were put in the lookup. About two o'clock Saturday morning, says the Register, Mir. Agard was aroused by an unusual noise. and, hurrying over to the lookup, found bun dies of bedding scattered about the floor on fire.
 He then made haste to the yard, where he found the woman still in flames and in great agony The man had succeeded n getting her out of the building, and had rolled her pretty thoroughly in the snow, who. now, with Mir. Agard's assistance succeeded in getting the clothing of the drunken woman extinguished. Her cloth ing caught fire, perhaps, from spark from the stove, Dr. Hanchett was at once sent for, when it was found that nearly the whole surface of the upper part of her body was badly crisped. The man, while endeavoring to subdue the flames, burned both his hands so severely that the skin and nails of his fingers came of. They were both taken to the town house where the woman now lies at the point of death with but little hope of her recovery, the burns being so deep.-Reg- ister.
 At SOUTH KENT, on Monday of last week, Mir. and Mrs. Henry A. Streight celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding. They are now 82 years of age and can see and hear as well as they ever could, says the Ray.
 RoxBuRY talks of establishing a lodge of Grangers.-The new singing school started last week.-Capt Stewards house at Chalybes nearly burnt, recently, froma defective stove pipe. Luckily the fire was discovered in season.
 The EAST CANAAN debating society, hay ing settled that ''The Pleasures of Parti- caption are greater than those of Antici- patton" now move on the works of, '.Loye exercises stronger power than Fear over