Litchfield enquirer., 1875-09-23
LiTCHFEELD. .

Equinoctial storm, last Sunday.
 -Mercury at 3i OF Wednesday morn ing.
 Rev. Mir. Pitcher preached at the Congregational church, Sunday.
 -AIexan.ler Grosiean, shoemaker. has shop over Bishop < Sedgwick's.
 The Rev. Dr. Dunie oHiciated in St. PauI's church, Blntam Fails, on Sunday last.
 Mir. Charles T. Baldwin caught two bass in Bantam Lake. last week, one weighing 3Tbs., the other 3lbs. i4oz.
 The grounds of tho Bantam Lake House Company are greatly improved in various ways by grading. fencing, Sc.
 -Midshipman Edwin B. Webster has finished his vacation and returned to the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
 Now the householder struggles with refractory stove pipes and curses the Pennsylvania coal monopoly.
 The Rev. Hiram stono olIiciated in Trinity church, Wolcottville, on Sunday last.
 MT. s. G. Beach has bought the T. F Judd place, inst this side of the sta ton for S1,OOO. -Erastus Baldwin, of Harwinton, has conveyed twelve acres of land in the east ern part of the town to If. B. Graves, Esq. -Mr. Crossman has greatly improved the Mansion House lower hall. office, and bar, room by laying new floor of oiled Georgia pine.
 -Mr. c. s. Foster, of the firm of Eos ter q Hurlburt, West Winstcd, will be at the postofice on Monday of next week. Persons desirous of ordering clothes from good tailor should give him cail.
 At meeting of Directors of the LitcLfeld Savings society, Henry R. Colt was elected Treasurer in place of George F. Jones resigned, he having accepted the office of Cashier of First National Bank
 .-The Annual Fair of tho Litchfeld County Agricultural Society comes of to- morrow CThursday). There is to be no trot, this year. There are no admission fees or premium list. An address will be delivered by T. s. Gold. Esq, ,Sec- retary of the State Board of Agriculture, and inc Wolcottyille Band will be in attendance. 4 good show of cattle is cx- pected.
 At a meeting of the Directors of the First National Bank of Litchfield. on Mon. day, present., Henry W. Buol, Frederick D. McNeil, and Chas. B. Andrews, direc tors, Henry +. Coit was chosen Director and President, to fill tho vacancy occa stoned by the death of Edwin McNeill and George |. Jones was chosen Cashier Dr. 1T. ". Buel, Vice-Prosident, was first chosen President but declined the posi-. ton.
 Tho Superior Court commenced its September term on Tuesday. Judge Mar. tin holding court. Over dozen prisoners were put to plead Monday afternoon Wm. Robbins pleaded guilty to breaking into house in Sharon and was sentenced to three years in State Prison. Thomai Noakes pleaded guilty to burglary il ROxbury and pas sentenced to two year in State Prison. There are ninety-twC new and one hundred and eighty-five ol( civil cases; thirty-seven new and twenty one old criminal cases. on the dockets John Dunnin is on trial for attempt to commit rape in Barkhamsted. 8.
 Tho will of the late Edwin McNeill Esq, has been proved. 1t places hi property in the hands of three trustees Messrs. Henry R. Colt, F. NJ. Wooster and his son, Edwin McNeill, who are t have control of the same till the younges child arrives at the age of thirty years to about twenty-three years hence) when tL property is to be divided equally anon the children. Mrs McNeiR is to be pal sS4.OO0 year for the support of herself and the minor children living at hom with her, the sum being lessened to g. .0O when they all become of age. This ar unity is to terminate in case of her maj Viage. The trustees are also directed t give each child 5000 on reaching the az of 21 years, S10,000 at 9, and SIC, GOO eac five years thereafter, till the final divisio of the estate. There are further bequest to the testator's neices. The trustees ar directed to sell the residence on Mort street. and are given special power to mar age and protect the interests of the estat in the Shepaug railroad.
 -PostInaster-Generai Jewell met with little adver tHTe whIie at LitchEeld, Conn.,, the other da After taking q the lake he endeavored to lam He had ono foot shore Nhen the boat slid out , The water and compelled, the General to how mu space he ee1d measure between his two feet. He VI sa0a forced to abandon the attempt and drop into | water, from which he was rescued in q damp state. A '. TTibaEe, Sept. I5th.
 PossEnaster-6 General Jewell denies the truth of q Esory ih winch he pictured vainly endeavoriI v make aconnsction between the shore and movl D14t He sass he has not been fishing lately, and h no been in Litchheld for four years past.-Tgibu1 Spt- Ish.
 It is all our faultl The most carefl pOstofice clerk in the known world liy,