Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-22
LlTCHFIELD.

-Ihe EaSt mln naS SuSpeuueu OPcIh- tions, owing to scarcity of water.
 The Litch6eld Institute closed last week for the summer vacation. The family of Mir. Rich of Stamford, arc at the Mansion House for the season. Some convenient seats have been erected in the East Park. Water lilies in great numbers are being gathered from Bantam Lake. MT. Arthur c. Bulkley and family, of New York, were here on visit last week.
 Mir. George H. Osborn, of New Ha- ven. formerly of this town. has been here on visit
 ID. c. Kilbourn, Esq, has opened a law office in Bishop X Sedgwick's build ing.
 Tine Rev. Mir. Teller has declined the call to become their pastor rendered him by the Congregational Church in this will lage.
 A broken-down and somewhat de- mOralized circus performer was in town ono day last week, and attracted quite a crowd by some of his feats on the side walk.
 At the recent Commencement at Yale College, an oration on '"The Laborers of England" was delivered by Wm. R. Rich ards of this place.
 Two men arrived in town, one evening last week, in search of work, who stated that they had walked that day from Thom- aston to Waterbury, from Waterbury to Ariddlebury. from Middlebury, to Wood bury, from WOOdbury to Bethlehem, from Bethlehem to Washington, from Washing ton to Litchfield. Where is Weston?
 The summer course of Lectures and Readings for the benefit of the Village Im- prOvement Society will be opened to-mor- TOW CThursday) evening by Prof. J. M. Hoppin: Subject, ''The Fine Arts" We hope the enterprise will be iberally sup ported by our citizens and SUI inner visit Ors
 We were very glad to see Litchfeld turn ont delegation of sixty,. many of them ladies. to encourage our village nine with their presence at the game in Wash ingtOn on Saturday. It is not the way of our people to put themselves to much trouble in such matters, but there is pleasant circle of ladies, at, or associating much with those who arc at the United States Hotel. who always show a public spirit that is apt to be sadly wanting elsewhere.
 The Village Improvement Society are pushing the matter of sidewalk improve menk The cross walk in East Park is finished and the renovation before Lords Block was completed, Tuesday. The foun- datiOns of the upper part of the sidewalk to the Station are being laid, and we are glad to see that it is to be five feet wide as far as Meadow street. Substantial stone crossings have been put in at Beach's and Fennis and Meadow street at the pri. vate expense, we hear, of Mir. J. Deming Perkins.
 The decisions have been made in Supreme Court cases tried at the last term of court:
 In KnOsclcs vs. Peek, the dentist case, the judgment of tho lower court was affirmed.
 In GreGthcGd's Appeal, the right of the appellant to have dover set out by the court of probate was sustained by a rever. sal of the decree of that court.
 In PeGse vs. Odenkirchen it was claim cd by the defendant that recorded chat tel mortgage ceased to be valid on remo- val of the property mortgaged into another town from the one in which the mortgage was recorded. The validity of the lien was sustained.
 In SEate vs. IVitcOE the prisoner was convicted of violation of the license law. He claimed that subsequent statutes re- pealing certain portions of the original act had left no law by which he could be convicted. The Supreme court upheld the validity of his sentence.