Litchfield enquirer., 1875-05-13

The WArERrows postoAace has been newly fitting up with 174 letter boxes The Dramatic Society have played .sThe Loan of . Lover, and ssTo Oblige Ben son, " with great eclat-Mrs. George A. Woodruf has cactus with over sixty blossofns upon it.-Real estate changes are frequent: George N. Atwood has sold to Hiram B. Atwood about 15 acres of land lying in the westerly part of Water town: Mrs. N.sMerwin, to Royal D. Jones. of Roxbury, house and about 20 acres of land in the south part of the town; Tracy B. Warren, to Mary A. Car ley, house and lot of one acre in the center of the to.n; Marshall Johnson, to Frederick c. Slade. about 4 acres in the easterly part of the towg John s. Wood ruff, the undivided one-half of q farm of about 125 acres and building on s'Prlndle Hill" to Messrs. s. Hayes, P. Atwood and T. F. Judson, jointly. r~-
 WoLcoTTvILLE rejoices ;n an Sx6 egg Smith owns it. Landlord Allen has the cellar nearly ready for his addition.-Bish- op Williams holds confirmation at Trinity church on the evening of the 21st.-Mr. Arthur Henley is at Virginia City, and better already.-Mr. w. s. Lewis is cut ting and blasting stone for the foundations of his new store.-The recent spelling match drew we'll. Rev. Dr. Perrin acted as umpire, Mir. Fellows gave out the words, and G. H. Welch and C.F. Church were the captains. Among the words missed were deuce. borough, seronaut, chorister, and benefiting. Miss Katie McNelll. of MT. Church's side, was the victress. Another spell on Thursday evening.
 SALISBURY is still busy with it's little game. There never was an association in the world that could furnish more awful warnings" to evil-doers than our Beast, Bird, and Fish Protection Co.-John Cahill is building below the freight de- pot.-The through transportation of coal over the Conn. Western has begun in ear- nest, says the News.
 The SHARON Valley Malleable iron works a-e doing large and an increasing busi- ness.-The Rev. Hollis Roid. raonn.1y nf zT-" J~.soy, auu an author of considera- ble repute. is staying here.-Dr. Shove leaves Sharon and dentistry for the Meth odist parish in the southern part of the state of which he is now the clergyman.
 ToRR1NeFoRD loses Dea H l. Rood, who removes to Bloomington, H.. where he is to be clerk of the court. His many friends hope that change of business and aud climate will benefit his health.-Mrs. Charles Rood won at a recent spelling match.
 FALLS VILLAGE MeIhodists have been buying new organ; the old one is used in the Sunday school.-Mr. J. D. Eggles- ton has bought lot of D. Brewster, locat- ed near the railroad and the Amesville bridge, where he will build soon.-The Methodist ladies of the place raised about 80 for grasshopper sufferer. recently MT. Olin IS pushing things for his new store building.-The ladies of the Congre- gational society are soon to have aa Old Folks concert.
 CoLEBRooK Cougreatlonalists are pre- pairing to print new Manual The clock recently presented by their pastor con- tinues ''staky" at last accounts. says the Herald. The slips sold at their recent annual meeting for $53O. an increase on former years. A disposition was mani tested to have only one Sabbath service, winters A Grange of 9 members has been organized here.
 No TWISTED man feels that he is pre- pared to die until he has so arranged his earthly affairs as to leave to his wife a bay window.-There were four thousand five hundred and twenty-six school-moms in town last week. We counted 'em.- Press.
 at WARREN INT. CuarleS dl00 IS Dutclng an addition of 60 feet to his house.-Mr. Jackson has just completed an extensive carriage house.-Mr. G. Lyman has just erected large barn. The first thunder storm of the season was on the first day of May.-Mr. Barnes has sold his place on North street to F. A. Starr, his place on South street to Mrs. Ashman.-Mr. H. J. Taylor and family started for a two months visit to Iowa, last week. W0lcott- Ville Register.
 At CANAAN VALLEY on Friday last. as two men were at work in the blacksmith shop at the ore bed sparks from their work ignited three kegsof powder that were standing open in the shop and the consequences are they won't do any more blacksmithing there till they can find as much of the shop at least as the key hole. It is said there were twenty kegs of pow der in the shop at the time. Neither of the men were damaged more than blackening and blistering their flesh a little. It is wonder they were not in- stantly killed; and that the whole quanti ty of powder was not burst and consumed. Only the three kegs and the shop are miss. ing.-HerGld .