Litchfield enquirer., 1876-05-25


 the letting of boats The transportation and sale of milk on the Shepaug railrsao
 IS large thing in the business of thi'
 town Barrels of 1t are being sent off eve
 " day at 3 o'clock P. NJ. Farmers are
 devoting much time to it, Winsted NeaCs
 The RoxBURY concert of May g, is thus
 described in the Valley Sentinel:
 Though the evening vas rainy, ana
 travelling bad, there were listeners iron
 Washington, Woodbury, South Britain
 Bridgewater etc. The chief piano per
 formers were Mir. Pomeroy, Miss Warner
 of New Haven, Mrs. Ford of Washington,
 Miss Woodruff of Woodbury, Miss Hoyl
 of South Britain. Two violins played by
 MT. Pomeroy and MT. Cole, with piai1c
 accompaniment by Miss Warner, seemed
 to sing and talk at the same time. The
 vocal part would have done credit to any
 place. The bass was assisted by MT. Ear
 Buckingham of Washington, and soprano
 by Mrs. Brimsmade of the same place
 (formerly Miss Fannie Bradley of Rox
 bury whose voice was pronounced sweetel
 than ever before. Mir. Burritt's family as
 quartett Is hard to be beaten, and the
 peculiar pathos of MT. Henry Bradley's
 voice on the tenor, was noticeable to all
 The HARwINToN Dramatic exhibition came of according to programme, Tues. and Wed. evenings, May 9th and 10th. The music both vocal and instrumental is
 highly praised. The orchestra, all fine playest. consisted of violin, bass-viol and flute. The singing of comic and senti- mental songs by Mir. c. I. Andrews form ed the 'boquet of vocal gems "-Mr. Reu. ben Osborne of Hartford, native of this town, is visiting his sisters Widows Le1is Smith and Orson Barber. He is in quite poor health.-Mr. Gilbert Colt who has been visiting relatives in Vermont du, ing the winter, is in town once more.-Thlee of our towns people were passengers on that illfated Naug. car. MT. and Mrs. Norman Barber received slight bruises, but MT. Robert Alfred narrowly escaped severing his jugular vein. Mir. Fred Mer- ret was also upon the rear platform, and received several bruises.-Register.
 A number of WoLcoTLvILLE ladies and gentlemen met at the town hall on the eve of the 18th, to make arrangements for eel ebratlng i'll some manner the centennial Fourth of July. Finally after much dis cussion it was decided to have picnic for the scholars of the high school, and the other schools in town to be invited to par- ticipate A committee of twenty was ap- pointed, composed of ten ladies and ten gentlemen with R. Birney as chairman. American. - Thirty three lots were sold at auction in the cemetry, last Monday Mr. Joseph Farnham has been enlarging one of the rooms in h1s house and also putting a veranda around portion of it. We are pleased to notice the large num- Der of trees being set out along the streets in this village, this spring. we'll au- thenticated accounts of several persons. it seems that burglars tried to enter the house of MT. Joseph NJ. Farnham on East Main street, last Tuesday morning, at about o'clock. Register.
 THoMAsToN Clock shops are shut down for a month, except the Tower depart ment That second large clock forth Phi:- adelphia Centennial is not quite completed yet.-The bruised and watered ones of the railroad accident are improving. 'ter.-The Plume & Atwood Manufactur- ing company have all they can do, having orders ahead which will last them three months.-The first centennial tree was planted in town, Tuesday, May 16th, in front of the Methodist parsonage, by Bishop Smith and c. E. Morse. The la- dies, too, are contemplating planting a large tree in the park.-Mrs Hotchkiss has had an addition put on her house on Elm street.-Supt Beach has been in town, this.week. watching with passengers that were injured by the accident on the Naugatuck road, last week. - Valley Sen- tinet.-Dea. George A. Stoughton and family are having sitting in MT. Backus' church, this year, alec Geo. Langdon and family. Both families are from the Hill church. The total rental of slips in Mir. Backus' church is $2,50O.-The rolling mill is in full blast. The company have just extended their long wood-shed anoth- CT 100 feet, making it now some 300 feet long.-That new patent road scraper on three wheels is cleaning the shoulders of from our highways, and making the roads round and even,-Anaerican, -. .-..
 The Rehearsal by the TWISTED Choral Union last Friday evening was one of the finest entertainments ever given in Music Hall.-Col. Justin Hodge, an old resident of Riverton, but for several years past do- ing business in Washington City, has been soiourning at the Winsted House of late. Neighbor Pinney of the Press left for Indianapolis on Monday to attend the National Greenback Convention.-The family of Spencer w. Coe of New York, have come to the country thus early ill the season and are enjoying rural life at Mead ow Brook Farm.-Harry Clarke, eldest son of MT. T. M Clarke, has gone to the Gun nery School in Washington Tn this coun- ty.-Two boys of Principal Pecks East Village Public school, Willie Todd and Roland Jewell, brought from the woods on Tuesday of th1s week five young white oak trees which they set out on the school grounds in the rear of the school building.-The State Sunday School Con- vention for Connecticut will be held iu this village at Music Hall on the 9th, 7th, and 9th days of June; instead of the 7Gh, and oth as heretofore published The first exercise will be on Tuesday evening. Herald
 The KENT Congregational church held it's anual meeting last Saturday. l., W. Stone was chosen Superintendent of the Sabbath School and Jerome Berry, Miss Mary Hopson and Miss Sarah Pratt were chosen assistants.-Spencer Cummings, of this town, died in Pawling, last week. at the house of Elmer Chase, hls son in law, and his remains were brought to Kent for interment in the cem- ntry near Bulls Bridge.-Mr Ludwick Liner. uho lives just over the line in Cornwall, near North Kent, had young COW killed by being struck with lightning, last Monday. during the very heavy thun, der shower that passed over this place on that day.-Centennial tree planting is pro- gressing to some extent in this town.- Men from New Milford have been here this week looking up the few lots of to- bacco which had not been sold, and very few lots remain in the hands of producers. A Woman's Missionary meeting was held at the lecture room of the Cong. Church, last week, on Thursday after noon. The meeting was addressed by Mrs. Chandler, a returned missionary from h. dia. Our informant said the occasion was an interesting one, but was only attended by women. We remarked that women had just as good right to exercise their gifts in speaking in public as the men, and she said ives" and three fourths of the gifts in our church are kept from be- ing exercised: and are, therefore, lost to the chusch, by the unreasonable preju-