Litchfield enquirer., 1876-08-10
COUNTY ITEMS.

The WATERFOWL railroad was practi- cally consolidated with the Naugatuck; recently, by election of the directors of the latter to take the place of the old board of Watertown directors. Wm. D. Bishop was chosen president.-Mrs.G GO. Spencer, formerly of this place, died at Atalanta Ga., recently.-A few cases of scarlet fever are reported. 1.-The Rev. ID. Mcconnell of Christ church has received and accepted a call from Mlddletown, and leaves here in about two weeks.-Dr. Lewis, has had another attack of illness, recently, but is now better.-The hay crop proved better than the average; rye, very good indeed; oats, fair to middling; potatoes look cheap, few and small; ap. ples. plenty. The Warren House gobbles up ali tine chickens for miles around. There are sights" of blackberries. A man recently sued neighbor, says the American. for driving grasshoppers of a turnip patch upon the plaintiffs land and recovered damages. as.a
 
 At CoLEBRooK MT Barnes, the new own CT of the Austin place, has taken posses sion.-A project Is on foot to improve the Still River Falls in the Forge district.- Some of our largest milk producers are purchasing their winters supply of wheat bran at the unprecedented low price of $l6 per ton. Colebrook's first settler, Benjamin Horton, came iu 1765.-Miss II lk1,,1 xla ~.la 1oc lz. II zt- by treating her pupils to picnic.
 At CHAP1NvIL4LE, on Tuesday, Charles rOlmstead fell from load of oats which he was driving home from the field, and striking on his shoulder and head, very seriously injured his spine. His entire right side is paralyzed. and his recovery is thought extremely doubtful. Nesos. l',s
 The THoAfAsroN clock shops resumed work on the 1st inst. t.-Edward Root. of Plymouth Hill, had Q horse sicken and die, last Monday morning.-Q Qnite an i'm. provement the filling in with dirt in front of the Methodist parsonage, on the cor neF of Main and Park streets. 1.-The rom. piler found 80 little desire for complete directory;ao of ThomastOn that lie has changed his former plan and got one up in pamphlet form, giving the names of most of the residents in the. town. inter. spersed with advertisements from some of the widea awake business men of New Ha ven and Waterbury - Senti,aeI. The Cooley farm in the nofthern part of tbe town has been sold by Fenn's real estate agency to Bernard Sehwarer. of qtomaston who is to make it his home. The denres. sion in trade and manafaekuring. creates lively demand for small farms. -Mr. Rack ly has the contract for the wood work or, Esq. Morse's block, Mir. Matomb f?1 the cellar and stone work.-Anericau. 78
 The FALLS VILLAGE term of the District Court begins next Monday. No iurv is in attendance.-Mr. Joseph o. Brinton (75 years old) says he has cut seventeen acres of hay, moving and pitching it hina- self. this season, besides six acres of oats. with no assistance but that of a boy eleven years old. except one days work of man in his oats.-Two weeks from next Tnes- day tbe annual s.,feast of the Tabernacles'' will begin at the Pine Grove camp grounds between Caanan and Falls vii lage. Several new cottages are being ad- ded to the encampment NeaCs.