Litchfield enquirer., 1876-05-11
LITCHFIELD.

-Thousands of angle-worms lost their lives by crawling upon the concrete walks, during the showers of Sunday night.
 Thermometer ranged from S00 to S20 from 9o'clOck till 4. on Sunday last, and Monday was almost as bad.
 The slips in St. Michael's church will be rented for the ensuing year. on Mon- day, of next week, at 2 o'clock, p. m.
 The proposed meeting of the Centen- nial Total Abstinence Society has been postponed.
 -Attention is called to advertisements of s. G. Beach & Son, and of Mir. John l.. Plumb, florist, &c.
 -Messrs Grosiean & Donahue have moved into their new quarters in South St. where they have nice store and an excel lent stock of goods.
 The First Congregational church and society voted on Monday to give the Rev M.. Mclean a call to settle with them as pastor at a salary of 5000 year, or Sl, ,5OO year with parsonage, as he may elect Their sale of slips takes place on Monday next, at 3 p. Tn.
 Repairing goes on briskly. Prospect Street marches in the van of Improvement. Judge Seymour has added bay window Go his study. Mrs. Trowbridge is making a thorough Overhauling of her residence on West St, and Mir. Fuller has been put ting up a new front fence, a novel combi- nation of wood and iron.
 We were mistaken in setting down Washington as the only place near us in which there had been a performance of a Kinder Symphony. A Wolcottville gen. tleman writes us as follows:
 In your remarks upon the Kinder Sim pnODy, Lass week, you stated that there had been no performance of the kind in this vicinity except at Washington some time ago. You were not aware, evidently, that Hadyn's SinfOnIe was performed here last winter. The orchestra was com posed of seven small boys for the juvenile Tnstruments, with piano and violin for the heavy work It was quite a success in it's way. and the boys covered themselves with glory. A humorous notice of the performance appeared in the Register ill which the authorship was credited to an- other Hayden, of some local celebrity.
 The second concert of the Litchfield Musacal Association on Monday evening was more of a musical than of g financial succeSs. The choruses were lighter than before. but one-''Sylvan Pleasures"- proved a pretty difficult price of work for singers used chiefly to the slower time and simpler harmony of ordinary church music We were much pleased with MT. BElnsmade's solo. 1t was sombre in character. very quietly but very effectively reudered- Mrs. How's Message" was an admirable thing, admirably sung. Her second piece was an extremely sweet song of Abts- Miss Gibbud played a very bright price of Sidney Smiths. and Mir. Ieafoy's eOrnet is always fine.
 The chlef novelty and greatest attrac- tioa of the evening was the piano playing of Mir c. F. Daniels. He first perform ed. with Dr. Deming. the Minuet from BesShOSen's Sonata in c. for Piano and vSolin- It was beautifully done and en- thaziAsticaIly encOred. Mir. Daniels then played his ''DAnse de Dryades" compose d here last summer. to the delight of the au- aieoee- He afterwards took the piano part m the AndAnte from Mendelsshon's Trio h D- minor; and in NOctur ne of his own composition for piano and cello, playing ia all with admirable effect.
 The Kinder Symphony was a popular feature The Kinder" ought to have bsca nelOdramatic and absurd; but they 15a the next best thing and were solemn and oSsscSenEsOus to the last degree. The enrkoo hal . bad throat: but the nightin- gale '-wObbled. !" the quail peeped, the tri- angle tzngied. .tAe rattle rattled. the trumpet @quauked. and the drum beat Rhostly time. @n h a precise. elaborate way that was sxtzzely ladicr0us.