Litchfield enquirer., 1876-04-27
CHFIELD
Ius are in blossom,

-Arbutus are in blossom.
 The ice is all out of Mt. Tom Lake The Y. I. s. Sociable at Mrs. Belden's vas a very pleasant affair.
 The roads in the vicinity of Milton need repairs.
 The Headquarters Bnrying Grou nd is being enlarged.
 -Mr' Allen E. Beeman, of Yale College, was in town, last week.
 The Rev. Emerson Jessup, of Kent, was in town, last week. F. Mfr. Jackson Tompkins has been put ting on an addition to his house near the Milton Road. .2l.} >kitFH Our two pedestrians have been search ing for arbutus for the past six weeks. Little success thus far.
 Tine Lake street road is in a very bad condition, and should have immediate at tention.
 Mir. Daniels has had a new cellar drain dug, and is repairing his place on West street. E t
 The lawn fences in the highway op West street give it a decidedly ugly ap- pearance. -'' 'sa @H's-' t'5 The V. I. s. Sociable meets at Mrs J. Deming Perkins, next week Wednes- day, May 3d. .a.i ,.f5 F. D. McNsii & Go. have new arriv- al of goods at their emporium ln LOrd's Block. Look out for advt.. next week. The Rev. George M. Stanley, late of Camden, Me-, assisted the Rector at St. Michael's on Sunday last, preaching both morning and evening. --Cow-blackbirds are seen in great numbers this spring; flock of from three to nvo h~Aired s~thar daily in Eitagerasa'a grove.
 Mir. Samuel Clock has sold g farm of about 60 acres, in Torrington and Litch- field, to Joseph Tanning of the latter place, for Sl,7oO.
 Henry, David, Reuben. Davis, and Ishsda Morse have made division of the estate of the late Aaron Morse at North field. by quit claim. I ' =at@
 -Mr. Charles l.. Thrall has quit claimed his place north of the village. to Warren A. Granger, of Goshen, for $l ,700.. -.l .s1 .--.s.l
 A club of Yale graduates from New York, including Messrs. Clarence Deming and Geo. Richards, play the Yale univer- sity nine at New Haven, Saturday.
 -Mr. John O'Rourke has finished dig Emg and commenced laying the cellar wallis for his new house, on the lot here cenAly purchased of Judge Seymour. on Lake street. A~+
 The plank sluice across West street il front of Mir. r. NJ. Sanfords residence, is being repaired. It was much sunken by winter frosts.
 Suckers have begun to run, and there is great commotion among the fishing DOT tion of our community; myriads of Tights flash nightly on the shores of our small streams.
 -50,00O brick have been brought over the Shepaug Road, to this place, to be used in building MT. Thomas Trow- bridges new house on North St.-
 The sexton of St. Michael's informs 'us that the rector of St. Daniels, Goose Borough, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday last.
 The funeral of Mrs. Lyman J. Smith was attended from the residence of her son-in.law: G. H. Baldwin. 1on Saturday afternoon last. @ &s*3 G&@$0V 0 i
 A Bantam man stopped in front of Bishop & Sedgwick's store with patent arrseching attacked to his wagon thills. A Litchaea4 aaap happened to, catch 8 glimpse of it. aud in less than ten mint Ates half the men in town were there examin- ing that wonderful breAching.i [ RQTd
 Mrs Sally W. Birge, widow of the late Cornelius G. Birge. of Milton, has quit-claimed her dover interest in lie, e'tate to James NJ. Birge. so The latter also has quit-claim of Mir. and Mrs. War ren B Morgan, and of Mrs. Harriet B. sGrifin. ,r.sa st
 Last week Mir. Samuel F. Rowe re. or. eganized his nine. He now has ball club a brass band, and circus in charge These. with the Young Mems Christian Association he hasn't yet started, and hii professional duties as taudermist. ough, to give him busy and lucrative Centen nial summer.
 MT. William E. Hooker leaves us, thi, week, for the Cheshire Academy, prepara tory to his entrance into the Berkeley Di. TInity School, Middletown. He will bt much missed here, and particularly by the readers of the Enquirer to whose loca column he was frequent contributor.
 Tuesdays wind blew Van Amburgh'. ,. o'mous poster, 10x20O feet, at the eas end of East park, almost entirely of the boards. The way the tigers, elephants rhinoceroses, and such sssmall deer" were igyrating down West Street during tho forenoon would have furnished rart foundation of fact for six column seusa tionai article in the N. Y. Herald.