Litchfield enquirer., 1876-09-21
COUNTY ITEMS.

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 COUNTY ITEMS.
 The FALLS VILLAGE Fair is said by the News not to have been up to the average in interest or attendance, for the first two days. No doubt the agricultural boss trot" of the last day brought out the
 usual crowd.
 The NEW MILFORD. correspondence of the Winsted News affirms that the Con- gegational church of that place has an average attendance of six hundred; the Episcopal, four hundred; the Methodist,
 one hundred, and the Baptist. fifty. This is certainly an extraordinary average, esI Iecially that of the Congregational church. We imagine it includes all the Congregational churches of that town. NEW HARTFORD ladies have taken the enterprise of completely remodeling and repairing the old Academy Hall in hand.
 It isto be made into Congregation chap, ell; tie long room is to be divided into 8 kitchen, parlor and conference room.- The Northeast District school opened on the 4ta;L. c. Everest, principal; Ella Burr,
 intermediate; Miss Brown. primary. The New Hartford school opens on the 18th; J. F. Goodsell, principal; Gertie Roberts, assistant. lt.-There is talk of building a summer hotel here.
 WARREN was good deal excited, recent ly, says tle Ray, by the theft of $70 from John Shogum @, by his nephew Frank H1nkley. The thief was arrested and all but $2O recovered, and he will probably escape without prosecution. -
 At WooDBURY, recently, two tramps broke into the unoccupied house of the late A. M. Judd, and stole an overcoat and some other small things They also entered the knife shop of MT. Roberts, in the north part of the town, while the workmen were gone to dinner, but found nothing that could be turned to any profit. The Rev. G. P. Gilman has pre- sented h1s resignation as pastor of the Congregational church, and requested the church and society to join him in calling council to dissolve the connection be- tween them. A strong desire to secure the advantages of study at some of the German universities, together with failing eyesight and health generally, prompts him to take this unexpected step.-The youngest daughter of Deacon Amos P. Baldwin, who has been dangerously i'll for some days, is now, we are glad to learn. in fair way to recover.-There was very pleasant gathering at the house of Enos Benham, last Friday evening. it being the twenty-ffth anniversary of the marriage of MT. and Mrs. Benham.- American.
 y'' CANAAN sent down MT. sc. Cummings, MT. s. 0. Beckley and family Messrs. G. and WIG. Humphrey and others, to the Centennial, Connecticut week.-The Hou- satonic train, Monday forenoon, was com posed of four passenger cars, all of which were crowded.-Mr. Cummings new block IS nearly completed, and Mr. GIL. Parsons will open his new store in the rooms finished off for him, before long, Mir. Knickerbocker's new house is pro. gressing slowly, and when completed will
 be very fine structure. -NeaOs. '" At MORRIS. last week, three young per- sons united with the church. h.-Dea. Good
 win and Mir. and Mrs. Lyman lWhlstlesey
 have gone to the Centennial Mr. and
 Mrs. Robert Pierpont returned last week. Others are going this week.-AuaericGaa SALISBURY organizes TiIden club, next Monday evening. .-Messrs. BidWen & Gil- l lette, the marble workers who have re- | gently come amongst us, are already work l ing up good business. They have two
 brown stone monuments and q large
 amount of other work engaged, and are as busy as beavers with their mallets and
 chisels. .5.a .. The lRvERToN Episcopal society has re- l gently effected an exchange of property with D. H. Stephens which gives wider plot ground in the rear of the church prop city for barn for the rectory, and horse sheds for the church.-Daniel Afford, Esq. has returned to his in home Kansas after 8 six weeks visit to his parents here.-Mr.
 and Mrs. o. Tyson of Faubault, Minn., are spending few weeks with their daughter. Mrs. Linsley. Phillips oi
 Yale College has been spending a days with former pupil. He was accompa- 1 nied by his wife and her sister, Miss | Clarke of Cheshire.-The Hart Brothers
 arenew progressing finely with their new store. re.-HerGtd. s..-...--. | | D. s. Miner, of ToRRINGFoRD, had a harness stolen, q few days, since from his
 barn, and suspicion rested on man
 named Bailey, from Bristol, who had
 been stopping in the neighborhood.5 A search was instituted, and resulted in l finding the harness in Bristol and in the arrest of the man. He was brought to 1 Wolcottville for trial, and bound over to | the superior court in $40O, which he was l unable to furnish, and went to jail.- 1 American.
 1 NORFOLK enjoyed and profited by fine temperance lecture delivered there on the 1 lst inst, by Maurace Dillan, Esq. re- cent graduate of Columbia College Law
 School, N. r.. and former resident of this place. For one hour and half Mir. Dillan held his audience spell-bound with 1 the charms of a splendid rhetoric and el-
 oouence, rarely if ever heard or equalled l in Norfolk. The lecture was delivered un- der the auspices of the St. Mary's Tem- perance society.-Salisbufy NesOs.
 l, AWEsr CORNWALL Deacon Beers and Frank Garner of Cornwall caught during l three days fishing at Cream Hill lake a 1 large quantity of fish, among which were ] five bass that weighed fifteen pounds. less one ounce. Cider is selling at $2. 50 per bbL-Rufus Owen, Jr., who was badly in- iured few weeks ago by runaway team. 1 is able to be out.
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