Litchfield enquirer., 1876-02-17
" aShIngton,

Mr. B. W. Woodruff supplied the pulpit in New Preston. last Monday week, and delivered lecture in Guiiford, last We'd nesday eve. dAJ sjEIIlc'T
 Lu1The Social Improvement Society held 1 a prolonged session at the house of Calvin Main last Friday eve.
 The Washington Match Factory has ceased, operations for the, present until shey have -feorganiked.f Ws Hope they, will soon resume work as they manufaCt- ure good article and we wish them suc-' cess.
 1-Ih yodr report, of thetrid of Henry Bunting last week you credited him to Washington. We do not acknowledge him as such, just pass him along.
 The town meeting of last Saturday was remarkably harmonious, voting, al- mest unanimously, the indefinite post ponement of the objects for which it was called.
 The young men of the Congregational church. have instituted . series of neigh borhood prayer meetings which are fully attended and said to be unusually inter- I esting. id1>i&1s3+ ,t- ti,"
 The patriarchal appearance of the Hon. Gideon H. Hollister is seen in our church every Sabbath. It is reported that he contemplates making Washington hls future family residence, but everything in I this life eis uncertain. } f+A 11A s.
 James Marsh, a lad fifteen years of age. living with Charles T. Woodruff, was shot through tleileft hodlder.. on Mon day, the 7th inst. by the accidental dis charge of Q gun. He, with Mir. w., had gone out some seventy rods from the house. adn were standing. looking to see which way the dog was going, and while the boy vas leaning on his gun with the
 muzzle under his shoulder, it was dis charged, probably by his hitting his foot against the hanamer,and- the whole charge "a very heavy one-entered in front of the armpit, coming out on top of the Ishopld lder, cutting the gsaspender in two,
 and driving through his wrapper. shirt.
 into the lining of the vest. The sur
 geons, Drs. Brown and Bacon. say itis al
 most a miracle that the sub-clavian artery
 was not severed. There is B wound On the lupg and z, ,sopa deal of bloody matter has been raised. The wound is now dis
 charging matter, ssand whether he will live
 it through ts doubtful. The boy is son of Frederick Marsh of New Milford.
 l. -The town meeting was indefinitely postponed. The road will be a section of
 of about three miles, running up the Big
 or Walker brook, beginning by the house 1 of John Mnlchey, one fourth of a mile
 north of the Judd's Bridge, depot and
 coming out on the New Milford road ear
 Russell StoRe's. being on or near the
 town line, and about half the distance in sass tasn .si Ia F. z w.. . ATfzrThe, second representation, of '.Led Astfay by the Washington Dramatio As. }. sosiation cameaf on Friday. night ac cording to programme and was successful as far as the association was concerned the weather department failed to coutrib .sdtesisssharsAof good wiilrto the aateftain ! Mepb and the smiles vof the full moor were hid behind envious rain clouds, st N'hthat m aaudiencs Of generous number "fwhfch had counted confidently upon wit fHsssihg hssepfessntsticn. many Of shon had even sscured tthe necessary tickets ksgnd tAenselyes st tAs last moment rob
 bed of the pleasure. MT. Richard Welto, again furnished the music for ths'Dbcasiel and the play in all it's essentials passed of with credit to all concerned. x. ll 9sTheShild wlSom many fatheerk share Il Doth seldom know fathers care. Thus wsSts eBsp pSse cay :sASd the trutl h sef the sentiment was proven. when las ' weeks EHquirer appeared s'wisheat on tj line respsetina the m Leap year party, 4whieh. was thes plesssatest gathering 70 : young people for pure pleasure that hhaa'