Litchfield enquirer., 1876-01-20
LlTCHFlELD.

The foot ball fever still continues.
 Two surprise parties, one evening last week. MT. Geo. Lewis of Hartford was at home over Sunday. ' s
 MT. Henry Rogers of Janesville, Ohio, formerly of this town, vas here last week. [ -What'has become of the new road around Bantam Lake. Is the project abandoned ?,5lJaf" } s<.5E
 Mir. Samuel Morse. of Northfeld, has sold his place to Martha Rankin. of Green port. N. Y, for 5000.
 MT. Berry, of the Cornwall Bridge line, was obliged to put four horses on his stage, last week, owing to the rough roads
 The meeting on Saturday last con- cerning the Reading Room was adjourned sine die without accomplishing anything.
 We understand that Messrs. Randall aud Harmon, of Morris, are pushing for, ward their new store. in the place of the one destroyed by fire 4 .. The annual abstract of the record of deaths, marriages. and births has been returned, and shows IS marriages 51 deaths, and 53 births. ...~,. .< :s--There has been 6 scarcity of wood in the village lately, the terrible wheeling preventing far. srs from bringing their usnal supply. -.s.4
 MT. George Kenney. has put up street lamp in front of his residence on West St. The rest of that side of the street is black darkness. 'af..aeS" x
 The people of Bantam Falls have or gauized lyceum. Meetings are, now held every Thursday evening. They have thus far been well attended and very in-. teresting.
 --The W,nsted News is very curious about the lawyer who rode one of the stage horses from the Naugatuck Station recently. One libel suit at time, thank :. you ''3 ..s.
 
 the Division of Sons of Temperance, Fri day evening, and full and punctual at- tendance is requested. The meeting opens at 2 o'clock precisely.
 At the Representatives meeting of Tuesday the audience greeted Mr.. Mo- Mahou's vindication of the purity of his legislatiye career with laughter and iron ical applause. Such demonstrations of outsiders ought not to be allowed. H
 A special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Litchfield County Agri- cultural Society is called for Thursday of this week to meet at the Mansion House. We hope the society will have . good old fashioned fair this our Centennial year. .S
 MT. D. c. Bulkley has been putting in the finest front door to be seen in the will iage-black walnut, plate glass. and every thing else hobby" It is worth ones while to encounter the mud and rocks of Mesdoy seeet sidewalk just to see that door.
 On Tuesday evening of last week. Mir. John Sepples. while skating on the mill pond, backward, skated into an open air. hole and got good ducking before he succeeded in getting out. He started fol home immediately. but his clothes were frozen stiff before he arrived there.
 On Monday morning of last week .a fellow named Ryan hired horse at Pratt's stables to go to Goshen. He never came back. On Thursday MT. Pratt offered s reward, and on the same day he heard of { a.buggy AtHuntsvilie answering the de- { seription of his missing property. ; NexI day hs recovered both horse and buggy but Ryan is still at large. 1e--s--i
 The v. ]. s. propose giving fair .> next sumasks and the committee having ths matter in ehaEge invite the ladies of the village to meet at MT. G. M. Wood rnfrs -on Thursday afternoon of this week at 23O P. n. to begin the necessary worl for the fair. A full attendance is request ed. The ladies wtll remain to tea, and during the evening the attendance of gen tismen is desired. ', 4-
 The Congregational Festival of Wed nesday evening last. was Attended by ove 200 people. mostly children. c rsmarksbl, happy. and, judging from theiriappetites Q remarkably healthy lot. The churcl parlors. Kitchen, and other Axings in th. new chapel are 90 handy for festival pur poses that the ladies of that church vii not grow pefeeptibiy olderAfor Q goot Gnany Years. e.ss isa.,sl i.i...
 -''' -''Auburn locks's are fearfully ant q WeaasEfnlly prevalent in the rising genes stion. Oas evening, last week. while tn skating vas good. and the mill pond on blaze of glory. aa old Democrat. coming over tbe brow et the hill. mistook tn display for torch ligat procession, an setaallygavs three cheeFs for Seymour. Blair r supposing 1t was tho so-Jaokasau Guard. asa By the way, won al fbat inimitaisle body of soldiers rsorganiz af faI' this. our presidential and centenni. apYeax4 saeiias'a ae as''s'saT vsis.E b gsod
 We hear much comment on the q, :Aicle entitled eAn Experiment Worth IT, asSngy yacontributed t6 our paper. last weel While the object 1t proposed met tit s0niyersal approval, its methods were (