Litchfield enquirer., 1876-03-16
LiTcHFIELD.
St. Patrick's day, Friday.


 Thunder and lighting early Monday mcrling.
 Mrs. o. P. Peck has.bought out the millinery store of Mrs. Rogers.
 The new bank lamps illuminate that quarter of the village splendidly. - Mir. McMarten is moving into the Dana place, on Prospect Street.
 MT. Gurney has rented the Wiggins' residence on South Street. A leap year party at Mir. Milo Beach's, in Beach Street, on Thursday evening last.
 The Rev. Dr. Jewell, of Winsted, of- fciated at St. Michael's in exchange with the rector, on Sunday last. .s
 - Our Musical Association netted $51.- II on their concert here, for the benefit of the Circulating Library.
 Mrs. Curtiss has exchanged her place on West street with Mir. Adam Watt, for his farm in the "Pltch."
 The young peoples prayer meetings at the Congregational chapel Sunday evenings continue to increase in numbers and interest.
 The funeral of Mir. Hiram Bissell was attended from Trinity Church, Milton, on Wednesday afternoon of last week. He was buried with Masonic honors. f"a The post collection fever is rag ing among the juveniles to an alarming extent. Master Frisbie takes the lead thus far, having we understand. collected over six hundred different ones. There was lively legal squable, Sat- urday, between Patrick Lavin and E. Morahan regarding the board of broth CT of the latter. for which the former sued him. The Plf. had judgment for $S3, dest and costs. The delft appealed, Graves for plf.; Andrews for delft. a. l.' The Students Record" for March is out. Its local column is more bumptious ifpossible than usual This paper has been conducted throughout with remark able ability. We give @ specimen of its editorials in another column. 'r5A5 It is expected that temperance meeting will be held at the Congregation al chapel on Wednesday evening next, which will be addressed by Mir. Hilla,d of Plymouth, and others. The s. of T. hold their usual meeting this week. 2 X Many changes are takingpla among Al, the Wm. Baldwin place. Dr. Cook moves into the southern part of the A. 0. Smith place. Mir. Truman Catlin takes the Geo Trowbridge house on Meadow Street. and Mr. T. moves in with his mother. Mr. H H. Prescott takes Mir. R. Williams new house. Mfr. Barse takes part of Mr. Pratt's house on Meadow street.
 While our youngsters are ransacking heaven and earth and the waters under the earth for defacsd postmarks, their elders are equally wild about new game that we should certainly consider idiotic if it were not so fashionable. Give out a word, say ''impecuniosity.' and dozen people will forthwith begin softening their brains trying to manufacture an interminable list of words out of the letters found in Impecuniosity." It is game that calls for so much stationery that people are in doubt whether it was invented by Wes- sells < Gates, Buell. & Wheeler, or some outside dealer. It has been observed, also, that since the epidemic became prev alent here. more people than usual take notes of the sermons. Sunday, #1 ms Our Litchfieid musicians are rather lazy lot. We sometimes give one concert winter. and sometimes not. For some years we have been promising ourselves, and threatening Washington with. repetition of one of these concerts. This winter we have made, for us, an unusual effort, and felt quite ready at last to sing to Wash ington- The only doubt was whether Washington was quite ready to be sung to. A good deal of religious interest was reported there. with daily meetings; peo- pie seemed iudisposed for amusement, ,and there was doubt whether we should have an audience. On the other hand, we might never be ready again ourselves; half our program was sacred music, such as eOald hardly be considered altogether an amusement: and, with many mlsgiy- ings, we concluded to venture the experi. nens. The evening was splendid one, the travelling bad but not owofse. than usual in March. The instrumentalists took the 8:l5 train down, found that Mr. Gam had prepared things as far as he could for us at the Hall. practissd an hour or more. got a nice tea at Ford's, and then mel the chorus and near thirty excursion lists who came down on the special from ltchfeld. Y 1'--- s' Calf past seven everything was there but an andience which didn't seem to ar. riva- The concert was forthcomine. how. ever. though not quite as good as that oi Litch6eld- The chorns was little crowd. ed the stage axings obstructing the soand somewhat. and the upper half Q, the piano proving rather intracsaele. The oaly Improvement on out Litchfeid per- f0rnsnce was in the cornet solo and en cuss which Mr. Meafoy played msgnifi