Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-25
LtTCHFlELD.


 General Vessels leaves for Florida. this week, greatly to the regret of nu merous circle of friends. #e~ r.
 My. T. H. Richards is receiving an unusual number of applications fol rooms, next summer. .s
 The show at the Town Room on Tues. day night was decided sell; whether ow- ing to the temporary or permanent lncom- potency of the performers, was a matter of doubt. --...... .f.ses t>
 The Superior court commenced on Tuesday with trial of criminal cases. The case of State vs. William Clark, a shoot ing ca>e from Winsted, was first tried. The Ellsworth burglary comes on next. There are 45 new cases on the civil and 33 on the criminal docket.
 The Rev. Hiram Stone will deliver a course of Lectures in Bantam, on Mon day evenings, the first lecture commen- cling Jan. % at7 o'clock. Subject: Natu- ral Wonders of the Mineral, and Animal Kingdoms. Lectures free. @t
 The H. T. T. C's., intend to give another PRIVATE supper and dance at the Mansion House, on Thursday evening, Feb. 1st. Music and prompting by, W. B. Whites band. None admitted with out ticket. No efforts will be spared to make, if possible, even c more agreed ble enter .ainment than the last ''"
 -Messrs. Buel & Wheeler have the. Conn. Register, Tribune and Christian Almanacs for sale. The Tribune Alma mac is an invaluable httle7 compendium of statistics of whose accurate figures for the elections of 1878 we have been greatly in want. .4...t,ts,. .t4g
 "A large sleighing party visited Wa tertown on Monday. They took tea at the Warren 'Honse, and returned in the evening The weather was splendid and the trip an exceedingly pleasant one. There was little grave dancing, and 8 good deal of fun not so grave. It is an example worthy of imitation. 4 ].
 Quite a number of changes are in contemplation for the first of April next:
 Mir. Walter K. Peck moves into his own house on Spencer street. Mir. Frank W. Hale takes his own house in West street. Mir. H. A. Prescott goes into his own place on Meadow street. MT. Doug lass rents the Kirchberger place on West street. Mrs Brown rents the Marsh place. corner of West and Meadow street, for boarding house. Mir. A. l.. Judd rents Mir. R. Williams new house, corner of WeA and Spencer street. Mir Frank Hill renA Spart of Mir. Williams dwell.ag house. MssFrank Barse rents th- brick building in SpelcAs stsAe. .s
 The lectures of Dr. Charles Jewett, of Norwich. at Congregational Hall. last week, were the best of their kind we have heard in long time. Dr. Jewett is a veteran in the cause. He is seventy years of age, and was one of the original band of .'agitators" who stirred up the great temperance movement of half u century since. He remarked in the out set that Temperance had suffered greatly from the fact that it had no regularly trained, well-paid body of advocates. Those who entered that field usually left it after short time for more lucrative business. He had himself been able to keep to the work only from the fact that he was so hard to starve out of it.
 We cannot undertake to gIve anything like a report cf the various arguments ads vanced by Dr. Jewett in his three inter- esting lectures The most striking point he made. as it seemed to us. was his view that the danger from. alcohol was owing to it's narcotic, aud not to it's stimulating effects. Stimulants alone never acquire that dominance of the will which is the peculiarity of ''strong drink" Narcot-. ics, like opium or alcohol, derange the system by gradual encToachment, till thus make themselves necessary to it. They arouse craving that requires con- stant increase of dose till they acquire absolute control of the will, and work the utter ruin of the physical system. Such is the treachery of their attack that the victim never recognizes his danger till too late. -
 - There was fair number out to tho sec- ond lecture, but the others did not attract the attention their interest deserved. : -s Asaseg