Litchfield enquirer., 1877-12-27
Litchfeld.


 Litchfeld.
 MT. Edward Beach is in town for the Holidays.
 Hon. F. W. Seymour and wife spent Christmas here.
 Mir K. O. Peck found pansies in blossom in his garden on Christmas Day. -Congregationa S. s. Festival, this (Wed- nesdsy) evening
 The Town Hall has been nicely dressedfor the Holiday festivities.
 The College boys are at home for three weeks Christmas vacation.
 -On Monday. the Morris road case, trial of which has been once or twice adjourned, S:oncs on again.
 Skating is good, and comes very opport- unely in vacation time when it will be most |. enjoyed.
 The Milton mill now owned by A. B. Beach, has been rented by Mir. Samuel Ben- net.
 Mir Henry B. Harrison, son of the Rev. VI. J. I1dTTtbOH, ItStt'licS Vepc Geo. Barnard resigned.
 Mir Leonard stonehas sold the house now occupied by MT. Allen to Mrs. Rosa L. Fem for $1.5O0.
 The next meeting ofthe Glee Club will be at Mrs G. A. Hickox on Monday evening, Jan. 9th.
 Mir. A. L. Judds horse ran away from the front of the market, Monday, but was stopped by Mir Wilkins down South St. -Messrs Devoe & Hill have received deeds from Mir, T. s. Sedgwick of the lots on which they are building on the north side of East Hilf
 Mir Gotleib Keogel has begun making maple sugar and it is said that ''sap runs" as plentifully as is usual at its appropriate season in the spring. ~s.s
 The Episcopal church is prettiiy but not elaborately dressed for Christmas; there is much decoration of private houses; and Mr. Lane has hisfront setout with young hemlccks. --Dea McNeil's store cellar has been dug out, and what was left of the old saybrook Platform has been happily removed where it no longer threatens the health of theoccupants of Lords Block Mir. Geo. Barnard, the young man who got possession of the Misses OsboFnes property by forgery, who began teaching the Milton school, and who finally went into Hartford and gave himself up, has been sentenced to four years in the State Prison.
 A barrel of sugar, another of rice, and quite an amount of delicacies given the poor of this town by MT. J. J. White, were distrib- uted to them by Judge Seymour on Monday. The town poor are also indebted to Mrs. Fitz- gerald for Thanksgiving dinner, and for fur- ther gifts at Christmas, gey e-BaffA1j9 7 The Reception given by Mr. WHght'sdan- cling class on Christmas evening was one of the finest affairs of the kind ever given in this vil- lage, and was thoroughly enjoyed by about 50 couples. The Town Hall was tastefully dec orated with flags and evergeens We con gratulate Mir. Wright on the success of his ef- forts here. MT. Foster, of the firm of Foster & Huri! but, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels < Gates, on Monday next, with a choice selection of foreign and domestic wool ems, prepared to take orders for anything in their line. Persons wishing good custom work done should give them a call. We are requested to give the following notice of the annual meetings for the election of officers, &c,, of the various Masonic bodies 4 in this town, which take place on Thursday the 27th :--Darius Chapter, at p. m., and aBuel Council immediately after the closing of the Chapter. St. Pauls Lodge will open at o'clock, p. m. ea At about six o'clock on Saturday morning last, Mir Theodore R. Sedgwick, of this village was found dead in his bed. He has been liv ing recently, with his son Mir. Theodore & Sedgwick, of the firm of Bishop and Sedg wick. He had disease of the heart whict no doubt accustomed his death. MT. Sedgwicl was quiet citizen, much respected by hii townsmen, and represented Litchfeld in the legislature of 1884 sa st<s- At Morris, Monday, the case of State V. Woodward and Hawley was tried before Just ice J. M. Benton. The prosecution was fo burglary, and aOSs was entered as regard Woodward Hawley was tried, and requiret to give bond in @5O0 to appear for trial befor the Superior Court. He obtained the requires bond Graves aad Hollister for the State Kellogg for the prisoner. Since the trial VI hear that he has been again arrested on charg of throwing a stone at the complainant.
 - Prof. Lasliers lecture of Wednesday eve ming called out fair audience and was listen ed to with much interest In connection witt his subject, The Marquis de Lafayette" !" th following extract from letter of Mir. T. I. Nj Gillet, his Aid-de-C Camp published in an ol copy of the Monitor, elsewhere referred to will be of interest:
 That gallant and distinguished character wa seized upon neutral ground, and from th month of August, l792, buried alive in colo suhterraneous, solitary dungeons deprived ( exercise. of air, of the, light of heaven, of . intercOurse with human beings; stripped of q his clothes, before bis being plunged in his Ia, dungeon at sOlmutz, and clad like gale slave in trowsers and waist-coat of sail cloth enduring In that condition the memorable vii ter of l794, destitute of everything, refuse even a knife and fork, and the scanty comfor allowed to felons; obliged to lie on the stra' and a miserable matrass, the relic of his Pfu sian prison.
 Ii will be recOllected that Lafayette took prominent part in attempting to make Fran. a constitutional. monarchy. Betrayed by tl hing and suspected by the republicans he VI obliged to fly. He was then seized by Il Austrians, imprisoned and treated for over n, years in the barharous manner above desczi ed His noble wife and daughters endur' his confinement with him. The English Hou Of Commons interceded for hi. release; aI President Washington wrote n Ietter to tl