Litchfield enquirer., 1877-04-12
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Col. and Mrs. Wessells arrive in New Haven, this week.
 The celebrated Leather man passed through this village. on Tuesday.
 F.. s. Munger, P. M. o., completes the fourth year of his chief clerkship. this month. .-
 MT. Berry will probably. continue to carry the Cornwall Bridge mail another four years. .-
 Lots of perch are now caught in the river Fishing tackle is to be found at Vessels & Gates.
 Mir. Geo. B. Parmalee has quit claimed his place in Milton to Mrs. Alvi- ra. wife of Wm. E. Ferris.
 Mir. Ethan Kilbourn has leased his farm to Mir. John Page, for two years, at a rent of $150 year.
 MT. T. F. Judd. formerly of this place, but now of Southington, was in town, Thursday.
 Mir. Chester Thomas has moved from Bantam to the Lyman J. Smith place on Harris Plain.
 Mir. Geo. H. Peck has conveyed his place in the West side of Meadow St. to Mrs. Jane, wife of Alexander Grosiean. MT. Frank Butler of Torrington has sold a farm of sixty acres on the Nauga. tuck river to John s. Pratt, of this town. - Mfr. < Mrs. Alexander Grosjean have sold 13 acres of land, about II miles west of the village, to MT. ". H. Plumb. for $495. e...ss
 On Tuesday Mrs. Charles l.. Perkins moved into Mir. F. M. Hale's house. on West St., to live with her son, MT. Edson Perkins. - ., There was no preaching at the Meth. odist church on Sunday, Rev. Mir. Graves being away at the Conference. He is not expected to return to this parish.
 Mfr. Emerson W. Addis, editor of the of the Standard. was chosen Supervisor of elections, at Brewsters, N. Y.. last week.
 Mir. T. F. Judd has sold an acre of land just east of the Shepaug Railroad below the freight depot to s. K. Cheney, for $500.
 MT. & Mrs. Alexander Grosjean have sold their place about mile and half northeast of the village to Ellen. Dailay for $1. 800. ..- ~.. Mir Charles Beers, with his wife and sister, were in town last week. MT. Beers has been route agent on the Housatnic railroad for six years past. Mrs. Sarah J. Crane has conveyed the place formerly owned by Ns. F. B. Hand. halta mile east of Bantam, Co Mrs. Pamelia, wife of Enos 6. Benedict
 Marbles continue all the rage among the youngsters. One of the most enthusi- astic of these swore of. Saturday night He kept his word till la. m. of Monday morning. The arm of human subject brought here for dissection, and buried by the river. was washed out by the recent freshet. and it's discovery on Tuesday, caused a good deal of talk.
 MT. F. B. Hand. of Watertown, has conveyed his place South of the highway in Bantam village to Mrs. Abigail W. Birge and has received Tn exchange hls place on ''chnrch hill' in that village.
 The ''U. s. Inland Mail Transporta- tion Co.," of Washington. D. O.. which ob-. tainad the contract for carrying the mails from this village to tho Naugatuck Station. have sub-let the same. we hear, to Mir. George Kenney. .-....- Bismarck has resigned again. We feel obliged to remind::him, as well as the sex ton of St. Michael's. of Pitts criticism of one of the English generals sent us in Go. lonial times: Like St. George on the signs. he is always on horseback, but nev- ~er rides on."
 The Rev. Mir. Mclean IS absent for a fortnight, and his brother preached at the Congregational church on Sunday. The interesting practical discourse preach ed by the pastor on Fast day is printed on our first page. by request of a number of his parishioners The Centennial Total Abstinence So- ciety held their annual meeting on Mon day evening. Mr. F. Ratehford Starr was elected President for the ensuing year; Rev. Allen McLane, Vice Pres. 1; Charles H. Piatt. Secretary; and Charles Il. Colt, Treasurer. Remarks were made @ by Messrs. Starr.s McNeil, Woodruff and others.
 -Mr. Foster, of the firm of Poster X Hurlbnt. of West Winsted, will be at the store of Wessslls < Gates.. on Monday next, with choice selection of foreign and domestic wOoiens, prepared to take orders for anything in their line. Per. sons wishing good custom work done shcnld give them call.