Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-28
Ubc Gitebdelh Er1uirer,
 LITCRFIELD, CONN.
LITCHF

Mir. McMarten and family have re- turned to their residence on Prospect St.. The family of Mir. Van Wrinkle have arrived, and have reopened their house on North St.
 pr. Deming has the cellar of his new house dug, and is now laying the founda- tion walls.
 MT. Beach's new house on the South side of West St., below the Lake View, IS up and covered. Hon. Charles Adams is rebuilding the west'end of the dam at the East Mill which was carried off by the recent fresh- ct.
 MT. DePeyster has taken possession of the MT. McNeill place, and MT. Rob- bins and family have arrived at Mrs. Bost- wick's for tl,e summer.
 Mir. Wm. H. Braman has been build ing new fence in front of his residence on North St. It is of the wood and wire pattern, like that Tn front of MT. Fuller's on Meadow St.
 Judge Young, brother-in-law of Mir. F. R. Starr, supplied the pulpit at East Litchfield on Sunday, in the absence of the Rev. Mir. Mclaughlin, and delivered a powerful address on the subject of the Prodigal Son.
 A class in drawing and water color painting will be formed in Lltchfeld, the first week in July, by pupil of R Swan Clifford For further information address Miss Tuzo, care of Mrs. Wm. Curtis Moves.
 -One day, last week. a New York lawyer boarding at the Lake View had little ex- perience with the pony that threw one of our towns boys, last summer. The little beast "bucked" the New Yorker clean ov- CT his head, luckily breaking none of his bones.
 Mir. Foster, of the firm of Foster & Hurlbut, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels & Gates. on Monday next, with O ohoioo seleotInn nf foreign and domestic woolens, prepared to take orders for anything in their line. Per- sons wishing good custom work done should give them a.call.
 The Festival of the V. I. s. on Wod- nesday evening last. was marked suc- cess. The gross receipts were $114, ,84; net, $96.47 The Society was left about $68 in debt from last year, and the pro- ceeds of this entertainment leave the I'm provement Society with $28.47 in their treasury, after payment of all debts and expenses.
 Rosa D'Erina. Erin's rose and prima donna, will give one of her popular con- certs at the "Old Congregational Hall LitchReld, Saturday evening, June 30th. She will also sing at the Opera House, Winsted, Sunday evening, July 1st, on which occasion extra trains will be run from Wolcottville, Collinsville and Miller ton at reduced fare.
 Tickets for the Concert 50 cts.
 Last week householder of this vii. lage had very disagreeable experience with eisterns. Having two, one of which had been recently cleaned, pipe was fit. ted connecting them. Then came the nice rain of Wednesday night, and all trouble seemed over; but, on examination the next morning. it was discovered that one of the timers had left the faucet of the empty cistern part way open so that mol only all the wate~ from the rain was vast Q her cistern. Tenants were to take tho house on Monday, and the unluck. householder was compelled to have wste brought from the river in casks to fill tn cistrrns. We refrain from publishing tn name of the "Original and Only" cause o this disaster.
 Park farming is not village improve ment. The grass of the parks ha usually been allowed to matur and it's proceeds are allowed t. be applied to the purposes of re pair and painting of fences, &c. On thi plan the grass of the West Park was sold this year. for $17. Then rumpus start ed over moving a patch for croque ground. which resulted in the adjoining proprietors rushing in and each seizfne his part of the grass, except bit at tn, north end which still remains uncut There are two reasonable ways of manaR ing the parks: one is to keep the gras mown, as the lawns in front of the res dences on our principal streets are mowr the other is to sell the grass and appl the proceeds to some public object Tn parks were not intended for private mead ows.