Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-01
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 Mir James Herbert has bought the Andrew Buel lace; price $l .5Oo.
 MT. Walter F. F,lley has To 1ght IA acres of land in Northfeld, of Mir. Gar ner B. Curtiss and others.
 The sleighing continues fine, although the snow has been melting gradually fol Al.~ --e>-A s~-- 1~--
 The registrar has made his annual return for this town, showing 25 mar riages; 57 births; and A deaths.
 Mir. J. W. Wheeler has sold his in- terest in the s. D. Wheeler place oi Meadow St. to H. H. Prescott for $57O. An affair of considerable interest oc' cured at the United States Hotel. last week. of which further particulars will be found in our marriage notices.
 The sidewalk from Braman's to the postofice is as straight and narrow as the unfrequented path mentioned in scripture, and many are they who stumble thereln. --Coasting down East Hill has been all the rage for the past week, especially ir the moonlight evenings. No heads have been knocked off entirely, and no limbs broken, as yet.
 A case of some local interest was tried before Justice T. l.. Jennings in the office of the Hon. 0. B. Andrews, on Sat urday last. It appears that John R. Far nun, late Clerk of the House, made out the grand list of the town, but before he was paid, Mfr. s. C.. Beach brought suit on shoe.bill due him from Farnum and factorized the town. The plaintiff bad judgment for $l9 and costs.
 At regular meeting of Bantam Di- vision No. %. Sons o; Temperance, held January 18th, the following resolutions were presented for acton and passed. WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God. our heavenly father, to take from oui midst our beloved sister. Florence A Buell., therefore,
 ResotVed. That we tender our heart. felt aud earnest sympathy to the friend of the deceased in their bereavement.
 ResotUed That a copy of this vote bt forwarded to the family of the deceasel. and also to the Litchfield Enquirer foI publication. ROBERT B1aLvw. R. s.
 In the Superior Court the prosecu- tion and the conviction of criminals is going on satisfactorily. William Clark was found guilty. last week, of an assault with pistol on Thomas Finn, of Winsted and sentenced to one year in State P on. This same Clark with Henry and Charles Drake. were then tried for bur glary in Sharon. On Thanksgiving night, the house of Leonard Peck, an old man living ill Ellsworth, was entered and an old hair trunk containing over S700 in coin was stolen. The next day the prs. oners were in Norfolk Scattering their ill gotten gold in such a manner as to attrac, attention. Clark thu drifted over tt Winsted. where he bought the pistol whlcl brought him into further collision witt the statute law of the state. Finally they were all arrested; the evidence connecte, them very closely with the burglary; ii traced them nearly to the scene of the crime; and the jury brought in verdict of guilty. Clark was sentenced to fou years. and the D-akes to three years 1T State Prison. Over one hundred dollar, in com was found in possession of tn, thieves. Huntington for State; Fyler anG Graves for prisoners.
 1t,o vt x.s T ~& Davis and Wm 0. Davis Jr. on charge of stealing two chickens from Mrs. Will cox's shed in Goshen. These ''chickens' were aged eight, and fifteen years, re. speetively. The iust,ee who tried tn. case was so shocked by the prisoners want of reverence for age that he bound them over instead of making due disposi ton of the case by fine and imprisonmen the town of Goshen small bill of cost this was incidental merely; what he wa after was the irleverence. Here in tn, Superior Court. Kilbourn did his best il prose and poetry for the prisoners, bu all in vain; the long, innocent and vir tuous lives of the deceased
 -plead like angels tru,npet-tougued, againss
 The deep damnation of theil taking on.
 Another lot of prisoners charged witt chicken stealing in Flanders" Gan out skirt of Woodbury) were tried Tuesda and convicted.
 Leonard Bross is on trial for robber in Kent.