Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-01
Ibe litfblleIn Enauirer,
 uTCHFlElD, CONN.

uICHFIELD, UUNN.
 The Republicans of this town meet at the Town Room on Saturday next at three D. m. :. for the nomination of representa- tives.
 --Buel & Wheeler introduce this week, eryyhan.i .iy article for Ladies use. con sisting of 24 highly finished cards, with envelopes to match, gold and silver edge. put up in a neat box, for Note and Letter correspondence. Just the thing for those who dislike to write long letters
 The members of Go. Fl. are hereby reminded that the annual meeting of the Conpauy takes place on Thursday eve- ming. Nov. lst Should the weather per- mil there will be targehpractice in the af- t-rnoon of the same day. Those wishing to participate will meet at the armory at 1 o'clock; if stormy, the next fair day. at the same hour.
 MT. Foster, of the firm of Foster < Hdrlbut, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Wesselis < Gates. on Monday next. with choice selection of 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 missing boat whose loss on little pond, was noticed. last week, has been found at last Mir Seth De Wolf Addis has succeeded in recovering it from the meadows near a creek running toward Cranberry PonI. Two young men (who dispute its possession with Mir. Addis. but on being shown a seven shooter and q double-b -barrelled shot gun waived their claim.
 Echo Farm raises ether prOdacts than Alderneys in wonderful profusion. This .lnnl season, on 2Z acres cl this farm, were raised esgentv-sir hundred Gnd Jafty. .tsoo basheEs of maDgel wurzel beets. About an acrs of tbka field was grass ground. ploughed this spring for the first time, and on that portion the yie:d was scarcely half as much in, proportion to its area as upon the rest. Two-nfths of an acre of the other part of the field produced 516 bushels of bests. This yield of more than thousand bushels to the acre upon the portion of the land which was best suited tO the crop, is certainly wonderful shOsing for the sterile soir' of New En- gland.
 Tine adjourned school meeting met on Saturday evening last and voted to snbmit the liat prepared by Messrs. Sal tonstalI and BnlkIey Go the town assessors for approval, to lay tax of half mill on the dollar on the assessment 90 made, payable on the first of April next; to give Mfr. SaItonstall $5 for collecting this tax, and Messrs. Saltonstall and Buikiey SI5O. for preparing the assessment; and to limit the summer and winter schools to sixteen weeks, each.
 There was good deal of debate and . and great indispOsitiOn to adjourn even when the business wAs done. Mir. s. E. Cheney, school committee, stated that he had hired teacher for the winter term as 950 h month. There will inevi- ably bs more debt at the end of the year; prospect that the taxpayers of the district do not seem to enjoy. Tine Democratic County convention, fully reported elsewhere, was an extreme ly interesting affair. About an hundred delegates were present; stout, jolly. but shrewd in look; free and easy, and trifie ..horsey" in manner: and we'll up to par EamsutsEy aOagss. not a few having had the bsneGt of several terms in our great school of public business. the leglsla- aure. Among the rest we noticed the we'll knOwn countenance of ''Sam" New flown, of Winsted. with it's solemn. prAysF-mssting expression acquired in days gone by at Republican conventions. Another face was once very well known in this eOurt-rOom. that of Edward Brad ley, of WOodbury, whose three memora- ble trials for the murder of Foote will nsveF bs forgotten by she older members of the bar. He is now very gray. bnt car- ries his same old. determined look.
 The struggle was evidently to be very sharp ons betweea Richmond and Yale, aAs principal candidates. At the opening Mfr. HEseheock adroitly gave thechairman- aship to Riehmond delegate. and they se cured ths maiorisy of the committee on .credensials. on whoss report came up the shaEpast struggle fthe day. The decis- A n Al ~R. aOwn was a great, and, as we in our inno-, esucs supposed, decisive advantage for Rlchmoud. Nevertheless the first ballot was looked for with intense iateesst. If Richmond was Co have the nomination he must get his majority on the first ballot. The name of the present sheriff was with drawn. and his influence given to the New Milford candldass: while Alien of Vol. coasvilHe, and the Liachfsld candidate, di. vided the opposition vose. The announce msmb of only S7 vOtss for Richmond and co foF Yale was a complete surprise to ua and death to Richmond's hopes. Still, shrswd indges thought some third man 1wOuld yek take the priss from Yale. The second ballos was indecisiva Tale 6 ain. ed, but was still six votes below the re- quired 5l. Before the third ballot was taken. however. it was evident that there was a stampede for Yale from the minor caudidnfea. although Riehmond's meu generally held firm.
 An ths southern and western towns got. was the allowance Of their claim foi four delegates from each town whici nakes them very strong for the county convention of 30. The jail resolution met with little opes opposition. Mir. McMahon tried to havs is sent Co tho committee on resolutions