Litchfield enquirer., 1877-03-15
Gbe Gittb6eIo Gnquirer,
 LlTCRFIELD, CONN.
LlTcHFiELD.

A. s. Wright & Go. offer extra induce
 ments to customers for the next forty
 days. See advertisement
 Attention is called to another adver-
 tisement of Reed the Bridgeport Clothier
 who offers great inducements for call at
 his establishment.
 Mir. Nathan A. French has quit-claim-
 ed fifty acres of land in Northfield, lying
 west of the Naugatuck railroad. to Jane
 E. Booth, of Bolton.
 There are to be Lenten services at
 St. Michael's this Wednesday,, and to-
 morrow (Thursday). at 4 P. m.; and on
 Friday evening with lecture.
 Mir. Adam Watt has bought out MT.
 0. B. Lanes grocery and fish market un-
 der Merriman & Perkins, as will sbe seen
 by advertisement in another column.
 The light snow of Monday morning, covering the ice to the depth of an inch or thereabouts, made very treacherous walk ing and occasioned many an unexpected
 ''fop" of the careless pedestrian.
 The Waterbury American, speaking of Litchield matters, mentions ''that Ere bus of the law. the high Sheriff." Did the American really mean to be profane or is ''Erebus" misprint for ''Cerberus?"
 The freshet of Friday raised the Lit fle Bantam higher than has been known for several years. made it unsafe to cross thA wOlcUttviIe bridge, and brought the water within about two feet of the bridge at the mill. The Naugatuck river was very high and damaged the railroad so that trains were stopped nearly day.
 -Mr. Foster, of the firm of Foster & Hurlbut, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels & 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.
 On Friday night a tramp who had become disgusted with looking in vain for a lodging. threw an apple through Man. sion House window within a few inches of landlord CrOssman. He made no effort to escape, but said all he wanted was nights lodging. The justice fined him $5 and sentenced him to 30 days imprison- ment. This. with working out his fine and costs. will keep him over three months in jail.
 Rev. D. c. Babcock. Secretary of the Pennsylvania Temperance Union, preach cd on Sunday in the Methodist church in the forenoon; and'at the Congregational church in the afternoon and in the chap el in the evening. On Monday evening he lectured on Temperance, in Congre. gatiOnal Hall, to considerable audience, though the snow storm no doubt deterred many from attending. Mir. Babcock took what we should consider rather extreme views of temperance, which were. how ever, enforced with much ability. His history of the national temperance move- ment was especially interesting.
 The Cultivator and Country Gentle. man of March 9th. has an -'Echo Farm giving full description of Mir. Starr's farm buildings, farm and blOoded stock, on Chestnut Hill. It is illustrated by f4 cuts, the largest of which gives fine view of the place, with a group of Jersey cows in the foreground. l Another cut represents the interior of | the COW stable, and there is fine picture | of the prize bull "Litchfeld." The last | page has cuts of dairy and farm imple- ments, and full description is given of the process by which the ''gilt-edged but ter is manufactured. In an opening para. graph speaking of the village, reference is made to ''a well conducted newspaper, The Examiner. The Examiner" is a good paperi