Litchfield enquirer., 1877-12-06
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 uTcHFlELD, CONN.
Litehfeld.

-Nr Edward C. Peck has been threaten eaed with fryer hui is now recovering.
 NJ. Walter :. Judd, now of Waterbury, was 4aesksr oG oar Thanksgiving arrivals.
 Mi. C. O BeIden. now taking medica, BscssursS as New York. was at home, Thanks giving
 A nunber Of our prominent merchants are in New YOrk this week buying Holiday gOcd&
 -Nr, H. R- Warner, teacher of the Center DSssr5rs school. starts an evening school com uaesczRg oa Friday at :: pm,
 MT Fredezick Deming has removed two hmrus srzues the street to the McNeil place. 4 uzan Erum Plymouth superinteded the re- usorzIs. which were accomplished very skill fally and rzpiily-
 -NAzseveT oskers may do, Reed, the Cloth S-r @fh<TvS strictly tO the one Low Price Sys- E<m and parrhzseTs can safely depend upon it. Thr uniform courtesy extended to aA who en- srr ksS establishment has made it favOrite re- s7rs wfFh hundreds of buyers of clothing. R@@d the new advertisement.
 -NE E R. Kellogg. brother to Judge Kell- or Of the Norwich City Court, and who has h@en ssBdyiEg fur some time in Judge Sey- uoar'S oEsre. WAS admitted to the bar, in Nor wSrA- Izs week He is now in the office of rhr Hoa- C. E. Andrews, in this place.
 Las week wss gay and festive season. BezS1-< two halls. the Dancing School and tk@fr frSeaEis tO the number of forty. couples, mel @z ERe Town Hall on Thursday evening z11 had a good time The juveniles also had SrxeTzF TTrtle dances
 -SsFezE is Village Improvement Still the hSE pIle Of ashes in front of the house had it's u~& When a subscriber stopped his paper, she szfitr cSIld rend his best overcoat, mount Ais ash he@p. and be pitied of men, women, and cAIlarrn. like the older patriarchs. Grief osst Of sigh1, in the back yard, don't pay.
 -LrchfeId has quite colony at Yale, this ySzr. and very jolly thanksgiving visit they had here. last week There was ball at Dr. BaeEsl Thursday evening; another at the Town Hall on Friday evening, for the benefit af the Nsmele$ B. B. C.; and Che collegians mus have returned to their studies immense ly rrfreShed and encouraged.
 --The ball of Friday evening was as an ex- celleut showing of the strength of Young I4itch- G<AA Twenty couples were on the floor at oanr and line of proud parents occupied the s<a1s usaaIly sci apart for disconsolate wall howerx. The floor of the Town Room has been carefully waxed till it is 6 serious question wheshs< the DOubtful Vote can be polled with aut Euss af fife or limb, next fall.
 The reasons are as obvious, in my judg- usenG. why boys and girls from the ages Of fourteen 10 eighteen should not recite in the same c1azs-x0Om. nor meet in the same study kaIl mow encounter one another in the same pmsaagps of large public school. First of all the natural feelings of rightly trained boys and girls are offended by social intercourse of this sEt. sOfreqaent, S free, and So unceremoni- Os&-Prss- PevteT cf Ydie COiGege.
 How delicaiely sensitiveto evil must have been the youth of Pres. Porters time. Now, thank heaven, the natural feelings" of the Frshmen. SophmOres and Juniors, rightly txzineGi- al his mOnastic institution in New Haven seem nOt to take offenl& even at the ssehnesEsrh. the Redowa, or the Waltz And ts sha Nranethaf is prsof against the dangersof <S<z.kaliOn in the round dances likely to col txFw under the destinations of c0-education in E@4id. and Cicero de Senectute, and Olmsted's AsenmMny and Paley's Evidences of Christ tzxssy: e.5I
 -The following volumes have recently been aAana to the circulating library:
 Memdrs of Charles Summer, E. L. Pierce Cmaextwush. J. T. Fields Life of Dr Johnson, BossceH Heir of Redclyffe Yonqe. Poetic Interpretation of Nature, ShGirp. Surfy I'm Burnett The Signal Boys. EggIeston Frr1ch Home Lfe,
 JimmyiOhns Mrs. Diaz Gez1rfs Marriage, GGutier. Ssnxy of Avis, E. s. Phelps. Being Boy, Warner Szm1el Dr0hl & Co. Cher6uliez. Ccmma Frnufexace, 'Parkman. Splrite. GautSer AEce m Wonderland. CarroR
 An item has been going the rounds of the State and county papers about young man .amrd Gcwge Barnard who recently swindled twO aged snnts-the Misses Osborne, of Wa irEsown-"at CT some $2.50O, leaving them drssisuEr. and then absconding He has turn sd up during the past week in Milton, where he E0a an engagement as teacher of the center dissEiCs school. and had it in charge for about rhse< werks- He is now in Hartford jail wait ing trial fr obtaining money from various per sms ca false pretences having come forward s.a given hilnself up voluntarily, we hear
 -On Monday of last week two rather in- srre<sing cases were tried before Justice B~nch The first of them, FeEir QmgLy vs. JsAA CAia. was drought on note of hand for SIS signed hy the defendant by cross, which the hRaer caaimeAwas an imposition upon him and utterly without consideration. It seems tAzf feE yeas since Quigley loaned Cain $500 sa ten per cent interest, borrowing the money hinssen frum his brother. At the expira- tiOa Of few months Cain paid this note and rscrived q receipt in full of all demands. At the time Of this payment, however, the &1Snote w@s drawn up by Quigley, and the defend ants mark procured thereto, the consideration being services in obtaining the $500 for Cain, and a cea sold him Cain testified that the Ieper cent interest was given in full compen- szaiOa fR the services, and that he had not bought the cO@t eharged tO-him, but had ta- kenif home for his wife's opinion, and finding thaG it wOuld ''swape the ground behind him" and was therefore not what they considereda a god flG. he returned it. Each party was sus- sained by more or less family testimony; but the jussice rendered judgment for the aft. \ dog fight in the salesrOom adjoining the jsEsice's ogice diversified the trial
 In smother suit brought by Qpligley against Wat Neil he had judgment for s5,66.