Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-18
LlTCHFlELD.

Mir. George Kenney has new safe. MT. Slack is securing his jce-crop. MT. Joseph Wooster sprained his arm by fall, lost week.
 Sec Buell. and Wheeler's advertise ment for cheap reading.
 The Naugatuck R. R. Co.,. are filling their ice-houce at our station.
 The week of prayer was observed by prayer.meetlngs at this place and in Ban- tam
 MT. Wm. E. Hooker has entered the new divinity school at Syracuse N. Y.. in charge of Bishop Huntington.
 We hear that Mir. Edward J. Wad. hams, of Goshen, has gone into business with Seth Pratt in his livery stable. -Dr. Preston, of St. Ann's (Catholic) church New York, is to lecture at St. Pe- ter,s church at Hartford, Febuary 7th. Rev. Mir. Beebe, agent of the Sea- mems Friend institution at New York, preached at the Congregational church on Sunday.
 The friends of the Rev. Geo. J. Har- rison, propose to make hima donation visit at the parsonage, Wednesday eve. January 24th.
 A reduction of telegraph rates went into effect on the 1st which lowers the cost of the, ordinary dispatch. from this place to New York city to 30 cents.
 Special attention IS called to the lec- lures on temperance advertised in anoth- CT column. Dr. Jewett is said to be one of the most effective speakers on that i. subject in the country.
 On Tuesday, Drs. Buel. Beach. Dem ing and Gates went up to the quarterly medical meeting in Norfolk. taking team. to WoIcottville and the cars from thence to Norfolk.
 Last week Mir. Hallock, who lives west of Bantam, while trying to free his horse which had got in drift, by cutting the harness, inflicted severe wound on his hand.
 Some of the forty-one poor devils squeezed into the seventeen cells of our old jail have been trying to get out. Five of them, in one cell, planned to knock down the keeper and escape, but one peached and the others are repenting on bread and water.
 -Detachments of young misses are kho xwik khon a Congressional Investigating committee searches for truth.-tor buttons. Strings of dissimilar buttons, hundreds in num- Der, are the rage What possible use can be made of them, unless for some sort of Joseph's coat not yet invented. no one San foresee.
 The youngsters of the opposite "sect" are equally devoted to the bracket saw, and are rapidly making kindling wood of all the segar boxes they can coax out of the community. It is cer- tainly nobler and more useful ambition than buttons.
 On Thursday evening last, the H. T. T. C.s gave prvate supper and dance at the Mansion House. Notwithstanding the uupleasantness of the weather good. ly company assembled and passed most agreeable time in tripping the light fan. tastic" till nearly daylight. Good music, a good supper, and a pleasant company combined to make it one of the most pleasant gatherings ever known in Litch- field Thanks are certainly due the H. T. T. C.s for their agreeable entertain. ment. 'Long may they wave"
 The most abusive-looking missiva that emanates from our postofice is the P. M. G.'s lntimation that he wants a man:
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 It is printed in enormous, mis-shaper letters, on an enormous mis-shaper card, and has the most brutal and bull-dozing expression that type is capa ble of. When 8 summer visitor gets ons of these cards. he instantly packs his car peebag. sneaks into the Naugatuck stage and, makes the best possible time to hi, Irrespective place of abode.
 The Superior Court begins its Jan uary term, Judge Hovey on the bench. o. Tuesday next. Criminal business is frs taken up and the following assignment O cases has been made:
 State vs. William Clark, two cases Tuesday, Jan. 23d.
 State vs. Henry Drake, Charles Drake William Clark; State vs. Frederick Hun gerford; Wednesday. Jan. 24th.
 State vs. John Hicks, David Hicks State vs. Howard Banning, Charles Cor don. Charles Osborn: State vs. Kelsey Fox; StSse "a. Rosa Corcoran; Thursday Jan. 25th.
 State "a. Charles Cogswell. two cases Etaie "a. Edgar N. Lull; Friday, Jan. 26th
 State vs. George Williams, two eases State "a. Leonard Bross; Tuesday, Jan uaFy, 3Oth-
 state vs. Franklin B. Johnson, William H. Davis. William H. Davis IT,; Wednea day. len. slst.'