Litchfield enquirer., 1878-12-12
LITCHFIELD.

A fine assortment of Picture Frames at Bantam, C0nn., cheap.
 HI. B. Graves, Esq, lectured on Temper ance at Naugatuck on Sunday evening last to large audience.
 Hon c. H. HolIister lectures on Tempe rance at Thomaston on Wednesday of this week.
 MT Geo. B. Graves will give Temper ance address at ArmOry Hall, tomorrow CThursday) at 7p. m.
 Attention if called to the advertisement of proposed additions to, and alterations of the village charter.
 Attention is called to the advertisement of of s. N. Bronson, whose prices are, he says. the lowest yet offered.
 Wasp family, from the pen of Mrs. G. H. Hol- lister, of this place, appears in the December "Wide Awake"
 Miss Greenwood, of Brooklyn, will lec- ture in this place on Temprance, in the latter part of part of next week, or early in the week following. The time will be announced definitely in one next issue.
 The report of the Inspector whose visit and shows that Co. H is in first class condition both as regards discipline, attendance, and other important requirements.
 Pianos and organs, cheap, at the Music Rooms, Bantam.
 MT. Foster, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels & Gates, on Monday next, with choice selection of foreign and do- mestic woolens, prepared to take orders for anything in his line Persons wishing good custom work, should give him call.
 The case of Ensign vs. CoaoLs, tried at Morris, last week, resulted in a judgment for $3 and costs in behalf of the plaintiff The defendant offered no evidence, reserving it for the trial in the Superior Court, to which he took an appeal.
 The Jackson Republic, of Minnesota con- tans notice of the death of MT. Clark Bald win, native of this place, of consumption, at Baxter Springs, Kansas, on the 9th of Octo- Der last, aged 42 years. MT. Baldwin had been resident of Wisconsin, as we'll as of Minne- sota. He left the latter state, about year ago, and went to Texas on account of his health. Returning by wagon he only reached his relatives who are living in Kansastwo days before his death.
 The storm has injured our roads very 1av sc nd at fha n1 cottville bridge and at South bridge. The roads between this place and the Naugatuck Station are much washed but are nowhere im- passable. Little Pond rose higher than the ''oldest inhabitant" remembers to have ever seen it before. There was 8 flood of water and some damage at the Shepaug Station. The bridal party, and others who started out Tues day afternoon were to be found, at latest re- ports, near the bridge over the Housatonc, where there has been a serious wash-out.
 Holiday goods at the Music Rooms Ban tam. HALE A CENTURY.-The newspapers here and elsewhere. fifty years ago this week, made an announcement nearly, if not precisely, in these words:
 ''Married at Litchfeld, Connecticut on the 9th inst, by Rev. Daniel l.. Carroll, Henry w. Rogers, of Bath, Steuben County, N. Y., Attorney at Law, to Miss Kezia Adams, young est daughter of Joseph Adams, Esq, of Litch- field"
 After eight years residence at Bath, and thirty-ive at Buffalo, MT. and Mrs. Rogers removed to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, for the past seven years they have lived in the full enjoyment of all that makes life desirable, blessed themselves with happy home, and ample means, and making all happy who come under their influence. Not wishing to make the 5Oth anniversary of their marriage an occasion for display or hilarity, they invit- ed to their house on the evening of the 9th inst, The Ladies Library Association of Ann Arbor(Of which Mrs. R. issmanager, )to whom Mr. Rogers read a paper, as is the custom at the meeting of the association, none of the members suspecting the topic on which he was to write. A copy of this paper was sen, to MT. Charles Adams, of this village, and was read here to few friends of the parties who were invited to MT. As house on the same evening the reading here and at Ann Arbor being at the same hour It is a brief and sketchy history of the married life of the now venerable couple, and was listened to here, in the old homestead where the marriage ceremo- ny took place, with as much interest as at Ann Arbor Of those who met here, there were three only who were at the wedding in 1928. The following ode, written by an unknown friend, was received through the post-ofice, and read at the gathering here:
 A SRMI-CENTENNIAL ODE.
 Fifty long years of married life! It maKes spinster dizzy;
 But then, if one sC0U Id be wife
 She well might envy KizAe,
 Ye bach1ors, too {for, single men
 Are little less than s.codgers)
 Go, inpitate that happy ben-
 efiyt whose name is Rogers.
 We greet you, then, dear, honored pairi
 True woman, noble man
 Ard what Connecticut can't spare,
 We'll lend to Michigan.
 Dec. 9th, 1878.
 It saninteresting fact that Mrs. Rogersis on of three married sisters, all of whom have live to enjoy with their husbands their golde wedding anniversaries and still another, that during the fifty years of their married life, tn death of no human being has occurred unde the roof of their dwelling either at Bath, Bui falo, or Ann Arbor.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2d, 1878.
 'How provokingiv ''What shamel" These Mr. Editor, are only specimens of what migh have been heard when our friend Mrs. B. re turned from her Boston trip, minus her travel ing bag which some miscreant purloined iron the express wagon just before she reached he destination. If the scamp had waited till tn return trip, the theft would have been less aQ gravating, but to find oneself at the Hub. daafit,,fa of All clathing but a travaliro a..