Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-16
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 uTCafIELD, CONN.
Litehfeld.

Saturday from 2.30 to 530 p. m.
 The pews in the Congregational church will be rented on Monday at o'clock.
 The Amy Stone Troupe played the Pearl of Savoy to full house on Monday evening.
 -Ovcr hundred people attended Barnum's show at Waterbury, last week.
 Mira Jane G. Bishop has leased her store nm West Street to Mrs Lizzie Peck for three years, at rent of $250 year.
 IF. Calhoun, executor of Joel Scoville sells the ''Judson lot' of eight acres, just this side of Wolcottville, to Wm. H. Farnham and Dexter W. Clark, of Torrington, for $l,SlO.
 ID. c. Kilbourn, Esq, delivered an able and effective temperance lecture at the Chapel at East Litchfeld, on Wednesday evening of last week.
 Chester Thomas, of Watertown, bas sagreed with Frederic Bradley and wife, of Plymouth, to buy their place of twelve acres with build. ings in Bantam, for 8, 21O.
 -Messrs. c. H. Hollister and Henry B. Graves will address the people of Morris at tlfe Congregational church on Sunday evening next, on the subject of Temperance
 A flock of wild geese, puzzled by the recent weather, spent Monday night on the hill north of Harris Plain. Tuesday morning, Mir. A. Douglas shot one of them just west of the village which weighed eleven pounds.
 .. There were quite a number of arrivals during the past week. Dr. Farnum who has rented the Hoppin place again has taken possession. Mir. Fitzgerald and family have also returned. Mrs. and Miss Woodruff are back from Colorado. Mrs. Beers, her mother and daughter, are also here fer the summer.
 Eugene Coby hired horse, Sunday, drove to WOlcottville and came back consid- .erably under the influence of liquor he came near wrecking the buggy and was very abusive to Mir. Pratt. On Monday he was arrested fRE breach of the peace and drunkenness by s;cr Beach, who sentenced him to thirty jS:Ss- in jail The prisoner appealed to the next Su- periov Court, giving $1OO bonds for his ap- pearance. Prescott appearsi for the State.
 A Temperance Festival will be held at Armory Hall on Thursday evening of this week in pursuance of former notice. Everybody is requested to attend, whether signers of any temperance pledge or not. No special calls will be made on individuals for contributions, but all interested in the subject are requested to send in generous supply of cake or sand wiches ut any time after 3 p. m. of Thursday afternoon. A pleasant social time is expected. The Hall will be open from 6 to 10 p. m.; ad- mittancc, 10 cts; cake, cents coffee, 5 cents
 The Temperance meeting of Saturday night filled Armory Hall in spite of the threatening weather. Dr. Deming President of the Litchfield Temperance Society, intro duced Mr Hollister who spoke for more than an heur with great force and deloquencein behalf of Temperance. No summary we could give would do justice to his address. It was very we'll received by the audience, and there were many hearty rounds of applause. Dr. Deming announced another lecture, by Rev. MT. Nc Allister, for Saturday evening of this week, al- So at Armory Hall So the good work moves on.
 The Shepaug Railroad Company will commence running their summer passenger trains, Monday, June 3d. The morning train from Litchfeld will connect with train arriving in New York at 1905 noon. The afternoon train will leave here about .45, arriving in New = will from New York at 8.O5 a. m. and 300 p. m., and arrive here about 12.50 and 7.45 p. m. Those trains make good connections to and from Bridgeport and New Haven. The milk tain will leave here about half an hour earlier than at present.
 The Congregational Society had it's annu- almeeting on Monday afternoon, and reelected g O.sB. Bishop, H. T. Cable and A. c. Benton, Societys Committee Geo. H. Trowbridge, TrcasurerT and ED. McNeil, Clerk. Voted, to sell the pews on Monday afternoon next. A letter frsm Rev. Allan Mclean was read asking to be excused from Pastoral duty for three or four months after June 18th. By vote of the Society, Mir. Mclean was excused from pastoral duty in compliance with his request, fin :he earnest hope that on his return MT. Mo Lean will resume his labors among us"
 The death of Hon. Albert Sedgwick on Tuesday morning, removes one of Litchfeld's most noted men of the generation immediate Iy preceding the present. MT. Sedgwick was born in Cornwall Hollow in the year 1909 and was a brother of Gen. Charles F. Sedgwick, of Sharon, and cousin of Gen. John Sedgwick, the celebrated corps commander of the army of the Potomac. He removed to this place in 1880, and continued to reside here for the suc- -eeeiing twenty-five. years In 1884 he was appointed High Sheriff of this county, an of fee which he continued to hold (with the ex- scepti0n of one term of three years) until 1854. In that year he received from the legislature the appointment of Commissioner of the School Fund. He removed to Hartford the following year, and resided there while he held the office of School Commissioner, which he continued to do until 1s66 Shortly after he returned to Litchfeld, and resided here with his sOn-in-law, Mfr. Thos. M Coe the re- ,mainder of his life MT. Sedgwfck was an extremely genial, popular man, as we'll as an able public efflcer.
 -Tse Superior Court closed it's April term, last week, the jury being dismissed on Thurs day. The following criminal cases were tried:
 .SEGse vs- AFropkliS Gardner. Prosecution . fRNheft in New .Mlford. The jury disagreed fer t!le second tms. HRRtington and McMahon for the State; Graves and Hollister for the pFfsDDer.
 Gfsss vs. EdscGrd LgO-Prosecution for brsahaag open the dwelling house of Lyman HineinNsp Milford in the day time, and steal. ing sixty three dollars in money. Strong sus' picions were raised of the guilt of the prisoner, but both court and jury thought the evidence insufficient te justify conviction. Hunting @n.. a..l TT,vrsIl for ss0fa HolSter and K allo~c