Litchfield enquirer., 1878-04-04

bour. On the previous Saturday, seventeen new converts were examined for admission to the church next May, and several more will probably be examined before that time. We now have forty-three hopeful converts here, the result of the Holy Spirits work amongst us, and still there's more te follow"
 A Fellowship meeting will be held here on Wednesday of this week, from 10 6. m., to 4. m Entertainment will be provided by the ladies of the church for all who choose to come.
 The Board of Education will meet to- night (Monday), to examine the teachers for the summer term.
 The thrifty housewife is now very busy with her spring house cleaning.
 Mrs Harriet Scott an old lady 30 years old and who has been nearly blind for many years deserves ''hohorable mention" for indus try and benevolence. During the past year, she has, with her own unaided hands, knitted forty eight pairs of stockings and six pairs of mittens and given them to the 'poor and needy" So you see Mir. Editor, that we, as well as Litchfeld, have got some smart old folks. By the way, when Mir. Chas. s. Buel gave you list of the 'oldfolks of Litchfeld,' two weeks ago, he borrowed one from Har- winton, Mrs. Lucy Wedge, who lives in the Naugatuck valley on this side of the river.
 Everybody is on the move, this week.  Mr. Chas. Russel, of Southbury, moves into E. B. Hinman's house. Geo. Bentley leaves the John Bull place, and goes to widow Cleve- lands house on the New Hartford line; which in turn is vacated by Nicholas Connoran, and Timothy B. Cannon, Mr. Connoran going to the John Bull place, and MT. Cannon moving in with Wm. Birden. MT. James Birden has moved into David Birge's tenement house which M. H. Granger has vacated, and moved to MT. Abbotts red house, in the Naugatuck Valley. Samuel Pratt, Jr has pulled down the barn on the hill west of his house. Dr. Buel has removed his drugs and medi- cines from the store, and the shelves have been refilled by our enterprising merchant, s. A. Andrews, with groceries and dry-goods.
 MT. Carver Abbot butchered two pigs, re- gently, which, though two years old, were es- timated to weigh from forty to ninety pounds each Rather costly pork that
 Robert Alfred managed to get one of his shins in the way of a glancing axe week ago. and his leg got the worst of it, being cut se- verely With care however he will recover.
 A brother reporter, and a former mer- chant of East Litchfeld, paid his friends at that place, visit, recently, and the boys anx- ious to show him the 'latest trick out" set up a half-bushel measure against the counter of his old store, and requested him to show how far he could kickit. The reporter, ever ready to dis play his ingenuity in the trick line, complied. made one kick, and immediately found him. self sprawling on his back about 10 feet from the measure, thereby very much tickling the disabilities of all present. After getting up and recovering his breath, for the fall had jared his constitution considerably, he asked Eff that was the trick?' He then requested the ''boys" to brush the dirt off his clothes, and departed, remarking tt at he ''had business in the next house." Hehad shown how far he could ''kick a half bushel" to his entire satisfaction.
 Our town held a special meeting, last Sat urday afternoon, for the purpose of electing road overseers. LITTLE GHoNNIE,