Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-07
Litchfeld.

church next week The plan for remodellng if is not yet perfected.
 -Delos F. Paine and Patrick Kary were ta- charge of Warden Hewes.
 We hear that the Vessels place lately own ed by Miss Clarissa B. Deming, has been sold Co Mrs Mclaughlin
 The patriot who dug through the south sidewalk of East st., was not the editor of the Enquirer, but an employee of c. w. Hinsdale, Esq.
 The drift which always forms on Bra mans corner is now near six feet deep, and extends all the way in front of the Court House
 Nobody would have imagined so many of the voters of Litchfeld used tobacco as the new floor of the Town Room indicated after Mondays meetings.
 Considerable work has been done throw ing snow on the waste places" between this village and the Naugatuck Depot, for the ben eft of travel.
 Mir. John C. Mcintosh, of Springfield, Mass, has sold to Mrs. Sarah Bissell, of this place, a house and lot on Spencer Street for $500.
 Attention is called to new advertisements of w. M. F. Shelton, furniture dealer and undertaken, Messrs Beach, proprietors of liv- cry stable. of F. NJ. Sanford, original and on- ly" timer.
 The '.Iitchfield Centennial Total Absti- nenee Society,"" will hold public meeting at the Congregational Hall on Monday evening next, February, 11th, at 7;3O o'clock. All are cordially invited
 The storm of Thursday night last was one of the most violent we have ever known. An thermometer" would probably have indi- .cated that the wind hurried down East street at < rate of not less than 100 miles an hour.
 Mir Foster, of the firm of Foster & Hurl- but, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels & Gates, on Monday next, with a choice selection of foreign and domestic wool ens prepared to take orders for anything in their line. Persons wishing good custom work ,done should give them call.
 -Atthe special town meeting on Monday, the following vote passed unanimously, regarding the proposed new jail:
 VOrED-That, if a new County Gaol shall within two years from this time, be erected in this town, within one mile of the present Gaol, this town will pay one half of the expense thereof, remaining after using and applying Rl,. Hno Il l1k kI lc thereof, if sold, towards such erection, provid- ed, however, that said payment by this town shall not exceed ten thousand dollars and provided further, that this vote shall be ratified byt he General Assembly.
 At the adjourned annual town meeting on Monday afternoon, First Selectman Morse made a statement showing the probable ex- penses of the town for the current year. The total appropriations needed, he estimated at SPA, 2O5, including interest on the debt and 2,0OO on the principal. He therefore recom- mended vote laying a tax of 13 mills, which passed; and Wm. Norton was appointed Col lector at a salary of S15O.
 On Sunday afternoon last Rev. Mr. Me Allister preached rousing sermon on the be- setting sin of the American people-the thirst for money-censuring the corruption of the times in the severest terms. In the evening he referred to the Anti Tobacco Thunder ings," of the Campville Truth Cleaner. He { argued that the question was after all only one of taste. Brother Catlin liked his cabbage boil ed while, for his part, he preferred the cab bage leaf nicely rolled up for smoking, in the form usually sold in this village.
 The American Missionary" which is now, owing to change in it's form, printed in NewYork was tillrecently published at Hamp- ton, Va The work there was done by Mir. Geo. c. Rowe, formerly of this place and who learned his trade in the Enquirer office. The January No of the Missionary speaks of him as follows:
 Extra help being needed, very worthy col ored mechanic in Litchf1eld, Conn. was engag- ed. He not only worked on the Missionary, but having rented house in region destitute of workers, he at once gathered the young and the old and every Sunday morning during the summer motley crowd of about fifty in num- Der was collected in his verandah. Seated on boxes, tubs, pails, etc., they received excellent instruction from Mir. Rowe, through whose good work we hope that some who were blind can now see.
 Mr. Rowe now has regularly established school, conducted for two hours every Sunday morning. The Congregational Sunday School recently sent them library, of 25O volumes, with 100 more for distribution.
 The Superior Court, finished it's January Term on Thursday last and adjourned sine die.
 The last case tried to the jury was that of Wm. Hawley, of Morris, charged with cutting the harnesses, shearingthe horse, and otherwise damaging the property of Mir. Stearns ot that place. The chief evidence against Flaw ley was that of Messrs Barnes & Bacon, de tectives who had been employed by Stearns tt workupt pthecase. They treated Hawley oliquo and led him into making full confession al they testified He swore, on the contrary ,tha he did not commit the crime charged tha the detectives made him drunk; but that h, has no recollection of any confession. Th prosecution was conducted by Messrs Hol lister and Huntington, and the defence by Mir Kellogg, recently admitted to the bar in Nor wich, and now in the office of Mr. G. B. An -drews, who argued with uncommon abilit, and earnestness against the conviction of hi client on the evidence of hired detectives. Tn, jury, nevertheless, brought in verdict e guilty. Mir. Kellog's was the best maidel speech that has been heard at our bar for lon, time. and he is evidently cKock-full by nature of that prime ingredient of the advocate-in
 asity.
 oal Thursday the various prisoners who hay, prsaded guilty or been convicted by the iur, were sentenced Geo. Taylor, of Washington / who had been tried for attempting rape ol isniece, child of ten or eleven,' and whor the jury failed to convict, was sentenced to si months in jail on plea of guilty to an assault
 Mary Warner, the Canaan woman convicte