Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-26
HarWinton.

We had our frSt 1roSt on Sun0ay hlgnt.
 Miss Emma Birden is visiting her cousins in Plainville Miss Hannah Adams has gone to Bridgeport. MT. < Mrs. Chas. Rood have gone to Massachusetts. Miss Minnie Richardson of Hartford, was in town over Sunday. Mrs. Mark Wheeler, also of Hartford, was in town last week; also Mir. Henry Smith, teller of the First National Bank of Indianapolis. Mrs. Rosina Tyrril, ,and children, of New Haven, are visiting at Geo. Cooks. Miss Lima Hurlbut, of Bethel, was in town on Sunday.
 The many friends of Mr. & Mrs. $. T. Weston will be grieved to hear of the death at Bantam Falls, on the 18th inst, of their daugh- ter Gertie, after two weeks of great suffering
 pr. Goodwin, of Thomaston, delivered temperance lecture at Campville, last Friday evening.
 -One day last week, the Churchill family, to the number of eighteen, held pleasant gathering at the residence of widow Catlin, of Campville. The affair wound up with a aTnu- sical entertainment in the Chapel.
 Last winter Mir. Chas. Buel, of Campville, attached quantity of shingles belonging to Mir. John Carrier, which were removed to MT. BuePs barn. Last week, the sheriff au- thOrized Hora ce Leonard to move them back to Mir. Carriers prem lses, which he undertook to do, when MT. Buel interfered and squab- ble ensued in which MT. Buel was getting the ''worst of it," when MT. Lorenzo Cleveland appeared on the scene and parted the combat ants.
 A certain young man offered his company home from spelling school to a young lady teacher of one of our schools, recently, and was accepted of course On reaching her fath- CTS house he was invited into the parlor and seated in a newly vanished arm chair. After spending pleasant evening, he arose, or tried to, to take his leave. but found that he was glued fast to the chair, arms, seat, and all, and it was with some difficulty that he could liber- | ate himself. His nice new coat had to be sent | to Hartford to be cleaned at an expense of $2.5O, which the young lady generously offer ed to pay.
 l Mrs Harriet Scott has nearly recovered. 1 Willard Vail continues very low.
 l -- --.e.s5rroor- U. J., mas garden full O1 nice peaches, but we don't mention this for the benefit of any persons of thievish propen- sites. On the contrary we can assure them that it is risky business to steal from him. Once Mr. J. noticed that his peaches were be. l i'm oJ1ti in fho inbf cordingly laid in wait for the thieves His vigilance was rewarded, for one night he dis covered couple of men in his garden helping themselves to his peaches by the basketful 1 Now neighbor T. has .level" head and die mt sing s'Shoo Fly, anu eoora the thieve, away. He took matters coolly, and awaited rurther developments Presently they went back of his barn quietly followed by Mir. J. al a safe distance, who saw them empty thei baskets into couple of bags. After few bushels had been gathered in this way, anC while they had gone to the garden for fresh load, Mir. J, took one of the bags away a short distance and lay down beside it. When the thieves returned again they were nonplusseG to find that one of their bags was missing. The owner began to cuss and swear, and remarked that 'he should just like to see the man that stole that bag" whereupon Mr. J. arose and replied, '1 am the man," and added, that il they didn't ''settle" for it at once he would make it ''warm" for them on the morrow They paid him $10, and he gave them tht fruit
 Lewis Catlin's dog attacked Mir. Wilbur Wilson, last Saturday evening after dark. A terrible howl from the young man caused tht dog to skedadle in hurry, with piece of Mir Wilson's coat tail, and a portion of the seat o his trowsers in his mouth.
 1 LITTLE GnHNNIE