Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-10
LITCHFIELD.

Rev. Mir. McAllls ter being absent on HI vacation there will be no services at the M. E Church for the next two Sundays.
 Miss NelIa F. Brown, of Boston, consider ed the best dramatic reader in New England will give an entertainment at Armory Hall next Monday evening.
 Mir Wm H. Braman has just received a large stock of new goods. He claims to have as fine an assortment of dry goods as has ev- CT been seen in town. New advertisement next week.
 -Brevet It. Col Sanford, Major 1st U. $. Cavalry, in Command of Camp sHalleck, Nev- ada, and recently returned from the campaign against the .Bannock Indians is spending a few days in town.
 The popular comedenne, Lotta, is to ap- pear in ''Musette" at the City Hall, Water. bury, next Monday evening. There is no ac- tor in comedy roles who pleases everybody so effectually as the piquant Lotta, and hobo dy draws larger houses.
 The failure to receive the mails on Mon- day, at Litchfeld and along the line of the Shepaug R. R., was through no fault or neg lect on the part of the company, they having performed their part of the service to insure the prompt delivery of the mails in accordance with directions from the Superintendent of Railway Mail Service.
 The annual meeting of the Woman's Board of Missions for Litchfeld County was held as proposed in the Congregational Church in this village on Thursday last. It was ad- mirably conducted by Mrs. Bonar and Miss Hins- dale. More than two hundred and fifty ladies from the various towns in the county were present and all showed great interest both Tn the cause and in the speakers.
 Mondays election passed over quietly re- sulting in the usual choice of Democratic of- fcers, except so far as the law gives minorities representation on the various boards. The list is as follows:
 Selectmen-Jacob Morse, Everett H. Wright, Lewis c Hotchkiss, Theodore s. Sedgwick, Frederick s. Porter; Assessors s-Francis M. Hale, Darius P Griswold, Jerome D. Wheel CT, William J. Hall, Joseph H. Hopkins Beard of Relief-Samuel G. Beach, Charles 1. Page, Andrew J. Pierpont, Henry l.. COe, Andrew D. Smith; Registrars of Voters First District, Henry H. Prescott, Alex. B. Shumway, Second District, Garner B. Curtlss, Abram M Turner; Auditors-Geo. H. Trow- bridge, Geo. E. Jones' School VisitOrs-T. Leander Jennings, Hiram Stone, Allen Mo- Lean; Clerk and Registrar-W. J. Beach i; Treasurer-Geo. M. Woodruff; Constables - James Campbell, James H. Morse, James D. Brakeman, Horatio F. Griswold, John w. Ravenscroft, William Jones, Edwin B. San ford; Grand Jurors-William c. Buell., Dari- us P. Griswold, Francis N. Barton, William H. Palmer, Henry Morse, Joseph Tanning.
 On the evening of the Eth inst, the friends of Mir. and Mrs. Lewis 0. Hotchkiss, to the number of 180 or more, met at. his residence in Bantam for the purpose of celebrating their crystal wedding. Two tables were loaded with articles of glass and china ware, ranging froma demijohn* and centre table lamp through all the different varieties, including pitchers, vases, lamps, tumblers, goblets, &c., down to pepper box, all of which were presented by friends.
 After spending very pleasant and social evening, and supplying the inner man with all those substantials and delicacies which Mrs. H. knows so well how to prepare, the company left the household with their hearty good wishes some going directly to their houses, while u considerable number went across the round to engage in a social hop.
 Before the company separated, Rev. Mir. Stone by request. madea few very appropriate remarks thanking the friends of the happy pair for the many beautiful and valuable gifts which they had presented and reminding them that the pleasure and enjoyment they had experienced during the evening, sprang from the carrying out of that relationship es- tablished by God Himself, and expressing the hop that they might all be permitted to wit ness the celebration of the Silver Wedding at the close of % years, and also the Golden one at the ending of half a century. In conclusion he facetiously suggested to all'who had never tasted the joys of welded life, but were drag ging out miserable solitary existence, to be admonished by the pleasure and enjoyment which they had experienced on this occasion and the example of the welded pair whom they had met to congratulate, to Ego and do likewise"
 .It is but just to say that the demijohn had hlus ribbon" tie around its nozzle and filled with deli cious maple syrup. S.H.D.
 The Superior Court adjourned, sine de, on Friday. Most of the week was occupied in the case of Dorsey NeUilie. ct as. vs. 7he Litch- field Casriage Go. This was petition by per sons owning more than one. third of the stock of this company for the appointment of re. ceiver and the dissolution of the corporation. This company was organized about ten years since with capital stock of $1O,OOO. It has never paid a dividend. Early in 1876, contro of it's affairs went into the hands of MT. Geo H. Baldwin, the owner of a majority of 1t. shares of stock. It continued unprosperous tht Minority stockholders became dissatisfied, snt pGitioned to the April court of 1877 for re ceive The court denied the application and last Airil they made another application. On the triait appeared that, in addition to the fact that there asno returnupon the stock, the personal assets of the company, less liabilities, had been lesened from near $8 900 to about $i,lOO, under Mir. Baldwin's management. Ii further appeared that in occasional instances property Of he company had been used in pay, menu ol MT. Baldwin's private debts, partcu. iafly ol those he incurred in hispurchases of the stock or the company. It also appeared that the company accounts had not been properly kept, and that the company had practically abandon. ed the business to transact which it was or. ganized. It was claimed, on behalf of hi, management, that the great loss of property appearing from the inventories and appraisal, of the companv'sp property, had been accustomed by oyer-estimates and by shrinkage of its val