Litchfield enquirer., 1878-11-14
LITCHFIELD.

the village.
 We hear of several cases of diphtheria in the northern part of the the town.
 Mir F. s. Porter has sold piece of land with store and other buildings thereon to Au- gusta l.. Camp.
 Mir William E. Bradley has conveyed 30 acres of land in Campville, known as the mill place, to George Curtiss.
 Mir Royal A. Ford has sold part of his farm consisting of no acres of land and the buildings thereon to Elisha l.. Bancroft, of New Hartford in that county.
 Elisha Kilbcrn has conveyed his farm of 131 acres of land, on Maple Street, to his son Charles D. Kilborn, reserving life support of himself and wife therefrom.
 Mir. k. Porter Cheney tells us that the Peck Cheney Ring, for the recovery of winch the village was extensively placarded, recent ly, has been found.
 The best as well as the cheapest. HOrs- fOrd's Bread Preparation makes better beead, biscuit, etc., than Cream of Tartar or ordinary Baking Powder, and the cost is much less.
 Mir Foster, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Wessells & Gates on Monday next, with a choice selection of foreign and do- mestic wooIens, prepared to take orders for anything in his line. Persons wishing good custom work should give him call. Gall at the Popular Dry Goods Store of Wm. H. Braman, and inspect the goods on his five cent counter. The goods are carefully selected, and consist of articles suitable for holiday presents, as well as many of value Tn the household and every one sold for the small sum of five cents.
 The Superior Court will only remain in ses- sion here through next week, when prosecutions for crimes against the following persons will be disposed of:
 AondGy, NoC. 18.-Harry Payne.
 T'HesdGg. g.-Frederick Hoffman, John Keef, Jacob Segar Eugene COby.
 WedneSdGy. O'Riley, Charles s. Foot, Samuel Ensign, George Drggs.
 ThursdGy. y.-Frederick L. Pond, William Johnson two cases), Egbert Sheldon.
 This week the Superior Court is busy on court cases. An injunction was granted in 8 New Hartford case. In the case of Frank F. Cook, dentist Tn this place, vs. L. M. Johnson, an application for an injunction grounded on a contract of Johnson with Cook not to prac- tice dentistry in this vicinity, permanent in- junction was granted Andrews aud Kellogg for petitioner; Hollister and Graves for respon- dent. The Northheld case of Philinda E1hot vs. William J. Skinner, an action for rent, was tried on Tuesday, and LaaGe Taylor vs. Nor man B. Perkins is new on trial. In the cases between Pratt 6 Ford, Huntington, Committee, reports $115 due Pratt in tine first case and $23S due Ford in the second. The term ends next week, with the trial of criminal cases.
 Is there nothing to be done this fall about the sewer back of the south side of West St., so much talked of during the prevalence of fever a month OF two since? We firmly be- lieve that some effort should be made both in justice tO the people of that locality whose health is endangered by the lack of proper drainage, and to prove to summer visitors that we are not disposed to neglect matter of such para EbOuut IupOtJaIlCt tU tutul hS WeIl dS L0 OUT. se4Ses. The lack of water to properly ''fush" such a sewer is said to be the chief objection to its construction, but we are told that windmill might be set up at no great expense that would easily pump all the water necessa- " for that purpose The best season for lay ing a sewer is rapidly passing away, and noth- is being done Win not our Village Improve ment Society. which has done so much for the convenience do something for the health of the yiliageS
 We learn that the writer of recent arti- cle in this paper on ''The Original Greenback- er," was mistaken in Eegard to Todd's resi- deuce while among us He lived in North field, not Bethlehem, and it was in Northfeld that he killed his father. We have recently seen some of his ''fiat" money, and the follow ing is a copy of one of thedollar notes he tried tO put in circulation and which is not bad model for the ''fiat" national dollar: