Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-02
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 Amer Gilbert and wife have sold thirty ,,,ree acres of land with buildings in the north ,x.S.srn part of the town to Catherine OBrien.
 Flynn and Doyle are carrying on the car -;a.,. business at Bantam with a full set of hands
 A c-itique of the Septet Club Concert, and . Il,cr referring thereto, will be found else Nhcre. They are quite ilattering. The receipts were not quite so flattering.
 Owing to illness the Rev. Mr. Bowers is obliged to discontinue his labors at Bantam After season of rest he will begin work in an- other field.
 But 130 dogs were registered, "Wednesday morning. The last~tax list showed 194 in town, so that sixty or seventy more dogs should 20 upon the list to-day.
 Chester Thomas has purchased the prop erty known as the homestead of Erastus Brad ley, and is soon to build new house upon the ground where the old one now stands.
 We notice from the Washington Republi- can that Lieut.. Webster U. S. A.~has recently visited tho Bnst, ana returned from New York, last week, in charge of 200 recruits for his regiment, whom he was conducting to Cheyenne, ". T.
 Judge Hitchcock returned on Monday af- tcrnoOn and tried the case of Gilbert and Gay vs. Wallace Barnes, of Bristol, an action on note for SC, 000 Andrews and Fem for plfs. and Graves and Newell for deft. Tuesday morning the case of Graves vs. Hickox, re- garding certain Sentinel subscriptions was also tried to the court. Tuesday afternoon, the jury came in for trialo of criminal cases. James Mar shall, of Kent, is now on trial charged with an assault. William Kelsey has pleaded guilty to theft.
 One would not imagine that ln the Nine tecnth Century and in enlightened New Eng land q man couldsbe found base enough to pass a lead lf-dollar on confding septet of mu- sicians for admission toa classical concert. Yet such person exists, or did exist on Thursday evening last, in this very village It is not the loss of money we regret so much as the utter ,.cruslIing down of that faith in the natural goodness of man which is the levelest charac- teristic of the musician. It is an awful thing to see an artist retire from before sympathet- ic audience, with face beaming with the sub- lime soul of Handel, to return shortly after with the scowl of a fallen angel, scanning the people before hIm as suspciously as if they bnr inspection of the receipts has shown them not only short of expenses but in part bogus
 AMY STONE DRAMATIC ALIIANCE.-A fine audience greeted the appearance of this com pany at the Opera House, last evening, and all must have been highly delighted with the play, as we never saw it better presented. The character of Fanchon, the cricket is one of AMY SToNE's best, and affords her fine oppor- tunitiesf for the display of her abilities in her charming line ofacting. The support render cd by the various members of the company was excellent. A fine feature of the enter tainment was the superb orchestra which left nothing to be desired.-BT1dgeoort Standard. The Temperance meeting of Sunday eve- ming was more thinly attended than usual ow- ing to rain. Mr. Kellogg. of this place, made short but effective address. He bids fair to become very telling speaker. MT. Foote from Springfield gave the audience the benefit of his experience, and Mir. Graves spoke very acccptably as usual. The number of signers in Litchtield has now reached five hundred. After the lecture nine young men who happen ed to meet at the Mansion House signed the pledge and put on the blue rbbon and we hear of many accessions elsewhere in the will lages. In short the movement goes on splen- didly, with charity for all-with malice tow ard none."
 -The following is an extract from letter of an accomplishedNew York musician, who spent part of last summer in this town, to mem Der of the Litchficd Septet Club:
 April 25, 1878.
 My DEAR DoCToR-I am very much obliged to you for sending me the program of the con- cert which the Litchfield Septet Club is going to give tonight at Arnory Hall. You can hardly imagine how sorry am that circum stances prevent me from listening to such a musical treat as you offer to the Litchtield peo- pie. Why, it is wonderful and almost incred- ble that you can afford to give such an amount of classical music for fifty cents. Well, am right glad that you can find people enough in your town to listen to that kind of music and to pay for it too. 1 am therefore of opinion that the Litchfield Septet Club ought to be highly complimented for their endeavors to cultivate such remarkably good taste. AS for me, can only say that 1 wish your Sep- tet club the best possible success and may it thrive artstically and financially many, many years to come, etc., Very truly
 A. D.
 THE TowN FARM.-The selectmen made their annual visit to the town farm on Tuesday of last week, their object being as usual to note the condition and general management of the farm, and if need be to suggest improve ments and also, to learn the condition of the dwelling house and out-buildings and the con- dition and management of the town family.
 The farm has been greatly improved in the last ten or twelve years and we think especial ly under the management of MT. Rewett. One hundred rods or more of substantial stone wall have recently been built, and the farm now presents some large meadows as nicely fitted for the machine as any in town. Like many, if not all other farms of its size, all that is now wanting for heavy grass is more manure. It is hoped that this may be more fully supplied now by the last years alteration of the large barn and the better arrangement of the stabling When the Selectmen were there year ago, it being a cold windy day, the cows were shivering in their stalls, and thebarn, except the roof and some part of the frame, was in very dilapidated condition. Besides, the manure was thrown under the caves and much of it washed away upon an adjoining farm. They decided at once to raise the barn from the mud to put good firm stone foundation under it, with basement for stabling and store room, and to recover it,