Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

road bridge seems to have been occasoncd by the annoyance tine bridge props were to travel on the highway. Unlawful as the act was it is reassuring to hear that it was not done in the hope of wrecking train.-The Conn. Western R. R. are driving some 1010 piles in the lake east of depot.
 SALISBURY enjoyed a temperance concert given with the help of the Hutchinson family | at the Congregational church on Friday eve- niAg last-Frank Richardson, keeper of va riety and confectionery store has skedaddled with his stock.-D Decoration day is to be ob- l served at Salisbury. Mir. KetcheI and Geo. Bunall are delegates to the Sunday School 1 Convention
 The officers of the WEST CORNWALL Good | Samaritan temperance society are as follows President, Rev. O. M. Fitch; Presidents, Dr. F. W. Hall, Carrie Barnum and R. R. Pratt; Secretary, M. s. Nickerson; Executive ! Committee, 4. D. Warner, Geo. Oldfield, Mrs M 5. Nickerson, Wm. Brewster.-Neac Mt!ford Gazette.
 At KENT, recently, Mrs. Henry Hufcut was thrown from wagon and so much hurt | by her heads striking stone that she had to be taken home on bed, the next day. CORNWALL BRIDGE reports good progress in the Temperance movement. One of the deal CTS has stopped selling.
 NEW PRESTON is to have Temperance pie nic on the Fourth of July.-There was seri GUS row between Messrs. Geo. O. Hitchcock, l and Irwin J. Beardsley at the shed near the Hill church on Sunday forenoon of last week Public opinion is decidedly against Hitchcock as having been the aggressor throughout. New ertheless he has procured prosecutions against Beardsley for sureties of the peace, and for an assault, which are to be tried before Justices Beach and Wheaton on Saturday of this week
 NORFOLK Congregationalists listened to the preaching of Dr. Burton, of Hartford, on Sun- day.-Decoration Day is to be observed with appropriate exercises
 At CORNWALL, recently, MT. O. Nickerson, cut his leg quite badly while hewing some timbers for his barn.-Mr. T. s. Gold had an old fashioned raising week before last The building was dimensions 45x6O; over 30 men were in attendance Paritt, pat tern maker, has recovered judgment for $96 and costs, against the Gold Sanitary Heating Co.,, damages on contract for patterns. GRAND TEMPERANCE RALLY AT NEW HART FORD.-Wednesday evening Rev. Father Walsh, of Waterbury, delivered an eloquent lecture on temperance under the auspices of the St. Mary's Total Abstinence and Benevo- lent Society at the church of The Immaculate | Conception. Previous to the lecture the soci- ety assembled in front of the church and with | Osbern's Sextette Band, the N H. Drum Corps, the St. Bernard Boys Temperance So- | ciety, the Christian Temperance Union and the Pioneer Temple of Honor, all of New | Hartford, proceeded to the Canal railroad de- | pot in Pine Meadow, where upon the arrival of | the ' o'clock p. m., train they were joined by | the cornet band, St. Patrick's T. A. & B. So ciety and the Boys Temperance Society, of Collinsville. The above named organizations here formed into a procession of about 300 ! strong and with all the music playing marched through the principal streets of the village The ranks were so formed that the procession had the appearance of containing at least a l thousand men and boys. All of these organi- Zations were dressed in their regala, with flags flying and with banners upon which were diff ferent inscriptions they presented a very inn posing appearance. The procession was head ed by carriage containing Hon. E. M. Chap | in, Rev. Father Walsh the speaker of the eve ming, and Rev. Fathers Sheridan and Fitzsm- mons, pastor and asst. pastor of the Catholic church in N. Hartford and Collinsville. At intervals along the line of march the whole scene was brilliantly illuminated by red fire, which added greatly to the impressiveness of the occasion. Finally, at about 8 o'clock, the | line drew up at the Catholic church, where all who could, entered to listen to the address. Father Walsh, after having been very f1atter- ingly introduced by Father Sheridan as the old temperance war-horse," prefaced his earnest, touching appeal in favor of total abstinence, by saying that it was just years and 4days since he had been obliged to dissolve his pastoral re- | latiens with this and the Collinsville church, and that the reception which had then been offered, aroused in him feelings of thanks and pride which could not be greater were he to be made governor or even president of the whole nation. His words from beginning to end were those of encouragement and charity to- wards all. He spoke in the warmest terms of encoura cement of the different temperance movements in the Protestant churches, and placed the ec7io6 cause on a plane of common Christianity In closing, he delivered an al- most irresistible appeal to those who had not before come forward de so, which kind in- vitation considerable number accepted and, kneeling before him, repeated by word of mouth pledge and an oath SO solemn and binding that man who has a belief in Di- vine God and life hereafter must surely fear to violate.