Litchfield enquirer., 1878-08-22
COUNTY ITEMS.

" Wednesday. August 21st, and on Thursday afternoon, the 22d, the second annual festival and tea party of the Sharon Village Improve ment Society will be held on the village green. A woolen factory has been started in Nudge Town.-The Pleasant View House seems to be losing caste, says the Telegram. The fre- quent drunken rabies and the low, loose man. ner in which the thing is run, is fast running it aground.
 The NEW HARTFORD north end district school is taught by Robert W. Hubert, of Winsted. MT. Leroy C.. Evarts has been re- engaged as principal of the Cotton Factory district school.-Ernest Moses is still missing.
 He was about % years old, and had shown symptoms of insanity. His father, Mr. Harry Moses has been making continual effort to get some trace of his wanderings.-A gipsy at tackled Geo. Driggs of the brick tavern, re- gently, and got we'll choked MT. Charles W.
 Warner, of West Meriden, lectured on tenn perance at the town hall on the 10th and 11th insts., to small audiences. At the close of the Sunday evening lecture, says the Herald, a good number signed the pledge. Some who ought to have more self respect are violating their ''blue ribbon" pledge. The reading room of the Temperance Union is popular resort About 150 went from here on the Coney Is- land excursion. Sanford w. Kelley has been declared bankrupt upon petition of his credi- tors.-Mr. Lucien Case, proprietor of the Re were House in Chicago, is in town at the house of his brother-in-law, James Wiswall, Esq.
 FALLS VILLAGE camp meeting, this week Cattle show, Sept. 10th, and 11th.-C. H. Mi ner and wife are back from Saratoga. The new schoolhouse in Amesville is completed and presents very nlce appearance. Thirty
 three excursion tickets for Spring Hill Grove
 were sold at Falls Village station.-William Wolf has just returned from three years
 whaling cruise.--Several Falls Village young gentlemen have been camping out at Twin Lakes.-One day, recently, young couple in Huntsville eluded the vigilance ofthe old folks and fled to Millerton where they got "spliced." A plucky jump off the back stoop, on the young lady's part and midnight excursion in huckleberry wagon, were among the TO-
 mantle features of the enterprise.
 NoRrHFIELD Episcopal and Congregational Sunday Scholars excurted to High Rock 1 Grove on the 20th. Two or more special cars l were attached to the regular morning train of l that date at ThOmaston; return by evening | train.-A. M. Turner, with his corps of help | CTS, were at the Plainville camp-meeting last
 week. The Knife Co.'S hands had another
 vacation, last week.-Bass fishing has been l poor, this season.
 LAKEvILLE has great Total Abstinence
 gathering in Gov. Holley's grove at Lake W on anscopomac, on the 5tho Sept Societies from ] all neighboring towns are invited, and Dr. I Chas H. Fowler, distinguished Methodist preacher, will make the address.
 The SALISBURY Town Hall is to be dedicated on the 3rd of Sept. It is to be a town meeting, l a supplementary Fourth of July, dance and
 good time generally all in one.
 At NORFOLK Mir. R. l. Crissey's cluster of
 barns were struck by lightning during the shower of the 9th inst. Boards and beams 1 were shattered, but nothing set on fire luckily
 Eddie Swift, son of E. Y. Swift, Esq, of
 Detroit, was blown up by powder recently;
 scared, but not much hurt it is hoped.-Mr. Joseph Eldridge is on a trip to Kansas. RoxBURY sent out from 90 to 100 people on the recent excursion up the Hud son.-A, hand
 some family monument arrived, recently, for
 Chas. Hurd.-Dr. Downs wife, who broke her l ankle about four weeks since, was 30 exhaust ed at the time that she has hardly been able to ! raise her head since.-Pliny Squires has been
 bringing'a drove of horses from Canada
 Crops are excellent; tobacco, especially apples
 are plenty and sound.
 The WATERTowN Congregational Sabbath
 school has contributed twenty dollars for the Wallingford sufferers-Rev. Mir. Tuxbury
 has recovered from his recent severe illness
 Mr. Day Woodward and wife have returned from trip to the White Mountains.
 friends of MT. Merritt Heminway, Jr., gave
 him sheet and pillow case surprise" re-
 eating and other enjoyable amusements-A
 lively lawsuit has been going on before Hon.
 James Huntington and Dayton Matoon, Con-
 missiOners on the estate of Abigail Hunger
 ford. The case seems to be this: Thomas and
 Abigail Hungerford married young and began
 life poor, but by hard work and economy they
 accumulated property to the amount of about
 $S,OOO Neither made any will ; and, by law,
 the brothers of the husband get some three
 fourths of the property. and then lay claim to
 the remainder on the ground that Mrs. Hun- gerford, as administratrix, had not properly
 accounted for the income of her husbands
 property. They had leased the old lady with
 citation to disclose, during her lifetime, and
 now they offered their claims to the commis-
 sioners on her estate. It was disallowed The
 Hmgerfords were represented by Messrs.
 Graves and Andrews; the administrator, by | Cothren. A funny incident occurred on the trial in relation to one Atwood, witness, who was in contempt for n-attendance Mr. Cothren remarked that sIt was the first time l he had ever known an Atwood away at law
 suit" ''What makes you hate the Atwoods l so ?" enquire one of the opposing counsel. l ssHate the Atwoods? I don't hate them. I
 love them. They have been my support for more than thirty years!"
 WoLcorrv1LIE has its supply of water at 1 last. On Thursday, the pipes was filled and l everything worked admirably. Streams of l water were shot hundred feet high, Granite | Block and the Postoffice were deluged at the ] same time and individuals found their supply entirely satisfactory hotels at Block Island have been we'll patronized by visitors | from Wolcottville, this season.-Excursions | from Woicottville to Bantam are to be seen on the road almost every pleasant day.-C.