Litchfield enquirer., 1878-03-21
Litchfeld.

A supply of new flower seeds, just receiV- cd at Buell. & Wheelers.
 The travelling of this March May weather is simply atrocious.
 Co. H Have their new room snder Ar mory Hall neatly carpeted and their arms and equipments arranged along its sides. When are we to have a public drill
 We saw a man staggering about the street in unmistakable intoxication, Tuesday after noon. Why are not such nuisances taken in charge by the proper officer?
 MT. John Candce removes to MT. Ran s0m's place in South St., this spring, and Mrs. Vim. l., Pratt will occupy the residence on Prospect St. where Mir. Candee now lives.
 Rev. Mir Mclaughlin has removed to the residence recently purchased of Miss Deming, and Mir. A. L. Judd takes rooms at the Man siOu House.
 On the first of April, Messrs Hills & De- voc move into their new houses in East St.. and Messrs.S .SeppIes and c. w Shepard will take the house they now occupy next Armory Hall.
 It IS a little hard on the dog to sit in his own yard adorned with muzzle, and then have . strange cur, without a muzzle, come in and carry of quite feasible bone from un- der the very nose of its true proprietor.
 Several justices of this town, as empower cred by law, have posted notices forbldding the going at large of dogs, unless securely mnzzled, from noon of Thursday of this week till noon of the 1st day of November next.
 MT. w. C. Buel and Dr. Cook have taken possession of their new house on South street, and we hear that Mrs. Beers will occupy the rooms vacated by Mir. Buel, and that MT. Shelton will occupy the southern part of the A. c. Smith place vacated by Dr. Cook.
 On Tuesday Prof. Wagner had an exhi- biIlOn of his trained ponies and organized a clAss of about twenty y-ive in horse training. The exhibition of ponies was very good, and the Professor is said to have been quite suc- cessful with a number of vicious animals brought tC him for training.
 MT. J. Huntington Wolcott, lately placed $1OO in the hands of Judge Seymour to be ex- pended for the benefit of the Wolcott Library, in this village. Quite a number of valuable books have thus during the winter been added 10 the library: part of them for general circu- iatiOn, are placed in the circulating library {; and part kept in the Superior Court Clerks of- fee. more particularly for reference.
 The abstract from the tax list of this vil- lage, to be found on an outside page, will re- pay the careful study of householders who will find there the amounts at which the vari- Ous residences in our village are assessed. We should judge that on the whole it is pretty fair assessment though the time-hon- ored practice of taxing women and non-resi- dents somewhat higher than resident voters, finds occasional exemplifcation in this list.
 The Winsted Herald is picking flaws in our chronology for remarking that the ''godly choir of Lyman Beecher's time" sat in the re- cess now occupied by the stage in Armory Hall Dr. Beecher left Litchieldin 1926, and the church was built in '29. Was his old choir gone 90 soon as three years after the Doctors departure and was it so very much out of the way to speak of a choir of '29 as the choir of Dr. Lyman Beecher's time Perhaps some critic will rise up next and remark that there never was such a thing as ''godly" church choir.