Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-12
Litchfeld.

The old Academy on North Street is be- ing made over into fine dwelling house. 7
 Fanny J. Camp has sold five acres of land in Northfeld to Augusta L. Camp, for $500.
 -J. c. Beckwith has extended the concrete walk in front of his residence on South Street.
 Republican caucus on Monday afternoon next, 4p. at m., for choice of convention dei- egates.
 MT. T. s. .Sedgwick has sold building lot down East Hill, next MT. F. B. Hills lot, to Daniel Berry.
 F. Cora S. Morse has bought fifty acres of land in Northfeld, of Samuel Morse, of Hudson, N. Y., for $500. .~ @
 The annual meeting of the Centre School District is called to meet at the school house on Saturday afternoon next, at 4p Ill. .t-Messrs. .t .Devoe 6 Hill have been grading the hill between their houses on East Hill and the road, making great improvement both Tn looks and in convenience of access.
 Dupont & Sanger's Variety Troupe give an entertainment at Armory Hall, this (Thurs- day) evening. They are well spoken of by the press in towns they have visited.
 -The new house on the Slate place, on West Street. up and covered. It has piazza and bay window. and when finished will be one of the neatest residences on that street.
 -Mr Jacob Morse has sold four acres of land adjoining the West Cemetery to the Ro- man Catholic church and congregation of this village, to be used as Catholic cemetery.
 Geo Cramer and wife, of Winchester, have sold to Cornelia. A. Johnson, of that town, their third part of sixty-eight acres Of land formerly owned by Hiram Taylor, and situated about three miles north of this vil- lage.
 We hear that for sometime past a resident of Prospect Street has made practice of an- moving neighbor by blowing horn, and in other ways One pight last week, the win dows of the house of the former were s mashed in by throwing junk bottles.
 At a Democratic caucus held here on Mon day the following delegates were chosen for the various conventions:
 state;mGsS; M, M W9Odygffa sea! E. w. Seymour
 Co1sgressiosaI-G. H. Hollistcr, Wm. Bis sell, Edward o. Peek, Geo. H. Baldwin.
 4r05ate.-C. F. Baldwin, k. F. Meulthrop, c. E. Curtiss, A. J. Pierpont.
 T'0aon COanmittee.-H. II. Prescott, E. ID. Weeks, D. F. Griswold H. P. Griswold, Geo. Guernsey, 10. O. Peck. ------~ Mondays excursion took about 180 pas sengers down the Shepaug, and some 1000 down both Shepaug and Housatonic. There were 5000 on the boat and 8 delightful sail is reported. Several unwary excursionis.s were carried by Hawleyville on the Housatonic re- turn train, and on Tuesday husbands and fa- thers were hastening down the Shepaug to gather up their scattered families. That night, however, the Cornwall Bridge stage came in we'll loaded with missing" greatly to the re- lief of relatives and friends
 Examination was made, this week, by the Board of Health, of premises on Meadow Street As far as can be discovered, the chief difficulty there seems to result from the fact that the drainage of South and upper West Streets is discharged upon the premises of peOT pie living on the east side of Meadow Street. This, it is thought, is the occasion of the fever at Mir. Wooster's. There are one or two ad- ditional cases of typhoid, and there was one death last week, making two deaths in all from typhoid fever in the village, this season. The rest who were first seized are now conva- lescent.
 In the Superior Court, last week. the civi l case of Samuel F. Weston and soifs vs. ElE1t B. Hinman, was tried to the jury to recover for an alleged assault on Mrs. Weston by the defendant The dialcr'ty out of which the case arose occurred in Harwinton in Jaauary 1875 nesir house rented by the defendant to Weston. A scutfie had begun between them when, as MT. & Mrs. Weston testified, she in. terfered and was struck three times by the defendant. The latter and his daughter denied that he struck her at all. Witnesses were ex- amined ts impeach Weston, and others in sup port of his character for truth. The jury found verdict for the defendSnt Graves and Hollister for plaintiff Catlin and Hun tington for defendant, The case of Barnes vs PlymoetA for dama- ger alleged to have been occasicned by de- tective sluice is now on trial. Like Weston vs. Hinmdn this case has been tried once before to tisagreeing jury. Trial of criminal cases begins on Tuesday next, the following cases being set down for trial on the following days
 Tuesday, Sept, IT Frank H. Tiffany, (two cases1, Dwight J. Strong, Harry Payne. '- Wednesday, Sept; 1s; William Wood, Pat rick Lacy, Eugene Banker a9 three cases). D. Adams.
 Friday, Sept. 20; John Story, Malacl' Boyle. Johanna Carroll, Ann Bryn. .A
 Tuesday, Sept. 24 !; Elizabeth Lyon, Albert Barney, Frederick Hoffmam.
 Wednesday, Sept % Franl HopLins Ira Johnson, William Berkins, Horatio G. Spery. 2 Thursday, Sept. 26; Irwin J. Beardsley, 6 easesI Levi Curtiss, William H. Porter, Julius l, Merwin, James Marshall.