Litchfield enquirer., 1878-06-27
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 -The Yale boys are all home on their long vacation.
 The many old friends of MT. P. s. Beebe are delighted to see him here on visit.
 The County house has been re -papered and repainted and the new jailer has moved in.
 The Ladies Temperance Union meets at Armory Hall, on Wednesday of next week, at 4, p. m.
 MT. T. R. Trowbridge Jr., has come up from New Haven to his country residence on North Street.
 -"Poganuc People," by Harriet Beecher Stowe, story of Litchfeld, in ye olden time, for sale at Buell. & Wheelers.
 A house has been built on Seymour's Lane down the north side of West Street, for Wm. Hurlburt's family.
 MT. Frank Hills new house down East Street is up, covered, and is being rapidly pushed to completion.
 The new deputy sheriff is having lively run of official business, and has been obliged to employ an extra clerk in consequence.
 The earthquake" of few nights since, on South Street, turned out to have been oc- casioned by the fall of large wood pile be- longing to c. M. Woodruff, Esq.
 The frame of Mr. Truman Catlin's new house on Lake Street has been raised, and is now nearly covered. It is to be very large, nice residence, probable the best on that street. They have fiddler, and very good fld- dler, in jail Whether it was the jealousy Of musical rivals, or the misfortune of color, or petty larceny, that brought him there we have not learned.
 The Lane market, South Street, is about to be changed into bakery, confectionery store and ice cream saloon. It is now being thoroughly refitted for that purpose, and is to be opened early next week.
 Milton and Bantam are to celebrate the 4th, by way of Union Picnic in the grove of Mir. Ethan Kilbourn, near the head of Maple Street. Arrangements will be made to enter tain a large gathering, and an invitation is hereby extended to the neighboring communi- ties to join in the festivities of the occasion. -One hundred and four drummers and fifers were present at the drummers muster in Moo- dus an the l9th, and ,QOo people e.-= Waterbury -Anae17cGq1.
 Five thousand s'drummers'' and one hundred and four spectators would have seemed more natural. At least, that is about the proportion in the streets of Litchfield but ffers are really scarce.
 The minister referred to in our local col unn a fortnight since was not the son of the former pastor of the Congregational church here, as the suffix 'Jr." led us to suppose, but that gentleman himself. He has since re. ceived call to settle with the Third Presby. teIan church of Pittsburg at salary of $S, 900; all which indicates that he is not altogether uA-Presbyterian.
 The Shepaug Depot is being thoroughly repaired and painted, and several of the pas senger cars are repainting, darker shade than formerly. The new time table ought tc be popular one It not only accommodates travel to and from New York better than any previous arrangement; but it gives people coming up from below two hours in Litchfeld, returning the same day. The New York morn. ing papers are received almost an hour earlier than formerly.
 One of our druggists, in the innocence of his heart, headed his bulletin board, announcing all kinds of soda water, etc., with the motto 'tHo, every one that thirsteth," !" supposing that this would certainly strike deep into the chord of the popular heart, and it did, but not just in the expected direction. Our farmer friends got mad at it because it was unnatural advice, and the crops haden't got big enough to hoe The distinguished holder of the bottle of arni ca didn't like it, observing that it was spelled wrong, and he was judge of bad spells. The temperance people complained they didn't likt these sheep in wolves clothing. The moderate drinkers, what few there are left, said it wa. preposterous to give such advice, and our poo druggist caught it on all sides. In this dilem ma a nautical friend came along and told hin to reef his topsaii, which he did, and now witt the objectionable motto turned under the plail words, soda water, tempt the beholder tt spend his half dime for extract of marble duS with wink to season it with.-Lttch1ed Cor respondenee of the Waterbury Ame'fcan.
 At the session of the Supreme Court here last week, all the judges were present excep Judge Granger, and the remainder of the cases on the docket were argued. The following decisions were rendered:
 SOudGnt vs. Wadhams Defendants re- joiner to plaintiffs replication sufficient. Req sons, by Pardee,-Judge.
 HaYT vs. Chase. Advise decree for the pc titioner. Petitioner not to account for rent and profits and no deduction for waste Reasons by Carpenter, Judge.
 GrissooM vs C0ok. New trial not advised Reasons, by Park,-Chief Judge.
 I5naith vs French. Erased from the docket Superior Court has no jurisdiction. It cam np on appeal from a judgment by defau which the statute does not allow.
 Not long since Mir. J. Huntington Wo colt, the gentleman who furnished the funt with which nearly all the books in the Wolco Library were purchased, made another gene ous donation of $100, with which the follow ing volumes have been added to the Wolce Library of Reference:
 Ancient Life History, Nicholso Origin Of Nations Rawiinso BaneroFs History Vols. and 10.
 "Reminiscences of Daniel Webster. Harvt Birds of New England, Samu Taines English Literature,
 The Chaldean Account of Genesis, Geo. Shit Alas. rian Discoveries Guizots Popular History of France, 6 volsl
 6urkee Works. G vols1
 Drakss Biographical Dictionery
 HHlsiory of Torrington, -. Orcut On Language, Whitn.
 The foregoing works can be consulted, the office of Wm. L. Ransom, Esq. Leckey History of England in the Eighteenth Centur, History of the Earth and work on Egyp have been placed in the Circulating Library h Judge Seymour (who had the disposition MT. Wolcott'sfund) for use therein, the bool remaining the property of the Wolcott [ "A.