Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-05

chills, So common in Fairfield and New Haven counties, are developing here. Some cases in Hctchkissville as something new in this place, -The Hotehkissville reading room which was to go up so grandly is at stop and much good suspended, but not all.
 ANEW HARTFORD scandal is reported as follows in the Hartford Post Johu Messenger, baggage master on the Pennington and New Hartford branch of the Canal road became 1 involved i'll lively scandal last week inconnec- ! tion with the wife of Mir. Rice, proprietor of one of the New Hartford hotels. and has gone 1 to Montreal for his health. It seems that Mr. Rice had suspected the existence of criminal intinlacieS between his wife and Messenger for some time, and of q recent afternoon ex- pressed his purpose of going to Great Barring l ton for the night. Taking the 5:25 train on the Connecticut Western road, he left the way l clear apparently for his wife to manage mat l ters at home during his absence. But at Win sted MT. Rice got off the train, and securing a carriage, drove back to New Hartford. His wife had not sensed the plan at all, and on his arrival was found in her room with the bag gage master retired in the bedroom adjoining, but with the door securely locked The hus- l band broke open the door, infuriated at his discovery, and attempted to shoot the intruder on the spot, but his pistol missed fire Mes senger had not had time to get his clothes on, but seeing that his life was in danger, sprang by his captor and fled naked into the streets. After desperate race, he eluded the injured husband, and escaped. Last week he reached Holyoke and spent two or three days there, but left On the express train for Montreal, Saturday evening Mrs. Rice is woman of about thirty years, prepossessing in appear ance, and was formerly of Great Burlington Since the scandal her husband has sent her
 home. Messenger is unmarried.
 NEW HARTFORD veterans met last Saturday
 to consider the expediency of extending an
 invitation to the Eight Regiment Conn. Vols.
 to hold their annual reunion of 1876 in this
 village.-The store in Mrs. Hazen's block, re-
 gently occupied by Lyman Doolittle as an ice cream saloon, is soon to be opened as a boot and shoe store by Adolph Tom. Michael
 Buckley is building cider mill on his place
 west of the village.-Mrs. R. R. Smith and
 Miss Helen Field are at Martha's Vineyard - Rev. F. H. Adams and family are at Wilson,
 N. Y., spending three weeks vacation.
 At ToRR1oGToN, last week, Wm. Wilcox killed
 a rattlesnak
 THE TWISTED Union Cornet Band will be
 present at the grand temperance mass meeting
 at Lakeville next Thursday Michael Ryan
 of Rock st.. has corn which measures over 15
 feet.-The Steel Guard, it should be remem-
 bered, and their friends, are to have day of
 picnic and parade at Lakeville, next Wednes-
 day.-HeraI.- I.-The New York Elevated
 Railroad are using secondhand engines, at
 least sixteen were on the Conn. Western be-
 fore they were used in New York.-Thomp-
 son $ Go, bought out the Cottage Hall proper
 ty owned by the late Wm. Huggins, and
 have put in three new billiard tables.-Neaos
 As the season of new cider approaches, one
 by one the blue ribbons fall. The melancholy
 days are near.-Frost was observed in several
 places in the village on Sunday morning last.
 A scissors grinder and an umbrella mender
 were picked up by the police on Saturday
 night last for drunkenness. Iron stand pipes
 have been erected in various parts of the bor-
 ough for the benefit of the street sprinkler,
 who is now enabled to fill his cart with water
 without alighting