Litchfield enquirer., 1878-04-04
Gbe Cittb6cIh Enauirer,
 LlTCRFlELD, CONN.
Litchfeld.

Henry B. Woodward, of Watertown, has ouit-clamcd 38 acres of land inNorthfield, to Clark S. Woodward.
 James C. Gleason has quit-claimed all his interest in the place north of Vim. Norton's, on South St., to Margaret Gleason. @
 Clark S. Woodward, of Watertown, has conveyed thirty acres of land in Northfield, to Wm k. Elliot.
 Leonard C. and Lucy L. Munson have leased half the dwelling house formerly owned by Daniel Hotchkiss, in Northfeld, to Han- nah Jacobs for life.
 Mrs. Mary Ann Wilmot has conveyed to Rev. Hiram Stone the dwelling-house next east of the Episcopal church in Bantam, and about twenty acres of land, for $1500.
 Attention is specially called to advertise ment of new shoe firm, and to new advertise ments of Fuller 6 Trowbridge, Flynn & Doyle and Bishop d5 Sedgwick
 In the case of Charles r. B0ldsoiaa, vs iSeLos E. Caezey, tried before Justice Woodruff on NAOuudy, NlC PldiiItilA ndd JuuShi0nV loi $12 g and costs; Graves forplaintiff and Hol- lister for defendant.
 The Superior court opened Tuesday, but adjourned for want of business til. next week. Judge Hitchcock cannot be here after next week, but the bar have sent strong request to the Chief Justice for another judge. Mir Wm. M. Webster has conveyed about sixty acres of land with buildings thereon, on Chestnut Hill, to Almon B. Webster. He also conveys forty acres of land with buildings to Mrs. Martha A. Hine for $1, 1850.
 We have made no reference as yet to the affairs of the Shepaug Valley Milk Association, supposing that some arrangement of it's diff culties would soon be made. The committee mentioned by our Washington correspondent have conferred with the officers of the compa- ny, but no settlement has been as yet effected.
 Mir. George B. Graves, Temperance Mission ary, and President of the Waterbury Reform Club, will hold series of meetings at Armory Hall on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun- day evenings next, commencing at seven o'clock. The annual meeting of the LitchfeId Centennial Total Abstinence Society will be held at the chapel of the Congregational church at 2. p. m. on Monday evening next.
 Last week there was three days trial be- fore Justice Kilbourn in the Town Room, of the cases of IState vs. Petr-ick Lacy, snd Wm H. Gilbert vs. P@trick Lacy, for alleged theft of Gilberts hay by Lacy. The latter has been living on Mir. Gibert's place in Milton, and it appeared on the trial that large amount of hay had been taken from now belonging to Gilbert by tunneling under it in such way that the lessening of it's quantity did not show from the outside. Lacy claimed that through some boards being off the barn, his cattle had got at the hay from the outside, and made the hole in Gilbert's now complained of. The court found on the evidence offered that Lacy had himself abstracted the hay, gave judg- ment against him for $60 in the civil suit, and bound him over in $2OO bonds to answer be- fore the Superior court to the criminal prose- cution.
 
 side, of the industry, tact, and judgment dis played by our first representative during the past legislative session. Holding by far the most responsible as we'll as the most laborious position in the legislature, his conduct and dis patch of business have shown him one of the ablest parliamentarians in the state. Says the Hartford Courant:
 The house did fitting and handsome thing in the last hour of the session, by unanimously passing resolution thanking the Hon. Charles B. Andrews of Litchfield for the ability and dispatch with which he has performed the du. ties of chairman of the judiciary committee on the part of the house. The house has rarely had at the head of this important committee so indefatigable worker Mir. Andrews has la- bored night and day over committee matters, and having with him associates who have sec onded his efforts, the judiciary business has been forwarded with alacrity and yet with in- telligent consideration. His explanation of bills has been clear and concise. He has, on the whole, made SO good record that, repub- lican though he is, the old democratic town of Litchfeld should congratulate him, irrespec- tive of party, ''by large majority"
 We are indebted to Dr. Wm Porter, for merly of this village, now Superintendent and Physician of the New York institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, for the an- nual report of that charity, and for copy of a monthly paper printed by pupils of the institu- tions The number of deaf-mutes now under instruction there, is 507-most of them, state benefciaries The yearly expenses of this asy- lum amount to about quarter of million dollars, and the pupils are taught the rudi- ments of an industrial as we'll as of scholastic education. With regard to themuch talked of systems of instruction in articulation and read ing the meaning of spoken words from the motion of the lips, one of the examiners reports as follows:
 The examination of the classes in articula- tion and lip-reading convinced your committee that so far as semi-mutes are concerned, this is an important department of instruction, and should be continued, as it has heretofore been, in the hands of an expert in this speciality. But, in respect to the congenitally deaf, the committee are of the opinion that the percent age of beneficial success is so small as not to encourage it's continuance where it conflicts with other studies.
 SPRING CHANGES MT. Austin Wheeler has moved into the east part of the Mcintosh house, corner of West and Spencer St.
 Mir. John B. Slate has moved from the res idence of Mir. Amasa Stevens on West St., to the Isaac Taylor place on North Chestnut Hill Charles Kenyon takes up his residence with Mir. Stevens.
 Mir. Geo. Peck has removed from Spencer ;St., to North Chestnut Hill.
 Mrs. Harry Bissell occupies her own house .on Spencer street.
 Mir. Geo. Powell has moved into his new house on Cheney St.
 Mrs. Henry Ward has removed from Zoar's Bridge to her house on Meadow St.
 Willis Carter has moved to the house oppo- site James Smiths on the Wolcottville road.
 Mir. Brague has moved from one of MT. Starrs houses into Rufus Provost's brick house near South Bridge.