Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-11
Litchfeld.

Six young ladies were confirmed at the Episcopal church on Tuesday evening.
 A runaway horse, Friday evening, ran al- moa into Braman's, smashing the wagon on the ssOne posts outside.
 The new bakery, ice-cream and cOnfec- tisneEy saloon on South Street opened this week. See Advertisement. Pref. LasIier will give French Enter tainmeut" at Armory Hall, tomorrow CThurs- day) evening.
 An epidemic carried eff quite large part of the Methodist congregation, Sunday; no permanent results feared.
 There will be preaching at the Methodist church, morning and evening, during the months of July and August, with no afternoon services.
 We see it announced that Rev. MT. Henry of Stamford, son of Dr. Henry, formerly rec tor of St. Michaers, has received and accepted a call from St. Stepheh's Episcopal church of Ridgefeld.
 On Friday the executive committee of Litchheld Temperance Association met and elected Hon. G, H. Hollister, President, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Deming. IL B. Graves was chosen Vice President, and H. ". Adams, member of the executive committee.
 On Friday there was a sad case of drown ing near the Lake View Hotel A Mir. Wright, who had been brought here laboring under mental alteration, escaped from those in charge of him. ran through the field back of Mir Richards, and plunged into the large spring on land of Mir Adams He was fol- lowed almost immediately, but was not dis covered till life was extinct. He was resi- dent of Poughkeepsie.
 In Granby the Hon. Charles B. Andrews, the acknowledged leader of the last house of representatives, was the orator of the day, and made an eloquent address, fully sustaining his high reputation. His treatment of the con- ventiOnal Fourth of July topics was original and very interesting. His speech gave great satisfaction to his large audience, perhaps the largest ever assembled in the town on any similar occasion. Visitors were present from surrounding towns, Windsor, Simsbury, East Granby, Canaan Hartland and adjoining towns in Massachusetts. Besides Mir. Andrews Congressman Rsiney of South Carolina and Hon. N. B. Stevens of Hartford made short but stirring speeches. Both these gentlemen were called upon unexpectedly, being present as visitors only. Mir. Rainey made telling Speach which was heartily applauded through out and made most favorable impression on an audience composed of strangers and large ly made up of political opponents. Mir. Ste vens's speech was in his happiest vein and was a complete success. -PGUddtonn.
 - The Clerk of the Courts has been notified of the decision of several of the cases tried here last month:
 In Sharon vs. GGge' the Superior Court was advised to dismiss the petition.
 In GraUes vs. HickO9 the judgment of the lower court was affirmed.
 Tagle vs. Casc was ordered struck from the docket on the ground that the reservation does not bring up the merits of the case, or the sui ilciency of the declaration, or the jurisdiction of the court below.
 In Watson vs HaR judgment was advised for the defendant. .
 In SSecens vs. NorJOk no error was found inthe judgment of the court below.
 In Woodra1, EsecutOr, vs. Mi9eon, the iudg. ment of the lower court was affirmed.
 In KnOscIes vs NorthsOp, a new trial is no, advised
 Fourth of July was a glorious day. Tha, is. it was less of a nuisance than almost any Fourth we ever knew. The bells rang, o1 course, and the crackers cracked, and thu deuce was to pay with all male humanity un der 15. but there was blessed rain that damp cned the powder and the ardor of our tormen. tors. besides cooling the air little. Then tht b3nd was quite entertaining. It rendered Yankee Doodle and Hail Columbia and tn, Star SpaRgled Banner with dash of the Irisl brogue, with suspicion of the shillelagh, ant with an enthusiasm that was really admirable
 Time is working in behalf of suffering pub lic in enc important particular. The rusty ol, six-pounders and twelve pounders that used t be found in rearly every town, thirty or fort. years ago are mostly bursted. Probably tn bursting of them has cost some lives; but tn guns arc gone. and the peace they have lief behind is perhaps worth what it has cost, afte al, especially when we take into account tn racket the fellows who went up with their ar tiAey weuld have made in some other wa, had their lives been spared.
 -Oa M enday evening H. B. Graves Esq. delivered an address before the Litchfeld Tem pcraBce Association. In spite of the heat o Rnm and nf ha tice. nearly. 200 people were in attendance We cannot attempt any full report of wha wns one of the very best and most effective ar gumenfs in behalf of Total Abstinence that W have ever heard Addressing himself especia ly to those whs call themselves temperate sswhO can drink, or who can let it alone"-h he made an earnest. candid, but convincing al peal urging on them the duty of taking tf higher ground of Total Abstinence He b Eeved that they owed it to themselves, to the wives and children, to take this step. It ws from their ranks that the grand army of in 1wiates was recruited. They might stand they might fall-who could tell which? f. fhe attack of tho alcoholic appetite was tc Saealthy and too fatal for men ever to appr 
 ciaae their own danger. For their own sake aheFcfoEe, and for the sake of those who woul be overwhelmed in their ruin, let the tempe ate take the pledge of total abstinence. Wha too. of mans duty to his neighbor? '4f yc will do nothing for yourselves, will you n come up and help asf" Your sympathy as
 your example are needed to strengthen tho
 who are striving to cast of the shaclSles of a
 petite. It was needed to raise the mor
 tone of socicty-tC root out habits of indl genee by making them unpopular disreput ble This community, this State, this nati' will be safe, and their youth will no long grow up in deadly peril of infection, only wh
 sle modcrate drinker can be prevailed upon
 give mp his indulgence He says it will cc
 him n0fhing For the sake of humanity, the