Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-19
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Litchfeld.

on West street is being done this week
 The "Iitchfield Light Guard" Go H, 4th Regt c. N G.. attended the funeral of their late Col. k. B. Fairchd, at Bridgeport, On Monday.
 Mir c. s. Foster of Winsted, will be in Lilciield again on Monday next, with very fine and cheap line of samples. He will be found at Vessels & Gates.
 The Messrs. Bissel have been repainting the outside of the court house, which now shines with lustrous white emblematic of the quality of justice administered there.
 REPUBLICAN DELEGATEs :-StGte, C. E. BisI,np, J. II. Catlin, w. J. Hall, S. II. Dud- ley.
 Congressional F. Cook, Levi Wooster, C. D. KilbOurn, A. J. Beach.
 The Health Committee have been contin- uing their examinations, and it is believed that considerable improvement in the condition of sanitary affairs has been effected. Much more ought to be done, however, as soon as cold weather makes thorough work practicable.
 Tine Rev. Mr. Ihrall, of Washington, preached at the M E. church, in this village last Sunday, Rev. Mir. McAllister officiating in the COnssregregational church, at Washing ton. Next Sunday evening, Mir. McAllister will deliver the first of series of sermons upon the life and character of Moses.
 Tine Amy Stone Dramatic and Musical Alliance will appear at Armory Hall, on Tues day evening the 24th inst, when they will present Dion Boucicaulfs great play, in six acts. emtitIe.i. Lied Astray." This troupe played here twice. last season, to full houses, giving fine entertainment each time. Re- served seats can be secured at the post-Office. The evening of the Reunion was disgraced IIy some disturbance of the peace, mostly by ..hOme talent" 4 number of these offenders were brought before Justice Kilborn on Mon- sIay. and dealt with as the law directs. Of the IItchfeld parties James Coby was fined g. Roger MOral,an, $5 and Michael Bray Jr., was given ten days in jail. Martin Havi- can. of Bethlehem, was fined $5 and William Lane. of Cornwall Crooked SS," was given 90 days in jail, the justice making no allow ance for the croOkedness of his home surround ings in punishing the crookedness of his gait here.
 The Meriden Republican suggests that the Republican State Convention might do great deal worse than to put Charles B. An drews, of Iilchield, at the head of the State ticket-Rag.
 Hon. Charles B. Andrews of Litchfeld, is suggested by some of the state papers as sulilsIe ,lersOn for gubcrnatiorial candidate on the Republican state ticket. Mir. Andrews aS,xsatIa rax1,rfafiOn laot Xvnfar oa chairman of the judiciary committee in the House. by which he was placed in the front rank among the ablest men in the state.- Win- sfosf HeydM.
 The Superior Court was occupied during tie remainder of it's last weeks session with the trial of the case of Martin K Barnes vs. the Tossn cT PlynlOath. The suit arises from aa acsident to the plaintiff in January 1876. It seems that he drove of the end of a sluice in road in the town of Plymouth, which he claims was left in an unsafe condition. The accident occurred in the evening during snow squail, and the defendants claim that if there was any fault 1t was sn the part of the plaintiff himself. The jury disagreed: nine, we understand. favored the plaintiff; and fhFee, the defendant. This is the sec OBd time tise case has been tried with the same result of a disagreement of the jury. Newell & Graves for plf., Penn & Andrews for delft. Trial of state cases began this week with the trial 0f Eagene Banker for burglary and theft of Mir. DefOrests buggy. The identification Of II,e buggy was so complete that the jnry agrs1d almost without leavingtheir seats upon avertiict 0f guilty.
 -The death of Maria Seymour, September 1lth, threw B deep gloom over us, like the twilight in which she passed away; and sor- TOwful hearts all over the village that she loved So well were asking themselves could not thi' shadow pass from them2 The sick poor will miss her visits, in storm and sunshine, and tht needy little ones of the Sunday School will want Der nimble fingers which helped to clotht them. and qusyeriDg young voices will seem tt go essray in the hymns without hers to lead them. Our Chapel service will hardly be itself without her familiar figure at the little organ and the church choir will long echo In oar ears the ''sOund of voice that is still. The simplicity of the funeral was very touch ing The three brothers and three cousins ol the deceased lovingly bore the coffin, covered with rarcst flowers, from her home to tho church, where the Bishop of the Diocese ant the Rector of St. Michael's awaited it. 4 large ccncourse of friends, gathered from ia and near, filled the church. It might trul be said that they were all mOurners. Tn services were as simple as the ritual q the church will allow. No eulogy wa spoken and no requiem was sung. Onl the hymn. Abide with me-" was read wit deep emotion Flowers dropped from the fon altar and pulpit, and the black drapery hang ing from the gallery of the choirto mark tn vacant place. was also decked with white blo' sons. A large part of the congregation fO lowed to the grave Slowly the many carriage wound in and around the old grave yard ti we came to the new, where in an open spa6 looking upon the river, the woods and the hill we laid her down to rest. After the buri words were said, tender hands almost file the grave with flowers and strewed them ovt t. We left her with the soft autumn SUI Eesting upon her, and upon her darling flowe the Morning Glory, lying on her breast.
 We do not weep for her, but for her fath and mother, bent with age and bitter anguisl Tier highly wrought, sensitive and retiring nj tnre ill-fltted her for a long stay here; and h, fipe vision will now be gladdened with u sight of things hitherto unseen. Storms wi not gather oyer her now: The loving hand her earthly fatheT soothed her while they we pnsaing here, and the arm of her Heaven Father will forever guard her in that re which remaineth for the people of God. V.