Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-01
LITCHFIELD.

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 The Circulating Library isnow open every Saturday afternoon.
 Mrs o. F. Peck has new advertisement of millinery and fancy goods.
 Mir w. H. Braman has in very large and fine stock of goods just in. Call and ex- anime
 F. D. McNeil & Go. offer extra induce ments to cash customers. See new adver- tisement.
 -HoRsE FOR SALE, CHEAP.-Inquire at the Music Rooms of E. w. Pond, Bantam, Ct. 4-2w
 Mir. c. D. Buel will bring in load of Conn River shad from Hartford, the latter part of this week.
 See new advertisement of Fuller & Trow- bridge. Persons having orders for upholster- ing should leave them at once.
 MT. Ferdinand Buel has sold 26 acres of land in the northwestern part of the town to Charles D. Wheeler tor $1, 140.
 MT. Amos G. Benton has sold the Almedia Peck house and two acres of land on South Plain to MT. James l.. White for $900
 MT. Wheeler, of New York, the purchaser of Mrs Masons place on Prospect St., is ill town and is preparing to build forthwith.
 All the personal property at East Mill has been transferred to Hon. Chas Adams, who has leased the mill to Mir. Julius Deming. See advertisement.
 The sale of property in Northfeld from J. E. A. Morse to Dexter Fillmore, announced in our last should have read Dexter E. Morse, printers blunder.
 Mir J. A. Robinson has bought building lot on North Street, opposite Prospect Street, we hear, and intends building there during the coming season.
 Mrs. Louisa Scoville of Torrington has sold 40 acres of land in the towns of Torrington and Litchfield to MT. Joseph A Newbury of the former town for $7OO.
 The meeting of The Litchfeld Temper ,ance Library Association advertised in our last has been adjourned till Monday evening next, at 7:3o, at the Masonic Hall.
 See advertisement of the new firm of Vessels & Smith. They have added the keeping of ladies furnishing goods to the for mer business of the establishment.
 -Kilbourn's Common Pleas Court was in lively session, Monday, and tried two cases This is quite mild common place (pun unln- tentionaD tribunal, quite different from the dreadful K. K. K. (Kilbourn Criminal Court. In publishing, last week, the Fast Day Sermon of Rev. Mir. Mclean, of the Congre- gational church, at this place, we omitted, through inadvertence, to mention where and by whom it was preached, and also that it was published by request of his congregation.
 Owing to slight misunderstanding, the champion belt that was to be contested for at the walking match, last Saturday night, did not arrive in time to be exhibited that evening, but may be seen for few days at Shepards jewelry store after Wednesday of this week. At the five hour walking match of Fri day night last, between Charles Bunnell and Thomas Holmes, the former made 27 miles and laps (45 laps to the mile) and won the race Holmes made 27 miles and laps At the outset Holmes made some astonishing time; miles in 28 minutes, and miles in the first hour.
 MT. Dwight w. Clark, Esq, one of the young gentlemen who was admitted to the bar, last week. has located in Falls Village He is of br;r ipta1 ia1 otto and of a modesty unusual even in the most modest of the professions. Unless we are greatly mistaken, Falls Village will find that it has acquired an extremely lively and capable young lawyer.
 The Saturday evenings fvehours race was quite an interesting one and resulted Tn a vic tory for Arthur D. Hale, who made 26 miles and 40 laps, Cone came next, making 26 miles and % laps. Ryan made 25 miles, 15 laps, and Dean about % miles. Prescott retired before the close of the match, at 20 miles. Considering the number on the track the time was very good indeed. We are sur prised to hear the less of weight of those en- gagged in the match. They were weighed just before they went on the track and just after coming off. Hale weighed no pounds when he went on, and only 1O4 lbs when he came of. The rest, being heavier men, lost about ' or fbs each.
 The very large quantity of milk given by Mir. F. Ra tchford Starr's Jersey COW Hilbert, from Oct. 29th, 1878, to Dec. 31, 1878, as pub- lshed by us in January last, was commented upon by numerous newspapers and magazines throughout the country.
 Her yield of milk has continued large up to the present time. During the six months, from Oct. 29, 1878, to April 29, 1879, she gave 6757 pounds of milk. Her own weight was tested three times during the six months and was as follows:
 1895
 1885