Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10
LTTCHFIELD.

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 -Nr. August Dornheim is in town, guest oS Dr. wm- Deming-
 Mir Clarence Deming, of the N. !. Eve nfuS POxt. is at hOme on a weeks vacation. The Juveniles paraded in full uniform with 5l-ylal hand on the Fourth making a very fine sppearance-
 MT J. |. Judd has rented his house for the seassn to Nr Isaac W. Howe, of New York
 The V. I. $. Festival of the Fourth was a sncces. The gross receipts were S119.57; net proceeds. S97.eO-
 Gov Andrews is al Fairfield, this week, where the Centennial of tine burning Of the town by the British is observed.
 Rev. Mr. Snowdon of St. Marks (Episco- paIl church, New Britain, will officiate at the chapel in Campville. on Sunday, the 20th inst
 There was an unusually fine display of fireworks at Mrs. Hassards. This is treat which has been a feature of the Fourth for several years
 MT. E. W. Pond, of Bantam, has remov ed with his family to Hetchkissville, where himself and wife have set up music and mil linery store.
 A very comical party in masks and mlli- tary costume were here on the Fourth. We at first mistOok them for the Cooperation of East Litchfeld but learned afterwards that they came in from Milton.
 The Bantam Lake House dance on the evening of the Fourth was largely attended. Over 300 people were there during the day and evening There was also a crowd at the Island House during that day.
 Mir Benjamin W. Mason, and his sons, Geo. W. Mason, Charles H. Mason and Ed ward B. Mason and their families, and Porter Mason, an unmarried son, had a family picnic ai the old homestead on Chestnut Hill, on the Fourth.
 The Mansion House, in addition to it's outside renovation, has been very handsomely papered and painted inside. The office, par Tor, and part of the rooms, have been refur- nished. We never saw the place looking so we'll as it now does.
 There is less base ball than usual on the return of the college boys from Yale for the long vacation. A game was begun, last week, between the Mutuals and the Warren club, but was broken up by a shower. The Warrens had a decided advantage.
 We hear complaints of noise in the street. late at night, especially on Saturday nights, owing to the keeping open of one 1.-the saloons. The burgesses have power under the new charter to make by laws and orders prescrib- ing the hours within which any store, shop, salson or bar-room may be kept open. We hope they will exercise the power thus given them.
 At the annual meeting of the Litchfield Mutual Fire Insurance Company, July ', Hen- ry w. Buel, Origen s. Seymour, Charles Ad- ans Geo. c. Woodruff, Henry R. Colt, Abi- jah Catlin, Charles B. Andrews, Wm. H. Braman and George c. Woodruff were elected Directors of said Company for the ensuing year. At a subsequent meeting of the direc- tors, Henry w. Buel was chosen President i; Charles Adams, Secretary Geo. c. Woodruff, Treasurer; and Abijah Catlin, Auditor.
 On Wednesday, of last week, man nam, ed s. II. Wood, of Albany, N. r., who was then staying at the Mansion House, hired team of Mir. Seth Pratt to go to Watertown. Late that night, a telegram came to Mr. Pratt from the New Haven Chief of Police, stating that Wood was trying to sell the horse at that place, and tEat he had arrested him on suspicion. Mr. II. II. Prescott, accompanied by Consta- ble Campbell, brought Wood back to this place on Thursday night. He was brought before Justice Kilbourn, and the case was adjourned till Saturday of this week for hearing.
 The Mayor of East Lltchfield is a queer functionary, and treats his creditors much as the late khedive treated the people unlucky enough to hold Egyptian bonds. Monday af- ternoon, after laboring long and vainly for his pay, private citizen took the rather bold step Of getting writ for the Mayor on small claim. Just as the latter was proposing to tear himself away from society at the county scat for the night, Sheriff Champlain came down on his horse and buggy with the attach ment. The Mayor remonstrated. His family would be in tears his sick wife would go frantic etc., etc. These statements, which were rather diplomatic than accurate, had no effect, and Mir. ''Mr. Clark" sat sullen and un- decided, when it began to rain. Mr. Cham plin stepped into his store fer moment and, briefly thereafter, Mir. Clark tore off down East Hill, with an Irishman yelling after him that Mir. Champlin wanted him. He did not seem to want Mir. Champlin, and kept on. In few moments, officer aud creditor were in hot pursuit. They overhauled the Mayor at the Starr watering trough where, finding es. cape impossible, he was cooly watering his his panting steed. It took some time and more emphatic language, to induce the Mayor tc head West. In fact he seemed to consider himself the injured party, and remonstrated 1T pathetic terms against the indignity offered ts foreign potentate merely on visit in thi benighted borough. It was no use the pro cessien turned about, and came up East Hil at gait in sad and solemn contrast witl that in which it had gone down. Finally, af ter having arranged for the payment of abou double the amount for which he could have originally settled, the chief magistrate of Eas Litchfeld took late journey over the hills tt the municipal mansion ffom which he seldom sets out but to meet with some new and strang gt disaster. Why set out at all?
 Ellsworth.
 The Fourth was observed by ball-play dance and picnic in the Maple Grove neal Daniel Halls, and inc ,,o,ol fo,,;l,, ;o,;o,