Litchfield enquirer., 1879-01-30
COUNTY ITEMS.

| ing things lively drawing their ore over from Amenia by teams Advent meetings are
 being held at Puffingham.
 CORNWALL HOLLOW has been much arous-
 ed lately on the subject of religion Meetings
 have been conducted by Revs Benedict of
 Bridgeport, and Smith of Bantam, under the
 auspices Of the Baptist State association.
 Many have gone forward for prayers, and several have bpurI iurrrr1Ier-i.
 NORFOLK dogs go unmuzzeled in defiance of the statute in such case provided. West Nor folk tanneries, the hosiery and the axle facte- ries. are in pretty active operation.
 from Mir. E. H. Bradsley and other temperance workers, from New Preston. Charley Cald- well had an upset not long since. and rolled twenty feet dove bank
 BRIDGEwArER has been debating the follow in , question. which was decided in the atfirma- tive: ResoLded- Ministers have exerted a greater influence on the world at large than Lawyers" Owing no doubt to clerical error, the words flor evil" were omitted from the last line. Literary Society has been having readings, &c.-At the annual meeting of the Horse Thief and Burglar Association several new names were added and the old Board of Officers were reelected.
 NEW HARTFORD has been debating the queer question: Resolved, Tnat literature IS as great blessing to mankind as agriculture. Which suggests doubt whether paper collars are really a greater invention than trousers. An admission fee of ten cents is charged The above question is worth more than that Rev. William R. Stocking gave very enter tainng lecture at the Congregational chapel, recently on the manners and customs of the Persians. Febuary 1st the operatives in the Greenwoods Cotton Mills will work but 10 hours per day.-Mr. Evarts school (N E. Dls't.) closed on the 16th inst on account of the prevailing disorder, about 80 pupils being unable to attend. The driving of piles has commenced for the temporary bridge on the Canal R.. R, where the iron bridge was carried Traver was convicted on the 10th inst, of brutal assault upon Mary Murray, and taken to jail.-Potatoes are now selling in the New Hartford market at $1 per bushel tur- nips B to 50 cents, onions $1, apples $1. 9 per barrel, butter 9 cts. per lb., eggs 25 cts. per dozen. Goodwin suit against the Conn. Western R. R. Co. has been settled and the Company have got their engine back which was attached on this suit.
 At FALLS VH.LAGE,a a horse belonging to Mir. Dean, which the Rev. MT. Reid of this place was keeping, died recently with symptoms of hydrophobia. Cornet Band gave concert and promenade in the Hall on Friday evening g.--Rev. A. N. Benedict, of Bridgeport, deliverd an excellent temperance address ip- Citizens Hall, recently.-D. G. Lawson will give an evenings entertainment in the Hall on the evening of Feb. Sth, consisting of readings, recitations. &c.
 The LAKEvlIIE Literary Association is opened to the public. The exercises consist of readings, singings, &c-A walkist has been exhibiting at Barton's Hall.-It is rumored that the Wo- nonsco House is 70 be enlarged. temper ancs lecture of Mir. G. H. Holister of Litch- field, was well attended and is highly spoken of.-There is an extensive revival started at the Methodist church. The Lakeville Sabbath ming, February 4th.
 The WATERTowN correspondent of the Win sted Herald complains of the 'hap-hazard, not ts say stupid votes" given by women church members in the election of deacons pr. Hun- gerford surrendered the probate office to Col Hotchkiss on the 1st Monday of this month- People are much disgusted with the workings of License. ."-The young man who cheated his old aunts so shamefully, has been trying to get Aunt Hannah" to sign petition for his release from State Prison. She fails to see if in that hght.-The "Warren House snciahlos,, had dance on the 18th inst.-There was free entertainment at Citizens Hall recently. Readings by Rev. s. F. Palmer of Bethlehem There are about 12 winter. boarders at the Warren House.
 WooDBURY thermometers fell to 14o below zero on Tuesday of last week.-There have been, in 1S7S 12 marriages, 42 births and 28 deaths in thls town, which is an increase in births, and decrease in marriages and deaths. On the evening of the 17th inst. c. l.. Pom eroy, of Bridgeport, gave lecture in the town hall and related his experience in two-years' trip making a collection of birds in Florida, He also exhibited the phonegraph.- h.-James Boyce caught 3S pickerel in Quassapaug Pond one day recently.-A party of young people took sleigh ride to Oxford for the benefit of themselves and the fair of the Episcopal church at that plsce.-Fox hunters are busy. A large party of Good Templars went over to call on their Waterbury brethren on the 21st.
 The NEW MILFORD Orchestra played at a birthday party in Bethlehem on the 22d, and 75 couples were present. Petitions for and against the release of Charles Allen, from States Pris- on, are being circulated in this town-An un- usually large number were at the meeting of the young peoples Temperance Union on We'd nesday evening. annual meeting of the Housatonic Agricultural Society will be held at the New Milford House on Monday Feb. 3d.- On Monday evening last, about score of Odd Fellows from Samaritan Lodge, of Danbury, came on sleigh-ride to this Village They visited Good Shepherd Lodge, and after the session were entertained by Landlord Sher- wood.-Last Friday afternoon. Dr. Charles W. Couch, who has been practcing physician at Gaylordsvlle for a number of years, was taken
 with delirium tremens at a store on Banks st.
 He has an invalid wife and two daughters.
 who have not lived with the husband and fath
 CT for some time on account of his neglect to
 provide for them as he ought.-Ray.-La
 Sunday morning the thermometer marked IA
 degrees below zero. Tuesday morning it fell
 to 17 degrees. About thirty members of the
 Y. P. T. U. go to New Preston this Friday)
 evening to attend the meeting of the Temper
 anee Union. Gazette
 A KENT correspondent of the Courant re-
 ports that, Deputy Sheriff Fillmore, of Kent
 was brought before New Milford justice,
 Saturday, charged with assaulting John D.
 Piercy. The trial was adjourned one week. It
 appears that Elmore met Piercy in place in
 the road where there was very little room to
 turn out Piercy turned as far as possible
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