Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-06
LITCHFIELD.

LITCHFIELD.
 -Mr c. T. Sanford removes to Naugatuck, in April.
 pr Gates is out again, though not very strong as yet.
 Mrs D. E. Bostwick is paying a visit in Philadelphia.
 -Champlin is selling his best confectionery at 10 cents per quarter Mir c. F. Daniels and his mother are pay ing short visit here.
 The county commissioners held their monthly meeting, here, on Tuesday.
 Mir. c. o. Belden is back from his New York medical studies, on vacation
 MT. Seth Pratt bought the Rhoda Taylor place at auction Saturday for $SS0.
 Mir Enos B. Pratt, of Decatur H., has been in town for few days.
 Dwight J. Castle has conveyed piece of land with buildings to Joel Castle in North field.
 -Lenten services are held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at p. m., and Wednes- days at 10: a. m.
 Attention is called to card of Hick OK & Kellogg, a new law firm. Their office is temporarily at Seymours Building.
 Attention is called to the new advertise ment of Mrs. Shepard who has been buying out Mrs. Baldwin's millinery business.
 Mir. Thos. R. Trowbridge, recent graduate of the Enquirer office, is now in the employ ment of Trowbridge and Jones, Winsted.
 Mir Geo. c. Keep of Brooklyn, will de- liver religious lecture at the Baptist church in Bantam on this Wednesday, evening.
 Next Sunday afternoon, fifty probationers will be received in the Methodist church, and the sacrament of the Lords Supper will be ad- ministered.
 Charles Bissell of Maple St. had wagon pole broken in front of Lords Block Mon day evening, by one of his horses falling upon it.
 A barn belonging to MT. Wheeler, in the west part of the town, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night The origin of the fire is not known.
 Mir Geo. H. Trewbrdge has resumed his furniture and undertaking business in this place as will be noticed by change of advertisement in this issue.
 Mrs. Wm. Pratt has rented the Rev. Truman Marsh place (corner of Meadow and West SD for the coming year, MT. Egleston taking the western wing.
 A great attendance is reported at the auc ton of the property of David M. Wheeler. Some four hundred people are said to have been in attendance at the start.
 Two rather noted musical critics went down from this place to the Gilmore concert on Thursday evening last. There were two full car loads on the excursion down from Wolcottville.
 If the persons having my two volumes of 'Tennyson, and Castilian Days, by John Hay, zn one volume, will return them, no embarrass- ing questions will be asked and no unpleasant proceedings will be instituted. c. H. H. Miss Greenwood of Brooklyn will lec- ture on Temperance on the evenings of the 18th ard 20th. insts, at Armory Hall. This lady has very high reputation as speaker, and has been extremely successful in many of the larger places in this vicinity.
 Miss Smith, telegraph operator, has left her position at the post-office and returns to her native place. People have found her an ex- tremly capable and pleasant official, and the ladies of St. Michael's made her nice present in recognition of her services in the choir. - MT. Seth Pratt has had another arrival of thirty eight fine horses, by car from the West. Crowds of buyers are to be seen about his sta- hles taking their pick of these splendid ani- mals. We see by the Decatur Republican that over $2O, 900 have been paid for horses in that place during the past few weeks
 The religious interest still continues. The Methodist church holds Young Peoples meet ing, Saturday evenings in addition to their reg ular meetings on Tuesday and Thursday eve nings The Congregational church has young mems meeting at the Chapel each Fri day evening, in addition to their regular Tues day evening prayer meetings. These meetings continue to be very we'll attended particularly those of Sunday evenings.
 Sunday last was memorable day in the history of the Congregational church. At the close of the sermon in the morning upon Entrance into the church" by the Pas tor, Rev. Allan Mclean, twenty seven per sons, including some of our we'll known citi- zens, were received into membership, upon the confession of their faith in Christ. Few scenes could be mere impressive than to see this large number going forward to the front of the pulpit to take upon them the vews of Christian disciplsship while the congregation sang the familiar hymn beginning
 'Just as I am without one plea"
 The Sunday school, the same day, as an nounced by the Superintendent, was the larg- est on record in the history of the school
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