Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-18
LITCHFIELD.

-NeNed < Co, have fine lot of holiday gcod<-
 -NrChAries Merriman and wife have gone to wt=r11<5n for months visit
 Mi. Gen- Kenuey has been putting new f1-uzee in his house
 -Ths s,za1a engine at the Echo Farm Dali " xTH be started, we hear. on Saturday.
 -uu Tuestzy night came a light snow fuzs eao1gh to spoil the holiday skating.
 -Nr- WalrUus' select school takes vaca- rb,u oE s1aae three weeks from Friday of th5z week
 -Thase seArrhTng for Christmas goods will do well to examine the stock displayed at w.. E Packs, before purchasing. -Tae vOln- people of both Congrega tional and ErEscopzI churches are busy preparing wrga.hs 1Bd SShe1 Christmas decorations. -TEs title uE the lecture to be delivered by ReT- W H. NcAHisteE, al Armory Hal, Mon day szeaTng. J2a- 12sh. $ Three Score Years and Tea
 We kn1w Christmas is coming when we b1.ok info Mrs SEsep4rd's and see those beauti fuI Dagls selling 30 cheap and Millinery at resi2crsi prices -Dr BaeI has sold the Blake place, on Prospect S5-. to NIT. Henry R. Jones, of B-DnkIyn, O~Der of the old Beecher place which adiaiHs fl Ou the east: price, S2,OOO. -Nr D1yTd Turner, administrator on the estate sF AIEits Birge, has sold the place owae=i by the d=ce2sed in NOrthfeld to Sa- rzh | BlakesIee for s1, 720.
 -Mr Poster, of West Winsted, will be at the stnre of Vessels and Gates, on Monday Rext, with choice selection of foreign and do- messic wOniens. prepared to take orders for anything in his line Persons wishing good custom work- should give him a call -Ts< Saeppard Jubilee Singers give con- <ers al ArIangy Hall; tomorrow CThursday) evezIa< This is certainly very popular en- trrtaInuaent, as will be seen by reference to reports by cur correspondents from Washing ton and New Preston, where they sang last week
 Mi w S Fitzgerald and wife, Dr. H. W Baei, and Mrs- Anna NJ. Richards, have de45cated by deed 10 the public for a pgbg5c highway, a strip of land sixty feet wide Iezding from the junction of Wolcott and Talzazdge avenue eaSterly to the Goshen road making in effect new street north of, and parallel to Prospect street
 -AEson< other choice Holiday Goods Wes- sells k Gates have some specially fine orna- meEG4I lamps, stand and hanging; a large as- sortnBeaE Of vases elegant toilet goods pa- pesri<s: pictures and picture frames, easels i; arrnrry and in short everything elegant for Christmas and New Years presents, of which the moss gorgeous imagination can conceive. Call agd ske- -They arc introducing the game of 'Hare and Hoants~ Ia fine description of which all og thasc who have read Tom Brown at Rug by.- will rec0Ileci) into the Yale College sporss- On Saturday afternoon last, they had famous run of 15 miles from the top of the hill beyond the railroad track at Fair Haven, toghe south end of Lake SaItonstall, around the lake and then hack 10 the starting place. Therc we-e t<O hares and seventeen hounds Joan H Hubbard of this place. being one of ths httsr- The hzres were allowed a start of six miau.es and they gained fifteen more by th-Owin< tAe hounds of the scent at Foxon rivez- In the finish Hubbard came in ahead oS the ress of the hOands, only two or three srcSuts behiDd the hares, in two hours and thirty 4iaufeS
 -Mr and Mrs L. o. Meafoy celebrated tnr5r tsoaten Wedding on Saturday last It WAS eztTrely family affair, Mir. Florence Nrafcy and wife Icing present from Hartford Thrre were 2 number of valuable presents of The zFgVOq<i4te metal, and a pleasant time ge@erzEly- A few friends called in the even- Ez< and th-re wOald have been a crowd had the occzrrs1oe of So important an anniversary in th< Evs< O< this venerable pair been gener- ally ks0wa A hrUther-in-Iaw of Mrs. Mea- leaz ve<SS=
 FTfsv vezrx of married fife
 How quickly have they flown:
 FItEy ye1r< of happy strife
 To 1Ez&e 2 blessed home.
 Nd al h vain has been that life:
 ElA ycz-. new hopes. new ties new joys Have &z33cd i1ssre clear and bright,
 To make thai home, L. O. Meafoy's. Hsw sal we greet thIs happy day,
 HS@ speak the thoughts in words of few To tel oG all if ersr we may,
 TsSse 1fty years have proved to you
 NuG wize the mnss, to tatly tell
 OE pSes and fears of hopes, desires.
 TAszz dx5ly Oie< your pathway fell
 To PrCgS the truth that love inspires
 T@sse fifty years those happy years
 h peace &1d lore have glided on,
 EEz@ra hE sunshine more than tears
 Az1 AxEEESeS 0f heaven born
 As 4ywz the vale of life you tend,
 Nay cAslceSs blessings on you rest
 Nay fsFx increase, may love extend
 A@3 Sx1cSzfy a life So bless-
 De- tree@1s @15e1- my greetings said;
 tz <@eSs fsw lines my story's told;
 AzT rezcx and love their blessings shed,
 And c=Swa the fife Dow tinged with gold
 Washington