Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
LITCHFIELD.
-Remember the 10th of May

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 There is snow on Prospect Mountain.
 We hear that Mir Cummings has rented his house for the season.
 Mir N C. Barney and family have moved up for the season to occupy their place near Lake Station.
 They are shingling the new Hall in Ban- tam, and MT. Keeler is grading the ground in front.
 James and Martha Rankin have conveyed their farm of 65 acres on the Naugatuck river to John Rankin.
 Mrs Mary Mason has conveyed her place on Prospect St. to Mir. Josiah W. Wheeler of New York.
 Geo. F. Lewis, Surgeon of the 4th Reg't. was in town, Friday, and examined four fe- cruits of Co. H. and went from here to visit Co. 1 at Winsted.
 The Superior Court endures another ad- .journment, till Tuesday of next week, when trial of criminal cases will begin with StGte vs. George Dd'liets.
 pr. H. E. Gates has been in New York for the week past on business From remarks in pencil on Wilhelmj program, we infer that he has taken little music incidentally.
 Thirteen persons were received into mem bership with the Congregational church, on profession of their faith en Sunday last mak- ing forty-two thus received since January 1st
 The Center School began it's summer term thic .uaak Mico Etfa Rual taachar Most Of the districts are supplied but the list of teach CTS is not yet quite complete.
 MT. Wm. J. Hall, of Milton, caught lynx in trap, Sunday night, weighing 2S tbs., and measuring 3 feet in length of body and head. He stood IS inches high. This beast has been making havoc with Mir. Halls poultry for sometime past.
 MT. Foster, of West Winsted, will be 8 the store of Vessels d Gates, on Wednesday the 14th, with choice selection of foreign and domestic woolens, prepared to take orders for anything in his line Persons wishing good custom work should give him call.
 The adjourned meeting of the Board of Burgesses is to be held at the office of Messrs. c. C. and c. M Woodruff. Saturday evening, when it is expected that committees will be appointed to see that their vote of the 26th ult. is carried into effect.
 The jurymen summoned to attend the April Term of the Superior Court have put in an appearance six several times, and have yet to try their first case. One of them, whom we interviewed, Monday, said he didn't mind being April fooled once. but be though the joke was growing little monotonous.
 Hon. G. H. Hollister lectures on the au- thOrshp of Shakespeare before the students of Trinity College, Hartford, on Friday of this week. He addressed large audience on the subject of Temperance on Sunday evening last, at the 1st Congregational church in Wood bury.
 Monday evening was enlivened with thunder shower quite up to the midsummer average for blaze and racket. It kept good many people in Litchfield awake an hour later than usual, and we hope it presaged a relaxation of the rigorous weather of this un- accountable spring.
 A very great improvement has been made by Mir. Charles Merriman upon the premises ln the rear of his house and store The old barn and ice house have been removed; one to the back of the lot he bought of Mrs. Bald win, and the other to the north end of the new barn on that lot The yard is being smoothed down, the buildings painted, and everything seems in excellent trim for the 10th of May.
 On the 24th, ult., young man by the name of Frank Earle, living in Milton, shot himself in the hand with a revolver he was dra wing by the muzzlc from his vest pocket A com, >anion was walking in front of him at the time a. I'd would probably have been hit in the back had n, rt Earle's hand intercepted the bullet. He came ,'uto this village. that night, the ball was extracted, by Dr. Beckwith, and the wound is doing we'll
 We notice that few dogs aye kept muzzed as the law requires. By act of the last iegis- lature, every person who owns, keeps or har- bors any dog, is required either to kill the same or to muzzle him to the acceptance of the se- lectmen of the towns where they are kept, from the Jirst day of lNay ie each year until such time Gs the seIectmen shall order the mazsIes rem0Oed. The penalty for failure to comply with this statute is the same as in the case of failure to register. The consequences of the general neglect to register and muzzle degs in this town will be very serious if the authorities prosecute as they are specially directed to do.
 The time for registering dogs expired on the lst of this month, with but D registered. Last year 6S registered. Owners of dogs do not seem to be aware how serious are the consequences of a default of duty in this mat ter. By an amendment of the law of 1878, passed at the last session of the legislature. it was enacted:
 That any person owning or keeping dog or dogs, who shall fail to comply with the re- quirements of this act concerning the registra- tion of their dog or degs, and the payment of sad license for the same, shall be guilty of a mlsdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned tn the county jail net more than thirty days, or both it shall be the duty of grand jurors, constables, and all other prose- cutting officers, to diligently inquired after and prosecute any violation of this act.
 An unusually large congregation greeted the new rector at St. Michaels Episcopal church on Sunday evening. From the texts, Man shall not live by bread alone, " >"rhe life is more than meat, the preacher made very strong presentation of the superi- 'ority Of the mental and spiritual to the ani- mai and physical life. He showed how the "auection for family and friends, the fires of patriotism, the devotion to the cause of science anu cui'ure, the consecration to seIf-denying duty, all demonstrate the existence of the higher life Portions of the discourse were brought home to the hearers by the most apt aand telling illustrations A marked clearress of conception characterized the discourse. and it was presented in very choice and forcible languageAthe farthest possible from what MT. Emerson calls rhetorical fireworksr- and al,