Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-01
Goshen No. 3X6,

GONE TO JAIL.-A week ago, last Monday, Mr. Whitney, at West Goshen, thought his keys did not hang as he left them, and he found that some one had unlocked his trunk and talk en out $100. Justice Albert Wadhams and Grand Juror w. E. Gaylord soon had the nec- essary papers ready, and Constable Albert Sperry arrested a young man in Huntsville, named Geo. Williams who is relative of MT. Whitney's late wife, They recovered S78 of the money. Williams is said to belong Tn Winchester, and has lately come out of State Prison. Justice Wadhams made short work of it, and sent him to Litchfeld.
 SNow.-Nearly every drift has disappeared. FRoGs.-These singers came last Friday.
 RETURNED.-Mrs. Rice and her daughter from Hartford, are at Gen. Cooks, and Miss Fannie E. Beach is at home on short vaca- tion, from her school in Hartford.
 THOSE ADVERTISEMENTS hope you re- ceived good sum of money, last week, from those people who occupied nearly all of your columns, and your Goshen readers look for about page, this week, from your reporters, which went over.
 ExCHANGE.-Norman T. Wadhams has sold his place at the Center to Frederick k. Hurl- burt (whe is coming here to live,) and has bought of Mir Hurlburt his house and lot at West Goshen.
 PROF. HALL.-Your readers will remember that some time ago the Royal Astronomical Society of London awarded to Prof. Asaph Hall gold medal for his discoveries aud ob servations of the Satellites of Mars and invi-- ted him to attend the annual meeting, but if he he could not, it would be sent to him. 1 have received pamphlet of twelve pages, giving the address of the President, Lord Lindsay, at this meeting, Ion presenting tue gold medal of the Society, to Prof. Hall U. s. Navy" He says, ''the early history of Mr. Hall affords bright example of what perseverance and de- termination may effect in overcoming even the most adverse circumstances" He mentions his birth at Goshen, in 1899, the death of his father in 1842, and tells how he served as an apprentice to carpenter(yes he helped build the house of Edw Norton in East St.) devot- ing his leisure hours to the study of geometry and algebra He was five or six years at the Observatory in Cambridge. Mass, where he was determined to make himself so useful that they would not care to let him go." Your readers know that he has been at the Naval Observatory for sixteen years. 1 am surprised at the great amount of work he has accom- plished. Lord Lindsay gives an account of the unsuccessful efforts of astronomers to find the moons of Mars, and tells the whole story how Mr. Hall dld it with telescope made in America He closes with these words. And now, MT. Hind, may l request you, as the Foreign Secretary of the Society, to place this medal in the hands of the Minister of the Uni ted States, to be transmitted to Prof. Asaph Hall, as the highest mark of esteem in the gift of the Royal Astronomical Society. Assure him at the same time of the deep interest that we in England have ever felt in watching the pro gress of out beloved science in the hands of our cousins in the Far Vest"
 hope to see the medal, when MT. Hall re- visits his native tewn and stands on the top of Ivy mountain observing the transit of Venus, on cold December morning in 1862