Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-04
LITCHFIELD.

Mir. Enos B. Pratt, of Decatur, H.. has been in town for about week.
 Mir Edward Hayden has been having an auction of the Garfield Hayden property.
 MT. Geo. E. Jones has bought piece of land in Bantam, with water privilege, of Walter T. Brundage.
 -Attention is called to the new advertise ment of Vessels & Gates offering stationery and other goods at 'bottom prices. / -Messrs. W. W. and Jerome W. Bissell are adding bay windows to their house on Fest Street. It will be a great improvement
 We hear that number of applications have been made for rent of the Lake View Hotel, but contract has been closed SO far az we have heard.
 In the cases of GTGues vs Johnson, and Baker vs Bal5aoin, tried at the last term of the Superior Court, judgment has been rendered for the plaintiffs.
 The School Committee held meeting on Saturday last. Bills for teachers were audit ed, and arrangements were made for the ex- aminations of Saturday next.
 The spring weather continues as far ad- vanced as ever. The Canadian weather prophet is no longer held in the special honor recently accorded to him.
 MT. Wheeler has been up this week over- looking the progress of his new house on Pros-, pect Street which will be, when completed, hn in tbo vii lage.
 Telephone matters are progressing. An installment of half the amount of the capital stock has been called in. On Friday night the Stockholders hold a meeting to act upon proposed by laws and do other business.
 Hon G. c. Woodruff and wife, and the Hon. o. s. Seymour and wife, leave us this week for six weeks stay at Nassau-so fa- nous in Notwithstanding times The climate there is at this season delightful contrast to the ordinary New England spring weather.
 MT. Foster, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels and Gates, on Monday next with choice selection of foreign and do- mestic wooens, prepared to take orders for anything in his line. Persons wishing good custom work, should give him call and ex- anime the new line of Spring Goods he is pre- pared to exhibit
 School matters are lively. The term ex- aminations are closing up this week. Teachers examinations begin on Saturday next, at 10 a. rfl., for the next term. which
 Mo-, ,Iny NF next week. Attendance at the various schools averaged very we'll till humps, measles, whooplng cough etc., etc., started in. Since then attendance has fallen off very sensibly. The banner school in this respect has been the Milton Grammar school, where, out of twenty seven pupils in all, theaverage attendance has been twenty-five:
 Many of our readers will glance over the article printed on our first page by Mir. Thomas l.. Saltonstall of this village, the veteran Millenarian. It is unnecessary to say that our views are not in the least in accord with his views regarding the Millennium. Granting everything claimed for the inspiration and the prophetic power of the New and Old Testament writers quoted, there is too much uncertainty in the language used to admit of any safe application of it to the occurrences of our own time. Interpreters differ as widely as ever doctors disagreed upon an obscure medical question. In short, prophecy is sort of telephone which needs inspiration at both ends of the line to be. of much avail. Never theless we admire the pluck with which Mr. Saltonstall holds to, and procaims his opin- ions. If everybody was ashonest and courage ous, religion would at least be inspired with an earnestness not too common.