Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-03
LITCHFIELD.


 -CaarTss H Woodruff Esq, with his family. have arrived for the season.
 -0a Monday the Monument was further s-s-<zizi with flowers. flags were displayed, sad the scscol children had holiday.
 -lrs- F. q Clark takes possession of Mrs. Bsswick's 3laoe. oSrDer of South and East EStrSesS this Eeek Wednesday.
 -Th- cases uf HTne vs WOrrGl and Worral Es Hs4e cozBe to an unsiuaely end owing to the uoa-zupezrzDce of Mir Hine
 -The C-arer Park fence, hay scales zr lave bre1 painted & glorious green, and A.e para Ilsrf LAS been nicely mOwn under ,aE zusg5c-s of lbe Village Improvement Co.
 -Nr H. A Bills. Of the Winsted News, @as la roEa. Tu-si4y, interviewing Delegate tsEzvs&- Ta< PEpOst of the interview will saG se eEEteaE Eili the meeting of the Cincinnati CoSss1sSoa-
 -Oa Wetnsst@y Henry DeCostas was trrr-shz bsstlrr Justice KIlbOurn on complaint ss D4v5d H- waTuer and required to give sur zEHt E&z2 9& AAE f&&Gc t4 A4Fc sun Ot cow T alI- fas so6o Eh5s he was committed to jail.
 -Tae xzz1zl meeting of the members of SAs L5zchf-sd Library Association will be held Tz sA,- Esrzry r~oz. on Thursday evening June $4 d half F@<s seven A full attendance is r-Ezsssei for The pGrpOse of electing officers kE W K- ROBERTs President.
 w--=- .E Awu-1 Vv,11 .,a;,s. IOb;lo D Sorsps. Ot Waterbury, was tried before Jus rSrz ErEh'Orz-u Oa Friday. and judgment was rvus3ergzt 5z favsr of Judd to recover S3O. 91 s3aszzs-s ard coSsS- The defendant appealed. IAsSsssEs far plaintiff; Kellogg, for defendant.
 -Th% SEV4rTsr Court begins its June Term by zs4Faz-zuzenE o1 Tuesday of next week. The ragso~Tag c%ses have been assigned for srsL= Ns szs Ives Appeal, Sc No 752, Bear'ts5sy HzEea- No 743, Warner Us Nezta1- Judge HTcbcock has been assigned ts ksb4 the term
 -Nr- Foster, of WeS, Winsted, will be at The ssare uf Vessels snd Gates, on Monday ar1t with cao5ce selection of foreign and ds1a1~srir ~Oose1s, prepared to take orders for Azythiz< In h5s line Persons wishing good gIzssea w1rk- should give him call and ex- Szl1iae the new line of Spring Goods he is pre- pared to exkis5t- -Tb~Te wSs 1s general observance of Dec orztbsa Day eIthrr ea the Both or 3lst. Rev. Ar- Mclean delivered an interesting discourse UG Sunday Hauruing in which be referred te th~ dehs we owe tD the men who laid down thEir Tives ia the service in very eloquent sEruzz-
 Os SunlAy afternoon some of the old sol szeT< of the war decorated the graves of twen- # ty three of their cSmrades in the East and Wsss Cernesexie&
 The Shepzug Railroad Co, commence running two passenger trains each way daily, ou Monday aeXt. and withdraw passenger &C., c,sSaaaslsiaEjOas from freight trains Passenger tFsiss will leave this place at 7:20a a. m and s3s p ua- and make close connections for New YcVk, New Haven and intermediate points CpWard trains will connect from New YoFk al S-05 a. a- and 300 D. m South Norw4Ik as 9-30 m and 4:3O D. m. New Haven al 9-S5 a- n- and 3:45 p. m. Bridge pOVt al Ie-I0s- m- 500 p. m. and arrive at 6 LItehdesd al Ias55 and 7:4O. Saturday Even- ing Special will connect from New York at 4-4o P m South NOrwalk at 6:1Op. m. and arrive here al s-S5 p HI. Sunday Milk Train will run as al present
 The Supreme Court finished it's May M Term on "Wednesday evening The following cases were argued after our last report:
 C3sT&s S- 3ertOA vs- Henry Shepard in- vOlved ibe sufticiency of an acknowledgement ts t2ke the case out of the Statute of Limita- tati1a- Judge Fyler, of the District court, had drcsded il to be a conditional promise, and that II did nOt remove the bar of the statute Graves and Cleveland, for plaintiff; Horne, for defendant
 E< rsL Ns5s0a ". Coe vs. Orsanaus F. Fy-r- This was q mandamus to compel the # c1ElectlO1 Of . town tax on an addition of over S6O,OOo made to the list of the Coe Brass N Ca, Of WOlcOstviiIe, by the Board of Relief of TOrring1oa- l; had been voted in town meet ing to 2tats the tax, and the collector did not collect it. II was claimed by the defence that the town had right to absie the tax, and that even if II had DO such right, the plaintiff had nOt shown himself entitled to a mandamus. Huntington and Andrews for plaintiff; E. W. SeyulOur and G. c. Woodruff, for defend ant
 yaaaes HEHtiagtOR, States Att'y. vsJohn IT. AeAaASa a aL-This was a proceeding in contempt brought on motion in error from the
 
 sentenced to ine and imprisonment. The case srose as follows: Certain liquors claimed by McMahon and others were seized in Win ssed. and, on trial before magistrate, were zdiudsed cOnfsczted- The claimants appeal ed, but before the appeal copies had been filed in the District Court, procured writ of re- plevin which one of the defendants issued as justice, though clearly beyond his jurisdiction, and another, Deputy Sheriff Chatfield, served, taking the liquors away from Mir Forbes eel lar where they had been left for safe keeping by the constable who seized them. States Attorney Huntington brought process for con- tesn2t before the District court against all concerned in the replevin proceedings, and was assisted in the trial below and in this court by Gov Andrews Several grounds of defence were set up by Judge DeForest, oi Bridgeport, and Fenn. of Winsted. FL CoEsPaHgh vs LsGdc 4. NorthrOp came up from the District Court on motion for new trial for verdict against evidence. McMahor and Warner for plaintiff; Taylsr, of Danbury for defendants
 The days of the session were So extremely h0s that all concerned suffered very much, par sicnlarly on the last day, when the court sal III about p. m. in erder to finish the list se