Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-08

About thirty people attended the Haydel
 lecture on Saturday evening. Tie storm nt doubt kept many away, but we doubt whc:he
 Mir. Hayden would have attracted iarg' audience Tn this place with the pest wra'he and tray cling.
 The Superior ,!ourt began it's April Tern on Tuesday with the trial of criminal cases It hecoiues regular criminal term under :hs new arrangement of terms on Tuesday next a which time the new act takes effect. During the present week defaults, &c., can be taken as usual in civil cases. Charles l.. Gardiner and Edward Green two negroes. are on tria for breach of the peace and an assault or Johr W. Maoaey, at New Mi!;or,;, last No vember
 Miss H. T. Woodruffs boarding house, with the additions just completed, is one oi the pleasantest establishments of the kind we A have ever seen. It is three stories high, be- side basement and attic. The dining room is enlarged to the size of 20 28 feet, and the kitchen and other rooms connected, laundry, ice room, etc., are as complete and convenient as can we'll be imagined Large additions have been made to the ground plan both on tine north and south; the dining room opens upon a fine large piazza the number of sleeping rooms has been increased from six to nineteen, all large, airy, comfortable experiments, and | all with extremely pleasant views. The house has been repainted and repaired through out, and is very tastefulIy as well as comfort ably and handsomely furnished. We are not surprised to hear that all the rooms are engaG ed for the season, for more delightful board ing house-not in the least like hotel-can- not be found in this vicinity
 The carpenter and joiner work has been ad mifably done, and to the full satisfaction of .the proprietor, by Messrs. Devoe & Hill, on plans by MT. Hill, of Waterbury, architect The attic tank, and arrangements for hot anl cold water in the first story were furnished by Bennett, of Wolcottville. The painting was done by the Bissells, of this place.
 Washington.
 We have 50 vivid description of the home of one of our former residents now in Florida, that we will make few extracts for the read CTS of the Enquirer:
 "We have had no frosts and our trees have grown all winter The bananas are sensitive to frost. so heretofore they have only fruited in the fall, but thls winter has been an excep- ton. Commissioner French in his little book on Florida says, the banana is simply planted and let alone, maturing it's fruit in from ff- teen to eighteen months.
 Mrs. L. also writes, 'our pine apples are beginning to fruit. Around the blossom the base of the long green leaves become crimson, the color of the blossom and early fruit. You know we do not have grass. The orange trees are thirty feet apart, with white sand be- heath. My flower beds are bordered with pinks, and then the shrubs and plants are dotted over the ground, which must all be hoed, raked and kept free from weeds. No end to the work. The pink and white ole anders like better than the jessamines, which are almost overpowering in their fragrance.
 How many deaths there are from pneu- monia at the North, probably ten times as many as die of yellow fever south of Mason and Dixon's Line
 MT. and Mrs. Gum, and MT. and Mrs. Chruch, left for Florida trip on Thursday Mrs. Frederick Woodward, writing the last of March, says, we have just begun to pick the wild blackberries. She refers to what Dr. French calls the low creeping blackberry. or dew berry, which he says is abundant and can be had for the picking. As for strawberries now rpening, he says, ''ln size, color, bouquet and taste they are superior to most, equal to the best, and surpassed by none" with which climax we will leave Florida to it's inhabitants and tourists. J.
 RELIGIoUs.- Thrall exchanged with Rev. Mir. Wykoff, on Sunday.
 Repairs on the Annex of the Congregational Church are in progress.
 DEpARruRE.-Mr. and Mrs. F. w. Gum, Mir. and Mrs. H. J. Church, left on Thursday for the Bahama Isles in quest of health. May the boon which they seek be granted
 John c. Brinsmade and James Aspinwall, were appointed delegates to the Republican Convention at New Haven, the Eth inst. We think the prevailing sensation in this town is in favor of Edmonds.
 intelligence was received on Wednesday, of the death of J. Trumbull Seeey, who died at Middlebury, on Monday, the husband of Elice Smith. Disease, pneumonia
 The measles are prevalent in town, and there are some severe cases.
 REMovALs.-There have been several changes the past week George Nobies, has taken the Alanson Burgess farm; Wm. May hew, Newel; Newtons' in the Valley; Richard Benjamin, the farm of the late E. J. Pond; Speecer Sanford, into the house occupied by John Meramble: and MT. Meramble, into the house he bought of s. D. Piatt Mrs. Farmer has left the Canfeld house for Woodbury.
 In reply to your Woodbury correspondent permit us to say, no thought of dsparaging his work entered our mind. A three months study of it from beginning to end, has made us fully acquainted with it's excellencies, and also it's defects. His three volumes of the History of Ancient Woodbury, aside from his legal profession, has been his lifelong work, for which he deserves the thanks and the pat ronage of those who have been. or are, the natives of this ancient town, and their de- l scendants. There has been a vast amount of labor and thought bestowed upon it. And yet when individuals by reading it are prompted to write history of their families, the records are so incomplete, as we'll as the typography and dates, we cannot satisfy them. We have spent many pleasant and profitable hours in reading it, and like to have it always at hand as book of remembrance, and can say in re-