Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-06
LITCHFIELD.


 visit of two or three months, we hear.
 Miss Lottie Sedgwick, of Otis, Mass, is visiting Mrs. James Campbell.
 -Lawn-mowing began on North Street last week.
 MT A. l.. Judd is out with beautiful new red meat cart an ornament to the vil- lase
 A large force is at work at the Lake View, getting ready for the approaching opening.
 Mir. John l.. Plumb has fine stock of flowers and plants to which he calls atten- tion in an advertisement in another column. Mason Coon is laying the foundation of the new house Mr. J. w. Wheeler is to build on East Street this summer.
 We have been having summer in earnest for two days past; the thermometer is said to have reached 82o on Tuesday.
 MT. Henry R. Jones and his family are up this week. we hear, though he has not yet opened his house tor the season.
 Mir. Garner B. Curtiss, has deeded four and one half acres of land in Northfeld, to Lorenzo Cleveland.
 MT. Everett H. Wright has sold twenty five acres of land in Milton society to the Cornwall Bridge Iron Company.
 Last week, wagons, &c., belonging to MT. c. B. Lane, were sold, on execution in favor of the Litchfield Carriage Company for about thirty-two dollars.
 Mir c. D. Buell. has made arrangements to furnish Conn. River Shad and other fish two days in each week through the season at prices to suit the times.
 ". 1. S.-The next meeting of the Fair Association will be held at the residence of Mrs. Belden, on Wed nesday, May 18th, at 8 o'clock p. m. There was rather an interesting trial of skill and speed between Judd's entire force, delivery boys and all, and an escaped bullet, Tuesday afternoon, which finally resulted adversely to the bullet.
 Mir Lamson brought in new trotter, this week, which he bought in Southington. There was little trial of speed between him and Mr. Judd's roan pony, Tom, this Wednesday, morning, without decisive re- suit.
 MT. Frederick P. Whiting, of Torrington, has made deed of gift of a farm of land bounded on the Shepaug River and lying part ly in Litchield and partly in Goshen, and containing TOT acres, to Roxey, wife of John M Gardner, of Goshen.
 MT. Foster, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels and Gates, on Monday next, 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 and ex- anime the new line of Spring Goods he is pre- pared to exhibit .* Mir Edwin A. White who is studying law with D. c. Kilbourne Esq, was dele gate from Cornwall, his home, to the Demo- cratic Convention at Hartford, last week, and was made one of the two chief secretaries of the Convention. Mir. White graduated last year at Wesleyan University; he is young man of promise, and highly deserving of the compliment he received,
 The Mayor of East Litchfeld was in town, Tuesday, dealing with questions relat- ing to science and art. Several bricks are missing from the top of the chimney of the Mayors palace; 8 fact which convinces him that the world must have turned over at least once recently. The art consisted in version of "Uncle Ned" which the Mayor ''rendered' in voice mellow with age, if not with stimu- lants.
 As will be noticed from the new time table, to be found elsewhere, the Naugatuck Railroad has made important changes in it's running time. The morning passenger train leaves about an hour earlier than formerly. The down milk train leaves at 5:1S, p. m. about half an hour later than before. A freight train with passenger car attached goes up the road at 9:20, connecting with the Con necticut Western train arriving at Hartford about noon. The last passenger train up the road is 37 minutes later than before, and con. meets with the new limited express on the New York & New Haven, leaving New York at D. m. In short, one can go down earlier and come up later than before, while the new
 
 Do persons wishing to go early towards the north
 The lawrequires that all dogs should he reg stered on or before May 1st. Up to Tuesday morning of this week, only fifty two dogs had been registered out of 159 registered last year and out of total of 1s4 registered in '7s and %. The name of each owner, and the de crlption of his dog, is on record and, under he stringent law of the present year, owner will be called upon to account for all dog hey have heretofore placed on the register The new dog law, passed last winter, requires he town clerk to report to the selectmen or he lst of June a list of persons registering logs for the coming year. The duty of thu Ielectmen is then laid down as follows:
 And said selectmen shall thereupon cause iligent inquiry to be made for unregistered logs and cause the persons owning or harbor ng the same to be prosecuted as provided i, ne public act passed in 1879; and any towl Jerk or selectman who shall neglect any O he duties prescribed by this act shall b eemed guilty of misdemesnor and be inet ot more than $7 for each and every offense Although the legal time for registration ha |assed, we presume that owners who see t he registration of their dogs before the first o une will not usually be troubled with prose utlons; but, after that time, the Selectme Till undoubtedly be obliged to lock up tn batter very sharply, as their advertisement i mother column, sufficiently indicates.
 The parrcide Hoyt has applied to Gov Endrews for reprieve from execution here is doubt of tht governors power to dt lis and it is runored that he is to take tn dvice of the Supreme Court in the matter.