Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-11-04
LITCHFIELD.

Mr.. ]. Wolcott Wheeler has taken posses
sion of bis new hose on East Street.
Mrs. Geo. A. Hickox has been making an
addition to her house on East Street.
Miss Lucretia Deming has conveyed two
strips of land on the north and east of her
home property to Mr.: Henry r. Colt.
Peck Brothers of Mortified, Conn, are
offering 80 cents per bushel for Rye and 20
cents per so lbs. for Buck wheat cash.
Mrs Mary Ann Hale has sold two acres OF
land in Mortified society to Henry Hopkin-
snn, and one and one half acres to Charles FL.
Plait.
We notice in Saturdays papers the death
of Mr. E. D. Mansfield, the well known news
paper writer, whose pleasant notices of Itch
field in the time of the Law School we quoted
sometime since, from late work of his.
On Tuesday the Catholic Cemetery ad-
joining the West Burying Ground was conse-
Grated by Father Lather Leo de Sarcena, OF
Winsted About three hundred people were
the conservation, explaining its nature and
effect.
Mr.. 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 q call and ex-
anime the new line of Fall and Winter Goods
he is prepared to exhibit.
On Friday morning last at about O'Clock
Mr. Frederick Beach discovered fire in the
house occupied by Mr.. Noah w. Beach, on
the south side of the Green at Milton. He
gave the alar IN and Mr.. William Barton ran
to the house and opened the south door when
the flames burst out with terrible force, and
the house was soon burnt down. A few ar
ticles were saved from the east side of the
house, but very little Mf. Beach must ev-
identity have been dead when Mr.. Barton ar
arrived, and his body was nearly consumed
before it could be rescued some hours after.
The funeral was attended Sunday afternoon
from the Episcopal church. Mr.. Beach had
been very Incorporate, and has lived entirely
alone at the house that was burnt for several
years past. There was nothing to Indicate the
cause of the fire.
The address delivered by s. s. Blake,
ESQ.,, of Bridgeport, at Armory Hall, last Fri
day night, is said by those who heard it, to
have been decidedly worse than anything that
has been heard here before. 1t was an affair
of the loud-mouthed, abusive kind which dis
gusts sensible people, and prepares US to be-
lieve that the following item, which appeared
in Saturdays Palladium, may be true:
Stephen s. Blake is talented young lawyer
of Bridgeport of Irish parentage, who was
honored with nomination as secretary of
state on the democratic ticket. Mr.. Blake
understands his party, as will be seen by the
action he has seen fit to take. Knowing the
tendency OF his American compatriots of the
Democratic party to scratch Irishmen, he has
had printed a large number of ''pasters" con-
tanning his name. These he is sending by
mail to his friends with letter in which he
explains that while there is no chance for the
election of the democratic state ticket, and be
anticipates defeat. he does not wish to run so
far behind the other candidates as he certain.
ly will, unless he resorts to some extraerd-
nary measures TO keep up his end. He there
fore incloses a lot of pasters which he pa
theticaly calls on his friends to past on the
republican and greenback tickets when it 10
possible to do so, that by this little trick he
may make amends for the scratching he ex-
poets to receive from bis American party as.
sociates.
The vote polled in this town was a very
heavv one; 727 out of 7S9 registered voters
The result WAS as follows.