Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-01
LITCHFIELD.

You cannot find better place to spend the 4th, than at the Bantam Lake House ex cellent entertainment to order.
 A beautiful Night Blooming Cereus was in bloom at Mr. James Ganung's, Tuesday evening; crowds came in to see it.
 Joseph A. Thompson, fashionable hair cutter Rooms in rear of W. K. Peck's Store, West street. Ladies and Children's haircut ting Speciality. Give him a call
 VI S.-The meeting of the Fair Associa. ton appointed at MT. Starr's for Thursday, of this week. will be postponed on account oi illness in his family.
 At the annual meeting of the members of the Litchfeld Savings Society, held on June 26Lh, the old officers and directors were re- elected. A dividend of per cent. per annum was declared. payable July 1st.
 Tine rampageous element of the Democra. cy was on the rampage Thursday night. One would have imagined from their style of ratif- cation that Bob Tombs or BeelZebub had been nominated at Cincinnati instead of gentle man and Union soldier.
 Miss Tuzo, formerly a pupil of MT. R. Swain Clifford, will give lessons in drawing and water color painting during the ensuing months of July and August. For terms, etc., enquire at Mrs. Sarah Browns opposite the Post Office, Litchfield.
 Mir Foster, of West Winsted, will be at .I,n # He n1 (Iutao the 18th, with choice selection of foreign and domestic woolens, prepared to take orders for anything in his line. Persons wishing good custom york; should give him call and ex- anime the new line of Spring Goods he is pre-. pared to exhibit.
 The authorities of the Congregational and Episcopal churches propose to have the bells of their respective churches rung next Mon- day morning, the 9th and they will be rung again iii the evening if desired. It is hoped that the usual midnight racket will be discon- tinued. Such a practice is a cruelty to the sick, and serious annoyance to everybody.
 ". I. S.-The first entertainment of the summer given by the Village Improvement Society will consist of Fair and Festival at Armory Hall, Wednesday, July 28th, further particulars in due season. The Fair Commit tee request all persons having articles of work to leave them with Mrs. Campbell or Mrs. Gates at the United States Hotel as early in the menth as convenient
 A Democratic gentleman was remarking in the Mansion House. recently, that the Congregational and Methodist pulpit would be turned into drums ecclesiastic for Gar field and Purity" for the next four months. We notice that the Connecticut Catholic, the organ of that denomination in this state, is working hard for Hancock. Now if religion ought not to be mixed with politics on one side, how is it on the other?
 Another suit growing out of the Griswold- Garter horse trade came before Justice Kill born on Monday. Constable Campbell re- .plevied COW claimed by both parties, on suit of Griswold. It proved difficult pro- cess Part of the time the constable was re- plevying the COW and, part of the time, the COW seemed to be replevying the constable. Then the defendant pleaded in abatement for a slip in the proceedings, and got judgment. Thus the plaintiff got the COW the defendant got his costs and the constable, nothing. A PLEA FOR QUIET FOURTH. Are the citizens of Litchfield aware of the unenviable reputation their beautiful town has for it's cel- ebration of the 4th of July? 1 am sure if the and nf itS npnlN have heard it said as have, "Oh dou't go to Lltchfeld for the 4th. it is the noisiest place in the Union on that day." they would join to- sether and put stop to this 6Gr6Grous cele bration. There are so many who come to th' country for peace and quiet hoping to escape at least for few hours the heat and turmoil of city life, and find themselves much wors off than if they had stayed at home, for dur ing the last few years all noisy demonstra tions have been forbidden in New York. Le suitable to their years, but why should fev men be allowed to make every one uncom fortable for hours simply in haeir amusemen on that day, more than any other in the year We all know it has nothing to do with pat gi0tsns; indeed the amount of noise one make IS generally in inverse ratio to what one feels We beg the good people of Litchfeld to joil hands and prevent their town being made { pandemonium, and if we must suffer. let it b. by daylight Give us at least a peaceful nights sleep, define the hours when peopl may make themselves obnoxious to their fel low citizens. Let us mitigate if we canno abolish the horrors of the 4th.
 Tine Hartford Post resurrects the follow ing convention joke played by E. s. Cleve land upon former resident of this place:
 Among the '52 delegates was Mr. Freder ick Chittenden who representt Litchfiel county. He was a brother-in-law of the lat Hon. Isaac Toucey, and was stiff democra and somewhat familiar witht adjectives and good time. Upon arriving In Baltimore, afte the Connecticut men had got settled in thei hotel, he was heard to remark:
 "Well, -, hope one thing; 1 hop they'll get my name in the papers down her right for once. 1 never went to state con vention yet that they didn't get me in as Cri, tenden instead of Chittenden, or in some othe way, and my wife always laughs at me abou 1t. Whoever bas charge of the names here want should see to it that mine is given al right. and I'll send paper to my wife in tn morning"
 This was enough for Cleve and he resolved that he would take particular pains to hay the Litchfeld mau pleased for once, and tha night he and John w. Stedman of Norwich who was delegate went to the office of tn Sun and inquired if the names of delegate were to be printed the next day. Upon be ing told that they were, request was mad to look over the Connecticut names so ths they might appear correctly. The list wa furnished. and after single change had bee made was pronounced to be all right
 The next morning there appeared in tn roll of Connecticut delegates the name ( Patrick OCrittendeni
 MT. Chittenden was up carly after paps to send to his wife, and when he had bougf one and read it there was a scene of wild el