Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-13
LITCHFIELD.

MT. Isaac Garrison has moved into Slas F.. Cheaey's tenement house near the Depot. Mir. and Mrs Parsons have taken possession of their new quarters at the Arnts place.
 We notice good many COWS at large in the streets This should be stopped at once. Tine annual sale of the slips, takes place in St. Michaers church on Monday next, at 2 o'ci"Ck p. III.
 MT. Nm. Johnson from Winstsd has ,nove.i into Mir Deforest's house on Lake Street.
 Mir Lewis Striby has moved into the house with Mir Robert Williams on West Street
 Hnn John w. Wheeler is in town again, attending to the beautiful place he is building on Prospect Street.
 -One day last week, MT. Solomon M. Wheeler caught nineteen fine trout, the largest one weighing pound and quarter.
 MT. w. K Peck has the Manhattan Blood Guano for sale, which he claims is the pest IefLHlZcT III [ ne illafkcI.
 pr. II. E.. Gates has bought of Daniel F. Beebe his place of about three and one half acres about mile southerly from the Court house price $26OO.
 -Messrs. Shumway and Staples attended the annual meeting of the Grand Council and Grand Chapter at Hartford, this week, repre- sentlng Darius Chapter and Buel Council of this place.
 Mrs. G. c. Woodruff, Mrs. Mclaughlin, Mrs. Wadhams, Mrs. Kilborn, Mrs. Bron- son, and Mrs. Geo. M. Woodruff went down on Tuesday to attend the meeting of the Ladies Missionary Society at Waterbury.
 A good deal of house painting is going on, this spring; among other places, Mrs Bostwick's and the Weller house are taking new coats of white, and other improvements are to be made on the latter.
 MT. Warner J. Catlin challenges any one or more residents of the town to 10 hours go-as-you-please walking match at Armcry Hall; $10 entrance fee. Should the challenge be accepted, the time of the walk, entrance fee, &c, will be hereafter announc- ed.
 The following Litchfeld County men were elected to prominent positions in the Grand Masonic Conventions at Hartford, this week:
 Dwight Phelps, of Winsted, Grand High A R laka DfH M. of 3d, w.; A. B. Shumway, of Ltchtield, Grand M of lst, V. in the Grand Chapter. In Grand Council, A. B. Shumway, of Litch- field, as Grand c. of Guard. In Order of High Priesthood, A. B. Shumway, of Litch- field, as E. S.
 The correspondent of the Hartford, Times gives the following interesting item regarding Messrs. Bigow & Son, neal South Bridge:
 J. w.. Bglow & Son, lumber dealers, have very much added to the business, this spring, besides making improvements. The office has been enlarged, and portion of the addition will be used for packing room A part of the shop has been finished off and is to be used as.a turning room. The following are the list of articles which the firm manufactures : Mallets, hickory and apple tree chisel handles door stops of all kinds of wood, both plain and
 
 patent saw-horses Farmers hereabouts find a ready sale for appe-tree, hickory and every kind of domestic wood, which this firm pur. chases and manufactures into the goods above named. The firm has been to about $500 cx- pense in putting in new machinery. The goods manufactured by the Messrs. Biglow are intended for the New York market. The following division has been made oi this town for census enumeration:
 East Diciston. that portion of the town lying Eastery of boundary line commencing at the Goshen East Street Road near the Child's place, then taking center of this street to Doct. Bueis residence, thence following the center of North Street through Litchfisld cen. ter and center of the Morris Road to South side of town line near Horatio Benton's shal be the 21st Census District.
 Vest DiUision.-All that portion of the towr lying Westerly of the boundary line commenc ing on Goshen Road at the North near tn, residence of Wm. A. BuelPs and taking botl sides of that Street to and including the resi- dence of Doct. Buell., thence through the cen ter of North Street and South Street anC center of Morris Road to Morris town line, tt near Horstio Benton's shall be the 22nd Cen sus District.
 -Confirnation services were held at tn. Catholic church on Sunday last and the sac rament of confirmation was administered b, Bishop McMahon to over hundred persons mostly children, but partly adults. They rvera naorlv oil from, I T;toh6a1a n fa,r ho,~, ever, coming down from Goshen. The cos tune of the grls-pure white ith white veil seemed very pretty and appropriate. It i now about seven years since the last Catholi confirmation services were held here, Bishol Mcfarland officlating. Besides the Bishop Father Leo, Edwards Cone, and Dugan wer present. An interesting practical address Wa made by Bishop MeMahon to the persons con frmed, and remarks were added by Father Le who is now president of the Catholic college g Allegany, N. Y. The Bishop and clergy and Judge Foster, of New Hartford, dine with Miss Deming.
 What has become of the proposed Lax Circuit road Mir. Horatio Benton was at con siderable trouble and expense, not lon since, in the survey of the eastern and north ern portions of road which, when completed would, with what already skirts the wester lake shore, give us 8 complete circuit of tn lake. The probable cash expense, in additio to gifts of way and construction, would be, his estimates, about $3,000. Mir. Benton hs offered cash subscription of $100, and llk liberality on the part of those of this villag who are interested, would make up the SUI required.
 Litchfield is the chief place of summer r sort in the State. It lies within two miles the largest lake in the State, good ros around which would make one of the fine drives to be found anywhere in the Stat