Litchfield enquirer., 1881-04-28
LITCaFIELD.

'SA e@~~ >~~-"~'-' Prank Grant was committed to iail on Tuesday.
 MT c. F. Daniels is back from New York
 - MT Chas. H. Woodruff Esq, and family came up from.New York last week.
 MT. Frank Hills has sold his place on East Hill to Martin Burns.
 Prof. J. DeWof Addis is plying his ar- tistic brush throughout the village
 -Dr Newco nb has rented the Dr. Os born place just west of the Station He re tains his office in Beach's block.
 Trout fishing is the rage just now. Champion Deming caught a trout weighing F fbs., on Tuesday.
 --Rpad the new advertisement of F. ID. Nc Neil < O. This firm has recently added stock of hardware to it's other attractions.
 NIT Frederick DePeyster has rented Mrs. Wadhans' place on North Street for the com ing season.
 MT G: Perry Bennett of Bristol, admins. trator. on the estate of Charles Booth has sol'' toJoel Castle piece of land lying between th' Naugatuck railroad and the highway in Flute vile.
 The law requires the registration of all dogs on or before the first of May. The fe' is S1 15 instead of $2 15 as last year. Onl, five or six dogs have been registered as yet, and there will be lively business for lawyers unless owners attend to the matter forthwith.
 -Messrs. Fuller & Trowbridge have beer getting in some very nice chamber suits, wal nut and ash also beautiful, upholstere' rockers and camp chairs, lounges, &c. The, offer their large assortment at good bargains See new advertisement. .-
 -Company H. has finally been disbanded by order of the Adjutant General This ac tion has been long expected and the company has held no drills since the first of January This hardly furnishes foundation for the state msnt of Mondays. American that it was dis banded for ''ineficiency."
 Attention is called to the new advertise ment of F. M Sanford It is worth reading as literary production aside from it's business merits The concluding ''pome" is the f1nes' thing of the kind we have published since the Poet of East Litchfed retired from the mer cantile business.
 The Semi Annual Meeting ofthe Litchfielt County Medical Association was held at tn. Mansion House, Litchfeld, on Tuesday Apri 26th, 1881.
 w. s. Munger, President, in the char; w d. Beach, Vice President; J. J. Newcomb. Clerk Dr's H. w. Buell., Wm. Deming, L R. Sanford. J. w. Bidwell, o. Brown c. l. Blake, J. H. North and c. H. Gilbert wer, present.
 There being but little special or official bus mess the members proceeded to the relation ot interesting cases of which nearly all present had observed some one or more during tn. past three E,onths. This fully, occupied tn, time until dinner was announced. Upon re assembling, after doing justice to the repast d paper was read by Dr. Orlando Brown, oI dysentery resulting from the use of impure ice, which called forth unanimous vote ot
 
 presented and passed unanimously:
 RGSOI0ed That the subject of dyaentery having been very fully discussed by this so ciety, we feel it our duty in view of recent experiences in this County to caution the com muny against the use of water from melted ice as d drink. unless the source of the ice i> known to be pure and free from all contami nation
 The request of c. H Gilbert. M. D., of Mor- ris. To becomea member of the society was granted.
 Dr. I. R. Sanford of West Cornwall was appointed to read paper at the next meeting. wifch will occur at the Mansion House ip Litchield on Tuesday, July 18th.
 J. J. Newcomb, clerk. The Superior Court was occupied through Thursday of last week in the trial of the charge against Frank Grant of assauting and attempt ing to kill Watson Cogswell with knife. On Wednesday, witnesses. were offered to sustain the character of Hitchcock for truthfulness, and to attack and sustain the character of Grant for veracity Arguments were made by Xiii. borne for the State and O'Hara for the accus ed. On Tuesday the case was argued by Graves for the defence, and by the States AL torney for the State. After charge by the judge the jury took case into consideration. and, after having twice come in disagreeing, finally brought in verdict of guilty of sim pie assault. On Tuesday the judge sentenced the prisoner to pay 6ne of $50 and to stand committed till his fine and the costs of prose- cution (amoun,ing to $183 76) are paid.
 George Digs was tried on Friday for an assault. He was accused ot assaulting Mrs. Root in New Hartford. The woman claimed that the prisoner struck her in the face, bruising her seriously. Driggs, who managed his own defence, tried to make it appear that the injuries the woman received were from her own husband; that she struck him with a broom, &c. The jury found him guilty and the Judge sentenced him to 60 days Imprisonment in jail.
 On the same day James O'Hara was con victed of very serious assault upon James Woodin at Salisbury. The prisoner flung a pick axe at Woodin, and then struck him $ with an iron instrument on the head, inf1ictinp serious wound He was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment iu jail.
 The case of Edward Dolphin. of Winsted accused of reputation of liquor selling. wa, then brought forward. Among other wit nesses large numbeEof ladies were brough, ,in to prove the offence charged and facts tend ing to make it appear that the reputation wa. A inst Onp The rroof was very strOny Par sons were seen to go into Dophin's saloor sober and come out drunk. Drunken mer were ''shot out" into the street, and all ths outward manifestations of a dram shop ir full blast were fully proved The jury found the prisoner guilty and the court sentenced