Litchfield enquirer., 1881-09-22
LITCHFIELD.

We hear that the Echo Farm property is
 be purchased by joint stock company.
 This "Wednesday afternoon the bar takes
 tion in regard to the death of Judge Sey- ,ur Gov Andrews will present the vote
 Id afterwards remarks will be made by other embers of the bar.
 On Sunday Bishop Williams confirmed a ass of eleven at St. Michael's church. H.
 cached to large congregations both morning bd evening, visiting Bantam and Milton ring the day.
 A subscription paper has just been circu- ted by our young men, in aid of the Michi
 n sufferers by the late fires, with gratifying ccess. Further contributions will be re- ived the present week at the 1st National ank.
 Tine news of the Presidents death, of hich many rumors had come, did not reach
 in any authentic form till noon of Tuesday hen the flag was put at half mast, bordered ith black and the bells were tolled between he and two D. m The court house and ost of the store fronts were draped in ack.
 Rev. J. s. Griffin, formerly resident of Warren, who was sent out by the Congrega, onal church of this county more than forty ears ago, as missionary to Oregon, is now eporting the result of his labors to the I fsr<p rxnfa he Congregational church in this village, re- ently.
 A correspondent of the Gazette says the post successful, and at the same time the post robust, lie of the season, is that told riginally in the Winsted Herald, of the .itchfeld girl with the icro-telescopic eyes.
 has been copied in most of the state papers, the New York dailies, and now it comes to Is in The Great West, of Den yer, Colorado. he correspondent of the Gazette was recent in Litchfeld. and tried to find out the facts the.c case. He was told by prominent usiness man that the Herald correspondent n Litchfleld being short of items, sat down nd manufactured the story out of whole 10th" Pretty well did, any ay.-Nep 1iltord GGsette.
 When the court came in on Tuesday MT Braves rose and referring to the news of the Presidents death, made short address mov- ng the adjournment of the court till Wednes- ay morning. Judge Loomis then spoke feel ngly of the logs the country had sustained in he death of the President, of the fact that people of all classes and all sections had testi- jed such sympathy with his affiiction, and low the wounds made by the war had seemedI be healed, as it were by his wound. As a; mark of respect, therefore. he ordered the ad- ournment of the court till Wednesday morn ng. The American citizen cut off from his daily news at an important time is very rest less, discontented person. We could not help noticing this, Tuesday afternoon. Cer- ain telegraphic news of the Presidents death had finally reached us, yet a smash up of freight trains on the New York and New Ha- ven road kept all the papers back till D. m. !. and the Shepaug train did not get here till seven in the evening. All the afternoon there were twice the usual number of people in the streets, every one inquiring for the news, when the papers aooWld come, why the Consol- fdated road must have smash up on this off all days, etc. etc. ...
 We hear that petition is in circulation for obtaining a vote on the matter of restorineI the old school districts. The union system has now been on trial for two years and the general opinion is favorable, so far as we can learn, to it's continuance. In regard to our village schools there can be no question. We have had good schools under the union system and poor schools on the district plan. The e st to thetown of better schools has not been any greater than that of the former system of poor schoos. In Milton there has been al. most as great an improvement as in the Center. The only complaint we hear is from some of the very small districts, where schools have be .n in some cases discontinued when there were not scholars enough .o warrant theil support. There has also been marked i'm \ provement in teachers. Indeed we can hardly think of any requisite of a good school In which there has not been change for the better. We hope, therefore, that no step backward will be taken, and that the excel lent system now in use will be left undis turbed.
 In the Superior Court, last week, the most of the time was taken up with the tria of Timnor Tuttles petition for new trial oi the case of Moses Lyman vs Timnor Futile. The claims made by the plaintiff were set forth in our last On the other hand the de- fendant claimed that the former trial had been full and fair one, and that no evidence had been newly discovered and proved by the plaintiff which varied the result reached O, the former trial.
 On Friday the case of Ruth C. Dayton VI Atonso Seymour came on for trial It is al action to recover damages claimed to have re suited from the defendants running over th plaintiff on. Sunday, Feb 9th, 1874. Th defendant with his wife was driving iron church in sleigh, and the plaintiff claim that she was walking outside the travelled patl and near the ditch when the horse struck her She admits having heard cry from some on, behind {; but says that knowing she was vel out of the way, she did not look round. Sh was much bruised, had two ribs cracked, an, was laid up several weeks. She also claim that the injury has been permanent one s~ that she has had lung trouble ever since and that a weakness of the eyes which cam on year or two osafierwards wascaused by. tn weak condition into which she was thrown b the injuries she had received, Mrs. Geo Barlow, who lives under Masonic Hall, fe, rods from the scene of the accident swor that she was looking out at the time, that sh saw the plaintiff start to cross the road, bu that she had not got quite out of the travele path before the horse struck her. The defenc claim that the girl was guilty of negligence i attempting to cross when the horses were s near her. that the defendant had m tima |