Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-31
LITCHFIELD.


 ous illness of Judge Seymour.
 Edward Hayden is building a carriage shop at East Litchfield.
 -+Mr James L. White is building a cottage on the Almeda Peck place.
 Extra copies of Sundays Sun are in great demand.
 On and after Friday Ganung & Elmore will keep full line of Bakers Goods, which they propose to sell at bottom prices.
 We have looked in vain in the Bridge. port paper for Strangers" report of the hop at the Mansion House Hall, last week.
 The slips in the M. E. Church, in this village, will be rented for the ensuing year, on Saturday next, at 9 p. m.
 Mrs. Shepard advertises new spring goods in another column; to which the attention of the ladies is desired.
 At meeting of the School Committe Geo. w. Mason was chosen to fill vacancy Oc casoned by resignation of E. B. Kellogg, Esq.
 Capt. Heman Beach, prominent and respected citizen of Milton, died on Saturday morning His death was occasioned by 8 tumor upon the intestine just below the stom- acl. closing it up entirely.
 The loss by fire on shop and stock of J. w. Bglow, which occurred on the 9th inst. and insurance in the Insurance Go. of North America and Meriden amounting to $275. has been adjusted and paid by c. $. Bishop, agert of the companies.
 -REMovALs.-Mr. Dwight F. Merriman moves into Mrs. Morse's place on Meadow St. |; MT. Crutcf, moves from North Chestnut Hill to the house belonging to Charles Adams near the East Mill Mrs. Mary Mason from Mr. Samuel G. Beach's house in West St. to Mrs. Thralls place on the Wolcottviile road; MT. Ware moves from Mrs. Sharp's place to. MT. Wooster's on Meadow St.
 The executors sales of real estate of the , late Geo. H. Baldwin were effected on Mon- day last: to Henry T. Gable, the wood -loi northerly from the village, for $175; to Chas H. Colt and Geo. Richards, the Marsh farm for $5OO6; to George Kinney, the Wm. F. Baldwin place, on South street. for $3144. 70 |; to Mrs. Baldwin the reversion of the G. H. Baldwin place, for $1. .O00; to Charles Adams. the building lot on Meadow St., for $320.
 The funeral of Hon. c. H. Hollster took place on Saturday. MT. David F. Hollister, from Bridgeport, Rev. A. E. Beeman, from Unonville, and Mrs. Drakely and her family. from Woodbury. were in attendance. Messrs. Huntington and Cothren. also came up from Woodbury. The funeral services were con. ducted by Rev. s. O. Seymour, at St. Michael's Chapel.
 The school reports show an attendance in the two upper departments of the Center School of Taper cent of registered scholars in the primary, of 5S per cent. The highest percentage of attendance IS that of S9 in the Milton primary. North Farms and Guernsey Hill show percentage of 79; the total at. tendance throughout the town is 70 per cent of registered scholars. The balance of the library appropriation has been expended Is purchase of maps and dictionaries.
 The Superior Court (criminal term) be- gins on Tuesday next with the following dock. ct for the first week
 Tuesday State vs Geo. Breck. ct al e cases.) George Everett, Robert w. Griffin, Harriet E. Wheeler
 Wednesday Charles Butler, Ethan Bos worth. stephen Whitney @ cases,) Charles Lock wood
 Thursday-John Daniels, @ cases,) Peter Johnson, Frederick Shores, Frank Grant Matthew Colbert. ct d., Robert Colbert, ct al Joseph Kegler, Jr., ct Gt., @ Cases)
 Friday Danuis Dwire (4 cases Charles II. Seymour, William Terry, Owen F. Cum mTDgs.
 Our venerable townsman Mr. Tomlinsor Wells celebrated his eighty seventh birthday on Wednesday last One needed to know the date of his birth to make it seem that he had reached more than three score years an( ten. Quite a number of bis acquaintance and friends dropped in informally to offer thei good wishes on his birthday and all felt lik, echoing the sentiment expressed by one of hi family. Everybody is congratulating grand pa on his grandchildren; we think we ought to be congratulated on having such grand father" Litch6eld has many things of whicl to boast, but among it's best treasures it counts it's men and women who in a ripe old ag' seem as young and vigorous in mind and bod, as when youth was really their portion. St. Michael's organ has been taken dowl and is to be set up about five or six feet fur ther in front than before. It has been shame fully neglected, water having beeR allowed t. drip into it from above. The instrument 1 practically two organs, known as the 'great and ''small" organs, each having a separat row of keys and wind chests. The "great organ is in front and was the less exposed t water than the ''swell" which is enclosed in box in the rear Here, water, falling iron the ceiling, had found its way through th swell box to the pipes and trickled throug and around them into the wind chest, out C which pint of water was found when Nil swelling of the wood had made all but one of the stops of this half of the srgcn useless and water is said to have been found in son of the pipes of the ''great" organ. Mir. Mo ris is making a thorough repair, and we hor this fiue instrument will be taken better cal ef, hereafter. On Monday next will be held the annu meeting of the Borough for choice of officer The present Board of Burgesses will make written report of their doings while in off, which we condense as follows: The Burgesses have adopted the followir bylaws:
 1. Providing that no money shall be pa out by the borough treasurer except upt orders signed by majority of the burgesse CBy village bylaws passed before the establis ment of board of burgesses money VI paid on order of the President. 2. Providing for stated meetings of u