Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-10

in the town Of Litch1eld between 4 and 16 years of age have made the return to the Con- traiIer as follows:
 Total No of persons, 773
 Number attending school private or
 public 647
 Number not attending . 126
 Of the latter class there are under
 i've, 68
 Between five and eight, 40l
 Between eight and fourteen, 10
 Between fourteen and sixteen, IS
 The adjourned annual town meeting was held on Monday. The amount of the grand list as corrected by the Board of Relief was reported al g. .Ol9. .5l6. an increase of 99l ,907 from last year. A tax of l2t mills was laid. aad William Norton reappointed Collector at his former salary of $l50. There was an excit- ed discussion ou the subject of restricting coast ing Oa highways, which resulted in the pas- sage of the following bylaw:
 Yossd:-That coasting on the public high ways in this town and on any of the side and any person violating this bylaw shall be fined two dollars for each offence, payable to the town treasury of Litchfeld. .ra
 Mondays vote forbidding coasting has srOased considerable feeling. as letter else where printed, from 'The Boys" indicates. Oar own view has been that the sliding down the main East and West Hills sometimes causes serious annoyance and some risk to trAvelers Farmers who drive every day to she depot with milk, or who come in here fre- queatly, have often complained to us of this matter and have given instances of great reck. lessness and disregard of the rights of the trayeliug public on the part of the. ''coasting" pabIic. 'TBusiness before pleasure" b max im that strikes us as applying to the present case
 Ma EDEToR--Dont you think it little hard on us boys, to take away our coastng privileges and furnish us no place to make up f0r the loss Aud yet the men and big grown up boys are allowed to run races up and down our Village streets and frighten ether horses. These very men who voted us down, them. selves break the law by coming into town with 10 bells on their horses, and thus endan. ger the lives of foot passengers We boys have always waited till the sieighs got sut of the way before we came down hill In fact we think the whole thing is plaguey mean.
 4 N Signed by
 4sEEhI< TIE Boys.
 Litch6eld Feb. Sth, 1S81
 The Superior Court came in on Tuesday for transaction of formal court business and on Wednesday adjourned till the frst week of the April criminal term to close up matters by agreement that could not now be disposed of. The following decisions by the court, and on reports of Committees accepted this term, are entered aRsn the docket x #
 E6 Hosce VI Julia Brescn, James Hunting ton. Committee; report for plaintiff to recover $<sl.e0 and costs Graves for plaintiff; Woodruff for defendeut , t
 Essds Raldria ys Samuel L Emson. Abi- iah Catlin. Commiitee; report for plaintiff to recover $l50. and costs. Graves end hickox for plaintiff; Hollister and Kiloourn for de- Phe5e fl. Curtis vs Silas E. CHenev. plain. tiff to recover $l230. 42. Graves and An. drews for plaintiff Hollister and Hickox for defendant |ss.' '.
 The following divOrces have been granted duringthe term: fa 4 , i Sarah from Walter N. Benson.
 
 Orriu L. from Nancy E. Potter.
 Mary J. from Geo. Benedict.
 Anna A. from Philemon Beacher Geo E from Cornelia Gilbert
 Della fran Cnas. C.sHayeeA A & Helen (sie) from Benjamin N. Mallette
 JoAn N. from Mary A Ceaser (sie)
 WATERTowS, Feb. Eth, 1881. l Ar. Editor. manly tribute to the memory of the late pr. Taylor, of New Mill ford, by Mr. Sanford, that appeared in your last issue. was as creditable to the writer as to the.subject; and gave great pleasure to the many friends of the deceased ia neighboring towns as well as in New Milford; for the Doctor had many patients as far of as Wash ington. and in former years he shared the practice there with our own Doctor by whom he was held in great esleem. It appears now that an aliopathic physician loses his standing with his medical brethren if he consults with a hsinopath ic doctor, but the writer first met Dr. Tayior. more than thirty years ago, in the room Of one of Dr. Fowler's patients, and , was much impressed with the harmony of ideas that prevailed between the Doctors dur. ing the interview. The case was an utterly hopeless one, the young man having an ulcer. ated sore throat that was beyond Inc reach of medicine but in the matters of diet, aud soothing remedies there was perfect unanimi. ty. Afterward, in converting with Dr. Fow der. whe was many years older than Dr. Tay lor. was informed that the latter studied f,rss iu the ailopathic schooE and afterwsrd learned the homeopathic method hence knew the effect of his prescriptions and could apprecI. ate pr. Fowler's remedies If Dr. Foweler could not his It is refreshing to zee a repub. lican willing to testify to the integrity of s hsmocat. and an Episcopalian according deserved praise to Congrega.ionalist The .miIlenium may be at hand. sr,s t.s ,.a...
 Qa Friday, six Republican Senators united with she DeIpocrats in declariug stha. ,hs Niee President has no right to count the cleo @0kAA svst@- a- rs E4sAssx sE ss s.6 ASA sxtss.i
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