Litchfield enquirer., 1881-04-07
fendant's. counsel J. H. McMahon, of New Milford until April i6th

 Milford until April 18th.
 Prof Mills Whittesey and wife, of Maple wood Institute, are visiting at his fathers, Sheldon Whittlesey. Tor short time. The professor played The organ at the church, Sun- day, as he was wont to do several years ago. --E4 The whole human races day. |. C., "All fools day." passed eff about as usnal. Que 1 of our selectmen picked up fine package sn Christian street which he. brought to the post office to leave till the owner should call for it. It was suggested that owing to the day there | might he a little shoddy abou. it so the pack. age was opened and FoaId l0 contain I block of pine wood inscribed with the legentl, "April fool" It 'aint often you can fool select l nan.
 George $. Cogswell has secured the mail routes running from this village to Warren, to the Shepaug railroad and to New Milford, three in all, services to commence July 1st. and continue four years The only route left is that to Merryall, which, we suppose no amount of money that could be offered, would induce John Allen to sublet to any living man. In fact no man on this continent would put greater amount of energy into the busi iess than he does, or is better qualified for the position.
 The Grant and Cogswel case came of at Union Hall, Saturday, as was expected, before Justice Seth N. Taylor McMahon and Kii- bonrn for Cogswell, O'Hara and Moore for Grant. Everybody was present from Dan to Bersheba. all over the world, and part of York State besides. All the forenoon was wasted by the lawyers in getting rid of gas Iver the question of demurrers and whether he proceedings should proceed or not, etc., md so on. One lawyer had heard lions roar, and consequently didn't fear anybody; another had heard mules bray and was not abashed another ventured the remark that barking cur never bit anybody, and his opponent re- tnrted that that was the precise reason why he wasn't afraid, and there were more lawyer phrases of like acuteness. At last they came to the case in hand and the examination of witnesses commenced. Somebody once said, ''See Paris and die," but we say, hear one of hese lawsuits and die. You see there were four lawyers, and whenever one asked wit ness a question, one of the other three would jump up and yell the stereotyped phrase, Your Honor, l object to that !" Then after few words the question would be allowed Another put question. Up jumped another of the lawyers with, Your Honor, ] object to that T" Another question. Another, Your Honor, object to that T! And so it went all day. One man who was present through all the trial solemnly affirms that he kept truthful and correct account and heard in the aggregate, "Your honor, I object to that 1" yelled 18976 times by those four law yers TLe upshot of it all was, Cogswell was put under five hundred dollar bonds to keep the peace. This makes the two contestants even. Grant and Cogswell are both under bonds to keep the peace. They are even and now there must be fight for the "rubber," Who's got the joker ?'
 The missionary meeting Sunday night was made interesting by select readings by Miss Julia Averill and Rev. H. Upson.
 About three quarters of our village have been summoned to appear at Litchfeld next Thursday ard tell what they know in the case of Watson Cugswell ns Frank Grant for as- sault and battery.
 If this sort of thing continues much longer we'd like to know who's going to do the spring work for this community.
 Never mind boys, theIe's good time coming. This is only spring, or sprang, or sprung. Eventually the roads will be settled. In the meantime shovel the oats right to em.
 B. Griswold, Jr., has returned from a weeks visit among relatives at Bridgeport.
 -G. c. Hitchcock is DO better.
 Miss Bertie Corning left Tuesday morn ing for a protracted visit among her many friends in New York City.
 The mercury stood only 18e above zero on the morning of the 9th.
 70 wonderful, wonderful and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonder ful. and after that out of all whooping!" is the knowledge and learning which some folks in New Preston. have attained. Only the other morning fellow with the air and bear ing of a pedant took particular pains to inform us that a correspondent of the Enquirer is re sponsible for whatever he says in it's columns, in tone that betokened the deepest soci- tude for our welfare Alas! such anxiety over that which everybody already knows is absolutely painful. P.D.