Litchfield enquirer., 1881-07-21
LITCHFIELD.

sett. .sa4s-- LlICdE1ELU Mir. Albro Alfred, of Kansas, is visiting friends in East Litchfield and Harwinton.
 The reed pipes of St. Michael's organ have returned but are not yet in place.
 1.-The Lake is enlivened by large number of camping parties. Among them are some twenty Chinese boys from Hartford.
 The Island Hotel Company held their annual meeting on Monday last. They reelected officers and had the usual excellent annual dinner.
 Miss Cornela Bradley has conveyed two pieces of land in Bantam on one of which is the house in which she lives, to Charlotte A. Doyle, reserving life interest in the same. Ralph V. Roberts was brought before Justice Deming, on Monday, charged with an assault upon John Goodman, and fined one dollar.
 -Mrs and Miss Keudrick, of Wallingford, Ct., have been added to the list of boarders at the United States. There are large list of transient arrivals at that place and the Man
 
 sion House.
 At the meeting of the Episcopal Arch deaconry;in this place, last week, an address was delivered by the Rev. MT. George, of Woodbury, and the sermon was preached by Rev. MT. Stoddard, of Watertown. Twelve clergymeu were present. = Mir. Wm. H. Braman has one of the eagles whose untimely end was SO eloquently lamented in recent Enquirer, stuffed and placed in his show window. It is fine bird. By the way, the bald eagles are not entirely exterminated from this vicinity after all. Four have been recently seen about the lake.
 There have been the following arrivals at the Lake View during the week:
 Mrs. and Miss Musgrave. of New York j; A. J. Hatch and wife, of Stamford, Ct 1; Geo. F. Lee, of New York; Miss Wood and Heade and Geo. T. Betts, of New York Mr. William Thompson, Miss Clara Duncan and Mir. John Abendroth, of Brooklyn; Mir. Fred Trubee and Miss Alice Trubee, of Bridgeport ; Mrs. s. A. Tams, of New York. We are told that a drunken man was seen staggering down South Street, Sunday. Where did he get his liquor? Under the law as passed at the last session of the legislature, the county commissioners are constituted a court for the trial of licensed dealers, any one of whom on proof of sales on Sunday, to mi nors, or to drunkards, forfeits Eis license. Are there not dealerssin Litchfeld who are liable to forfeit their licences under this act -'Pray give me your rule, Aunt libby, for Keeping 30 young and cheerful, in spite of your seventy-five years," Iheard bright young lady ask of 8 quaint, sensible old Scotch nurse, ,-who almost every day of the past six weeks, might have been seen on our sidewalks, with three beautiful children under her sole care.-Without moment'shesitation, she replied, in her broad Scotch accent, ''Tis to sleep soee1, eat soeel, work soeel, and keep a clear conscience A. There was meeting of the County Medi- cal Society at the Mansion House, on Tues day of last week. A paper was read by.Dr. J. R. Sanford, of West Cornwall, on Brights disease and discussion followed on the same subject Dr. J. H. North of Goshen, was requested to prepare 8 paper for the next meeting. The next meeting of the Society will be it's annual meeting, held on the 2nd Tuesday in October, at the Mansion House in this place.
 Next week, on day to be named hereaf ter, there will be dramatic entertainment at Armory Hall, to consist of the comedietta "A Doubtful Victory, followed by the farce "Poor Pillicoddy." The proceeds of oftheentertainment are for the benefit of the Litchfeld Circulating Library. This organization is sadly in need of funds for the purchase of new books, and this fact alone, apart from the merit of the plays themselves, which will be unusually entertaining, should attract large audience.
 -VIvIsEoTIoN IN LTTCHFIELD. Although as yet only "a locker on in Vienna and New York at vivisection tables we sometimes give anasthetics and often let the victim die but the owner of adog in South Street does neither. Apparently he keeps his setter on purpose to whip under the name of training Coming to this village in search of health, rest. and pleasure, beg that the howls of the dissec- tion room will not continue to follow me. The trainer of this dog is evidently too un- trained to train brute.
 SUMMER VISITOR.