Litchfield enquirer., 1881-11-24
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 -Rev.sMr. Martin breaches at the Csngre- gational church. on Sunday
 The sudden snap of cold of the present week, though not unreasonable, is none the less trying. =A Efs 5-@
 The Rev. Mir. Waite of Holyoke, Mass, preached at the Cungregatiauat Church on Sunday. .EE1I2E1
 We hear that % young people are coming home from various. schools and colleges for Thanksgiving s'-1 -~ '@ -''''2@'4
 There are services in the Congregational and Episcopal churches, toemorrow tThanks- giving Day) at II. D. m.
 The Center School report for Nov. 18th, shows the following attendance Aggregate, 135; Average, 11lk.
 -Messrs. Perkins & Scott have sold out 4heir meat market and business, to Mir. Wm. R. Coe.
 ...-Among other matter crowded over by rush of business are several correspondents letters and an editorial of our own
 There is prospect of skating on Thauks- giving Day, this year, providing such diver sion is proper on such day
 Mir William H. Braman has full assort- ment of skates of all kinds and sizes from the Uniou Hardware Co.,, Torrington.
 Messrs Beach and Pratt have sold the house recently owned by J. NJ. Hills on East Street, to Mir. Peter Karl.
 -Messrs Beach and Pratt have sold the house recently bought by them of Win. Devoe. toAddsou K. Taylor
 Mir. Charles Merriman has sold his place just west of the village to Mrs Mary Rogers, for $55,00O, .,,.- -.r., Hon. A. B. Mygatt, Bank Examiner. is in town making his organization of the First National
 Notice advertisement of F. L. Allen. of Waterbury. It is of special interest to far mers .w
 Two clses. William Gregory vs. Louisa Barlow, were on trial at the Court House be- fore Hon. Geo. c. Woodruff. Committee, on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Hickox for plf. Munger of Ansona, for deft
 -Segen Litclifeld Royal Arch Masons went up to Winsled, Tuesday evening to at- tend meeting of Meridian Chapter No 15, of that place MasOns were present from Lake vile. New Hartford, Thomaston, Torrington and other adjoining towns.
 Mrs Cora W. Harwi, of Chicago, will give recitaIs in costume, assisted by Mir How ard Smith, vocalist, at Armory Hall, on Tuesday evening next. Our correspondent H. N. gave an appreciative notice of her read ing in a recent Enquirer. and she comes highly recommended.
 Mir. Foster, of West Winsted, will be at the store of Vessels & Gates, on Monday next, with a choice selection of foreign and domestic woolens, prepared to take orders for anything in his line. Persons wishing good custom work, should give hun call and ex- anime the new line of Fai! and Winter Goods he is prepared to exhibit.
 There are at present 9 prisoners in jail and no court will sit till April Some of those now confined will soon be out on ex- piratiOn of sentence, but their places will be more than filled by new committals. With eight more prisoners than cells already there must be good deal of crowding during the winter.
 -Mr Seth Pratt has sold three acres of land next the lot recently sold James Hurley, being part of the Solomon Marsh farm to MT. Nelson H. Barnes, rcserving the barn on the same which he is to remove before the first of April Mir. Pratt has further bought dwell- 1ug house and lot of Mir. Barnes on Lake St., 50 called, now occupied by Albert Jones.
 At their last weeks meeting the County Commissioners disposed of tEe rest of the Winsted applications for licenses; they were all refused except one. They have acted on the plan oi licensing in general only reputable hotels. and druggists. There was quite an in teresting hearing at which the character and influence of various persons and places iu Winsted were very fully exposed.
 We clip the. following from the New York Times of Tuesday regarding the sudden death of a lady who has spent several sum mers in this place: lclgGE
 Mrs William H. Morris, of Morrisania, was thrown from her carriage yesterday morning and instantly killed. Mrs. Morris was being driven to the Mofrsanias depot,A intending to take the 10 o'clock train for the city to visit her daughter, Mrs. Frederick J. de Peyster. The horses became frightened as they ap. preached the railroad station, aud, suddenly shying from the middle of the roadway, they threw the carriage down slight emhankmen The driver was unseated, and Mrs. Morris fel to the ground beneath the carriage. Tn, driver hurried to her assistance, and found he lifeless. Mrs. Morris, was 5t years old and i, the fullness of health and strength. Her los will be deeply felt by alsrge circle. of friend in this city and Baltimore. She was a daugt. ter of the late Hugh Birkhead, of Baltimore and through her mother. who. was Mis- McEvers, of New York, she was descendan of the families If Rutgers, Le Roy, and D Peyster sssz1 $zSh'z@ SE
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