Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-24
LITCHFIELD.

Hamburg embroideries cheap.
 Ladies three-button kid gloves at 40 and 90 cents al Vessels & Smith's
 The schools had holiday on Washington's birthday and hand-sleds were in general use under the new bylaw.
 The Chapter supper of last Cruesday) evening was served in Crossmans usual first rate style, and the occasion was very pleas ant one.
 Mir. Isaac Wakeman has conveyed to Walker Wakeman 6 farm of about 12S acres of land in NorthfeId, the grantee mortgaging the same to the grantor for $4, 900.
 The weather of the past week has been % springlike that one might imagine we were just approaching the opening of April instead of March.
 A good energetic lady agent wanted ts sell an article of merit. Light work and good profit. Address, Wright & O., Bristol, Conn.
 John Duggan was brought before Dwight c. Kilbourn, Esq, on Tuesday, charged with stealing pair of gloves from man at the Mansion House. The prisoner was acquit- ted.
 -Messrs. Perkins & Scott killed three- year-old hog. Monday, which weighed 736 pounds after it was dressed. This beats the prize animal recently guessed" for, some 60 pounds. .r.-
 Goshen scores the first new Deputy Sheriff, as will be seen from our record of Births. The rest of the Deputies wait till about the first of next June.
 Mir. Henry l.. Coe has sold to Mrs. Maria T., wife of Eli D. Weeks, eight acres of land adjoining the Episcopal parsonage lot in Bantam Reserving building lot 92x150 feet, therefr0m.
 -Gov. Andrews addressed the legislative Committee on Interpretations on Thursday last in opposition to the bill allowing the raising of tue Enfield Dam. It was a very able and no doubt very effective argument. o~u, A petition has been in circulation during the week past asking Congress to pass laws enforcing civil service reform. It has the signature of many prominent citizens and lacks those of others.
 The place occupied by MT. Wilson on Harris Plain came near burning, Monday forenoon. The smoke house caught fire, but with the help of Mir. Wm. Bigelow of the Island Hotel, who happened to be passing, the family were able to extlnguish the flames
 At Mondays town meeting our attention wGs called to pair of arctics as big as bob. sleds on the feet of one of the farmers present. vote, and then manufactured into double ripper. ..--
 On Thursday evening last Mir. Mclean delivered his lecture on David Livingstone" to an audience of some two hundred people It was interesting as we'll as instructive and. if the rest of the secular lectures proposed are as good, the course will be decided suc-
 Mir Geo. c. Woodruff, administrator of the estate oflhe late c. H. Baldwin, has con- veyed to Messrs. Perkins 6 Scott 573 acres. of land owned by said Baldwin on the east side of the Goshen read for l$2,00o, subject to mortgage to the Savings Society. Perkins 6 Scott conveyed the whole to Mir. Seth Pratt who quitclaiued half to Mir. s. G. Beach. .,.--There came near being fire at Norberg's, Saturday night. A lantern had been left burning inside. while the young man In charge went up street. The kerosene got blazing up, and raised quite commotion in the street. A window was burst in, a well as the sash of the door, and the lantern was taken out before anything got atire. 'a57s sa .- a saa
 Al the, meeting of the pewholders of St. Michaels Church, held on Monday afternoon last, the portion of the previous vote providing for removal of the organ to the northeast side of the church was reconsidered and mod ined 60 as to propose the moving forward of the organ partly out of the recess it now occu- pies, and the adoption of measures to prevent any further injury from dampness.
 The house occupied by Edgar Galpin. .ia the northern part of Northheld, and belonging to Bunnell and Scranton, of New Haven, was burnt on Tuesday. At the time the lire was discovered, Mrs. Galpin was alone with three little children. She thought she smelt some- thing burning; went out of the door, and saw the whole east end of the house aire She got out her children and ran for help to neigh bora When assistance arrived the fire had got under such headway that neAt ts nothing could be saved.
 At Mondays Town Meeting the following vote was passed without division:
 Hoted-That the bylaw passed at special tswn meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Litchfeld, on Monday. Feb. 7th. 1881, for bidding coasting in any of the highways of this town be and is hereby rescinded; and that coasting is hereby forbidden on the tray eled roadway on East Hill in the borough of Litch6eld. and on the highway on West Hill in said borough, and on the highway in North field center, between the house of Fred s. Porter and the shop of the North6eld Knife Go, and suehsother hlghwAys as the Select men may designate. under . penalty of $2 fne for each, offence; and forbidden within ntty feet of any horse and vehicle travelling on any highway of this town under penalty of 90 for each offence Said fnss to 6e payable into the town treasury. Eeie2 :, The final disposition of the coasting matter blythe passage of the above vote seems to be more satisfactory to both parties than com promises usually are. It prohibits coasting wherever 1t is dangerous, and yet leaves con- siderable latitude for fun.t The prohibition of sliding down East Hill is the one that the boys dislike most. but there has certainly good deal of annoyance resulted from the practice, and we understand that if it had been contin. asd Mr Starr would have sent all hls milk teams to-tbe Naugatdck, Station, instead of over Town Hillto the Shepaug. The Town meehng vas. quite 6 large ons--about two hundred voters being present. Capt. Mason made rather funny speech. aud Capt. Stone aFsther sentimental one. and there lvaaa good deal of voting in. the dark, but on the whole