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LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS I Litchfield. The weather for the past week has continued dry and balmy. The trees are all putting forth their leaves and buds, and the hills and meadows about have assumed their vernal green. For the next month Litchfield will rapidly assume its is Summer comeliness, and the most lovely village d in Connecticut become radiant with all its famed Judge and inviting magnificence and bloom. held an adjourned session 0 Court at the Court House. on rior Seymour Monday, of the Supe- May n 14th. It was very short term however, and not a very "hot" one as there were but three lawyers a on hand. No business was transacted. I were half in error last we n the celebrated Don Juan Incalled We Diddler, week, when half dian and half African. The mistake lay in the Indian" part, which we supposed, lay in his but which has since been the means (by a bloodless process which in in of revealing the entire hair; Bridgeport,) scalping he received African We are now of the opinion that he to the woolly belongs the fonce. exclusively horse" tribe. and can congratulate our community that he has thus speedily been for us, by having the wool ourselves, and wooling" only pulled repaid over his own eyes. A free lecture' by Dr.Addison is announced for Friday evening in the Court House. What the subject is we don't know, but something pertaining to health we suppose, which is a topic all are interested in. Cornwall. The first Sunday in May there was forty-two persons added to the North Congregational Church, two by letter, and forty by profession. The The occasion was one of much interest schools are again in session, and all full, d the one located in South which except private Cornwall, year has barely had an existence the past work is well advanced season, and Farming for the for with seasonable rain the prospect abunf dant crops would be very flattering, but at present there is a great scarcity of that article. All 11 kinds of fruit,except the peach, promise well Rumor has it that E. Burton Hart principal of the West Cornwall Institute has purchased the homestead of his father, Mr. Julius Hart, and is t fitting it up with much taste. Goshen. An enthusiastic meeting of the friends of the Rev. J. F Bingham was held at the house of Esq., in Goshen, to express their for their on the Noah sympathy S. Wadhams, Pastor and wife, eve of their departure. Resolutions denunciatory of course of the petitioners for Mr. and of removal, the strongly disapproving the Bingham's course the Consociation in acceding to their request,as an uncalled for exereise of arbitrary power, were adopted, and a hat` being passed around over one hundred dollars were collected on the spot, as material sympathy for the pastor. Addresses were made by Dencon Harvey P. Merwin the chairman Rev. Robert Norton of Lock port, and Rev. Wm. Ross of West Goshen and at the close there was a general hand-shaking all around. Our space does not permit us to give further particulars. Norfelk. The Hosiery Company at Norfolk, have sold several knitting machines, to be operated at Holyoke, Mass., and have received applications from for their use of last week, the Clerk of day several evening quarters On the Thurs- Nor- the folk Bank, desiring to enter the vault of Bank, found that he was effectually locked out and that he could not insert the key into the lock of the vault. Norfolk Bank circles were immediately in panic." Cruel rumors of an immense robbery pervaded the streets and aroused the hastening-to-bed officers and directors. Their combined efforts to get to their specie, however, were unavailing and the next day, they were compelled to send to New Britain for an the lock. whole of Friday out experite the pick Meanwhile, (during all through strictly checks business hours) the officers cashed and drafts out of their own pockets which isn't 80 surprising a thing, perhaps, as the were probably not enormous and it is no (we believe,) amounts uncommon thing, for the On cashier Friday to carry the vault" in his pocket. the New arto the relief of the rived, night, much however, Britain anxious locksmith found Board. the lock in about three minutes, a in the tock, but none the opened slight displacement subsided in into vault; and Norfolk bank circles their usual placidity, with a prolonged but painful sigh of satisfaction. New Milford. The Hutchinson Family gave two concerts in New Milford, one last week Friday and one d on Monday evening. The old favorites were warmly greeted and well appreciated if we Rod may judge from the audiences they had man Hine of New Milford has some big eggs k A hon of his, cross between the Java and Ma lay breeds, which he calls the " Royal Burmese breed," laid five eggs last week, the smallest of which measures 734 inches one way,by 61/2 inchd es the other, and weighs seven ounces A. S. Rogers' new school building is in process of erection, and he expects to open h Septema ber term here. Two large tartles were in the Honsatonic River last Friday by of Constantine Ferriss, one weighn, one. and the other sixty apcaught son fifty of pounds. which It that like all other sporting gentlemen just a were very much excited on c. of and were pracject now, pears they prize-fighting, engaged when the in sub- the n, ticing the manly art of self-defence," police, in the person of Mr. Ferriss' sou, effected ir capture. They are now lodged in jail. and