Litchfield enquirer., 1860-07-19
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THE STORM of Monday night was one of the most severe and terrific experienced lately in these regions. The rain was flood, the thunder was deafening and the lightning binding. Seve- ral barns and outhouses were struck in the nelgn- borhood, one, carriage house on the mountain west of us belonging to MT. Garry Potter was consumed his house and barns barely escaping the fire.
 The storm extended as far as Danbury, from whence we have the following despatch l DAsBuRY, July l7: A severe storm last night The hgntiing struck house in Spring street, klllng a'fiIA "A Lynch, who leaves wife and four children. u also struck several places in the nelghoornooo' COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT YALE ColLEGE-- l Commencement at Yale College occurs Thurs day July 26th. The previous exercises of the week are as. follows:
 Sunday Afternoon sermon by the Rev. G. P. Fisher, Livingston Professor ol Divinity. Ecening-Discourse before the ale Missionary Society, by the Rev. J. r. Ihomp- son, D. D., of New York. 1 Tuesday 47ermoon.-Two hundredth ann'- versary of the Hopkins Grammar schoN' h's- torical discourse by the Rev. Leonard w. Bacon of Litch6eld. Ereaing- Concio ad ceram, by the Rev. c. W. Clapp, of Rockville, Conn. Wednesday Morning meeting Of the Alumni discourse by the Rev. Vim. B sprague D. D., of Albany. Epening-oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society by the Hon. b. F. Thomas, ILL D. of Boston, late judge Of the Superior Court of Mass.
 7Hmsday-C Commencement.
 | THE United States Zouave Cadets, of Chica- go, arrived in New York Saturday morning, in the Albany boat and were received on arrival by detachment of tho 9th regiment. In the afternoon the Zouaves gave all exhibition drill in the Park, which was witnessed by ten thou sand persons The drill was ill Hardie's tactics and the Zouave drill The correctness and pre- cision of tho movements elicited warm encoml- ums from the spectators, and by the general ad- mission of the military connoisseurs present, to be superior to the execution of exercises Of the First Division.
 | A LARGE MEETING was held Tuesday night, in Union Square, New York, of gentleman, many of whom have not before acted with the Repub- lican party. Letters were received from Roger S. Baldwin, James o. Putnam, Willis Hall and Truman Smith, and addresses made by Horace Greeley, Rufus r, Andrews, Daniel Ullman and others. The meeting, a very spirited one, was mainly composed of and managed by those who supported Fillmore in 1856.
 l THE CROPS IN FRAScE.-In France, at the latest mail dates the anxiety ill regard to the crops in some parts of the country was such that the Bishops had ordered the prayers of the church for fair weather.
 JAPANESE LlBERAIIrY.-Mr. Aug Belmonte has been intrusted with the sum of S20,OOO which the late guests of the nation wished to have distributed among the police of New York Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. But | why the police more than the Common Coun- Gil? Did the sly Japs intend in this way to mark their distinctive appreciation of the men l who persecuted, and the men who protected | them?
 1 THE American artillery has been making ex- periments with riaed cannon loaded with gun cotton. Although the tn ist is very cons;sera- ble, .he pieces can be loaded at the muzze. At l the last account they had succeeded in throwing a six-pound ball three miles with six ounces of gun-cot'on. These guns arc very light, and this, with the small quantity of ammunition required, renders them particularly applicable to moul- tain warfare especially as it is possible to fire for considerable time before the enemy can learn whence the shots are coming, since the gun-cotton makes no smoke.
 | MR. F. c. KELLOGG, of Hartford, has already succeeded in producing by artificial means about one thousand trout, which are now doing we'll. A small stream in East Hartford has been used for this purpose
 THE New Haven City Directory this year con- tains II, ,673 names, which is an increase of l,26O over last year. The Hartford Directory for 1860 has 8 s,500 names
 TIE New Haveners are talking about Ma tional Horse Show on Brewster Park this fall | LARGE FIRE IN NEW YoAK-An extensive conhagration occurred, on Monday afternoon, among some stables and shanties in one of the lower wards, by which half block of buildings were burned, and forty-three families rendered houseless. Total loss about S27,OOO.
 THE CH1cAGo Zo-AvEs are astonishing the peo. pie of New York by the elegance of their ap. pearance, and the unrivalled effect of their WOE. derful drill. On Monday, they gave a public exhibition of their skill il military maneuv,e on Madison Square, before many thousand specta tors. On Wednesday, they visit and drill upon the decks of the Mammoth Great Eastern. Literary Notices.
 WE have neglected until now, to notice the late advantageous change in the appearance ot the |" Homestead Journal" That garden Dor.