Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1860-07-05
NEWS Of THE WEEK

NEW0A IF IAE W66A'
DAxsuRY-The first census report we nave
lsesd is tIztof D.nbury Borough, in which tns
census takers have discovered 1850 people, O
whom e3l are forsigners, and 81 colored szl
families and $40 dwslIirgs. This does not in
GLIDE the outlying districts Of the town.
THE HARrroRD CnEBRATIos has fizzled out
q Sponduluxically" considered, the citizens Of
Hartford determined not to celebrate. A Com
lmittee was appointed. but, they content them
selves with ringing the church bells and firing
cannon.
THr CELKBRAr1os in Bridgeport promises to
be grand affair. Several military companies
from abroad-one from New York, and numer-
GUS fire companies will be present with their en-
gines. Rev. a. N. Benedict Of Bridgeport de-
livers the Grafton, which will be good thing.
Fireworks Of an unusually brilliant description
wind up the ceremonies Of the day. An excur-
sion train leaves Itch6eld station at tit A. n
Fare rs down and back. ssat iii Is
CHAs. GOODYEAR, the inventor Of the Art of
vulcanizing India-Rubber, died in New York,
on Sunday last, after an illness of four weeks.
He was born in New Haven, Dec. 29th, 1900,
and was consequently nearly sixty years Of age.
One Of the most horrible double murders in
which New York abundantly abounds. occurred
on Saturday evening. A Mr.. John Walton, a
respectable brewer, was shot through the head
in Eighteenth street, while walking quietly home
from his business, and the murderer being pur-
sued, as he was upon the point of being overta-
ken, turned and discharged pistol at his pur-
suers, which took effect in the person of q Mr..
Matthews, a Railroad Conductor, killing him in
stantly. The double murderer is still at large,
but is suspected as one of the stepsons of Mr..
Walton, and has by this time probably been ar
rested. Domestic difficulties are undoubtedly
the cause Of this fiendish slaughter.
They HAD REGATTA in New Haven, last
Friday, in which six yachts entered for the prize.
The whole race was a little over twelve miles,
and was made by the winning boat in one hour
and forty three minutes.
York, and the Japanese have departed. The
last of these latter left the Metropolitan Hotel
on Friday. ...-.. .... .... .s-.
Before their departure they were presented
by E. K. Collins with beautiful model and
plans of the steamship Adriatic.
Valuable gifts were received from other par
t:os ,,x> - h. J.r& -, af.
Some Of the principal officers and attendants
with the baggage, went on board the Harriet
Lane early in the forenoon, and with as little dis
play as possible. a=ss a. a=
The principal men of the Embassy in car
riages, accompanied by the Common Council
Committee, and escorted by the list Regiment
marched down Broadway to go on boari
the Harriet Lane, at the Battery.
The seventy-6rst Regiment numbering two
hundred and fifty or three hundred men, was LEI
off by Dodsworth's band and relocated drum
corps, and makes a fine appearance.
~ THE GREAT EASTERN made her trip in thirtee:
days, but was under small amount Of steam
during the whole passage twenty pounds only.
On her return in September she will probabl
be " let out to greater advantage. There wer
AZ passengers only on board, hardly enough t.
keep one another company in SO vast q ship.
THE SIZE AND Power OF THE GREAT EAST
ERN.-The following tabular statement is give
of tha a;-.-.--a<,ss callbre of the Great East
ern now in Now yorIr h rho.