Litchfield enquirer., 1865-07-13
STATE ITEMS.

REv. DR W. c. MEAb, Rector of St Paul's Church, Norwalk, preached his thrtieth an- nua' sermon. on Sunday morning last.
 LAST Saturday week, the lightning struck large tree on the farm of Mir. James Finn. about one mile west of Ridgebury, destroyed the tree, and killed five cows.
 MIR. fl. c. Hoyr has obtained about fifty names toward a new militia company to be formed in Danbury. Many of those sigung are returned volunteers.
 THE Waterbury American says the celebrat ed 5000 stallion, Fields " Black Hawk" died in that city of some head complaint, Friday week.
 EZRA CHAPPEIL., Esq., of New London, died Saturday, week. He has supplied bread to all who needed 1t in that city for many years, and the poor will be among his sncerest mourners.
 BENJAMIN BROWN, of Waterford, now in his ninety eighth year, is said to be the only man living who actually bore arms during the revo- lutionary war; He fought in the defense of New London. in September, l78l. THE reported outrage in Wooster Place. New Haven, recently, turns out to have been exaggerated. The young woman screamed, and the nssailants were frightened and ran n, off without doing her any personal harm. TIE Postmaster at West Killingly adver. tises that no mail matter will be delivered to, any child under IA years of age, unless on u written order, as several losses have been met recently through the carelessness of children
 CHARLES HARPER, for the last four years mail agent on the morning train from New Yo,k to New Haven, has been transferred to the rail. way postofice servics or the Erie RuilrOed, and Edward E. Boyd of New Haven has been appointed his successor.
 A BOY named Kasson, residing in WestvilIe, was on Friday shot accidentally by compan. ion, some forty shot taking effect, though none striking a vital part. The shot were taken out by Dr. Townsend, and the patient is getting along as well as could be expected. ...
 THERE was larger amount of business done in the Hat manufacturing line in Danbury. in the month of May, than was ever accomplished in single month before. The Hat Box man. ufactory of MT. E. s. Davis, turned out 25,OOO Hat Boxes during that month.
 A SON of the Rev. F. J. Jackson of Daubury, | ;rf fha1 hryo o1n1 Hpa fpnn n nta ol in the hands of boy, on the Fourth. Mir. J. I. Earle was also hit with a gravel stone, discharged from pistol, just above his right eye, which made rather an ugly wound.
 THE Thirty-second Annual Convention of the i Psi Upsilon Fraternity, one of the largest of the college secret societies, will be held at the Wesleyan University. Middletown. July 1s.- i The public exercises will be held at the Metho- dist Church, on the evening of the same day, the oration to be delivered by Rev. James Strong, D. D., and the poem by Charles F. Sweeter, editor of the Round Table.
 THE flag of the steamship Brooklyn, A by "A feet, that has flown unscathed, though not bloodess, from New Orleans to Vicksburg and back, and been enveloped in the smoke of al- most every naval engagement of the war, end ing with that of Mobile and Fort Fisher, Was presented to John Welch, of North Adams Conn.,, seaman on the Brooklyn, by the late, Lieut. Porter, and was unfured from Masonic Hall on the Fourth of July. t'H
 CONN. Patents dated June 27th: John P. Beaty, Norfolk improvement in hats {; R, P. Covles, New Haven, carriage knob; Austin G. Day, Seymour, improved bungs for barrels and other vessels; Geo. Durham. Unionville, mt machine; J. Hatch, South Windhain, ma. chine for cutting paper into sheets H. K. Jones. Kensington, improvement in lathes ;- J. W. Colburn, New Haven, improved water proof scles; 8. c. Luther of Waterbury, im- pavement in machines for making paper 'oxes B. B. Manning. Cromwell, improvement n tea and coffee pots.