Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-12

Ar the adjourned meeting Of the Directors ofths State Bank, Hartford. held Thursday. Charles H. Brainard, Esq. was elected Presi- dent, cics Thomas Belknap.
 HE old paper mill at Chaplin has recently been purchased by Messrs Greene E Bosth- risk, of Norwich, who intend making tissue and manilla papers.
 MRS. WALTER SIaSoR, lame lady of Dan. bury Mill Plain, was run against bx vason last week, and her crutches knocked from her causing her to fall and break her ankle.
 TIE many friends of the Rt Rev. Bsbou Williams will regret to hear. of his serious illness. He was just making his visitations to some parishes, about two two weeks ago, and was obliged to ride two days in an open buggy, in the hot sun. and received partial sun-stroke. which has completely prostrated him. His physicians have ordered cessation from public duties, and allow no one to see him on business.
 TIE oldest man residing ia New Haven, made visit to Hartford last week, and some enquiry was made for the oldest man in Hart ford, without coming to any definite issue. Who is her Rev. Jeremiah Day, ex president of Yale College, We believe to be the oldest man in New Haven. He astonished his frisnds here by walking all about the city, and up Asylum Hill, where younger men prefer the horse cars. with perfect ease. He is now in his sSd year and prefers his own feet to any known mode of locomotion. Gourant WE find in an old desk in our office a GU. rious relic of the old days, in the shape ot genuine note of hand. dated "Say brook April the 18th, l73s." It runs as follows: .. ..
 I Ebenezsr Bushnell of Say-brook in the County of New-London in the Colony of Con necticut, in New England, do promise to pay or cause to be paid to Nathsnaell Sanford of the same Say brook, the full and just sum of six pounds and fifteen shillings in money. at or before the 18th day of September next en- suing the date hereof, it being for value re- ceved, as witness my hsnd." If this small sum had been put at compound interest when that bit of paper was written. it would now amount to enough to buy up . good part of "the same Sabrook," we reckon.-N. H. Journal.
 THE Hartford Times says that Joel Hills Esq, of that city, has tannelisd under both tracks of the Hartford, Springfield and New Haven railroad at the foot of Russell street, and four foot sewer has been built therein. The distance is about thirty feet, fifteen feet below the iurface of the railroad. No props were used, as the hard clay soil held up the body of the earth and the heavy trains which passed over this tunnel every hour LAST Monday week, by some means the last car on the Shore Line eleven o clock train, be- came detached from the train in the depot, and shortly after of went the train, leaving the car solitary and alone with eight passsngers for Boston in it. About one o'clock the en- zine came back into the depot looking for the missing car, but the car had been switched ofF out of the way and the passengers sent to ho. tsls for the night. Hss a9s1 a4. r...
 TEE Waterbury Cronicls tells the following rich election incident:
 "A man whose aunt married negro voted against the amendment. thus pronouncinS in favor of the Acknowledgement of his own cous. ins the sons of said aunt When rallied upon his dsfsction to his family, he stated that it was the southern nipgars he was voting against, and not the niggers here."
 TIE stockholders of the New York and Bos- ton Railroad Company have commenced action u the Superior Court to regain possession of the franchise of their road from the hands of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Con- pany, so that they may complete their road as originally utenced. The character of the par. ties engaged in this movement is such as to give promise that it will be successful ..
 LIST of Connecticut Patents for the week ending Sept. 26 1865!
 John H. Doolittle of Ansonia, for mode of making clasps for hoop skirts.
 Oliver S. Judd, of New Britain. ass gnor to himself and Charles Blakesy oG the same place for sash fastening. ,'. 't#t.
 William II. Hart, of New Britain, for door bolts.
 Edwin Hoyt. of Stamford, tobacco pipes.
 John J. Squire of New London. improve ment in fruit jars. T' '''
 Charles Monson of New Haven for improve msnt in pressure and RravitAtion machine. Antedated Sept. Is, 1865.
 Reissue Edward B. Manning. of Cornwall for tea and coffee, pots. Patended June 3, 1862. Rsissaed June 67. 1865. s- '. os- Mir. Grnnell has received letter from Capt Hall. of the Artic Expedition, written on