Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07

THE Waterbury Circle of the Fenian Bno,b. erhood. had pubhc meeting at Hotchkiss Hall, on Wednesday evening of last week. A Egoodly number were present, and after the meeting was organized, the Hon. Jas. A Rogers o. New York, delivered an address adapted to occasion.as He is handsome speaker, and was listened to with attention. So far as we could judge, he advocated the principles of the order, ] as explained by other lecturers whose speeches have been published. The exercises were en- livened with music by the Phoenix Band. The Terryville and Bristol Circles of the Fsnian Brotherhood had a pic nic oa Thursday at the former place. Delegations from Waterbury and other towns were present. The Phoenix Band furnished the music. They were disap- pointed in speakers, but had good time gen rally.-5Amerieaa; .i y Ii1gtl5ytl,s ~i. t
 FUNNY things happen in the Hartford police court, according to the Courant. Daniel Han lon was brought p:he other day charged with an assault. Mrs. H. appeared as witness, with five children, eldest SIX years. youngest four weeks. Question by the Judge Mrs Han lon. are those children witnesses in this easel No, yer honor. they're mostly twins The judge called another case Another witness was testifyiug in a case of assault. Said she, Mrs. Crowley. yer honor, came at him with a cheer, and struck him. 'Where did she his him ? asked the judge. She hit him in the sidewalk, sir Daughter The judge sug- gested that it was somewhat difficult for him to decide what part of the body the sidewalk belonged to.
 A SPRINGFIELD Mass, husband having for seven years kept up an illicit courtship of Ma Try Mason, Hartford damsel his injured vii has written to the Hartford chief of police as follows: It is now seven years since he has
 ben caring on in the way he is now and think it ia now time there was a stop put to it he don't provide aney thing for me but my bar
 vituls aud hardly that I am obliged to take in
 work and slave my life out to get aney thing to
 cover my nakedness Every month as soon
 as he gets his pay he goes straight and gives
 it to her and not once cent will he give to me
 he even takes the vegetables out of our garden
 that kneed myself and carries them to her
 he fairly robs me for her. She alous that she will stand in my shoes some day and she will
 have him in spite of me-
 LIST OF PATENTS. List of Connecticut pa;- ents for the week ending Aug. 22d: Samuel K.
 Jones of New Haven, for photographic printing
 frames. Henry H. Olis of New Haven. for
 improvement in carriage springs. A. c. Sha
 yer of New Haven, for combined eraser and burnisher. Edwin A Jeffrey of New Haven. assignor to the American Basket Company of same place, for improvement in fruit baskets. Henry Shattuck of Hamden, assignor to Bonnet Hotchkiss of New Haven, for improved atmos- pheric hammer. Eli B. Gabbard of Water bury, for tinman's furnace. Charles Hewlett of Manchester, for improvement in revolving cartridge boxes. Jason H. Merrill of Norwalk, for improved match igniter Alonzo Temple, of Bridgeport, for improved composition for preventing and removing incrustations from boilers. Richard G. Wilcox of Guilford, for improvement in apparatus for stripping sor- ghum. Chas. D. Wright, of Leesville. for i'm provement in water wheels. Degrasse Fowler and Herbert E. Fowler, of Wallingford, assign ors to Henry B. Goodyear of New Haven, for improvement in turning and plating iron screws. ......