Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-08
STATE THEIRS.

TIE l2th Conn. Vet Battalion, are reported , have gone to Savannah Georgia. A BLACK fish weighing six pounds wus caught ] Norwalk harbor last week.
 THE church in Bethel nearly destroyed by he wind last month is to be rebuilt immediate and assistance is wanted in order to do it.
 SPURIOUS lives on the Bank of New England t East Haddam. Conn.,, have just been put in ircuIatiOn. ....ss .l=.
 TIE New Haven Gays have voted not to ecome an artillery company as at first pro- osed. r $ & lt 4 t- s& li %
 A GANG of ten boys have been arrested for breaking into the North school house at Hart ord
 COUNTERFEIT five dollar treasury notes, fac smile of the genuine, bnt much coarser, are in circulation at Hartford. -..5'
 HE 29lh Regiment, C. w.. (eoloretD are iu the Texas Expedition. They are in the lst Division, 2d Brigade. The brigade is under the command Of Col. Tbos. Bayley. sf
 BRIDGEPORT is to have two steaul fire engines One, which is 10 be located in East Bridgeport, arrived on Friday night the other is expected in few days, .... ....st. a
 THE premises of Mrs. R. Buckley, of South port, were entered Sunday, by some thief who stole $ll5
 oP Rr;J hoe changed and arrived home direct from vicks- burg on Saturday week.
 | LT. WHITAKER, 1st Conn. Cavalry, has been breveted brigadier- general--a deserved honor. He is gallant officer, and a credit to the State.
 THE Yantic Woolen Mill at Norwich was destroyed by fire on Thursday night week. to- gether with several dwellings. Loss one hun dred thousand dollars
 MR. ALEXANDER BLACK, East Bridgeport has
 become heir 10 several millions of dollars by
 the death of his brother in England Mir.
 Black is a poor man advanced in life, n shoe
 maker by trade
 MARTIN SYKES, of East Bridgeport, last Sat urday evening, was standing with two of his acquaintances, examining Q revolver, and in
 some way discharged it, wonnding Sykes in
 the right side severely but not dangerously. LETTERS received from the lst Connecticut
 Heavy Artillery accuse the officers of that
 regiment as T set of thick headed, arrogant
 tyrants, who delight in annoying the men un- der their command.
 THE balmoral skirt factory of J. Wilcox &
 O., of Meriden, was entirely destroyed by fire
 on Wednesday evening. Loss $500 OOO0--in-
 sured for $25OOOO. About one hundred and fifty hands were employed on inc premises
 A TELEGRAPH dispatch from New Haven to i, New Orleans, was sent on Sunday night, it bs.
 ing the first that has been sent over the wires
 to that point from New Haven since April,
 1861.
 commenced running between Norwak and N ew = York yesterday. The John Romer is 8 first e class boat in every respect, and very fast. She T is to land at Fulton Market slip, in New York
 CAPT CHAs WAKLEY, on Gen. Sherman 6 s staff, arrived in Bridgeport on Monday He e enlisted as private in the gallant Fifth Conn l. Volunteers, at the commencement of the war, Il and honorably worked his way to the proud s position he now holds
 # TIE residence of Dr. M. B. Pardee, of South '- Norwalk, was entered one day last week, while the Dr. was off on wedding trip, and robbed t ofa considerable amount of plate, wearing ap- 3 parel &c. The thief was overhauled in Brook Q yn, N r., and most of the property recovered THE copperhead paper in Bridgeport ragales d it's readers with a mysterious story of an at
 tempt by Bridgeport girl (white) to elope | with a colored coachman. Great care is taken !. to give no particulars that would enable any !. body to test the truth of the narrative. WILLIAM LANE has been arrested in Albany,
 for embedding goods belonging to various par e ties in New Haven. He obtained quantities of
 flour and tobacco, amounting to eight hundred M uOiIdTo. Alt uuS ueoH put uuucI DAOVV JULIUS '' for examination. ..
 IN Hartford, on Friday week, J. H. Martins I'Young Morrill, and W. H. Woodruf's Ajax, two fine stsllions, trotted on the course, /, best three in five, which Morrill, won easily,
 Ajax trotting finely in places, but being badly. 7 handled. Time, 2.3S4. 2.35a, 2.S22 a BRIDGEPORT is aroused to the idea of erecs . ing . monument for it's deceased soldiers. A
 grand festival is arranged for the 14th of June, for the purpose of raising moneys for that object, and the committee hope to raise ten thousand dollars or more. ....... ... .. | A COUNTY celebration of the approaching Fourth of July is projected by the people of
 Windhsm County The design is to make it
 q great affair." Gov Buckingham, Gen. But Ter, and other distinguished personages have been invited to be present. ... az. ...r.
 THE shore line train from New Haven had a narrow escape on Wednesday night of week before last, and but for timely information lerived from little boy, would probably have l bAn thrawn from the tpaek Ua l;......a