Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-28
STATE THEIRS

STATE 1rFns E \ !. TIE Yale Freshman class numberso one hunH dred and thirty members. H
 Over 800 hoop skirts are man6faetured il Derby daily. sssss
 A, TRENTON, N. J.. fire company is to visit New Haven in about one week.
 .-a Pr. BARsux has stalk of corn in his field at Bridgeport which is more thaa IT feet high.
 ALLEN GREEN, in Colebtooks; hassa dshlia near his door 93 feet high, with r open bios. soms and 24 unopened enes < A MEETING has been held in Bridgeport to take steps towards seeming the locatioB~ofa Q State Home for destitute orphans in that city.
 Hox A. H. BULLOCK, who is going to be the next governor of Massachusetts. is g son in-law of Col. A, G. Hazard, of Enfield.
 A SON of Frank B. Comstock Of Midiletown had his leg broken on the 18th by. the kick of COW. r''" 'E'.' 'F',' ''',i't TIE 'z.''i
 William Barrows of Willimantic. raises if teen bushels of sweet potatoes from l50 hila this year. ....,,.,. ,.....st i.at h
 MR. SAB1s, lately teacher in tbe State Nor nal School of New Jersey. has been appointed principal of th.. Eaton School at New Haven. MIR. LEVI DORIAN, of New Haven. has raised from one seed accidentally planted, fif teen citron melons. weighing IA lbs and ' oz The largest weighed eleven pounds. .l.g BYRON TRUMAN, of East Bridgeport, has raised two tomatoes which weigh one pound nine ounces and one pound twelve ounces, respectively. '"7 ... 'r"' .,. BAssErr. who ascended from Ha,tford in a balloon on the 18th, came down the same day on the farm of Henrietta Rockwell, in East Windsor. A GENTLEMAN in New Haven has at the rear of his house miniature cotton plantation. The plants are in full bloom and are worth seeing. ,;.f # ?. +...'r.I
 THE Golden Wedding of one of the substan. tial and most respected citizen of New Haven Caleb Mix, Esq, took place at his house in College street last Friday evening week.
 ORE containing black lead, silver and some gold, has been found on Merritt Sanford farm at Beacon Falls (Birmingham) and a Phila. delphia company are trying to buy it.,
 THE counting room ot the Quinebang Com. pany. at Danielsonville, was entered Sunday night week, and $3. 900 stolen from the safe l The keys were stolen from the clerks room ir another part of the village. .''' 1..rsa MR. W. H. H. BLAokxAN, for several years past connected with the New Haven Register as local and otherwise, will shortly leave that paper to accept lucrative business position with New York firm. 4 |. r t.ad !.e v
 BRADLEY BRYAN, a celebrated New Haven violinist, and Gilbert H. LinsIey. caught twelve sharks in four hours in one day recently. and on the next day nineteen more-a total of three tons in weight. ,,d .~nt'1ssa 7'@'! irla SATURDAY morning MT. E. T, New ton oi Otis. found hanging upon his gate silver watch which some one had stolen from him ten days previously. The thiefs conscience prob ably troubled him less than his fears.
 l THE New Haven Palladium, which for thir. ty years has used steam as motive power fo, it's press, now uses turbine wheel about the circumference of a straw hat.brim, driven by q stream of water only an inch in diameter.
 THE Hartford Press says the market for State bonds is improving. Up to the latest report $863, ,000 had been sold. These bonds may be obtained of any bank cashier or treas. urer of any savings bank in the State on pay. ment of the par value of the bonds.
 JEREMIAH TOWNSEND, who pluudered the New Haven Savings Bank ,has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the Connect cut State Prison. This is the shortest time provided by the law for the crime with which he was charged. and to which be plead guilty. | A RECENT Waterbury town meeting refused to refund money to persons who sent substi. tntes to the war. A tax of l2 mills on the dollar was laid on the grand list of 1864, to de- fray ordinary and school expences. and to pay '"oe''eooesS' 5s't }& aE e
 THE Union BankIof New London had a complicated combination burglar.proof lock on the door of their safe, but the officers recently forgot how to manage it, and had to get the maker to go on. He was unable to work the combination, and the door had to be cut off, ,,
 THE New York, Houstonic and Northern Railroad Company. (the proposed Whits Plains road) chose directors Tuesday; George w. Mead, of New York, is President. ,g A pro- position to put the road under immediats con. tract was laid over to the next monthly meet. ing, 1. = @4a I .+.''e''1i ... Ii .t lt /" ~, IN Collinsvile. on the l6th, a man named Andrew H. Mahan while carelessly adjusting belt in one of the shops, was caught by the right hand and drawn with great force into g very narrow space. His hand and orr wa,o