Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-14

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 8s8 ss STATE ITEMs
 THE Second Regimen: Connecticut National Guard are in camp this week in New Haven. sEonsrAR1 Wslles and son are spending 2 few days with their friends in Hartford and Glastonbury. ,t8jsQ
 P. H. WOODWARD, editor of the Hartford lCourant. has been appointed special mail agent in Georgia + 4sss E t5
 Mas. Stewart of ofNorwich, planted th,es peach stones six years ago But one tree came up which this year has three varieties of fruit. u Ex CONGRESSMAN Wm. D. Bishop of Bridge port. has been in Washington the past week endeavoring to secure the release ot the rebel Secretary. Mallory. s"nlsr FosrRR and Merriam's large foundry in Meriden, was burnt Sept. Sd. Loss five thous- and dollars; insurance three thousand. The machine shop was by great sxsrtions saved
 An apple tree on the premises of Mr. Albert Anderson, Danbury. presents strange and un- natural appearance The upper branches hang full of ripe apples, while the lower ones are in full blossom.
 ONE Perkins, living at the Falls Norwich, swallowed three ounces of laudanum on Sun day with the intention of committing suicide, but changed his mind, and by proper remedies was saved. 5tiE |" N. F. EMMoss, of New Britain was leading calf with 8 rope last Sunday week, when the rope became wound around one of his fingers and the struggles of the calf were so hard as actually to cut of the finger. @ A'a.
 iApRIsoNsn from Thompsonvills en route for Hartford jail, jumped from the saloon window of Saturday midnight train. while it was pas sing Windsor at the rate of thirty miles an hour -i.t.. .-,sf.s,Ft.
 A LARGE gingham manufacturing company. with a capital of two hundred and fifty thous- and dollars. is, expecting to build factory in Norwalk. It will run two hundred looms and employ three hundred operatives.
 THE stock of the State Bank at Hartford, has fallen suddenly from 130 to. 95 cents. Mr. Calender. the Cashier, has. itis said. involved the bank in heavy losses by some outside ope~ rstions. E.
 THE State Temperance Union held eonven- tioh at Windsor Locks. Tuesday, Sept 5, and another at Rockville, the next day. Dr.. Jew cit, N. Smith, Rev. 8. c. Willard. and Rev. J. P. Gulliver of Norwich. were present and spoke.
 TIE latest case of absent mindedness. occur red in New Haven. on Saturday week A lady l came down town shopping, and to drop pack. age in the post office. When she wanted hel purse to pay for : purchase. she found she had put it in epost office, instead of the package
 TIE State Savings Bank at Hartford, Conn. has issued 2 circular to borrowers of money il that institution, informing them that in addi ton to the legal rate of interest, the govern
 ment tax of onehalf per cent would be i'm posed, making the rate for loans 6} per cent.
 THE recently authorized state bonds find favor among farmers and men of small means Since the first of the month the treasurer ha sold $27, 900 worth in small sums, making witl those previously sold $52i, ,0OO already dis posed of. gsl s!it..4 i .sa4 E ,4e, ,ss'n
 TIE New Haven Palladium of the 2d, ssyi that Deputy Marshal Lovejoy, of that city, at tached the works of the Norwalk Lock Compa ny, on suit for s1O,0O0 damages for an al ledged infringement of patent having been in stituted against the company by J. Edward Parker, of Meriden.
 SAMUEL Chapman forded the Connecticut at Hartford, Saturday week, near the bridge, with an OK team. He was followed by H. B. Olm- stead. When midway between the city and East Hartford they halted and regalsd them. selves on watermelon and soda water.' It is not known that this feat was ever accomplish. cd before. The Connecticut is big river.
 THR commission for examination of the com. missioned officers of the Connecticut National Guard, authorized by the Legislature, has been appointed by the Governor. Col. Brsyton Ives of New Haven, Major Apollos Comstook, for merly of the 18th, and member of the last Leg islature from New Canaan, and Capt. Leonard A. Dickinson, formerly of New Haven are the members.
 A LITTLE daughter of Geo. Coos. of New London, aged i've years, few days ago, was reaching over we'll l-curb' to get water from the bucket, when she lost her balance and fell into the we'll, depth of thirty feet. She was soon missed, and her father heard cries of how cold am, and immediately went to tho we'll and found his lost child struggling with death. A person rescued her from her perilous situa. tion. She was taken out inssnsibie. and could not, it is said, have lived more than i've or three minutes longer. 8l'F @al
 sOz Sundsy last as aschoonsr lay of Orient Point. Long Island, becalmsd, one of the hAnds as was his practice, thought he would take . bath, and plunged oysrboard. As he struck the water an immense shark seized himby the waist, reaching tt least two-thirds of the way round, and carried him down at least twenty five feet. He struggled with the monster. and