Litchfield enquirer., 1865-05-11
STATE ITEMs.

Bisbop Williams confirmed forty-6ye person
 in St. John's Church. Hartford, on Sunday. At the great funeral pageant in New York
 Tompkins' Band of Waterbury had the pos of honor in the first division.
 Josh Billings, (Henry w. Shawl the quain
 humorist. is to lecture in New Haven, in few weeks.
 Col. John E. Ward, lately of the sth Reg
 is to be Private Secretary to Governor Buck ingham.
 The fish markets in Hartford are doing tall business One of our legislators the othe day ate three entire shad at sitting.
 One of the Hartford city fathers has sur prised the city government by presenting bil for clini'g enshign house."
 The banks of New Haven are loaning mon ey at sever and half per cent interest. Mon ey ou real estate is difficult to be obtained capitalists preferring to invest in the 7.30s. The Connecticut War Record will be issued until August, when the year will be completed and it's publication probably stopped. There will consequently be two more numbers, Junt and July.
 The Spring term of Yale College commenced last week. There is no change, we believe, iI the academical classes. The law school clasl has been increased by the addition of few members.
 The two gentlemen in New York who pro posed through the New York Post to give SIG, ,OGO each for the capture of Jeff Davis are W. Il. Lee and s. B. Chittenden, formerly residents of Connecticut.
 The Bridgeport Standard says that the Ad ams Express Company have organized all theil New England Division, with headquarters al Bridgeport Hon. Clapp Spooner is superin. tendent of the division. All other agencies in New England are to report to him.
 J. H. Garfield, who has been in France the last fifteen years. returned to Meriden last Sat urday week, and proposes spending the re- maining days of his life under the shadow of the Hanging Hills. His palatial residence on the Middletswn road is nearly completed.
 The New London Chronicle started as a daily paper about three weeks ago, and stop. ped again in few days for want of support The natural result of it's promises to contain nothing objectionable to men of either of the political parties"
 The trustees of the East Windsor Theolog. ical Seminary have voted to remove that in- stitution to Hartford, and to make an effort to raise $2OO,O0O further for it's permanent en- dowment, 50,000 of which is already pledged by friends.
 A very dangerous counterfeit of the $l0 bills on the Mechanics Bank of New Haven, is in circulation. The counterfeit differs from the genuine chiefly in this, that the X on the up- per right hand corner of the genuine bill rests on clouded ground, while in the counterfeit it is printed upon blank space.
 The assistant editor of the Litchfeld Sem tinel, fProf Dana,) has, according to that pa- per, been lately practicing pedestrianism- walking in the aggregate nearly two hundred miles in the course of week. We suppose he is putting himself in training, preparatory to running away.-B Bridgeport Standard.
 Mrs. Laura Alderman, while with her hus- bane, William Ackerman, of Bridgeport, in ishing smack on Friday, was drowned by being knocked overheard by the boom. Her hus. band made all efforts to save her, but owing to ! strong wind was unable to reach her before ,he went down.