Litchfield enquirer., 1865-05-18
STATE ITEsis.

Professor Cyrus Northrop, of Yale College, spoke at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, last week.
 President Johnson insured his life In the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, April 18th.
 Large Hocks of wild ducks passed over Bridgeport on Saturday. ''l1 3l
 The citizens of Daubury are discussing . monument in behalf of honored dead soldiers
 The schooner Wm. Boardman, of Hartford has been chartered, and has sailed wiih cargo of onions for Richmond
 An incendiary fire destroyed five barns and their contents, of Randolph Lindsley, in Meri den, Monday afternoon week. The loss amounted to $5000; insured for $500.
 Last Saturday week, a gentleman, aged 6S years, named Amos Starr, who kept shoe store in Bethel was found dead in his bed, in room just of his shop, where he had gone to take nap before dinner.
 A farmer at Bridgeport is about to set ont mlle and a half of living fence of white willow He claims that it will, within two years. keeT out swine, sheep and poultry. D tF ltH D Charles k. Rice, formerly of the Mystic Pc neer office has been appointed Superintendent of Government Printing at Norfolk, Va. He was honorably discharged from the 2lst Rsg Conn. Vols. ff5f r ,'t f i'..i '''
 The route of the proposed New York. Nor ern and White Plains Railroad, as laid ou through, Greenfield, N. Y., and Rdge6eld Brooklyn and Danbury in this State, has beer aoonc&aI ks hn 0x;l.o.I H~...-.;a.:-a-~. Work or the road will begin in about month
 Surveyors have been at work the past vsel surveying the route of the new railroad iton Springfield, passing through Somers and Filing ton, and connecting with the Rockville Rsil road at Giford's Station, and the Hartford Providence and Fishkill road at Vernon. . The, ,Adjutant-G General calls upon all officer and men of Connecticut regiments, who hav' been prisoners to furnish such information G they may possess, concerning the death of an. Connections soldiers in the South, while con fined in rebel prison. l,,-.-f
 The proposed champion billiard match Do tween Hubbell, the State champion, and Hew ins of Hartford, has been indefinitely postpone, on account of the illEess of Hewins. Tn next man to play against Hubbell for the cue is Benjamin of Bridgsports ,sisOo0 Er0
 A Long Island fasfner created quite littI. sensation in New Haven, on Thursday, by pay ing out genuine silver quarters and half dollars for groceries purchased. He wasn't going t. keep United States specie hoarded away in stockings any longer now 0ineral Lee va, be said, and z had kinder been se, agin the d-n shinplasters from the beginning
 An old gentleman inths New Haven aspo, was cautioned by the police against matiuP too much show of splendid, watch.ssal, buil the old gentleman indignantly replied that shs had travelled some, he guessed" Ia a few minutes he missed his seal, and concluded tho who had travelled more than he had had been around. |
 The Yale College A It Building st NswH. ven is approaching completion. It is in n gothic style, and vii be the finest buildins , the city There wilt be two mashiHceut D. galleries in the second story of the main S,ru ture. Other parts of the building .nre tc | used for studios and other purposes. lsav;, the entire basement for nak ing statuary.
 sThe spring parade Of the sth R.5;hs, c. M, Col. R. B. Crawford, took place Sf Ne walk on the 10th of May. The resineht of six companies, two at NofWell one at Greenwich, one at Eidtoht|d. one New Canaan, and ono at 2sFasiord It. fkv mental band (Wheelsr 6 Wllson's) Was prs. ent, and enliyensd the scene by their sWm music.