Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-22
STATE ITEMs.

MAJ. GEN. CoUcH was in Norwalk, Wedues day night last.
 TIE 2lst Regiment arrived in New Haven on Tuesday.
 THE Festival in Bridgeport last week, for the erection of soldiers monument, yielded about $l 800.
 w. R. SMITH of Norwalk, picked f;f,ssp strawberries last week, which weighed plump half pound.
 ON Saturday night, Beers Smith, colored man of Bridgeport. shot Pat Ryan in the back of the neck, inficting severe wound.
 COTTON mill 4sO feet 25O wide and 36 high will be erected at sprague. this summer. It will contain 5000 looms .".-
 Rosa SCHILLER, of Hartford. jumped rope over five hundred successive times, on the 6tL, and died oR the i1th, in consequences:
 AN English copper coin bearing the head of George the Second, and the date of l745 was lately dug up in Waterbury.
 THE annual meeting of the American Insti- | tute of Instruction is to be held in New Haven in August. .|. COMPANY A. of the l4th regiment, was en- Enthusiastically received on its return to Bridge port last week. F CAPT. KRAzsYNsKI of Danbury, formerly of Go. A, l1th c. ", left for Mexico, last weeks- It is said that he has accepted the position of Major in the Mexican army. eot HE Baptist State Convention met in Dan- bury on Tuesday of last week. The attendance was fair. Officers were elected for the ensuing year, and othn- h..-;-.- ...asacred. A WIDOW lady named Julia Westlake, rs siding in South Norwalk, was found drowned in well in the yard of her residence, last | week
 THE Mystic petroleum excitement turns out to have been occasioned by g joke played on an old gentleman, by some wags who poured oil in his spring. JAMES DAwIEY, formerly of Mystic, has purchased a farm between Petersburg and Richmond, Va, of about five hundred acres, for five thousand dollars. A DOG in Danbury was struck by lightning, few days since, and ons-half of him par alyzed for two or three days but on the whole, Bose was too much for the fluid.
 FARMERS up the Connecticut Valley have commenced having. Rye and oats every where look splsndidly, but corn is reported not 30 forward ADJT. GEN. MaRsE has the inkstand lately used by Aleck Stephens, when he played he was Vice-President in Richmond. Colonel Wooster of the 20th c. ", sent it to General Morse. .- MAJ GEN MowRR, late of the 20th Army Corps, who has been at his home in Connecti- cut, has been ordered to report to Gen. SheTi dan, and will be assigned to command in Texas. THEY are talking of having celebration of the Fourth of July in Stamford, and Bishop Simpson, of the M. E. Church, one of the greatest living orators is expected to deliver the oration. ajet esni
 Rev. s. B. s. BIssRLL of Norwalk, has been recalled to the Secretaryship of the New York Department of the American Sunday School Union, position which he formerly held five years. 4 .,las.5 A MAN in Norwich, caught, with a bass hook shad weighing three and half pounds. ont Wednesday. First instance on record, 1t is Lod hnau ~v:S hook. ;
 A MAN named William Hardenburg of south Woodstock, has been indicted and fined twenty dollars and costs for selling liquor to Putnam man. He will cut of Putnam customers afler this.
 Ar the Ladies Annual Strawberry Festival of the Second Baptist Church in Norwalk, re- gently, Mir. Keyser, genial resident ofsthe town, paid fifty dollars for six. .quarta of berries. --t5efI tt 74
 THE Fourth of July committee at Bridge port on Saturday evening, voted to adjourn sine de, on account of some difficulty arising in the selection of names of gentlemen as mem- hers of the committees.
 THE 18th Q. ", commanded by Lieut.. Col H. B, Sprague is in garrison at Augusta, 9a., and is winning there, as it has everywhere. many praises for it's good behayiorY And sol dierly bearing. rr4 -p-+as
 TIE residence of Miner Treat, Esq, of West Cromwell, was struck by lightning last satur. day. badly damaged, and sight persons sffsc- ted by the shock. An elderly gentleman was severely injured, the lightning oOmmsucing at his feet, tearing one shoe entirely .off,. passing upward, burning his limbs and breast. entering 2 side pocket, destroying .. pair of spectaclss, passing thrspgh bis ;ysat and coat. at the back,