Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-12

Mss Harriet E Preston, of Bridgeport, [, who has been serving the common cause for nearly four years past, in the capacity of Volunteer Nurse in the hospital department of the army i, has returned again to home and friends
 TIE American Flask and Cap Company, at Waterbury, employs 200 hands. and pay rev enue tax yearly of s26,ooo. They make 2.6o0,- 900 percussion caps per day. which is more than is made by any other manrTactory in the country @-sses < s sANIHoNl JHaswEIs, aged ten years. left his home in New Haven last Monday week. since
 which time he has not been heard ot. He WAS dreased in the uniform of the Commercial Tns. titute.
 FIVE years ago party in Forestville set out . half acre of ground with wild cranberry plants. This year ls0 bushels have been pick. ed, and will bring from $4 to B per bnshsl.
 A woLFLE made his appearance iu Meriden Conn.,, last Thursday with large live rattle. snake, which he had captured on West Noun. tain, some five feet ten inches long. He went round, holding i. in his hands, trying to sell it, and finally obtained 8 for it. '' F, i By striking match carelessly in New-Ha on Friday night, gentleman came near set ting the Union House on fire. The phosphor- i, end flew of, and without being observed fell into drawer full of papers. The fire was not discovered until some time afterwards. :. THE Norwich Bulletin and New London Star are very lively over tho county seat quss. tion, and charge each other with stealing edit. orials. .ols.aas.d ea9.u- s.,... .s5 ess... Y JOHN G. LEWIS, Principal of the Webster school, for severely whipping g boy named Hobsn. has been acquitted by Judge Sanford. The Judge, in his remarks connected with the decision sustained the administration of whole- some punishment by teachers in our public school. 4
 m I. J. VAIL of Hartford has remarkable DOT trait of Daniel Webster, the lines being burn ed into the surface of 6 smooth piece of pine with hot iron. It was made by Bail Hughes in Boston, in 1856, and the delicate shading is wonderful considering the manner of produc- tion. THE Bridgeport Standard says that the will of the late Eben Fairchild, of that city, excites ,uchO Qo ko khn American Colonization Society, $l0,O0O to benevolent objects, and only some $l ,500 to his needy relatives. 5g .sa.s e-. s.5 l,sf A BOY of IA and girl of F years of age, in Wallingford, failing to receive the consent of their parents to their union, took French leave, but were arrested just as they were talk ing the boat for New York. They were taken
 home and ought to have been spanked. Little children ought not to marry without their ps.
 rents consent s 7ts. -t5sss .. .s.. .. zig. THE Republicans of Connecticut are receiv ing the aattering approval of the New York World, News, Hartford Times, and all other copperhead journals in the country for their handsome defeat Of the suffrage amendment. When the Devil praises you, you needn't be long in doubt as to what you have been doing. -Hartford Press. 4.. s ....... .-.
 THE Greenwich rioters. who few months a;~.. experienced tha loas nf one of their mum. Der by an attack upon house of colored man in Greenwich, recently attacked two con :. trabands who were quietly residing in the fam fly ofa colored person in that town. Several shots were fired by the contrabands, one of which passed through the hat of the riugleadsr of the rioters. q7 .il #ira .,
 MR. A. FISHER. d returned veteran, was way laid by 'guerrillas' on the Thompson road near ,hl yesjta,tea of F. R. Davis and as two of taen5i o6S tot4 of the hoaze ! haavy whip stock was aid over the head of one or them which so frightened the horse .hat he blokr away from the robbers and from the control Of Fisher and ran home with him. Tbere has yet been no clue to the robbers or rowdies'
 AN importent invention for coupling cars has been invented by Mr. J. H. Reod, of New Haven It is seli-acting and when the loco motive blcks down to take train and the 'bnmpers,' meet the cars are all attached '
 A PASSENGER who came over the New York and New Haven Railroad the other day, tells us that the train which he was on was delayed fifteen minutes at Stratford in order to enable the conductor to Ginish an angry al- creation with some one who had left the train ihere; The engineer and fireman stood by to See that no one interfered with the contendng parties s-Baletfn. ad4 .s1;iq 14 2soi st sa THE divorce case of Jonathan N. Harris, vs Jane M. Harris. his wife, commenced in the Superior Court at New London, on Tuesday week. Both parties sue for 6 divorce, the 1 man on account of his wifes illegal intimacy with other men. and the wife on ths ground of ! abusive treatment. Harris has been Mayor of l the city, and State Senator, and is quite wealthy and the case naturally excites much inter. net -.s. gsI ,"4fIE -'.- tlfr !