Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10

THE health committee of Hartford are orr dering of swine, which have been kept near by, and in some cases, in houses close to the kitchen-pigs and people all living together. ~ The Hartford Times argues that the negro is inferior to the white man, because the form Ter is never known 10 have the delirium tre- mems.
 MR. HENRY c. BgcKwITH. of Hartford, announces the sale of all his stud or trotting stallions, roadsters and breed mares, compria- ing some of inc best stock in the country.
 MAJOR Corr. of the 9th c. ", has been hon. orably discharged, and enters upon his duties as Secretary and Treasurer of the Chelsea Savings Bank. ..t. -.....
 TIE Weed Sewing Machine Company. of Winsted, has sued two of it's members for two thousand dollars, and has attached one thou. sand shares of the stock. 9'' 'A
 AN old man named Daniel Ball.. while at work having at New Fairfield, on Wednesday week, fell down dead in the field. Supposed heart disease.
 By an explosion in the gas metre room Of Osborn & Cheeseman's factory, Ansonia, on Friday, Messrs. Keen and Miller. two of the employees. were knocked senseless. and it is feared Mr. Miller cannot recover.
 ONE hundred and thirty men were provided with meals at the New Haven Soldiers Rest during the month of July, and during the same time two hundred and seven were accommoda- ted with lodgings. est "5
 THE Theological Institute transferred from East Windsor to Hartford, will open its next session in that city about the 1st of Octo Der. The benevolent are called on to replenish the treasury of the Institute. .*. -sle..
 THE insurance of the New London vessels in the Arctic fleet has been largely increased since the news has been received of the depre dations ot the pirate Shenandoah. All of them were partially insured before. ...,
 JOHN LEWIS, an employee of the Naugatuck Railroad, had his hand crushed on Tuesday week, while coupling cars at Ansonia. Lewis resides in Stratford DrSweet, who happened to be in Bridgeport, attended the sufferer. and stated that a bone had also been fractured. FouR little girls were playing in boat. Friday night. on Mill River, near New Haven, when one fell in, and the others. in attempting
 to rescue her, fell overheard also. Only one got ashore, the three others being drowned They were all fatherless children.
 TIE Soldiers Rest. in Hartford, Conn.,, du ! ring tho month of July. furnished to soldiers six hundred and forty six meals, one hundred and twenty four lunches. lodgings for two hun dred and twenty-one. and transportation for seventy one men who were sick and destitute of money. ,.+..t ,.....
 THE captain ot a vessel now unloading in New London, has hive of bees which came on the vessel at City Point, in May last When in port, the bees go ashore for food, when at sea he feeds them with molasses.- They knew him so well that he can upset tho hive without being stung
 THE New London Northern Railroad, which now terminates at Amherst, Mass, is to be ex- tended to Grout's Corser. The company have purchased the right to run it's trains over the Vermont and Mass. Railroad 10 Brattleboro, making that town really the terminus of the road. a'' .7'.d- ] ..'.' -.''" 1. AFTER the recent regatta at Worcester. the Yale alumni met and raised fifteen hundred dollars on the spot, to be applied to the pay ment of the debt of the Yale Navy. About one thousand dollars more would lift the debt entirely. Mayor Scranton and other New Ha- ven gentlemen gave $50 each.
 THE officers of the 9th Conn. Regiment pre- scented Colonel Il. W. Daboll an elegant gold watch, at the Allyn House, Hartford, Thurs day evening. The presentation was made by It. Col. Coggswell, who was in turn presented with beautiful comedian ring, bearing the Masonic emblems #.. .i , AN elderly man by the name of Coffin, re siding in West Hartford, shot himself in the head with 8 pistol on Friday evening. He has been in poor health and very much depressed for some time, and attempted to commit suicide last year. He was worth $80, 0,OOO, was a re. spectable man, and no cause except mental de- rangement can be assigned for the act ]"
 THE late legislature chartered an oil and mining company at Windsor, which will be organized this week, and which has found fair vein of petroleum, twelve or fifteen :eet below the surface, some eleven miles below Hartford, on the river, and two miles above Rainbow, paper manufacturing place. The oil extends in considerable quantities, enough to form puddles by the river. Machinery is nearly ready at the place named, and boring will be commenced in few days.
 MRS. SrARxwEArHER and her daughter, 6 young girl young girl aged fourteen, were Tuesday morning, found murdered in their beds in Oakland, Conn. The bodies presented a horrid sight. the victims having been liter ally chopped to death with an axe, and stab bed in many places with butchers knife. + The son of the murdered woman WIS arrested on suspicion of having committed the horrible act to obtain possession of four hundred dol lars, which wss found in his drawer, together with the knife which he is supposed to have