Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-31
STATE ITEMS


 WATERBURY has population of IA, 800.
 AnAcE for the champion flag of New Haven harbor, is to come off to-day. ,''
 STATE street New Haven, is to be paved wi th the Belgian pavement. o.. D.r.g
 THE Home Bank of Meriden, had $2O, ,OOO on deposit with the Ketchum's. nuu4r
 A NEW manufacturing company in rubber goods, with capital of $lOO, 900, is to be star. ted in West Meriden. .-
 TIE seipts of the Housatonic railroad for July 1864 were $35, ,665 s9, and for July 1865, $40,9 954 36. Increase this year SUBS G..
 HARTFORD barbers, by mutual agreement close their shops on Sunday for the coming year. a.. l.,s.,.r
 Two of the magnificent elms on Temple st., New Haven, were killed by leak in the gas pipe recently. -2'Lss f.''.
 WHiTooMB Stetson of Plainfeld, eighty four years old, is teething-two little grinders peep ing through. So they say. . .r...,....; ...
 THE Waterbury Bank has commenced suit against Morris Ketchum, Sons & Co.,, for $s72, : 900, the balance of $l0O,0OO deposited with that firm.
 BLUE heron was shot on Friday by George Norton, near Berlin Center. It measures six feet from tip to tip of wings, and four feet eleven inches from end of beak to end of toes.
 A PARTY of seven persons. from the roof of the New Haven House, on Tuesday night, in three hours saw 1S6 shooting stars or little more than one a minute. as a..a.
 MR Dunlap, Baltimore merchant, left Nor wich on Friday, with a crate of Maltese kittens to supply the demand in Baltimore, where the feline species are very scarce. y -'....''.''t''
 THE Hartford and New Haven railroad are making all their locomotives into coal burners and are putting raised roofs upon all their pas senger cars. .. .'....
 Mn S. B. Pritchsrd of Waterbury, killed a rattle snake the other day near Jericho Bridge measuring four feet and ten inches and having seven rattles. tss lr,,,..
 THE Sharps rife factory at Hartford, was entirely closed Saturday week-the first time since it has been in operation. All the gov. ernment contracts have been filled.
 Gov. Buckingham has appointed Benjamin Moves, Esq, of New Haven, insurance com missioner, under the law establishing such an office, passeI at the last session of the legisla :ure *..... ...... .. r. .,,.., !.
 o. F. JACKSON, formerly printer in Hart ford, left about year and half ago to work a rebel plantation near Vicksburg,, and now he is not to be found: supposed 10 have been killed. '.5'i .b 4 ai{!HH'i
 THE Second Advent people are to. have a camp meeting in New Preston, commencing Sept. 4th. and continuing one week. Elder Miles Grant of Boston, and other preachers will be present. "' ''1..5
 A DESPERATE bounty jumper, named Rise dorf, is in jail at Hartford, with young com panion, whom he induced to join in an attempt at horse stealing. They took 2 livery team at Hartford. drove to Dover Plains, N. Y., and tried to sell it, were suspected and captured.
 As Stonington servant girl was stirring up 8 coal fire recently, with an iron which she found conveniently near. the iron burst and scattered things generally. On examination it was found that the girl had used one of Brands bomb lances for poker. t:1 t fo
 sDo you know how to cast iron ? said the foreman in Meriden foundry, te 8 green 'un, who last week applied for 8 situation. Wal, yes,' said the fellow scratching his head, T was recksned good at pitchin' quates, down to hum !'-Meriden Recorder. '''
 MRs. Dolly Pendleton, who died recently at Norwich, aged 90, was born, married and died in the same house. and never lived in any oth- CT. She had sixty two years of happy married life and leaves an aged husband. g34i6-d
 MR. Sanford our Minister at Berlin, lives in splendid mansion, full of magnificent pie lures and statues, gives grand dinners, drives fast horses and has the handsomest wife in Prussia MT. s. was from Derby in this State.
 A FATHER and son in business near Hart ford, have an ingenious way of making money seven days in the week. The son is 8 seventh day Baptist, and keeping Saturday, drives the business on Sunday, while the father keeps Sunday and works Saturday. ,tsatuHg ei i
 DAVID Wells, a notorious horse thief and burglar, and who has already served out three terms in the Connecticut Sta.e Prison. was on Tuesday week arrested at Reading. He has been concerned in several robberiesl in that section, and had hitherto eluded all attempts to capture him. He was tried before the jus. tice court at Bedding and bound over in the sum of $500 to appear before the supreme court for Fairfield county.