Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-15
STATE TIERS.
HARTFORD people are moving in the mater of erecting a soldiers monument

| AAAhfFOnU PsoPio ar0 moving h th0 mater of erecting soldiers monument. l Ar the railroad ticket office in Brideeoor, last year the receipts were abou, SIPS, 900. | JAMES EVANS whipped his pig to death lus. week. in Danhury
 l THE 10th regiment, now doing duty at Kins ton. is expected home soon, | WILLIAM A. BENEDICT, Connecticu, State agent at Washington has been promoted to lieutenant colonel i THE 9th c. V. will be in Hartford in few days. aud the 18th Light Battery is expected soon in Now Haven. CoNSEcTTcUr isa richer State than Massa, here ; only S53O in Massachusetts. MIss WHlTrLEsEy, the Southern authoress, is visiting Berlin. This is her first tour of the North.
 Two young men drove valuable horse from Danbury to New Haven and back without feed ing him or grooming him, and before he was unharnesssd he dropped dead
 THE local agent in Merden ut the Lincoln Memorial Fund, Mir. G. W. Rogers, has al ready collected seventy-fve dollars, in one dol lar subscriptions.
 HE State Prison committee intend c. rs port for the release of Ben Scott. eolorad, who has served twenty four years for trying to kll his wife.
 A STATE convention of col0red men to take action relative to the conition of theii race iD this state was in session at New Haven Tues day and Wednesday,
 Detachments of the 18th Connecticut Regt left Savannah for home on the 5th. Gen Birge has been assigned to the command of the Savannah district.
 THE second Baptist church of Mystic RIver (now the Union Baptist) is one hundred years old this summer. The pastor Rev. A. c. Bron' son, will preach centennial sermon next Sun day morning
 NINE persons hate hsen arrested ior an al. ledged assault upon Silas H. Darlington. Of Bristol, last April for flying a secession flag The claim is that there was nothing secesh about the rag.
 THE youngest daughter of Professor Calvin E. and Harriet Beecher Stowe was married to wealthy young gentleman of another city, at St. Johns church, Hartford, Wednesday. Bishop Clark of Rhode Island officiating. THE pictorial Farmer, of Bridgeport, has the following leading editorial :" Strawberry short. cake at Mead's, this evening"" We don't zee what this has to do with opposition to the ne gro voting mendment.-Bulietin.
 A RETURNING Massachusetts soldier was robbed of $209 in Bridgeport depot, on Mon. day evening. The passengers assembled there made up contribution to pay the poor fel. lows expenses to his home. | A GENTLEMAN iD Norwich OWLS boat that can't be balanced unless his hair is parted in the middle. and he went ont rowing in it the other day and got upset twice. for neglec.ine this precaution.
 TIE dwelling house of Homer 8. Keeler, iD Danbary was struck by lightning during the storm of Sunday week night. The roof was broken through, castings torn of, doors shat tered, but strange to say with no injury to the inmates thereof.
 THE Bremen Benevolent Society of Hart. ford, since it was organized In 1886, has dis tributed in donations to disabled 6remen. So,- 25s in sums of from $5 to S25, paid $748 to fremen's widows and orphans, and has fund of $ll, 1901 sl.
 ON Sunday morning Erastus Williams, who lives in Upper Mystic while digging in his garden. discovered flow of oil, supposed to be genuine petroleum There Is much excite ment on the subject, ana hundreds have wis, ited the spot. .f. SINCE the order for the stopping of voluu- teering, received at the Provost-M Marshal office about the 18th of April, nine men have been enlisted into the l7th Regiment of the Rsgu lar Army, at the recruiting office in New Haven. E,ri f.t THE following are the officers in the literary societies of Yale Linonian-President, Les. lie Lewis; Vice President, Albertson Case Vice Secretary. William H. Birney. Broth CTS in Unity-President George W. Young Vice President, Frederick N. Judson Vice Secretary, Samuel Watson. WORK on Fort Hale, New Haven, is pro gressing. The armament of the fort will con. sist of two eight inch coluinbiads, fourteen thirty-two pounder riAed and two eighteen pounder smooth bores. Five of the thirty-two's are now in position. Bomb proofs and har- racks for 200 men will complete the work. A GENTLEMAN in Salem owns farm which has been in the hands of the family for over l25 years. This farm has been in two counties, three towns and two probate districts. All it's l owners have lived to great age two living to be over ninety) The bees on this farm can claim as direct ancestors those who lived and made honey on it one hundred and twenty-five years ago. gt....