Litchfield enquirer., 1865-07-20
STATE ITEMS.

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 TIE people ot Charlottesville propose to change the name of that village to Riverten. >.
 MAJ GEN. HALLEcK spent the 4th of July with Gen. Hamilton at Branford, and is now stopping with him.
 Among the regiments to be immediately mustered out of service are the 5th Conn.,, and the lst Conn. cavalry. rrss -'a an.
 A BOY and girl eloped from Middletown, Ct. the other night, and returned home married, ready to be forgiven by the old folks.
 FOXES are making themselves very familiar at Plain6eld, Conn.,, gobbling up turkeys at a shocking rate. A SOLDIER who has served three years in the army fell from cherry tree at New Britain. Tuesday, week, and broke his neck.
 MORRIS K KErcHUM, Esq, of Wesport pays over $730OO as lis tax on an income of over s733,- 000- sung little sum for one year. .t
 A SMALL barn belonging to MT. W. Howe, in Ridgefeld, was struck by lightning. .set on fire, and totally consumed on the 22d inst.
 MAJ GEN. BENHAM, of Meriden, has been ordered to the command of the coast defenses and has established his headquarters at Boston He has won high reputation as an engineer during the rebellion.
 A GIRL named Mary Ann Kearney, was dis covered in the act of firing Colts willow works at Hartford, last week Tuesday morning. She said she was hired to do it by another girl for reason which she would not divulge.
 1 A GERMAN woman in Bridgeport, who has a family of eight children. advertises to know Who Wants One ?" offering them in lots to suit applicants to anybody who wants to adopt one or more.
 NUMBER of police arrests in Hartford during the last,quarter 543. For drunkenness POP, breach of peace 90, assault and battery 12 theft 63. vagrancy 2a, prostitutes "A. etc. Lodgers in station house 1853 cases before police court POS.
 WILLIAM K1NNEF1cH of Bridgeport. while playing friendly game of billiards on Thurs day evening, got the two reds in fine position in the jaw of one of the pockets and by dex, terops play and most delicate handling of the cue, counted 413 points in one run.
 THERE was larger amount of business done in the Hat manufacturing line in Danbury. in U the mnnth nf Mar than 1uaa a-~. = -i~ in single month before. The Hat Box man ufactory of MT. E. s. Davis, turned out 25.O0e Hat Boxes during that month.
 Two ladies had their pockets picked last week at the Bridgeport depot. They were wait ing for the evening Housatanic train, and sup pose the money was abstracted by female pickpocket. This was the fourth or fifth in stance of pocket picking in the depot within two weeks. In the present instance, one of the ladies lost some forty or fifty dollars, and the other some twenty-five or thirty.
 A GENTLEMAN in Bridgeport who cant bear the sight of darkey was served a cute trick on Wednesday. He was told that on that day they would celebrate the anniversary of their emancipation in the State of New York. and would in procession pass his house. He de- clared that he wouldn't stay at home and left early the next morning. When the sell was found out it cost him many stamps and much drinks to keep it quiet, but Locals found it out and made it public. ....
 SAMMY SLY, a religious enthusiast in New Haven, who some ten years since murdered a man named Justus Matthews, and who has since been confined in the county jail at New Haven died on Friday afternoon. He had partaken of no food and only slight nourish ment which had been forced down his throat for week. He imagined that he was the prophet Elijah and that he was going to save the world by his death. ... ..... ....
 A soldier was taken to Wetnersfeld prison on Saturday week, from Philadelphia, charged with striking an officer, and sentenced for five years. He protested on the way that he was not the right man, and finally induced Warden Willard to investigate his case. It turned out that he was in the guard-house for some petty oHense, in company with the condemned man when the sergeant came in and took him by mistake, and he had the honor of riding in irons from Philadelphia to Hartford.
 MR. CHARLES FLETCHER, of the l4th Conn. Vols, who was in the service three years, gath, cred, in that time, the autographs of no less than sixty Union Generals, and any quantity chief officers in medical, ordnance, and other departments, Colopels, etc. Five rebel officers names are added to the list, Robert Lee be. ing among them. The rebel names were ob- tained from orders, furloughs, etc., but the Union names are all original in the book, and gained by Mir. Fletcher's personal solicitation. Among the names of the Union officers are Grant, Sherman, Meade, Slocum, Warren Humphreys, Wright and Meagher.
 ] CONNECTICUT patents dated July 4th, to 'Wm H. Hart of New Britain, for improvement in door bolts; G. W. Stow of Plantsville, for i'm proved sausage filler; s. J. Cone of Middle town. for improved chuck for laths Edward H. Tracy of Meriden, assignor to the Eagle Augur and Skate Manufacturing Company oi kho .,oa ,,1ooa :r 1ioo fc,