Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-17

Mn. E.Ss. Rowland. New Haven. agent for the sale ofinisrnal revenue stamps, furnlshsd to ths Shore Line Railway q four hundred dOl- lar stamp last week, which is to be attached to the document transferring thst road into the hands of the present corporation. Ii is probably the only stamp of that dsnOmIaaiion ever sold in these pafts. s---------s'. --s'.' A AraoMfsGsr lawyer of windbam county. acting as chaplain at late Masonic funeral, improved the Masonic burial service by the addition of an original address to the friends of the deceased. In which he quoted ss from the Bible, God iempsrs the wind to ths shora lamb.' He isn't the first one who has made the same mistake Ths ssntsnes is from Sterne
 A MAN of . family named Doyle. . resident
 of New Haven, elopsd one day last week with
 . war widow, leaving his ows wife aud family
 to provide for themselves. What masss mat ters worse Is that ths unfaithful woman. who
 thus in her hege lords absence sbsconded,
 drew out of the bank and took with her all her
 husbands hard earned savings from his boun.
 ty money and wages--a sum amounting. it is
 said. to eleven hundred dollars. iil "a THE following is description of ths coun terfeit tens on the Thompson bank which are
 now aaoat; vignstts. shield with eagle on top-female seated on each side Ship on the
 the right and bridge oh the left 10 on each
 side; K in upper right and 10 iu the lover
 right corner and on Jeff end signatures poor. A fac simils of tue genuine and well caleulaied
 to deceive, although the paper Is rather darker
 THs s6th annual meeting of the American Institute of Instruction, was held at Music Hall, New Haven, last week. There was . good attendance of members. The meeting
 was called to order by the President. Birdsey c. Northrop. A. W. DeForest, President of the board of Education, ID New Haven. deliv
 cred an address of welcome to the members of the Institute The discussion of the following subject then occurred :-' Methods of teaching
 Latin, especially to beginners In the eve
 ming Ex Gov. Emory Washburne, Professor in
 the Law School at Cambridge. delivered ( lee
 ture on Civil Policy as branch of School
 Education. .sis s.S ., ,1. lr- i- "a ....'
 THE State Board of Education, composed of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and one
 member from each Congressional District, held
 an official meeting in Hartford, on Friday. sii
 being present except Gov. Buckingham. The board voted to retain Prof Camp as principal of the Normal School at New Britain. together with the present corps of assistant tsachers-- ] Prof. Daniel c. Gillman of Yale College, was } also appointed secretary of the board. Upon } the secretary the new law places the duties
 lately discharged by the superintendent of
 common schools, which office is now abolished.
 TIE Collins company of Collinsville, .shut
 down, Saturday last. for repairs that will take
 three or four weeks to complete. Nearly all
 the works are stopped for the present.
 Two festive friends, named respeetiSslD. lJar
 wis and Green, are now in Middletonn, lookup.
 on aFeharge of making too famitAn with the. wife of returned soldier. arsa wonged hns
 band and an officer were in kArisord. tbe oihss day, looking after the lady isersoif. < Al ai-
 tempt was made to rescue the prisoners. and the rescuers had removed certain bolts to that
 end when officer Wilcox stayed proceedings by sending bullet into the scene Of operations, , Two young ladies of astronomical tastes at
 Norwich. thought they had discovered a re- D nnarkable phenomenon in the heavens, the t other night, and called many oi their irisL ds out to look at it. Everybody was astonishsd,
 at the shining orb, except youth of phils-- sophical mind, who startod off on journey of . investigation. He had not proceeded far when hs found that the brilliant star was the head of , a gilded weathercock on distant basa, on, f which the moons rays had fallen. ih CoMsRorIcuT Patents for the week ending August 9th. 1865. each bearing that date: J
 Ives of Mount Carmel, for improvement in lanterns. Benj H Lyon Of Stamford, assign or to himself, Grant Judd, Edward Whithey and John P Reed of same place, for improved welt machines. Charles A Moore of Vest brook for scrubbing knuckle shield. Milss Bradley Of Westport, for improvement in at-
 taching horn handles to knives. &c. John E # Parker of West Meridsn, for door bolt. 0! Marsh of Bridgeport, assignor to Hotchkiss Sons of New York, for improved snap hook. Robert B Ruggles of Hartford. for shirt stud. Tobias Kohn of Hartford for improvement iu machine for cleaning and finishing silk and other threads. Franklin Skinner of New. Haven, improvement in tightening pullsys by , friction. p T ' r1 sss S-s