Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07

v v $8,s62 The murderer. Albert Starkweather. is sole heirs and for this paltry sam he com mitted the crime.
 A wHIPrAIL shark was caught in New Lon don on Friday week. he measured twelve feet, having tail nearly six feet long. It is very rare that this fish is captured. and this is the first ever seen in New London,
 THE Rockville Institute Library was sold on Wednesday, to- satisfy an execution upon a judgment ia favor of H. c. Parker. The books realized SC, 1000. very large figure for 300 books and two cases
 ALEXANDER Moore, of New Haven, aogged his wife Dinah one morning week before last, because she wouldn't get up when he wanted her to. He pounded her SIS worth according to the police court.
 CAPT John Deshon, of New London, aged eighty, three years, died on Tuesday week, in consequence of injuries received a few days since, when he was struck by . train on the New Haven and New London Railroad. 5.t. 5a| THE base ball match between the Mechanics Club of Hartford, and the Waterbury Club, played on the Park in Hartford, Saturday week. the Hartford club was victorious by thirty seven runs the score standing 45 for the Me- chanics' to 8 for Waterbury. .''"'''''@ =@' st
 A PARTY of thirty-fve New York gentlemen, styled the Howard Association, have been ru. ralzing for several days, lately, on Hoyts Is- land, near Norwalk. second offense of in toxication insures expulsion to any member of l the association s.lt .2 ,7.t''-t | THE city expenses of Bridgeport for the past year were $57 ,057 .57; receipts $64.4 The present bonded debt is $19O,O0O The city holds Naugatuck railroad bonds to the amount of O.O00, and has sinking fund of ST. 62l.3l. aa-ss.-s .l..> .s.. SWARM of bees flew into the store of Mir B. Alaskan. at Stamford. one day last week, and took up their abode in a corner near the ceiling, just over the door. They are still busily engaged, no donbt in honey making as they keep up continual hum overhead.
 MR c. E. Daily of Barkhamsted. a clerk in the treasury department, Washington, was the happy father of pair of twins, which weighed other now seven weeks old, weighs two and a half pounds.
 SOME dissatisfaction existing, in the case of | the result of the New Haven census, they have been figuring it over again in the 4th ward, and find five hundred more than were eaumer- ated so they will recount the 9th. and perhaps | all the other wards
 IMPORTATION WANTED :-Myron H. Crandall Co. L. 1st Conn. Cavalry. has not been heard from since May 17th, 1864, when he was at Danville. Members of his regiment who know anything of his fate are requested to commu- nicate with Horace Rogers, Box 262, Norwich post office. ,.t ... ...
 FRANK D. Pratt, late soldier in 8 Connec- ticut regiment, and son of Route Agent Pratt, of the Canal Railroad, has been arrested at Northampton, Mass, by Special Agent shar- etts of the post office department, on charge of robbing mails while acting as his fathers substitute from time to time.
 MARK Howard, Esq, of Hartford. has receiv- ed the first shot fired at Fort Sumter. It is a 32 pnnnd ball. and was found in the Pringle cabinet, Charleston. where it was deposited, it having been the original intention of present. ing it to Edmund Rufin, who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.
 A sToREKEEpER in Norwich the other day re. ceived of foreigner three English half crown pieces in exchange for some goods. He was so tickled thereat that he stood for an hour in his store door jingling his silver, and now and ! then bursting into laughter, much to the sur prise of the people passing. .. .u. .ua. a. MICHAEL McCarty of Co. E. 9th c. ", was shot and fatally wounded at the Conscript Camp, New Haven, Friday week night. Mo- Carty and three or four companions were pass ing between the buildings, when they were challenged by the sentry. They paid no heed to the order, and.the sentry fired, the ball pas sing through the body of of McCarty. 7" A GENTLEMAN of New Haven, left 6 walking cane, eleven years ago, with $. C.. Miller, the gunsmith, to have head and fsrrule put on, it being kind of heir loom and designed for a young member of the family when he should arrive at years of discretion. The gentleman called and got it last week. It was done ac, 1 cording to the directions
 MR. Benjamin Brown died in Waterford last week, aged nearly 96 years. He fought in the war of the revolution, and bore arms in the de- fence of New London on the 9th of September, 17sl, carrying musket all the night previous though but a lad, and was first to descry the British fleet, and give the alarm of their ap, proach on that ever memorable morning. FELIX Mccullough, whose duties as watch man on the bridge of the Hartford and Provi- dence railroad across the Connecticut, require him to pass over the bridge in hand car after the passage of each train, was thrown out of the car in which he was crossing on Thursday last, by coming suddenly in contact with an imperfect joint, and pitched headlong through the sleepers, sixteen feet to the ground below. He was considerably but probably not fatally injured.
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