Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-29

State Prison for twelve years each, for brs.L. open the coffin of a deceased comrade, and roob'ng the body of sixty dollars.
 FRED BEvENs was robbed of sllOo at Mid. dletown, few nights sisce, by ,nap namsd Mclaughlin. who has since been arrested and held for trial
 F. C' LosG of this State, recently Herald army correspondent, has been appointed first class clerk in he Third Auditors office, Treasury Department.
 THE South school house in Hsrtf,rd. was struck by lightning, Tbursday. paralszi ssv. eral persons and dispersng the school in con. fusion but killing nobody.
 lN Stratford, Natheniel Clark, while drawing a seine ih the Housatonic river on Saturday week, secured a. striped bass which weighed forts'pine pounds The weight of the fish broke the seine. ,.,
 A SERIOUS 6re occurred at Woods carriage factory in Bridgeport. Thursday evening. It broke out about nina o'clock. The wooden shops were woolly destreyed, ard the large brick factory was only saved>Ag great sifort.- Incendiarism
 J. W. FAULKNER, of Stamford. reoeised the prize for the three heaviest berries at the great Strawberry show of the American Insti- tute Agricultural Society, held ia New York. week before last, and also prize for qua, of the luscious fruit.
 Cow. Patents for Juae goth J A. Traus, New Britain, improvement fin joint folding rules; T. Trowbridge of Danbury, iniprovSd composition for stitching hat bodies; B. ' Joslyn of Stonington, for improvement in se- volving firearms (anledated Junel4, '6j;) Also for improvement in breach-loading fire arms Russell Frisbie of Middletown, for iIn- proved. tackle hook. a.
 THE ivy planted by the class of GA of Yale has (says the N Y. Tribune,) s peculiar bis tory. The original shoot was taken aom MeIrose Abbey, and was presented by Sir Walter Scott to Washington Irving; MT. IT, wing gave slip to Hon. Gideon Welles, and his son Edgar, member of '64. preseut&l it to the class Thus
 The vine that mantles Melrose
 perpetuates itself in America about the li'Hary walls of Yale. p
 THE exercises connected with the SixtNHth Anniversary of the State Normal School will commence Jsly 9th, and continue through the 18th. Rev. c. L. Gonasll will preaoh ths 'nuai sermon Dr. J. G. Holland of Springfield, will deliver the oratiOn, and Rev. w. T. Ba- con of Woodbury, the poem, before the Lit@ ary Societies. The address before the Alumniwil be given by Rev. Wm. l.. Gaylord, of Etz william, NH. The annual examinations will be on the 10th, llth and 18th. The chasing exercises of the Graduating Glass on Thursday, July 18th.
 CENTRAL ASSOCIATION of Connecticut 1k6th Annual Meeting. This body met at the CGntsr in New Britain. June 2Otb, 1sG5, and contin- ued it's session for three days. Rev wIrv.u, Thompson, D. D., presided. Associati snal sermon by Rev. A. G. Cheseborough O. Glas tenbury. Dr. Day, ex-President of Yale Col lege, now nearly 93 years of age, was present, and participated in the discussions of the As sociation. There. are in the State 2S5 COnare- gational Churches, whose membership is about 45,00O. Of the churches, l74 have pas tors, 46 stated preachers, and 65 are without either pastor or stated preacher. In several societies there have been extensive revivals. To one church there have been added by pso fession, 80. Average salaries of the clergy men, $906. Highest salary in the Staie $3,OOO. Appropriations henceforth to be made to the Home Missionlchurches, on coudi- ton that the sum of one per cent of the tazs- ble property owned by the church be raised tu aid of preaching. IL was proposed to publRoh a supplement to the psalms and hymns, aad the churches are recommended to use thfs in preference to any other. In the State, 2.O0O liquor dealers five to each Cos gregational Church l; three to each Evahesa- ical church. One fifth of all the voters too intemperste to be Christians In the toWpC poor houses, l75 orphans, the children of sog- diers. ...., , .., ..........
 On Wednesday morning the Association in . body visited the New Britain Normal, sohooa, spending there one hour. Whole number oE graduates, 2l75; undergraduates, S8. Fro0 100 to l25, go out annually to teach in the com. mon schools of the State. Over 600, or abouk one-third of the teachers of the State are fro,S the Normal School.
 With the Normal School is connected 'Tha Model School, ,'the largest in the country, used as an accessary of Normal School. It con- sists of four grades, primary, secondary, grammar and High School Pupils are sd- nittsd to each grade abovethe primary, only upon examination. The Model School is supp ported entirely by the village of New Britsin, put is closely connected with the Normal School as school for observation and prae-- ice. In it's different departments 1t contains ,lasses in all stages, from that of the alphabet o that of the youth preparing for college.
 The Association adopted . resolution ex of their appreciation of fwhat they saw the school. The six thousand Britons en-. srtsined the fifty clergymen more of lsss,. lost cordially and bonutifully.