Litchfield enquirer., 1865-12-07
STATE TIERS.

,rEHas are 300 places in Bridgeport where
 liquor is sold.
 ss'A young man named Benjamin sedgwick.
 broke his leg while playing ball in Waterbury Saturday week. a.5ze... Eg= + ss.s.e-
 r. JOHN Rigney, who offered to leave. waterbu- ry for $500, now says he wop't 50, as he has been offered seos to stay.
 aa TIE citizens of Norwich are going to build
 . soldiers't monument on the former site of the Episcopal church. The cost will be $500, of which $200 is already raised. ,z-5-5s WI. H. Dunham, Esq. formerly one of the
 proprietors of the Middletown Sentinel, died
 in Brooklyn, N Y. on the i7.h Nov. of con- sumptien: qz.5.. .r4
 GEORGE T. Parker and H. M. Clark formed
 . copartnership in the butchering business, in
 Meriden, some months since: The. establish
 ment was sold out last week, and Clark ske-
 daddled with the fuuds, $l,5o0, Sunday night
 oamuer u.".sror--s --7.-.--=-sh haa inxented |a rotary steam engine as large as a bandbox,
 which is of four horse power. e1. |se .as#f es sssae5
 THE New Haven wheel company have man.
 ufactured pair of wooden wheels. attended to be used in dragging siege guns into the
 new fort at Sandy Hook They are eight feet in diameter, and warranted ta sustain the weight of 5000 pounds s isI
 TIE Hartford Press says that Gov. Buck ingham is informed by note from the war department hat the 8th and l1th regiments have been ordered to be mustered out imme- .diately. ifs sa sz57 .s. essf Woodsto ok has 5000 inhabitants, And sent
 BIO men to she war, over one.tenth of the pop ula:ion and paid $57, $40 for bountiss and war expenses, mak ing $l0O for each family. A $400 monument is to be built to the memory of the dead soldiers.
 e TIE New Britain Citizen says 8 large ker- osens lamp, burning on a table at T. s. Wet more's exploded while Mrs. W. and her son were sitting beside it. The burning oil was thrown upon the head of the lad, but his moth- CT threw her, skirts ever him and smothered the flame. So far as is known, the lamp was in perfect order, and there is some mystery about it's explosion. a;4..,. as,et.s-a i. TIE Times says the Pequonnoek Oil compa- ny having bored to al distance of about 8s0 feet from the surface struck q vein of oil on Thursday night, November 2sd, and for about four hours it ran st the rate of 2 barrel an hour when it ceased to How. It is estimated that the profuse flow of water has stopped the crevice With sand, or that the pressure of the water stops the How of oil. In boring further the shaft broke 300 feet from the surface. It will probably be repaired in day or two
 THE, whole number of banks in the State is ninety, all of them national banks but two the State Bank at Hartford and the Winsted Bank at West winsted. Twenty of the na- tional banks, are new organizations. The Win ssed Bank has now decided to adopt the na- tional system and officers of the bank have gone aS to Washington to make necessary arrange ments
 AVERY Ss;rH, of Norwalk, the great circus has purchased Dr. chapins church on Broadway, New York, for $l10. 1000, and will erect oz the site an extensive equestrian theatre, on the plan of Astley's at London A new theatre is also soon to be built near Union Square, New York. Barney Williams sub scribes literally to the stock and will e-the manager. Tsaafl ts ss.s62 Aas33s
 NEW pzfEEsfs, ,-Anong the patents issued for the week ending Nov. 2l, 1865, were the following to Scitixens of Connecticut: Horatio Jordon, of Norfolk, for window and door fas- iener ;s charlssF. Duppsr, of Bridgeport, ss. signor to himself, John Bens and Julins Hach Df the same place, for improved artificial ivc- ty Ansen Hatch, of New Haven, sssignor tc hiiiinselr and .Wilfred H.. Nettleton, of Bristol lof drilling machine; stephen N: Gate, of Wa- Eerbury for improvement in forming sheet met lrtnbing Ira c. {. F. ". Flsgg, of Middle town, for improved roSIock; Henry Isham, 'rNsw Britain, for improvements ia ratsr nc Isf D. Bassstt, of Kiliingly, for improvement nlstof and take-up motions for looms. l