Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-02
STATE ITEMS.

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 STATE ITEMs.
 ,unor Phelps is slowly recovering
 ~ ....mship Atlanta was owned by cs., Mallory, of Mystic. Fl ru, funeral of Lieut.. J. T. Maginnis, Co. E. ,e,h q. v.. took place at Salem on Sunday rur total amount received at the Bridge ,.-t Post Office last quarter was S4' Soo. NEW military company is being formed at ,.,;,h from members of the 18th Conn. n,rrpA1 Franklin's salary as manager of .h. Colt firearms company at Hartford will be $sO00 a year. ~ = t>l.5 OVER two hundred vessels put into New London harbor on Thursday week for sheltor and safety.
 p.rvrr Mai. Gen, Henry W Birge, of Nor vich has resigned, and is going into ous'ness at Savannah. ', ,@s- ~@ SAMUEL G. Hammill, of East Cambrige, is to build a $4,0o0 organ for the St. James Epis- eopal Church at New London. THE Norwich and Woscester Railroad earn ed s7s. .4so in September, $22, ,4oa better than in September of last year.
 SCOTCH woman named Stevenson. was probably fatally injured in the paper mill at Greenville on the goth, by her clothes getting caught in some shafting. .- .-e Mn. Joab Peabody, formerly an officer in Bridgeport, fell from the third story of a house into the cellar. He wasn't killed, but badly bruised.
 TIE great Wanregan factory on the Quine- baug, at Plain6eld, is to be doubled is size, making it 1000 feet long, and necessitating the building of 100 more tenements
 THE First Congregational Church and So- ciety of Norwalk have extended call to the Rev Dr.. Chester, of Buffalo, N. Y. to become their pastor, at a salary of $2, 800.
 APEr1rloN is before the Common Council of Hartford for authority to remove the trees for a long distance on tho north side of Main street
 HARTFORD lawyer recently got kicked and his face slapped by man whom he, sa the course of a professional case, had accused of'lying.' A fine of something less than $40 settled the affair."
 RAILWAY collision, resulting in the death of one passenger and the serious injury of a large number of persons, took place, Sunday night week on the New Haven road Disre gard to orders is said to have been the cause of this disaster.
 THE Collins Company have had an orde, from Mexico for 500 dozen machetas or swords They are doing an extensive business in this line. The recent rains have furnished plenty oswater for their operations.
 As an Irishman was attempting to kill . hog in middletownl Thursday, the anima turned on him and seized his arm, in the flesh, part just above the elbow, tearing the flesl and cords in frighiful manner through t the bone.
 THE Colts patent arms company at liar ford, have presented their armory band wit new set of instruments cnstins $l 100. Th band have received several accessions frol army bands, and it is now one of the fines bands in the country.
 BENJAMIN W Greene Esq. for many yea, past President of the Connecticut Fire Insu, ance Company, Hartford has resigned his p, sition on account of impared health, and Joh B Eldridge Esq. Secretary of the compan since its organization in 1850, has beeen oh, sen his successor.
 Ar a district school meeting at Hartford Tuesday week, so many people assembled ths the floor, fourth-story one, cracked and SC tied over foot in places. Fortunately tn crowd kept cool, and no one was injured, br ifa panic had taken place, doubtless the los of life would have been fearful.
 Mas. Betsey Bassett, a venerable lady, wh trife over year since, on the occasion her eightieth birthday had grand gatherir of her relatives at her house, at which wei some fifty of her descendants were presen died in North Haven on Thursday. The are now living some seventy or eighty of h, children, grandchildren, and great gran children.
 SUNDAY week. at l Q. m., the house of Oh, Hunt. of Long Hill, Huntington, caught fir and burned to the ground. The family of M Hunt escaped by rushing out in their nigh clothes; but a boy of fourteen who had r gently been taken from the Aims House New York, failed to awake in time, and b room becoming speedily wrapped in flames as to be inaccessible from without he peris ed in the fire.
 MIR. Beers and daughter, of Newton m with an accident on the Danbury road jul above Sanford's Station on Tuesday weel They were in a carriage. and had driven aero, the track just as the afternoon train from No walk came up. The horse becoming frightel ed by the noise, backed up against the trai smashing the carriage and throwing the occ, pants. Mir. Beers escaped uninjured, but h daughter had her foot crushed by car whee
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