Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-31

By the late census report, the manufacture of cigars in Connectieuti is exhibited as follows: Number of establis lishmsnts.s SC capital insur- led, $27s,sOO; cost of material. $240,sO4; sm ployes, s5s males and s2 females .cost of labor E$l6s, ,o8s value sf product. $562, ,4s4
 Two spans of the new iron railway bridge over the Connecticut River st Warehouse Point, were entirely finished on Saturday last, and the Sunday night mail trains passed over them. It is expected that two more spans will be completed by next Sunday night. The spans are lowered by hydraulic pressure.
 THE Providence, Hartford and Fishkill rail- road is doing an approximately large busi- ness this summer. both in passenger and freight traffic The receipts at Hartford for passenger tickets during July were nearly three times as much as in July of 1861, end were considerably larger than in July of last year. THE Danbury Town Clock. the other day dropped it's striking weight (which consisted of about coo pounds of iron in large box, ) through two walls into the room below. A part of the cornies of the organ was knocked of. Had it hit the organ squarely it would have done heavy damage. The ceilings were more or less torn of, and large cross beam broken. The damage amounts to about $100. MR. Gladding, of East Berlin, has brought to the Hartford Press office two clusters of rye one of which has lO9 and the other GA perfect stalks, each grown from single grain. Al. lowing 60 grains to the head, which is the number in one coun ed, and we have on the lOe stalks production of s54O grains from one single kernel ofrye.
 A MAN calling himself Col. William A Hunt ley, graduate of the State Prison, and great bore to the late Mrs. Sigourney, by addressing lying letters to her, has recently tried to mar ry young lady in New York state by pretend ing to be the son of Mrs. Sigourney. Forum ately his intended wrote to Mrs. Russell, the daughter of Mrs. Sigourney, in time to expose his villainy. ...t. ....,..s .s,
 RICHARD Forrest was before the police court at New London, on Friday, charged with mar | rying Ellen Cunningham, in Sag Harbor, ou the 18th day of September, 1862. and of com. hitting the same deed in New London, with Maria Cady, on the 23d day of August, 1868 1 The case was adjourned, and he was placed under $500 bonds.
 THE other day lady entered 8 Hartford store and began examining the fine shawls and tcloaks upon the life size frames. Becoming interested she passed along from one to an other till she found silk cloak that pleased her very much, and she raised it up, examined it carefully and freely, and was at the conclu sion very much astonished to find that she had been making free with the dress of lady cus- toner who very properly stood as still as stay figure, till all the trimmings of her dress had been we'll examined.
 CONNECTICUT Patents for the week ending August 18th. 1865 IN D. Hinman. of Pleas ant Dale, for improvement in horse hay forks John H. Doolittle, for improvement in fruit baskets. Joseph L. Joyce, of New Haven, for improvement in shoes. Joseph Kintz. of West Meriden, for improvement (, lanterns. Charles w. LeCount, of Norwich, Yof improvement in governor valves. Ira C., and F. W. Flagg, of Middletown, for improved row lock. Lock wood Sanford, of New Haven. fer improvement in tree protectors, Henry D. Blake, of New Britain, assignor to Pond F. Corbin, of the same place, for improvement in padlocks.- = Henry B. Tyler of Norwich, assignor to him. self and Eugene M. Provost, of the same place for improvement in locks. William H. Nal lory, of Bridgeport, assignor to himself, Mel son H. Downs and Robert N. Bassett. of Der by, for spring for upholstering purposes. Johr R. Cook, of Winsted, for curtain faste uing.