Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-12
STATE TIERS,


 STATE TIERS.
 THE Congregational churches of Sufield
 Harwinton, Plymouth Cromwell, Windsor. Windsor Locks, and Rockville, are destitute 1 of pastors. REV. w. c. WALKER. late chaplain of the 18th G. V., has received an invitation from the Baptist church. New Britain, to become their pastor. ......s. z.s ....a THE Corner Stone of New Library Bull. ding for Fitch's Home, at Darien. was laid on Wednesday, Oct 4th, a# =f7. Col. THEODORE G. ELLIS, of Hartford, of the
 l4th Connecticut, was promoted August 18th to be brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers A GRAY HORSE was stolen from the premises of Mir. John H. Barhite, in Miry Brook on Sunday night week. .s5a .eas... .- MR. Axos H. ALL1NG of Birmingham has a pumpkin estimated to weigh POO ponnds, and still growing. The ceremonies of dedicatng the new lodge room in Norwich of Uucus Lodge No. II, |. o. o. F. were performed Monday evening. HUBBARD FINN has left at the Recorder of. fne sweet potato seventeen inches long, which was drawn out III gus sanu aats af M.l lingiord.
 ON Friday last, Kevser's horse ran inte an other in 6 trot ori the Norwalk course. thpow- ing his driver Sherwood, and breaking his leg. .- THE new Methodist Church of Ansonia, through the unremitting labors Of it's trustees, is progressing finely, and bids fair to be finish. ed before the winter sets in.- Wuterbury Ghos icle. -.... ...... .r. E. II
 Mss F. N. CALKrNs of Norwich has nearly finished d history of that town, which is soon to be published and promises to be very inter esting.
 CAPT Horace P. Gates has resigned his po- sition in the office of the Adjutant General and has taken charge of the office business of the
 Hartford Post.
 THE Collins company al Colliusville, are clearing Sso,ooo per anuuul. Eighty per cent of their cutlery is exported , -...,.....
 TyE Russell Manufacturing Company at Middletown, employs l200 hands in the manu- lecture of webbings. cords and suspenders.-. They are the largest concern in their speciali- ty in this country ....-.... ..i.e...,... ..
 A GENTLEMAN who was anxious to see how the Sabbath was observed on the shores of New Haven Harbor, counted six hundred aLd twerty three meu and boys, with their lines in wattr, on Long Wharf, Basin Wharf, aud be. twen there aud the Steamboat Dock. ou Sun da, @ ..t -.. ..s.,,.gi nH NRs. Mary Waldhams, of Waterbury, has stirted to recover the body of her husband. Lieut.. H. W. Waldhams, who was killed in Nay, 1864 Mir. George Adams. who assisted ii burying him, will go with her. THEY have another mysterious disappear .nce case at Middletown. A young girl of about eighteen years, by name Kate Murray, on Wednesday week night last She is quite fair looking, has large dark brown eyes, and for sometime has been laboring un- der slight aberration of mind.
 A LARGE barn in Lebanon, belonging to Samuel 4. Hatch, was burned down on Sunday week evening. Three horses and twenty tons of hay were burned. The fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary.
 The joss is upward of $1,0O0.
 \ FEW days agc. while Mr. Samuel Monson, of Fair Haven, was engaged in gathering chest nuts, an urchin threw stone into the tree top to bring down the nuts. The stone brought down Munson, having hit him on the hesd. cracking his skull and producing serious wound I@s EJS5la'sa-s g4
 REv. B. F. Chapman, of Andover. has now growing in his garden the third crop of peas this season, and expects they will be fit for the table in about week. The first crop was planted the second week in April; the second the 26th of June; and the third on the 10th of August. The latter were in blossom in twenty i've days from the time planted. sMs.t
 IT is almost worth losing an election to see how tickled the fellows are who have been out in the cold in Connecticut for the past eleven years. The Times and Register, can hardly contain themselves for joy. It looks as though the procession had run into gin shop on its way to the gravsyard.