Litchfield enquirer., 1865-07-27
STATE TIERS.


 HORACE WILEY has been appointed Dis- trct Attorney of Connecticut.
 OVER one hundred persons are sick with the fever and ague in Bridgeport, Eastern District.
 FORTY sheep have been killed ny dogs ;n the vicinity of Stenney, daring the past three months. az,. ...
 A VERY handsome Presbyterian church, to be built of cems snt brick, 43 by 52, is soon to be erected in Darien.
 NATHANIEL HAYWARD, the well-known rub Der patent inventor and manufacturer, of Col chester, died on Tuesday, at the age of 57.
 THE Waterbury American says New Haven eau hoast of three things without rival: The best Post Office, Telegraph Office, and Ex. press Office in the State
 THE following note was received at the Post Office in Bridgeport, recently: Nourk York. Dear sur if thar is later latt ear you will pace to pot in that anvelop for hay laft bridge port and is in N y."
 THE Winsted Herald has seen a new and novel machine by which child of twelve sum- mers can knit an entire stocking, and ot supe- rior quality, without fraction of seam from top to toe. .u..
 A MAN named Hogan has been fined $l9O and sent to jail for l3 months, in New Haven, for lacivious carriage before different persons. If the fine is not paid, his jail term will be two years and seven months.
 AT the Pahqu'oque shop in Danbury, the other day, Patrick Rooney. made clear lift with his teeth, of a stone which weighed l254 lbs Pat was then placed on the same scales, and found to weigh l27 pounds.
 A SOLDIER. overcome with the heat lay dowr on the sand on the shore near New Haven, and would have been drowned by the in coming, tide, if it had not been for the exertion of {. lady who discovered him.
 A GERMAN beer saloon keeper of Bridgeport about forty years old, was found dead in a rock ing chair last Saturday week, to the horror o1 his surrounding family, who supposed him in perfect health.
 A WOMAN jailed Great Western, with half 6 dozen aliases, was arrested on Monday in New Haven: and on searching her, a tin wash basin spider, pot lid, saucepan, and snndry simila' articles, were found fastened to her hoop skirt and with which she was endeavoring to marcl off.
 TIE Seventeenth Regiment is at Hiltol Head, where it arrived on the 9th. Many o the men were sick from i'll usage at Jackson vile. They will be mustered out in about fortnight. The regiment contains about ilv hundred men. g... -
 THE Horse Railroad company of Bridge port intends to have cars running this fall.- The road will start from near Wheeler & Will sons mahufactory. and terminate for the pres ent on Fairfield avenue, near the Cemeter. road. " '
 TIE corner sstone of St. Peters Church (Catholic) at Hartford, was laid on Sunday by Bishop Mcfarland, with imposing ceremonies in the. presence of some 5000 people. f'h church will be the largest in Hartford, and on of the finest in the country.
 THE First Connecticut Artillery, formerly the Fourth Regiment, c. ", has received or ders to march from Drury's Bluff, Va, t' Washington, for the purpose of being sen home. It is supposed they will arriv here 'r few days. 7os./
 | 4 MOVEMENT has been started in Hartford for raising fund to erect suitable monument commemorative of the talents and virtues or Mrs Lydia H Sigonrney. The admirers of the oenial muse of L H s, whose name is legion, will gladly contribute to this fund Letters may he addressed to Rev Dr Clark, of Hart ford. ... .s. . -.,..... . t..
 GENERAL H. w. B1RaE has been relieved at Savannah, and ordered to report to General stedman, who commands the Department of Georgia. Where General Birge will next be assigned we do not know, butprobably to some place in General Stedman's department, as the generals who are ordered north have to report to the Adjutant General. |
 As remarkable fact for an old man, we nnhi;shed an article last week stating that Ho,k;ns Carter of Huntsville, aged 70, moved tuo acres and half of fair grass, redtop and h,,,as in fen hours. That was very well for plontsvlle. but not for Cheshire. One day lost week, Samuel D. Castle, aged 8l years, cradled three acres of stout rye in five and a half hours, and did it frst-rate. m
 MATILDA SHEPPARD, a colored woman, was before the police court the other day in New Haven, for making an assault upon another ,olored damsel during the latter's- wedding ceremony. Matilda was opposed to the mar ;iage, and watched the ceremony out of doors, lntil the knot had been tied, when as the cler- gyman was pronoancing short prayer, tEe hide standing with her back to the window, Matilda boiling over with rage at the sight be- ore her. struck her two blows between the ,houlders and then fled.