Litchfield enquirer., 1866-04-26

NEXT IaH tue a2rlcultuFa! INE or ca1rneld county meets at Norwalk.
 ] CHAs P Mansfield, and David s and Freder- ick c Johnson, Of Ansoria, of ages ranging from 8 to l2. have rot been absent from school single half day for three years past.
 CAPT. Kelly, of the whaleship Nile. of New Lcudon. committed suicide on December 5, by drowning. Captain K had been in command of the Nile but short time. -"
 Ay operation for seutropion, or inversion of the eyeIids has been successfully performed by Dr. Bliss of Willimantic. The patient has been suffering for fourteen years, and had become almost totally blind.
 1 THE Bridgeport Standard says that man by the name of Buunell, residing at Pequonnoc, was killed on Friday morning, instantly by fall- 1 ing down stairs and on to a butcher knife which he was earring on top of basket. The knife
 pierced his heart, and he died immediately.
 MARIA A Robinson of Bridgeport, has had verdict of 1891 awarded her against Hiram studIey, manager of studley's express at New York. She gave her trunk to one of Studley's agents to carry across New York, and when she received it it had been broken open and 1 her jewelry stolen and the verdict awarded her is for the amount of the theft
 WHILE Bailey's Mensgeris was passing through Westville, on Thursday last, on its way into New Haven, q horse, belonging to MT. Baldwin, of Woodbridge was standing hitched by the roadside. As tbe procession of elephants passed by the horse, he stared for a moment in the most utter astonishment and then. with one or two spasmodic leaps fell in- stantly dead-apparently literally frightened to death. Being from quiet country village that horse had probably never befHe seen the ele- phaut'
 IN February last Mir. Moves Hotchkiss, of Bethany, suddenly died after eating hearty dinner, being previously in apparently good health. His body after burial was disinterred, upon a suspicion of foul play. and medical examination is said to have revealed the pres eLcs of arenic in the stomach. Two sons of MT. Hotchkiss, eighteen and nineteen years old respectively, were suspected of knowing something of the matter-whether justly or not remains to be seen. &A
 AN honest boot black found lady's well filled purse at the depot in Bridgeport and re- stored it to its owner, wbo rewarded his integ- ritE with the muni6cent sum of four cents.
 DAxsuRY has voted $9, ,O0O to construc. new reservoir and to extend the present water works. -~ s-s -@ s~~
 THE Chronicle says there is Q man now living in Waterbury who is one hundred and two years old. His father lived to be eighty, and his paternal grandfather l60. He himself was in the battle of Vinegar Hill, in the Irish re- bellion of '9s. r-. &R
 ANEW depot is to be built in Stamford. I
 THE New Haven Grays celebrated their fif- tieth anniversary, Wednesday night, at their ar- mery. which was splendidly decorated. I !: TIE Hartford insurance companies have ad ! vancsd their premium rates twenty-aveIand fE- ty per cent on extra hazardous risks. They have added but little to their surplus accounts the present year. on account of their numerous losses. !r.4 .EI
 THE town of Prospect has the smallest grand list, it being only $2ls,sl0; Hartford has the largest. being s3o,o4l ,s2s, or nearly one-eighth of the whole State. LA A v THE skeleton of a human being was found in digging cellar at Grapevine Point, New Ha- ven on Wednesday. It was that of the male species, and was about three and half feet in and was found in an upright position. The teeth were found in perfectly sound condition The bones were about three feet under ground, and are supposed to have been buried about twenty years.
 THE Bridgeport Horse Railroad, which is { running but two cars and has it's track but half laid, carried during the two months 1t has been in operation, 3o,ooo paseeugars and is already pecuniarily successful # f~ T.