Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-15
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 manufacturing. company's,. works. South l ington. .sburst on Friday morning, killing
 Michael Kelley, an employee, and wound
 ing MT. A. T. Clark, foreman, on the head
 making deep though not dangerous cut Fhe was at the time grinding shear blade. E B saA as@ ssS g % $ @1% IsF ~ l Kito, young Japanese officer, on hi way to Massachusetts village to stud.
 English, called at the Hartford Press Of
 fee on Saturday. The Press says :-
 Kito is a retainer of Daihio, for Prince)
 Satzma is one of the eighteen Damios who
 govern provinces in Japan, and are ill [ good degree independent of the Tycoon
 obeying his decrees only as they please
 Kito is one of the seven young men who
 all retainers of Satzma, sent by that prince
 to this country to learn English and to
 study American institutions, the prince
 paying their expenses. It would seem that
 the Tycoon, would not permit this if he
 knew it, as he does not permit the desire
 of some of his princes to open intercourse with foreigners, for Kito was in a manner secretly sent out of the country, embark ing at fakohama under the assumed name
 of Ashiwara, in Q vessel for California. Xxi to holds the rank of captain or lieutenant in the Japanese army, and has, been in mil itary training at Yeddo. He was present at the battle in the harbor of Kagoshima in 1864, and served gun against the English. A gentleman in New London has invent ed churn by which new milk from the COW can be chtrned into butter in less time than it can be made from cream by any known process. It leaves the butter more solid than when chtrl1ed from cream, and the milk sweet. ,e, "3y"'..,....,o.r,
 The operatives of the Hartford Carpet Companys mills, at Thompsonville, and Ta- riffville, have petitioned for reduction of the hours of labor from eleven to ten, and the employees in other manufactures throughout the state are joining in the same movement. 3 y%Ji .d.
 Eben Fairchild, a wealty citizen of Bridg- port, lately bequeathed $1 ,50O to his rela- tives, and the rest of his property, nearly 9O,OOO to the American colonization socie- ty. The heirs threatened to attempt to break the will, but the society have com promised with them by paying them $12- 900. ,,y ,7..k,.,,r z...,t>......,,i.s...,.
 RALPH N. BUSH, Q colored sailor of Fair Haven, was met on Water street, Bridge port at about seven P. M, on Saturday night, near Ellis & Willett's stone yard, by three men who threw shawl over his head and deliberately robbed him of $15.5O in cash and silver watch and chain. He was badly choked by the rascals. Soon after Frederick Snfeidel was met by three men and robbed of $36 in cash, and two men stopped man who was crossing the Cen tre bridge. and attempted to rob him also, but the sight h of! of s,dz six tlt shooter detsrred them, +S,am s)aia9 e.f,i big;J, sa.l { THERE is g pond in North Stonington, Conn, in which there are laage numbers of the fish known as bull heads or horn pouts These, fish have been corn. fed this fall. There is corn field on the margin of this pond, from which these pouts have fed. One.hslf acre of corn, at least has been de- | yoarea ana Aiat the pSnts have turned corn eaters eae < iis Known by the fact that after the corn hAdwen set, sallIthe potts caught and dfessed had corn ifnl' their sSoma achs Queer l fish, the the reader may say,9 devourlea half acre of corr; ;1and clean is of completely. | Nsystthslsss 1hs cdfaA lai ys gone and Isdi the poutssdeyoaxed it. , Ehd ,harvesters, how evekg were nuskrats, sf large number ofl which abounded in th9 ponds as C ,,cornlpan- mp, ions of the pouts. Thee quadrupeds would cut down the corn. d,ag it to the pond and .nneh nnT upou aIl t after fey had got it there. Of course they were FastefnI, and fhe ket-l nels they dropped ael 4pouts, wouidsfsea | upon. Muskrats fe. very destructive ih corn fields near thiff haunts, as the succu lent grain is . tod dihsotne lunch for them. NorWicb BMzetin.