Litchfield enquirer., 1866-12-13
r....s....s:..z..sr.TE r... :. ITEMS.

A.FuF F.gtI t.+
 WE learn from the Register that while "a young man named Peck, son of John B. Peck, of Hamden; was walking from Meri- den to his fathers house, going through Walingford, he was met, when near Cooks s Hill, by party of negroes. As Mir. Peck approached the party, a abig negro with a drawn knife, demanded his money. Mir. Peck refused, and at the same time drew a a revolver and shot the fellow down. The rest of the party seemed about to interfere, when he threatened them with the remain ing charges. They then turned their at tention to their fallen comrade, when Mir. Peck left them. '.-l .' ''
 Two men employed as laborers in the Middlesex Quarry, in Portland, were in- stantly killed by the falling of high bank which they were excavating for a road. Their names are Sullivan and Calhoun. Sul- livan leaves wife and two children.
 BOSTON, HARTFORD & ERIE RAnNoAD.- Mir. o. W. Barnes, the Chief Engineer of the Duchess and Columbia, and the Bog. ton, Hartford and Erie Railroad, passed through this village with g corps of engin- eers one day last week, and we understand is making surveys to ascertain the most feasible route for the Boston road, between Hartford and Fishkill. In our next we shall attempt to show by some facts con- corning its mineral resources, why the val ley between Salisbury and Amenia is pre- ferred to any other route. Times.
 THE south district in Chester, has recent ly erected fine school house,
 REV. JULIUS H. WARD, of Chesire, the bi- ographer of the poet Percival, is to take the editorial charge of the Connecticut Churchman. apll i'ia't '-,''
 A COLLAR worn by "Tige'a pet dog of the Connecticut Fifth, has turned up in Hartford, and an effort is being made to have it presented to the Museum of War Relics. In Tige's three years service he never lost battle and whipped lots of southern CUTS. Few northern generals did as well.
 THE Winsted water works cost $35. 900, and the water is derived from lake three miles long, witha fall of 150 feet The town has four hose companies.
 EDWIN SHELDON, Suffeld, an unmarried man about 30 years of age, drowned himself one day last week, during temporary insan- ity in o brook near his fathers residence
 JACOB M. AMEs, formerly of Norwich, was drowned in Warsaw Sound. s. C., on the 24th ut.
 AT Dayville, recently, Terence McEnter, employed in the woolen mill of s. & H. Sayles, was caught in the shafting near the wheel, receiving injuries that caused his death.
 THE city of Bridgeport is now supplied with water through three inch pipe, and the citizens are agitating measures for the construction of an entirely new and enlarg- ed system of water works. At the recent burning of the Bridgeport Furniture Com pany's factory the water was not sufficient to supply one of the steam fire engines, and the building was destroyed in consequence of the lack.
 A GRAND Masonic fair is now in success. full operation in New York, and will contin- ue through the holidays, hoping to realize $15O,OOO.
 SOME scoundrels broke open the boxes and stole about one thousand dollars worth of pistols at the great fire of the Plants Manufacturing Company in New Haven.
 A GIRL named Julia Barry, fifteen years of age, left her fathers house in New Ha- ven about four weeks ago, it is supposed to go to Wallingford, since which time she has not been heard of though diIgent search has been made for her. thS'
 A CLERGYMAN in Norwich has offered to forfeit 5000 if quart of pure spirits of any kind can be found in that city,
 Uncommonly thirsty.
 PATRICK EAeAN was arrested in Hartford, Friday, for forging Mrs Samuel Colts name to an order for clothing. ? :aa.
 $3,50O,OO0 of the Adams Express Compa- ny is owned in Hartford-more than one third of the entire capital. ... sa !, HoN. John Boyd is publishing series oi sketches of ''The late Col Hinsdale had hi. Cotemporaries" in the Winsted Herald.
 ON Thursday last, at South Norwalk, { man named Rogers McCawley was instant ly killed while working in well.
 It is rumored that another newspaper i to be started in Stamford soon in opgosttio, to the .Aduocate.
 Petroleum V. Nasby has just issued book with the following. ' ''
 -. s..Isa4 Ga- a4'