Litchfield enquirer., 1866-08-09
STA.rE ITEMS.

1 SERIOUS HAIL STORM -0n Monday, the 3Oih. ut, Middle Haddam, Middletown. and that vi c'nlty were visited by most terrific hail storm ', which almost entirely destroyed the crops of corn and tobacco and did great damage to the grain. The oldest inhabitants state that if was 'ne most terrific they ever experienced. No estimate or the amount of damage inflicted can as yet be made.
 WEST HARTFORD, East Hartford, South Win. dsor' East Windsor and Suffield are among the places where tobacco suffered by the late storm. Suffield farmers have lost great part of their crop; some all of it. We suppose the damage done must amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in tobacco. to say nothing of corn. In Newington (Wethersfeld) the tobacco in some fields was cut all to shreds.
 THE heaviest income in New London, S37,- 06l, is returned by Asa Otis. T. w. Williams returns $l3,439, and representative Brandagee $4,6l7. GtnFoRD CAswErL young man twenty one years of age, committed suicide at the poor house in Preston. He was native and resiien, of Ledyard but had been insane at times for a nuMber of years. and on that account sent io the alms house, During the war he enlisted in one of the Connecticut regiments, but was discharged on account of insanity.
 AccIDENTs.-LeonardW w. Goddard. of Col chester, was killed by being thrown from his wagon to the ground and striking op his head MT. and Mrs. Nathan Bonnet, of Bridgeport, were thrown from their ca riage while driving out the other eveni g. Mrs. B. received an injury on one of the shoulders.
 THE Douglas Manufacturing Company of Seymour, are adding a new forging shop io their extensive manufactory. Busin, ss is bet- ter than for years past. They employ l9O hands, and in two months will employ 300,
 A WORKMAN in the India Rubber ia ciory a, Naugatuck, was stabbed without the slightest provoeatiou by drunken man named Nc Ke. on and 80 badly wounded that his life is de- spaired of. ...
 Col. ALFRED P. ROCKWELL, Professor of Mining in the Scientific School of Yale, and late Colonel of the old Sixth Conn has been appointed Brigadier General by brevst.
 TIE author of "Nurse and spy,r--one of the first, most successful, and quite the most
 paltry of the books made out of the war--a woman named Miss Edmunds, is reported io have served in the army as Il private, and to have formerly acted as agent for Hartford publishing house, under the garb of man, and with the name of Frank Johnson. THE stock of the Connecticut peat company at Hartford, of which J. H. Ranney is presi- dent has been sold curing the past week for S20 per share, with $lO paid in. The works of the company are located at West Hartford, and they expect to have the manufacture ar ticle in the market in few weeks. Another company has also been formed at New Britain.
 BARTLETT, th ts tented sculptor, is receiving high praise from the Hartford press His bust of Evangeline is greatly and justly admir- ed.
 THE name of the young man who committed suicide on the Green in New Haven is Yet un- dis covered.
 A COUPLE from Collinsvlle were di,orced recently after enduring the blessed state of matrimony .ftteen weeks.
 CAPT VAIL, late of the steamer Granite State, has been promoted to the command of the Continental, now runni ng between New Haven and New York, in place of Capt Browns Jr., who has left to go into the coal THE race for the Champion Flags in New Haven Harbor on Tuesday between the yachts Maria and Wild Bird, was won by the Maria.
 THE Yale Glee Club left New Haven last week in fine yatcht, 10. their cruise prior to their concert term. They were attired in their yachting suit, and looked handsomely. They gave the Norwich people taste of their mu- sical powers whereat the Bulletin expresses it. self as follows
 The concert at Breed Hall last evening drew full house, the audience being composed os the intelligence and fashion of the city. The Yalensians looked we'll in their fancy sailors rig, and their singing gave general satisfaction. MT. Young's basso solo in particular, was worthy of praise while all the glees were rsn. dersd in the true Yale style bringing down the house.
 THE New York and New Haven railroad company are going to increase their capital stock $l,000,0O0, and will offer the new stock to their stockholders at the rate of one new share for five of the old
 A. F. SMITH, superint endent of the Hudson river railroad, was thrown from e carriage at Norwich and quite dangerously injured.
 DAVID BRADLY. the Southport postmaster, and his daughter, both died of cholera.
 JEROME CHASE, of New Fairfield, stabbed his fatherin-law, Charles Bonnet, go that there -Rl A-r