Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-08
STATE ITEMS.

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 THE Winsted people have sent a delega- ton to Boston railroad built through that town. They got plenty of promises, and that IS as much as the friends of any of the routes are likely to get
 AcH11D of w. Cohen, aged twenty months died at Stamford from the effects of n dose of laudanum administered by mistake.
 THE receipts of the town of New Haven for the last year were $32O, 695, the expen- ditures, $315, 5,531, and the surplus now in the treasure including the balance of last year. is $71, ,161.
 THE lease of the Canal Railroad to the New York and New Haven Railroad Con- pany, which, by it's original term, has near- ly three years before it's expiration, is to be speedily terminated by mutual agreement, and the Canal Company will hereafter op- crate its own road. ....,...
 THE Gold Mining Company which was formed at Hartford, Conn.,, last year, with a capital of $2OO,O has purchased 1900 acres of land in Lisbon, Bath and Lyman, ew-Hampshire, and sunk a shaft in the latter town seventy feet deep, from which they have taken out about 900 tons of quartz which yields from so to $1, 1900 gold per ton. They are now employing twenty-five men, and are prospecting extensively or their property, with favorable indications of valuable discoveries.
 AN escaped convict from .the jail in Springfield, was in Middletown a day or two ago-a female, convicted of stealing and sentenced to one years imprisonment in the jail at that place. ?, The jailor came there for her, but she had left. She has a husband living in MeSiden, and she prob- ably went there to call upon him.
 A MAN from Woodbridge drove off a wall some twelve feet high at the end of the bridge near Days rubber factory in Sey- mour. Himself and horse were slightly in jured-a narrow escape.
 WILLIAM P SWEET, the deaf mute who recently executed in plaster an exact min iature model of the "Old Man of the Mount ain' at Franconia Notch, N. H., has pre- sented the work to the Connecticut His torical Society. Fr A MIR. WooDING and a companion, while. fishing for flood wood in the Ansonia pond, were carried over the falls. Mir Wooding jumped from the boat and was not seen af- forwards, his comrade reached the shore by clinging to the boat
 A YOUNG lady in Bridgeport on Friday last purchased, as she supposed an ounce of Epson Salts but forgot to take them that evening. Instead of Epson Salts, however, she was given by an inexperienc- edsclerk who had no authority nor right to make up prescription, an ounce of oxalic acid, deadly poison. The proprietors of the drug store on learning what their clerk had done inserted notices in both the Bridgeport papers headed ''poison" hoping thus to prevent the certain death of the, young lady who was an entire stranger to them and whom they knew not how to find out. The Standard says,
 "The young lady to whom, by mistake. was given oxalc acid instead of Epson Salts, fortunately forgot to take the dose on Friday evening. On Saturday she re- marked ill the hearing of Mrs. EsChas. Peat and Miss Ellen Disbrow, that sKe intended to take dose of salts that evening. They happened to see the item headed s'poison' in Saturday evenings Stahday'd, and fear. ing it might refer to the ''salts" which their friend had purchased, went immediately to her residence and informed her of the dan ger. They arrived just in time, as the young lady was then preparing to take them. Thus her life was saved by the merest chance.
 TURNER, Seymour, and Fields are build ing mammoth iron foundry at Wolcott- vile, and John Adt has started factory for his patent riveting machine.
 Ir Hamden, while little boy about twelve years of age, named William Dick erman, was playing with a loaded pistol, he accidentally shot little girl of about the same age, named Elizabeth Iines, an only daughter of MT. Clark R. Lines of Hamden The boy was unaware of the fact that the pistol was loaded, and pointed it at the girl, and after some playful remarks. snap ped the pistol at her. .r+ HD.!.5
 MAJOR Charles R. Bann.oa of Waterbury has received a commission as brevet major for gallant and meritorions conduct at the capture of Fort Fisher. He was captain in the First Connecticut Artillery, having joined that regiment as second lieutenant
 THE Supreme Court of Errors, sittingfOr the Third Congressional District, has tteel- ded that person who obtained substi- tute for the army in 1864, without being especially employed by the town, could not recover the bounty offered by adgeneraI vote of town meeting. '- A s'l Q.
 JOHN HoLLN, a contractor on the Housa- tonic and Northern Railroad, retired at his boarding place in Danbury with light ed candle. Shortly afterward the landlord was alarmed by cries for help, and on run c4os, c.. n