Litchfield enquirer., 1867-10-31
scellaneous Items.

The Bulletin says-"One OF the new re-
cipes for making preserves, commences
with the direction, ''Make lye as strong
as possible. We Judge that some OF our
democratic contemporaries are putting In
their fall preserves
A letter from Florence says, that some
official reports have been received there re-
speeding the horrors committed there un-
der the fear of the cholera. It is impossi-
Die to imagine any thing more frightful.
Whole families have been murdered, cut in
pieces, even, it is said, and thrown to the
swine. More than eighty persons have
thus persisted on the suspicion of scatter
ing poison, to which the wretched igno-
rance OF the lower orders in Southern TIA
ly persist in attributing the cholera.
AN ingenious machine for saving off
piles under water has been very success
fully used at Norwich for few days past,
In the building of new wharf. It is sim
ply circular saw, of little more than
twice the diameter of the largest piles, rig
ged in an upright frame attached to the
lifting gear of the pile driver, and belted
on to the engine at the stern of the scow.
It may be lifted or lowered by means Of a
rack and pinion, so as to saw off the piles
at any distance under water.
>THoMAsToN. Seth Thomas Clock
Company discharged eighty men from their
employ on the 9Th inst. This is bad
prospect for poor men at this season of
the year, but the State of business will not
warrant the company in running a full
number of hands.
SEYMOUR, Oct. 22-While placing the
last stone on the new dam Of the Rimmon
Water Company, this afternoon, the der
rick gave way, seriously injuring William
Blake, and crushing his limbs and back,
and badly bruising three others. One
man named Jack Davis, was carried through
the sluices and had narrow escape from
drowning.
The typhoid fever is prevalent in Hart
ford and also through the Naugatuck valley.
Typhoid fever is very prevalent at New
Haven, and many of the Yale College stu
dents are sick with it, one of whom has al
ready died, and another is in very crit
cal condition. A number of students have
left for their homes, and the faculty are
considering the expediency of temporarily
suspending college exercises, and dismiss
ing the students.
A new bridge is to replace the old wood
en- one across the Naugatuck river, near
the Farrell company's works. In few
days temporary structure will be thrown
across, which will be used until the new
one is completed. The stone bridge is to
have one large pier in the center, and is to
be substantially built.
Hotchkiss & Son, of Sharon, Conn,
gave brass cannon to the Constitutional
Government in Mexico. The cannon now
forms a part of the collection in the Impe.
rial Museura of Artillery in Paris.
The 600 sittings in Rev. w. Fl. FL. Muir.
S., 450.
Montana has doubled its population in
two years
Austria has had no specie currency for
twenty years.
The Emperor Francis Joseph is at pres
ent in France, paying the long promised
visit to Louis Napoleon. The belief in
the political significance of the Salzburg
Conference, has gradually subsidized, and is
not likely to be revived by the present visit.
Nasby's Institute, since the Ohio cleo
ton, has determined upon new version
of the Bible. Nasty says:-"The Fakulty
of the Institoot met next mornin for the
purpus of revisin the Scripters. It wuz
desided that the word wife shood be inser-
It'd wherever necessary, and that this edi-
shun only be yoosed by the democracy and
conservative R9publikins. We made pro-
gress, the follerin bein few of the chan
ges:-"S So God creatid white man in his
own image" "Whosoever therefore shell
confess me before white men," &c. "Suf-
fer little white children to come unto me,
f)r of such is the kingdum of heaven" Which
"a It Is comtortin, ez 1t shows that the dis
clncshen is kept up through all eternity.
give these merely as samples. We shell hev
1t fnisht in few days, and eff funds can
be raised, shell publish it. SIGH vershun
OF the Skripters is needed"
Mr.. Henry E. Plumb of Newtown, pro
poses in the Norwalk Gazette railroad
line to run from Watertown in Litchfeld
County, to Norwalk, through Upper West
port, via the Naugatuck valley to Weston,
Easton, Upper Stepney into Monroe to
Zoar Bridge on the Housatonic river.
Thence following the river to Benefits
Bridge, north through Southbury and
Woodbury., to Watertown OR Woodbury..
A man in Lebanon sheared his sheep on
Friday for the first time this season, giving
as reason for not doing SO before, that the
| weather had been so wet.
Hotel board is six dollors day on the
Pacific Railroad.
The latest ecclesiastical novelty is an
echo Choir,''> which was initiated on
Sunday in the New York Episcopal Church,
or the Annunciation. The sEcho Choir
was concealed in the organ loft:
A Mr. Wallace of Greenwich, father Of
Conductor Wallace of the New York and
New Haven railroad, was poisoned, as is al
legged, by his workmen, on the 9th, by put
| ting croton oil in his coffee. Hugh Muir
ray, his coachman, and Peter Mcdonald. 6
stable boy, have been arrested, and thei,
preliminary examination is in progress
Mr.. Wallace is dangerously ill. It is sta
ted that an unsuccessful attempt to poison
Mr.. Wallace was made in June.
No attention has been paid in the NORTH
OF England to the sanitary condition Of the
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