Litchfield enquirer., 1867-10-10

RECENTLY, q woman in Westville, who had the bones of her face affected by the phosphorus in a match shop in which she was employed, appeared, by the advice of the surgeons, before the Medical Clinioue of the State Hospital, and submitted to an operation. By the use of ether, she was made unconscious, and both cheek bones were cut ont, beginning alongside of the nose, up to the eye, and as far back as the lower jaw. The operation was performed by Dr. Townsend, in Q very skillful man. ner The lady is recovering, but will be unable to chew any thing. All her food will have to be taken in a liquid state. In her case, the phosphorus affected decayed tooth first, and then spread until the cheek bones became diseased.
 LAST Monday Mrs. Urany Bennett of Poplar Plains, Westport, an old lady near ly ninety years of age, while driving her COW with others from her door, was set up on and gored by one of them which turn ed on her, badly hurting her about the head and shoulders and otherwise seriously injuring her.
 ABOUT 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning the store of E. NJ Beers in New Fairfield, was discovered to be on fire, and although every effort was made to subdue the flames the store was burned to the ground. The groceries and dry goods in the store, amounting to about s, 1000, also the town records, school societies, records, and Mir. books, on which were about 1000 charged were burned. The goods were insured for g, ,000, but there was no insurance on the building. The origin of the fire is un- known.
 ENGINEER Serrell has made complete survey of route for the Air Line railroad between New Haven and MiddletoWn. The survey diverges from the Shore Line rail- road track at or near Neck Bridge. David Lyman of Middlefield and Engineer Ser rell have had Q satisfactory interview with the officers of the Shore Line, in reference to using their track to the point named.
 SAYS the Bridgeport Standard, lady re- siding in our city, recently, after much tribulation, succeeded in securing the ser vices of an Irish lady in New York, to come up to Bridgeport, and grace with her pres ence, the kitchen of her house. After pay ing the fare of the fair domestic up from New York, and introducing her to her sphere of action, the delicately bred dam sel discovered that her chamber was up two flights of stairs, and declaring that she could not stand 1t, returned to New York, after 8 service of about two hours.
 THE office of the Bridgeport Steamboat Company has been removed back to the old quarters ill the Housatonic Railway Com pany's building at the old depot.
 DR. BARRETT, the '' bird track man of Middletown, has discovered the traces of an immense preadamite fish on the flag stones in front of the Middlesex national bank.
 THE aggregate capital invested in the oyster, business at Fair Haven is not less than Sl 900, 900, employing directly 1,5OC people. The local dealers are interested to the amount of $l6O,000, the ship owners S520, ,000, and the can-makers $40, ,OO0 There are about l, ,000, ,OOO kegs and 5OO,0OC cans manufactured yearly, and twenty-siz vessels make six voyages between Virginia and Connecticut and bring about 5G0,O0C bushels to plant, which, when opened, will produce about 2, GAO, 900 quarts of meats.