Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-19
STATE I'IENlS.

THE Milk train on the Naugatuck R R., will commence to run as follows: Leave Winsted at 4 p. m. /; Litchfieid 50; Water bury 6 p. m. Beacon Falls 37; Derby ' 10: arrive in Bridgeport at s D. In; leave Bridgeport 40 a. m. Waterbury Il 10; arrive at Winsted 26 p. m.-Bri,lgeport Standard.
 THE Second Congregational Church in Norwich, was destroyed on the 16th inst. The flames were kindled by an incendiary. The total loss which will reach 0,OOO, is partially covered by insurance policies rep dence companies.
 THE Housatonic railroad company have had twenty new substantial freight cars built for them by the Detroit car company, Detroit, Michigan.
 TWELVE hundred Dickens tickets We're sold in New Haven on Thursday,
 THERE have been six incendiary fires in New London within two weeks.
 TIE Democratic leaders of New Haven have induced all the candidates except one, on their ticket for assessors and board of relief, to resign and have put up new tick ct. But as they do not publish it, it is supposed that 1t Is worse than the other.
 AN intensely democratic man in Had dam was was engaged i'll chopping wood when the news of the election in New Hampshire was received. It so excited him as to bring on paralysis of one side in about ten minutes afterward, and he i, now confined to his bed.
 A MERCHANT of Wolcottville, on Satur- day night last, took an overdose of lauda- mum. Prompt and energetic medical aid brought him out all right.
 THE irrepressible Cleveland told Hart ford Democratic meeting the other night that, ''So sure as the sun goes down on the first Monday in April, Connecticut will have heavy responsibility to meet, and she acH meet H like men,
 NEW HAVEN DEMOCRATS INDIGNANT. It is rumored that call is being privately cir culated for an indignation meeting of those Democrats in New Haven who were deceived by their New Hampshire friends into making bets on Democratic victory in the Granite State. It is said that the committee selected to engage d suitable place for the meeting, have reported that no hall large enough to contain all the ln- dignant sufferers can be obtained The committee recommend that tho meeting be held on the public green on the first fail day-C0mrier.
 A gentleman in Bridgeport won over. S1OOO on the New Hampshire election.
 The Danbury and Norwalk railroad has been put in first rate condition, and the rolling stock repaired and increased.
 THE Bridgeport lighthouse was damaged by the ice, on Monday last, to the extent of 5000. The ladders and lamp were broken, the braces badly bent, and other damage done.
 THERE IS project on foot in New Haven for building first class hotel on the site of the Chapel street church.
 THE Republicans in New Haven eel, brl- ted the victory in New Hampshire by fir ing one hundred guns on the Green, on Wednesday.
 The Republicans of New London fired one hundred guns at six o'clock Wednes- day evening, in honor of the Republican victory in New Hampshire. The Demo- mocrats had no use for the stock of pow der they had laid in.
 The baseball clubs of Waterbury have commenced operations.
 The Republicans of Norwich fired one hundred guns at midnight Tuesday night, in honor of the victory in New Hampshire.
 Two young sprigs held forth at Demo- cratic meeting in Sprague, Saturday night. The next night the village gas works blew up.
 The total assessments in the town of on the list of 1869, are 8, 355,- increase of $16,649 over the pre- vious year, notwithstanding the reduction of the value of polls. The increase is due to the rise in real estate.