Litchfield enquirer., 1868-08-13
STATE ITEMS.

HAY sells at $15 per ton in Danbury.
 A LYNX has been seen in North Madison.
 SENATOR Ferry is at Saratoga. A MARINE hospital is to be erected neal Fort Trumbull. A STEAM shovel is used in excava. ting the railroad near Putnam.
 A TORNADO swept through Lebanon Az miles in length and Ii of milo in width
 NEw potatoes sell at Waterbury for $1. 5( per bush.
 THE Derby road calls for another 10 pe1 cent installment. A LADY was struck in the eye by a ball in Norwich and seriously injured. THE Bridgeport night police disturb peo. pie with their profanity. A coLoRED man had $65 stolen in Stam. ford drinking saloon.
 A HORSE and carriage were stolen, lately, from barn ill Darien.
 A Hartford fishing club lately gave free ball at Nantucket.
 BRIDGEPORT has accumulated $4OO( towards Soldiers monument. STRATFoRD mosquetoes are said to be about as large and musical as canary birds.
 A CoLLINsvILLE company sent off IT tons of manufactured tools in one week. THE Democratic convention to nominate electors, meets at New Haven, Sept. 9. FIVE liquor dealors in Putnam were fin ed, ''contisticated' &c., week before last.
 THE homestead of tho late Gov. Ellsworth, at Hartford, sold for $34 ,O0O at auction.
 BLIND Tom has been performing at New Haven.
 THE next Freshman class in Yale is ex. pected to number over two hundred. THE pond from which Danbury is sur. piled with water has become impure. NEW batteries are to be built for Fort Trumbull.
 John Dunovan was run over by the cars at Benson's bridge on the 2d inst, and killed.
 "0 Ir"r SenU1euIIu reCeuJ1y Uuugnt forty pounds of trout in Q ngleiafternoon, at the Adlrondacl1s, with hook and line.
 LIE GRAND LocKwooDs villa at Norwalk is to be adorned by ten marble statues from Florence Italy. GEORGE W.FowLE of the Yale class of 61 has been engaged by Mr. Dickens on the editorial staff of 44N he Yea' Round.
 EDGAR HYDE of New Haven, charged with bigamy, forfeited his bonds and has been | rearreSted. THE Danbury and Norwalk railroad declares three per cent. dividend, and are to build branch to Ridgefeld. ON Thursday night burglars relieved Messrs Hall and Reed of Bridgeport of $30O0 worth of silks.
 A BOY was run over by the cars, and com pletely cut in two, near Stamford, Thurs day.
 THE body of man was found dead in a barn at Mansfield. Cause-drunkenness and i'll treatment.
 THERE was 8 foot race in Bridgeport on Thursday. Tho winner ran ten miles in 70 minutes.
 THERE was an impromptu Grant and Colfax meeting at Bridgeport, last week. Over 2,OOO people present.
 THE grave of General Israel Putnam at Brooklyn is only marked by 8 heap of stones.
 THERE was an Excursion of 1,2O0 people from Newark, N. J., to Bridgeport on Fri day.
 APPOLos BUGBEE, postmaster of Middle feld, has been removed and Geo. w. Bacon appointed
 A BRUTE assaulted three gentleman on the Hartford and New Haven road, lately. He was promptly arrested, tried and fined.
 THE bark Henry Tgowbridge from New Haven has been wrecked off Sandy Hook, and all on board lost.
 A HORSE and bugy stolen in New Lon don, last week, has been recovered and the thief arrested. CoL. Frank H. Peck of New Haven, who was killed at the battle of Winchester in 1864, has been brevetted brigadier general for conspicuous bravery in that action. THE records of Canton show that, 70 years since, families averaged 8 to 10 children [big estimate whereas now, they do not average two. A BAPTIST minister and one of his par ishioners had bona .fde set to over hoard bill, last week. The former had his watch broken; thelatter, his head.
 MRS. Gabel, one of the He'll Hollow (Nev London) nest of thieves recently broker up, consoles herself over the loss of her ill gotten gains and her male friends who arc in jail, by piously exclaiming, ''Well whom l the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
 THREE Norwich men went fishing ol Friday. Soon after starting one of then fell overheard and was with difficulty re covered. In few minutes another wa bitten by dog-ish, and was seized wit symptoms of lockjaw, which was happil. averted. The third man didn't wait 10 his turn; but left for home, and the fish re mained untroubled in their native elemen for the rest of the day. l Misc el!aneous Items.