Litchfield enquirer., 1868-11-26
STaTE i'FENls
NoRwALK rejects @ city charter.


 THE factory for contlensing milk at Haw- Ieyville is nearly finished. Cost, S2O, GOO. J. A. GARLAND of Somers, becomes in spectors of liquors.
 THE pay of the Meriden police has been advanced to $912 per annum. 's'
 DU CHAILLu lect,,red at Waterbury last week.
 VANDERBILT owns 2,000 shares of Hart ford and New Haven railroad stock.
 TIE Collins Go. hove just finished stone dam across tue Farmington river.
 THE Bridgeport Brass Co.,. will rebuild their burnt factory immediately.
 ANOTHER kerosene lamp explosion seri- ously injures q girl in New Britain.
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 A CANADIAN carpenter has been swind- ii ig the Merdenians.
 NORWICH water rents cost families at tue rate of S1 per head.
 NORTH SroS1NaroN thieves has got down to skunk skins.
 A NEW oyster bed has been found off Stratford.
 REV. W. T. BACON, late of Woodbury, has purchased the Derby Transcript.
 AN elopement from Bridgeport, of q young lady with worthless young scamp, excites much attention. GEN. W. A. RUSSELL has been appointed Revenue Collector for the New Haven Dis trict.
 ". E. FOSTER of New Haven has gone to LYnchburgh, Va, as proprietor and as sistant editor of paper there. STEPHEN ABBOTT has been indicted by the Grand Jury for the murder Of Apollos Bronson In Fair Haven.
 z G14 a4l Meriden this winter DR ROCKWELL of Waterbury, is to es. tabllsh health institution for inyalids at Aiken, s. C.
 FOUR elegant new double-decker cars are to be put on the trains between New York and Boston.
 BUa5LAaIEs have been committed durin 9 the Week past, at Norwich. Bridgeport, Fairfield and Waterbury and Bristol
 THE patrons of Danbury barber shop were ,omewhAt startled, on Sunday morn ing, by a sign over the door, which read:- Hogs Butchered to Order."
 REV. ALLEN CLARK of Seymour, married two couples, on Thursday morning last and was mario himself in the afternoon. Considerable matrimony for one day..
 HoN. HENRY c. DEM1Na IS one of the heirs of the late Eliza c. Goodrich. of Hartford, whose entire estate amounts to more than s5O0.0OO.
 THE neglect to build the bridge between Bridgeport and Stratforl leaves no con- nection between those loving burgbs, but an old scow, or a 20 mile circuit by rail.
 MIR. LADD, Watertown merchant. was advertised to wheel Lieutenant Marygraff from that town to Waterbury. on Wednes- day, in fulfiiment of the terms of an elec- tion wager.
 MR. 4. '. BEACH, for number of years station agent at Seymour, has been promo ted to general ticket agent of the Nauea- tuck railroad, and MT. Rogers of Ansonia, succeeds him.
 
 TIE Democracy of the Congregational persuasion in Guilford, have procured the dismissal of their minister for the crime of Illuminating his house upon the election of Grant.
 TIE average salaries of New Haven cler gymen are as follows: :-Episcopal, 8, 300: Catholic, SSOO with parsonage; Congrega. tional, S3, 233; Methodist, S1, 500, with par sonage. g. t---
 THE work Of building the Boston, Hart ford aud Erie railroad, is progressing rap- idly along the whole line, from the Housa- tonic river to Danbury. The road goes di- rectIy through the farm of Glover Hawley of Hawleyville, and covers two and 8 half acres of land. for which he has been award ed $3.200.
 0. 0. MUNsELL, of Hartford, Conn. found an intoxicated man on the sidewalk about two years ago, fed and clothed him. and advised him to drink 10 mora. He re- ceived a letter from him recently, thanking him for his kindness, enclosing one hum dred dollars, and saying he had reformed 1 MIR. DAVID LYMAN calls on New Haven 1 to help the Air Line Railroad witha stock { subscription of S1 000,0 900, and town | has been called to decide the ques- 5ion. Private individuals have already subscribed half a million; and the other owns on the line are expected to subscribe s5O0, 900 more. A Coop WEEKS WoRK.-Mr. s. Root of rolland, the first week in November, caught otter, minks, muskrats, 1 skunk, 2 wild Cats. b cartridges, 10 woodcocks, 2 abblts, gray squirrels, and 1 hawk, all 'f which were sold for $62. Who eau ,eat 1t? . Colonel Forney learns that President ohnson will soon go over the whole round of reconstruction in his annual message, and advises him not to do it. But Vby not if it amuses him?