Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-23
STATE ITEMS.

ON the 18th work was suspended m New London manufactures
 Two Yale students walked through from New Haven to Worcester and back.
 BR1DaEpoRrERs are indignant at the fast driving in their park.
 AN old New Canaanite fell dead from his wagon last week.
 Gov. Hawleys Hamilton College oration is highly praised.
 SAMUEL BABcocK, nominated collector of 2d Dist. rejected.
 Afoundling left in Stamford garden last week.
 Pollard's boiler shop at Thamesville burn ed, Thursday.
 A FRENCH frigate bound for New York, now at New London.
 ANOTHER accident from lighting fires with kerosene, at Hartford.
 THE Yale Biennials dismiss 12 students to private life.
 HORACE GREELEY, Bishop James and Or ange Judd were at Middletown last week.
 D. TWEED of Derby, was saved from drowning by J. B. Hurlburt.
 BURGLARS took $2OO from MT. Westmore at New Milford, last week.
 SEVERAL burglaries have been commit ted at Windsor Locks.
 YALE COLLEGE is to have a new dormi- tory. JOHN CROWLEY of Meriden, was nearly taken off by bed-bug poison.
 A WOMAN at Greenville mills died of sum- stroke, Thursday.
 A NAUGArUcK truckman was fatally in- jured at Ansonia.
 SUPERPHosPHATE of lime kills cucumber bugs; also cucumber vines!
 AN Essex elm measures 261s feet in girth.
 There were over two hundred examine tons for entry into Yale College.
 BASE BALL-W Waterbury has beaten New Britain IT to 16.
 A BRIDGEPORT boy lies in very critical condition from bathing while overheated. A MAD dog in Derby bit eight dogs, one man, and two boys, before he was killed. SENATOR WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM was ln New Haven, last week.
 Two fatal cases of sun stroke have occur red ill New Haven.
 A PART of the old Washington bridge over the Housatonic, fell in last week.
 While a coroners' Jury was sitting on man in Bridgeport, last week, he scame to-" Verdict: 'Dead-drunk."
 A WEST Hartford woman was delivered of a child at Stamford, while on the road to New York
 NEW HAvEE dogs are having bad time; part have gone mad; the rest are being killed.
 A BOX of bones found in Danbury, sup- posed to be child's, prove to those of 8 cat. .s.
 A BOY was killed in the Ansonia clock factory on Saturday. His neck was caught in the elevator, and broken instantly. Two New Workers going to the White Mountains on foot, passed through New Haven, last week.
 MOSES Y, BEACH, formerly editor and ProRrletor pr of the New York Sun, died at Wallingford, on Sunday.
 A FAIR HAVEN car driver hitching up his team lately had two fingers pinned togeth- CT by the whiffietree.
 THE Yale Base Ball Club IS playing at New York. Its games with the Unions. Atlantics and Eckfords show very credita- ble scores for Yale boys
 O. s. Williams of Meriden has been nominated Collector in place of the late John Woodruff, and rejected by the Sen ate.
 THE Norwich BuNetin's weather report is as follows:-Hot, hotter, hottest, hottentot. hottentotter, hottentottest, hottentottisi- mus.
 A Mrs. Sherry of New Britain was sent for by her husband California. She com. menced preparations at once but died sud- denly, bofore they woro completed.
 THERE is woman now living in Norwich. lOo years old, who has good health and is a large, strong woman, reads most of the time, has two daughters living with her 80 or 70 years old each
 MIR. ANTHONY STOKES of New Britain. has within few weeks, lost two barns and his house by incendiary fires. While the latter was burning two of his children were thrown from window, insensible from the effects of the heat and smoke. They soon recovered.
 EDWIN STEVENS, and wife, and Ira and Albert Stevens of Union village, were re. gently taken suddenly sick, recovered again, and in few days again fell strange ly i'll with the same symptoms. Analysis of their coffee showed arsenic in it, but the object or person of the poisoner is a mystery.