Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-21
STATE ITEMS.

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 SURPR1sE parties frequent in Norwich.
 THE new Danbnry lookup is finished.
 SrRArFonD had |, prize fight on Sunday.
 LAST week, the Thames river Was clear of ice its entire length.
 A CLASS of B young ladies practice gymnastics i,. Bridgeport. \
 CANTON has voted not to subscribe to ti,e Conn. Western Railroad. .,-
 THE rubber works at New Haven are to he enlarged.
 GEoRGE SEpawrcK of Waterbury. has been arrested for seduction.
 A DRUNKEN Irishman was drowned a, New Haven, last week.
 TIE net proceeds of the Sisters Fair in New Haven amount to S4. 300. r.-.
 A BOY fell 40 feet from steeple in Greenwich, and got up uninjured. :, ROBERT HorcHK1ss, of Derby. was robbed of sl75 in a saloon, Tuesday night
 GEORGE wM CuRrrss lectures at New Britain on the 27th inst. #E CASE of misgenation recently came to light in Middletown. THERE were two serious fires in Stamford, last week.
 THE New Britain Boys in Blue gave a ball last Thursday evening. fifi
 THERE were l13 performances in Music Hall, New Haven, last year.
 100 chickens stolen in East Haven, last weol<. .F r7-+ t..A. .tsf--
 Cor. Sprague lectured in Waterbury, last week, on rebel prisons. Ttg
 NORWICH is over-run with impudent beggars. -&Isos s-f.s s@+<4 "a A NEW blaming mill has been set up in Bridgeport a. Danbury burnt 10000 tons of coal last year. Es@0as % BLOOMFIELD farmers have been swindlcd out of SIG. 900 by cattle dealer. e.
 A NEW railroad is being surveyed from East Killingly to Providence
 MASSEY has been featuring in Danielson- vile Tow. Waller of New London is lobbying !" @SAAhSSoh 4OL tAC All
 THREE ungrateful orphans ran away from their House in Mansfield, Saturday.
 A PARTY took 1O6 pike from Bungtown a pond in Danbury on Thursday.
 MERIDEN boy was sent to the Reform School year for stealing box of steel pens. 70 .s.fls' a a'. s,' HE Irish benevolent society in New Ha- ven has POO membsrs and $2, TOO ill treasu- V:tIRti nus zE~5F ,s5l1.s
 SYLVESTER SMITHS paper mill in Sey- nlour, just destroyed by fire, is to be re- built without delay.
 A PRETTY young woman managed to swindle some NewBritain dry goods firms, last week
 An East Hartford man saved a fine shade tree from the authorities by driving it so full of spikes they couldn't cut it down.
 AMONG tho 90 families in West Hartland. there has been but one death in seventeen months. tt |t-t -3-5 - A MERIDEN boot black has $1, ,OOO in the bankTthe proceeds of the labor of "many shining hour. ~-- r THR Centre Church, Congregational N. H has received $37. 500 by legacies and con trlbutions. during the past year. as
 A LIGHTHOUSE and fog signal are to be established on Penfield Reef off Black Rock. --t .t...- ..5s NORTH Stonington has voted to reim. burse the patriots who represented her in inc war by substitute. '''- -. t' , ,. A deed, with $1 ,0OO in Rev. stamps at tached, was recorded in Stonington, last week. il .-...4 sa.,u.E. |. . ...-- .- -I MR Joseph Ranb, formerly of New Lon don. insists that he has not 'been cut in twain by circular saw" as reported. He A BRIDaRPoRr Dutchman expresses the true Teutonic idea of Temperance thus: ''Too much whisky is too much. but too much lager beer is shoost right. &&
 THE Putnam Orthodoxies are to build church worth $25, 5,O0O The Catholics. however, start one to be worth $4O,OOO. Orthodoxy still in the rear2
 q, pAPrAIN Joseph E. Champlain and wife, 4f&orwich celebrated their crystal we'd ding @a Friday evening. About a hun dred ladies and gentlemen were present
 J. s. BAKER. of Collinsville, has given the peopleo of Riverton number of lec- lures on education, and one on the atroci- ties of Andersonville t .s ,9 .. -- 3oi- 5at. u'r '.
 KILLLNgwoRTH pays $500 to man whose wife was killed by one of their de- fective bridges. Is that the average value of helpheets in Middlescx County?
 Osborn who stole some copper ingots from Waterbury firm last week. has fig iired mp the profits of the transaction and finds that he got $1. 19 to pay for the tria and three years in state prison. .,.,a,,.) '-aA AMAsA Trowbridgc, the young man who lost his life in the burning paper mill al Seymour, Thursday night. was q nephew of General Nathaniel Lyon, killed in Mis- souri in the early part of tho var. .,,ss.,s 2 TIE Pequonnock Bank, Bridgeport changes officers. It is supposed that tho mysterious theft from it's vault Of $10O, ,OOt belonging to the Vice President, occasions the change. r, ., s r