Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-28
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS. GRRRLFY lectured in Chester, last week. A $500 horse drowned at Mddletown.
 HUNTINGTON is to have a new town house. MER1DES has 90 drinking saloons
 A MAN had his pocket picked of $40. at the New Haven Music Hall, last week A fashionable colored wedding took place at Bridgeport, last week. U LJs nun THE Rev. Mir. Murray lectured. .on wo. man suffrage in Meriden yestertla
 AN Englishman fell dead in the streets of Hartford last week. fE r4sgrr. .-.trs.s,. ROCKY Hill has had an Old Folks con. cert
 A BURGLARY was committed in Windsor Locks, Saturday night.
 GEN. Fitzpatrick lectures in Mcriden, Feb. 9th. GEO. Crockett, an extensive polygamist, has been arrested in Watcrtown.
 PRESTON has finally voted s'Yes' on the hearse question.
 BRrDGEPoRr records 662 births, POI mar riages and 257 deaths, for 1868
 HARTFORD records S83 births, 3sO mar. riages, and 497 deaths, for 1S68
 ANOTHER seal has been seen in New Lon- don harbor.
 DAVID CLARK, of Hartford, loses his Florida orange crop by frost. Est..
 
 fitted mp reading room for their workmen. THE cattle dealer who swindled the Brookfeld farmers. has been arrested
 PUTNAM grows apace-4O buildings put. mp last year.
 A WErHERsFIELD hen laid an egg by 2k inches. t..'. A NEW Britain man estimates SS6 net profits on 20 hens, last year. '.' AMAS was found dead in his bed in Rockville. Thursday morning. ,... ,..s A PAIR of fat cattle, weighing 4, ,O3O lbs, were exhibited in Norwich, Friday.
 A NOVEL feature in the next Fairfield county fair will be velocipede race.
 VELoCrpEDEs are becoming quite con- mon in Bridgeport.
 A SINGLE New Haven establishment made fifteen million fish hooks. last year.
 A BROKEN rail threw off Shore Line train, Friday; no one hurt.
 A 'cAr-headed owl" weighing six lbs, has been caught in Cheshire. ,-.
 THE Meriden Congressional Democrats aro oai1 f<, fav RatooaI . VALUABLE feldspar beds have been late- ly discovered in Middletown
 A MusH and milk festival and a sardine club are among the novelties proposed in Meriden. --......... Il.,..7 ..-.' 4 CHILD burned to death in Waterford; 1; another scalded to death in Greenville, last week.
 THERE was a grand skaters masquerade ball in Stamford, last week. The best ska ter was male 5" Highland girl. "'' 's
 THERE were 500 boys and girls skating on the New Haven Green, Inst Wednesday evening. .'
 CHRISTOPHER CHAppELn left Montville, last week. His team was found at Thames vile, but no Christopher. ,,..~..., A scoUNDREL stole team in East Bridge port, last week. and pawned the robe for $3. r.Yt -H dI.I apiI...t-. 'Es tat t.isiQ hI4 A CAT in Beaver Brook, losing kittens, supplied their places with three young rats ..b sibt" 'i- ..isl.tJ
 THE Ellington tobacco growers had a large crop and realized from 45 to 50 cts. 8 pound for it. ,...,,.. .....,..... 70. PRoF. Silliman had watch worth $50 tolen in New York, and recovered it through the police. @., Y. 2 .., b. ..,o, .u I.sy-.. .. 40 chickens have been stolen, their bod ies recovered, and the thieves convicted, m Westport. t.IluoH .t-.-rd ss.. tiss.:s.,. THE Coaram claims for Hartford "the most convenient and elegant opera house or theatre in New England" g -..'' ..,.f
 ON Friday. Canton again voted down the Conn. Western R. R. subscriptions; 2O6 Yes, to 128 No. Try it again. 7Ht~6a t THE American Colonization Society has received S70, 900 from the estate of Eben. Fairchild of Bridgeport. NEXT year, Danbury Catholics propose to build stone church accommodating 1. 300 persons, with . tower 1T5 feet high.
 ON Wednesday of last week, Middletown voted unanimously to take Air Line Stock to the amount of 5 per cent of their grand hst. al.lal'r7r .slps,iI sasss.I ans ! s1 rua5ino
 THERE are lO2 patients now in the Mid. dictown Insane Hospital. Ono of these escaped from the fourth story, last week, by means of the lightning-rod,
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 THE Republican nomination in tho 2d Congressional District seems to lie be. tween General Wooster Of Derby, and s. W, Kellogg, Esq. of Waterbury. lg.o- w fTm young chap who escaped from tht Middletown Retreat was found asleep in { New Haven Bank, Sunday morning. H. had broken ia through the window ani