Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-11
STATE ITEMS.
DULL times in Middletown.

THE American Pin Go, of Waterbury makes 20O0 million pins annually.
 Two families named Tee and Coffee live in one house in Danbury. . '' GEN. Fitzpatrick lectures in Nv Haven Friday night. , ~-~,s, ss--,s
 A TREE was struck by lightning in strat- ford last week.
 '.@' A MAN severely injured by the bursting of @ grindstone in Brook6eld. THE three oldest men in Newtown died last month.
 A Farmers club has been started ir South Farms. .e@
 Middletown is to have a wholesome dye ing establishment. A HUNDRED houses built, and rents as high as ever, in New Britain.
 THE Yale Beethoven Society are to give concert, soon.
 ANOTHER seal shot in New London har- bor.
 '' Two juveniles caught stealing at the Waterbury high s,hool.
 ON Monday last, seven persons lay dead in the town of New Britain. T
 Fees retail in Stafford for 30 cents; good potatoes, 85 cents; butter, 35 to 50 cents. 4 Oxr hundred houses are wanted in Dan ielsonville to accomodate the increasing population. F.Ss "szl<a 5
 pr. ABEL, formerly editor of Our Coun- trv, has resumed the practice of dentistry in, Boston. .xasolos; 1zssS3 . GEO. Francis Train is to lecture in Mer- iden in March. Who not send him up the Naugatuck? A Frightening Train" on that road would be novelty indeed.
 Miscellaneous Items. e..ys ' Boston supports 57l doctors. ,,s se sEi General Fremont is in Washington.
 John Allen is now Son of Temperance
 There are still S3l log school houses in Indiana. The cato nine-tails still swings in Indiana pris ona.
 Enameled brick are used for store fronts in Gin clncapatt A&D 1f f< .Af~ sF Michigan has just refused to pass an eight hour law. ss f-'A 7 SS-~ +'~
 
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 The number ss of troops guarding and policing the Philadelphia spent nearly ssOoooo, last year. for The school fund of Indiana amounts to 1$s,25s,- 241 36.
 Small currency IS as scarce as specie in New Or -,ti tC. "A .ss tL@ I17'@ H' r-rt'< '*" @~ y In Macon, Ga. it costs $75 8 year to license a tive horse gray. ,a.13L}tu8 s't9fs ys ss<t The East River bridge, they say, will cost New York $S0 900 ,000
 A San Franciscan has invented an earthquake proof chimney. ,~sffS ff8- h=itf~ @s ,. Calcutta has exported sa5, 1000, 900 worth of opi- um within year. -... .E.-.,.s~ Mexico has furnished $2,o41, ,452. 900 in silver since the Spanish conquest ia e5eas st Two hundred and forty China women arrived in San Francisco by late steamer. 5-5. --55 at New York state has now S9,s70 miles of canals with l,a1s bridges and 565 locks. aEsza It is estimated that million of francs are lost and won at cards every day in Paris. s .t l -a Ex-Gov. Hubbard of Maine died Tn his office at Hallowell, on Saturday, of heart disease. s#' The Virginia papers record extensive purchases ol real estate by parties from the North.
 Springfield, Indiana, has discharged it's entire police force for comphcity with thieves.
 Cincinnati physician advertises for mad dog, with a view to physiological experiments. 4 sf y Buffalo brewed last year, 15s, ,96i barrels of ale and beer, an increase of 5, ,714 barres over 1867. The Turkish ladies at Constantinople are becom- ing more and moro Partisan in their dress.
 A Californian has devised an {" agricultural loco- motive" to run thirty mine ploughs at once. $ The county poor of Chemung, N. Y., are fed at the rate of 63 cents head. ja12e ii |':
 Eight thousand four hundred and ninety-nine vessels of all kinds arrived in New York in 1868. It costs Calcutta Hindoo about dollar and a half to have his body burned in good style. :.
 In the Missouri Assembly, on Saturday, joint resolution looking to female suffrage was tabled, 69 to 43. hAk D E~At. t*f.t A At-e ~'' { A young lady in Hastings, Minn., has been made insane by Planchette," and has been taken to an asylum.
 Good shorthand reporters readily command from 4, 900 ta e,ooo year in the law courts of 4 In recent English election bribery case, it was decided that the candidate for Parliament had on- ly been :" imprudently charitable" .aat. tParseaages in Minnesota and one acre of ground are exempt from taxation, by law recently passed in that state. 4 .si41' st}"lgi ta& s'a5 ss15sf4i Rose Hawthorne, the youngest daughter of the novelist, is, studying painting in Dresden. She has talent, it is said.
 "Neithers pianos nor children admitted" is the significant notice ona New York boarding house blls -Ysa ytt1 IraT us< .,i1G&aAe.o N@ ,4 The London Tln.es asserts that "eyery indus trious workingman in Englsud carries a pauper on his back" f| bas ElT-S .s'7ssn40 fi-t!s+ s' More than four thousand horses were eaten in Berlin, last year. Tire blood is used by manufac- turers for dyeing purposes 11,- ,.,., - .t,G An English clergyman has published an essay to prove that MT. Gladstone, the Prime Minister is the Beast of the Apocalypselt i.-,,e ,,e-..l, l The World has discovered that oysters are adul- terated by, soaking them in . solution of soda which swells them to 8 very tempting size. ab The Society to propagate the Catholic faith, las year. received $1 ,0OO, ,0O0, of which nineteenth was from one cent per week subscriptions.
 England has coined 40, ,Ooo, 900 gold sovereign and i300O, GOO gold half sovereigns, during th' past ten years. About s225, ,OOosoW.
 The Joint canvassing committee of Illinois hay reported that at the last election in that state uaaiorityof 726 votes in favor of holding consti azE- s[N n.~l Q Q