Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-04
STATE ITEMS

Nasby lectures in Waterbury on the 12th. r New Haven has dollar stere." sds
 Newtown produces ITO lb. squash.
 Temperance is starting in Danbury. Ge
 There is gold mine in Norwich.
 Chicken thieves are. making clean sweep of Woodbridge. o.. A new Methodist chapel is being built ir ts0" ii"Ven 5sgs." t'&S's s'E 3,'' A child was born on Norwalk < Dan bury freight train, last week. .n
 A very respectable ''shop-lifter" has beer caught in Westport. A fag-stone 10 by IS feet, was taken out of Huntington quarry, last week. '7 The New London fat men are lively They hold convention in January
 Rockville has new opera house that will seat 1000 persons. .''
 A lad in Willimantic put ont an eye with toy gun, last week. =,
 Moodus has female tailor Dr. Bush nell to the7eontrary notwithstanding.
 East Haddam was damaged to the amount of $6O00 by the9ate flood.
 A Miss Fowler has been appointed post mistress of North Guilford l'.... ~
 The Yale boat races took place at-lake Saltonstall on the 27th ult. '. Colchester has raised an 8ib sbeet, and had'a a burglary. -.- s-' Sa~1
 The Derby railroad is threatened with another injunction.
 Rev. $. H. Tyng, Jr:. lectures on John Bunyan at Bridgeport, next month. Bridgeport is putting up several stores with marble fronts.
 | The State Temperance Society met at New Haven, last week. ,..,ss..e
 The Catholics of Danielsonville contem. plate erecting the finest church in Eastern Connecticut. eE ..T 3IAu[2UE, with butcher knife in New Haven, last week. f.,.l Hon. Henry Bill of Norwich loses 20, ,OOO copies of his Bible history by the burning of New York book bindery.
 Abel Bnel of Killingworth cast the first metallic type made on this continent, in .176S. ..I0,., . na;} st s..t-sof E.
 Mefiden takes its name from a high old log cabin half way between Hartford and New Haven, called "Merry Den" g..,,, .',
 The town of Suffield voted, two to one, against taking stock in the Conn. Western Railroad.
 Two young men were drowned crossing the river at Enfield, Saturday evening.
 Young New Haven reprobates keep up the practice of throwing stones at passing cars.
 M. Sherwood Sterling died suddenly al his residence in Bridgeport, Sunday even. ing. ..Fa9 0.a
 Middletown voted $47, ooOlmore, for the Air Line, last week; only one dissenting voice. sE t-~al z 1'lQ1L8i--ll A large temperance meeting was held at Roberts Opera House, Hartford, Sunday evening. sss.G5<s .Ebfs<. ..
 A boy in Willimantic who was left in charge of an infant; had fit and dropped the child into boiler full of boiling water, scalding it to death. '' '.'.
 The Rev. MT. Mitchell preached to- a large audience at New London, on Satur- day evening, from the text, .:'Shall these dry bones live ?" The audience. respoud- sed by large collection for his benefit. .F
 Rewards are offered for the arrest of the New Haven jewelry thieves, and. of the parties concerned in the Woodbridge abor- tion case .@ &T 8>.&' k-4 -EASk
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 The suit concerning ltheJ alleged forfeit ure of the Derby railroad charter has been decided by the Supreme Court in favor of the railroad d.!c company. sl ,n bns' sd IT eoa A fellow named Clifford enticed a young girl, IA years old, away from her friends in New London, lately. She was found after fortnight,s search. 9oril yua ga .awol
 The blasting for the construction of! the Boston and Erie railroad seems to be pe- culiarly destructive business. An Irish man had part of his head knocked off, at a distance of 400 yards, 3 oh Thursday last.
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