Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-08
STATE ITEMS.

Danbury has not one velocipede. '.t-- ~
 There are frequent burgiaries in New Haven.
 Hall thieves are busy in New Britain. -,' .~ al The New Britain Bank was attempted last week. There was burglary in Mystic, last week. Meriden has an evening ss Daily Journal"
 The people of Grassy Plain {Danbury) desire to be annexed to Bethel 1.r.t .se'5 '. sst -. The strike of the Bridgeport journeymen paint CTS is ct an end.
 The organ in the Methodist church on Beaver street, Bridgeport, is followed" by water power.
 The New Haven PaNadium has it's double-cylin. der press in working order. .f,. ef4 -,I z.
 Noank is excited over astounding revelations by Pianchette. 5..
 [, The Riehings Opera company drew large audi ences in New Haven last week. 31' '-s'i71l4
 Bridgeport has added $500 to the salary of it's ci v clerA' Ia@ usgQE9 o5 %CtG1Ia 57fCIt5g
 The milk vendors in Norwich have reduced the price from 10 to cents per quart.
 Norwich cats retail for ten dollars apiece in Bal tfmore. S<s 5$e'a6 3'hs3ss' &1te-l-- E j. t"oH1
 The Standard Braid Company, of Stonington have suspended operations
 Business was never better at Portland than ., the present time. '" --A,~@ rt
 John A. Rathbone has been nominated post master of Mystic Bridge.
 Henry Barnes has been appointed postmaster al Cotton Hollow.
 A survey for the extension of the Collinsville railroad through Pleasant Valley and Riverton is soon to be made.
 [ The new board of directors of the Housatonic .l~~ k1~au iron from England. sAEEG Gi VaLasaa..Ei st'f yo.
 Over $50 velocipedes have been turned out by the Wood Brothers of Bridgeport, and their pres ent average is about forty per week. iH sfZs1s z JEod1a :. GofGa- zaf{59.-ei 88n a4si5
 The proceeds of the Yale gymnastic exhibition at New Haven amounted to $16S. 2S. The Yale navy gets the sum.36s E15G gi.aiSas ait fliaaj5Itgg An old lady in Hawleyville, on baking day, when she had got her oven ready to put her bread in, found her old tabby cat roasted to einder. &To,l . MT. Richard G. Stokes of New Haven, fixed some meal with poison in it for rats, and his horse got Soss fss ss hs 1n mixture i and died The horse was The Winstsd, Hsrald says" Since the Bark. have felt mighty uneasy abUut the throat. fad with good keason.' 7 < \ ssssas..t J, h,. ,rt 2 yeiocipedist, while navigating Main Street, Bridgeport, lately, suddenly disappeared down a celiar-Wxy, from which he afterward emerged in a rather dilapidated condition and with one of his eyes in deep mourning. ''' S-f'ot
 Mr. Russell Smith, of Fair Haven, recently caught an oyster in New Haven harbor which con tained 293 pearls. The largest was about the size of buck shot and the smallest the size of . mus tard seed. Nsf2f 9l 4f--- .l5strveket--E It is reuorte that large Union freight depot is to be built by the New York and New Haven, Hou- satonic and Naugatuck railroad, on Water street, in Bridgeport, near the present site of Wheelers coal yard.
 Q. M. Buchanan, of Preston, has Bolton gray hen which laid for her first egg one which meas, ured 62 inches in circumference lengthwise and on Sunday, a if to show her varied accomplish : ments, she laid one about the size of robins egg.
 Two of the fourr snakes recently unearthed in Meriden . red headed adder and rattle-snake, were removed to saloon and put in glass case. The next day the adder bit the rattle-snake and caused its death in two minutes He then bit himself and died in an equally short space of time.
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