Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-18
STATE ITEMS.

COLCHESTER has velocipede.
 NORTH Stonington has a new cemetery.
 BURGLARY in New London, last week.
 THE cemetery in Yantic is blooming quantities of trailing arbutus
 M1DD1ETowN is manufacturing veloci- pedes. -,
 THE construction of the Air Line rail- road IS now considered certainty.
 DR. Boyonton, the geologist, lectured in New Haven, Saturday night.
 TIE Bridgeport Standard appears in new type. 's'f.. .-0
 THE question of railroad from Water bury to Watertown, is being agitated.
 A MAN had his arm broken by falling from the temporary church in Waterbury.
 OLE BULL played in Norwich, last night. ,1t .a
 THE Brookfeld cattle-swindler has been bound over.
 DR. RUST of Meriden. travels among his patients on velocipede.
 BRIDGEPORT proposes changing "mov- ing day from April 1st to May 1st.
 DURING the last week in January, five children were born in single house in New Britain.
 A CHILD was born in Chester, last week, which had no passage from it's mouth to it's stomach. It lived but few days.
 THE Young Mems ,Christian Association of New Britain give grand vocal and instrumental concert, next week.
 GREELEY lectured at New Haven on the "Woman question:" and at Bridgeport on " Abraham Lincoln, !" last week.
 THE former librarian of the Boston Athseneum is to take charge of the Bron- son library in Waterbury.
 A YOUNG lady in Norwich swallowed half an ounce of aconite, supposed to be par goric. A stomach pump saved her life.
 THERE were ten accidents, seven fatal and three not fatal, on the Norwich and Worcester railroad during the past year.
 THE Democratic convention for New Haven county on Thursday renominated Gideon o. Hotchkiss for sheriff.
 AN Irishman was run over by train just out of New Haven and badly injured last week.
 REV. H. N. Hudson is to lecture on Shakespeare before the Wesleyan Uniyer. gity. .-t s.:. .ss .-7 .s t,,.rs., ..t.
 A DRUNKEN man turned up in 8 box at New London the other day, marked "Dry Goods" b!& &et. s 5'.''- -'
 THE preliminary survey of the railroad from Danielsonville to Providence is near- ly completed.
 AN old lady is living in Darien who has never seen steamboat or locomotive, al- though residing on navigable river and within mile of railroad.
 THE notorious Mrs. Harper has at last been sentenced to five years imprisonment in the State Prison by Judge Granger in Middletown. and has gone to Wethersfeld, AN incendiary fire at West Suffeld. We'd aesday night, of last week destroyed cigar belonging to James N. By ant, causing him @ loss of 1,2O0, and burning 10000 cigars owned by Horace King. - a . "
 ONE of the wheel mills of the Hazard file powder works exploded last Thursday $ fternoon about two o'clock. Two men. oseph Yates and Thomas Turner, who ere engaged in chopping of. clinker .om the wheel or runner, were instantly filed. ola a}i5pq 5df MAD ~ -1"i'I ..
 lo s9gi7asrsds y}airs ous Nle es te..gsi .l A FELLOW calling himself Robert Stroin- zy is around asking assistance of the Ma 'nic fraternity and other people. He says s is Mason, belonging to the lodge of 2 Three Crowns" in Berlin, Prussia. He an impostor, and any assistance render. cred him will be unworthily bestowed. tronsky is about thirty years old short. ark complexion, black hairand eyes. Pass in around. & &N x & WY EN Ff SOME New York and Stamford csDitsl.o $ have recently purchased. in Pound. lge three fine ponds, known as the ound pond, Middle pond, and Lower md, with adjacent land, the understand. g being that'a dam fifteen feet high igto n-7 builttin manner toai connect ,all Inc
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