Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-15
STATE ITEMS.

NORWICH wants horse railroad.
 600 MEN are at work on the Air Line foao' g..-l r.T ...iF4l4.
 BURGLARY of $2OO iu Old Lyme. last week. 4.y
 SIX boxes of cigars stolen in Colchester, lately. -a .-Iiaa ..l.-..-s
 5000 PERSONS visited Savin Rock on the Fifth. ttff-t
 A BOY was drowned in Middle Haddam, last week, while bathing -" 'lt
 MR. P. T. Barnum's autobiography comes out, August 1.
 X MAN dropped dead in Woodstock on "Wednesday last, while pitching hay.
 A BRAKEMAN was killed at South Walling, ton on the 9th. .s -ta-. ..|
 A RICH farmer, aged 70, hung himself at Plainfield on the 9th inst. ,.-
 THE New Haven directory shows IA, ,6GO names. 300 more than last year.
 SENATOR Stowe, of fAlabama, intends bull ding fine residence in Meriden.
 A FULL blooded Japanese has entered freshman at the Wesleyan university.
 SOME DAnburyans start soon for an in specting tour about Virginia .r-.
 THE N. Y. < N H. K. R., are to put up freight depot in East Bridgeport.
 A BOY fell from cherry tree and broke his arm in New London, on the Fifth.
 COMMENCEMENT at Trinity College Hart ford occurred on Thursday last.
 BURGLARY of $2 in New Haven. Sunday morning. They were more successful in West Haven, getting $200.
 AT BozRAHvu1E, two boys were badly hurt by the explosion of half canister of powder, on the Fifth.
 THREE persc ns were severely injured at New London, on the Fifth, by gun powder accidents.
 A WATERBURYAN has picked fourteen bushels of strawberries from his garden this season. ,r.,,......
 AN Irishman was run over by the cars and instantly killed, near Seymour, on the 9th.
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 AN old fsherman ,was-drownad- in the Quinnipiac River. at East Haven, last week. .IEtN .HHe.} L }H-
 A MAN was terribly hurt, last week, in North Stonington by horse kicking him in the face.
 A CHILD in Waterbury narrowly escaped death, last week, from drinking oxalic acid "A '-.'+ ''~ A-'e .t i-
 
 Two ladies were knocked down by a runaway horse in Meriden, last week and both severely injured. .a.t'c. gave an open air concert and general enter tainment on the 5sh. Sp tD Y C H
 A MER1DEN boy is expected to loose his sight from an accident in .Meriden, on the Fifth.
 A NORWICH boy will probably lose his sight by, the premature explosion of a fire cracker :S T q Fl yfltA .U .CAIJ
 IT is now thought that the damage to the Naugatack- railroad will not. exceed ~1-eo'0YNNo' slIId .IIA alusO or al.L
 AN Irish woman, drunk, was run over by 3 railroad train and killed at Westerly on the 7th inst. "@'' 'o-'a4' ld 's a4s
 A CHILD was burned to death in Green vile, last week. Hs was playing with matches and set his night clothes on fire.
 MRS, Ebenezer Johnson, of Southbury, died suddenly in her schair. ;on Thdrsday evening. -.,......-.,.,
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 IKE New Haven police made 2,379 ar rests, last year, and recovered $5, ,665 worth If Stolcn v,roportv
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 A FIRE broke out in the woods near Put nam on the 9th, destroying about 60 cords of wood. It was started by the fireworks of the day preceding.
 REV. W. H. H. Murray formerly of Mer- iden has had 45 lb. boat built that he can take himself around the 'carries' in the |" S >A-i - A' -A a ' ' U.
 THE Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Co.,, are about to build another large facto- ry in East Bridgeport. It is to be over 200 it. long. hji" oi1' iit 7t.s .''
 A WHITE boy in Bridgeport asked coI- pred brother the other day why he had such short ose, and received the reply: -"I spects so it won't poke itself into other peoples business."4
 THE assistant engineers of the New Ha- Ven fire department have had aiarm gongs . put into their residences, to be struck by electricity at the same time as the city hall bell. t9'''
 ON Thursday little boy of about twelve ,ears of age, son of Edgar Husted, of Sha- on, while digging at Q woodchuck's hole lnder stone wall, was caught and crush d by tLes scaving in of the wall, and died . ,efo1e he was found. THE Silver Steel company at BridUeport. } building an elevated railway from its. actory to the dock, for the Transportation f coal and other heavy freight to its buiId-s 1g, and manufactured articles to the dock. pr shipment thereby saving the cost of |, ruckings IVY .k sk1 ACCOUNTS from various portibna of Wind am county represent that the crop pross ects are exceedingly good The hay cron Ill be above the average offormer years. orn and potatoes though somewhat back. ard are doing well. Rye and oats will ' verage much better than for years mast. . 'ruit prospects are not fattering. BARNuH, the iron inarsat Falls villaos