Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-17
STATE ITEMS.


 Norwich is having temperance revival. A man was killed by fall from hay loft in Spragus, last week.
 A child was drowned in tub of water, at Naugatuck, on the 28th ut.
 Jane Smith, the notorious Woodbridge abolitionist, has been arrested, at last.
 Malignant scarlet fever has been pre- vailing to fearful extent in Seymour.
 Chicken thieves still abound in the vi- cinity of New Haven.
 A man nearly blew his head of, blasting logs. at Danbury, recently.
 The Putnam Catholics have raised $35.- OOO towards new $60, 900 church.
 Greenwich is greatly stirred up with temperance and religious revivals.
 Stamford is about building a $1OO, ,OOO town hall
 The Yale faculty has forbidden the Col lege glee club to go out of the city to sing. The new Episcopal Church at Newtown, was dedicated on Thursday last.
 St. Johns EpiscopaD parish, Bridge port, is to build an $80, 900 church.
 There is an eighteenth century Freema- son at Stafford Springs.
 The Parepa Rosa troupe took $2s, ,OOO in Hartford, last week.
 Dr. Colburn of Ansonia, aged 75, was assaulted, and, it is feared, fatally injured by unknown persons, last week.
 A Meriden Sunday School superintend- ent advised his charge to dance and play cards. He is now in hot water.
 A man, pitching hay from a stack, feil and was dangerously wounded by his fork. at Colchester, last week.
 New Haven voted down proposition to loan half million to the Air Line R. R., last week.
 A laborer on the Boston and Erie rail- road at Southbury, was shot, short time since.
 Aservant girl was burned to death in New Haven, last week. Her dress caught fire from cooking range.
 A Georgia State Senator, formerly q New Haven policeman, has been arrested for assault with intent to kill.
 A young men was stabbed, fatally. it IS feared, by an unknown assassin, in New Haven, last week.
 A young man was caught in a belt in a New Haven manufactory, last week, horri- by mangled, and instantly killed.
 A pine tree, feetin diameter. that will turn out 1000 feet of boards, was cut in Dayville, recently.
 A thousand foolish Hartford people as. sembled to see Prince Arthur pass through that city. on Saturday. The Courant crit. icises his nose.
 The Newtown tunnel of the Boston and Erie railroad will be comp leted. th;s month. It IS wide enough for a double track. A Lima bean sprouted in a Milford oar. den, week before last, and grew to the height of four inches. Alas! that bean had better never been! Two Norwich children, left at home alone by their mother, played with match. es, set the room a-fre, and came near he. ing burned up.
 A ms1n Aau au aTm blown of. An ova blown out, and his jaw fractured in two places, by the premature explosion of blast on the Air Line railroad. last weak In addition to the $500 offered Inv tba Hon. J. A. Bill, of Lyme, for the detao. tion of the parties engaged in the racsn+ burglary at his residence, the selectman of the town offer $5OO. Prominent ladies of Bridgeport publisb g card in the Standard, thanking Hon e H. Hollister for the noble and beautiful tribute to woman." in his poem delivered at Gymnasium Hall in that place, on the 27th ult At recent performance of the cantata of Esther" at Bridgeport. the programmes were bordered by advertisements of a tea. coffee and spice house, making curi- ous sense, sometimes. One page began: Go and see how they roast their coffee at DIT Main street, ye shades of dead men. and added 5
 Hear the proud Persian exult OCT thy grave. Black, Japan Green. and Basket Teas"
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