Litchfield enquirer., 1871-04-20
STATE ITEMS

.-t The FOfClan0 SCflK0 proved successful.
 A negro killed woman in Stamford, last week
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 Westport has refused to aid the Saugatuc railroad.
 A man was murdered at Wilton on the 9th.
 A drunkard was run over and killed by the cars near Plainfeld, lately. Some Brooklyn minstrels appeared drunk before New Haven audience, lately.
 The Shore Line R. R. is paying per cent dividends. La---
 New Britain elected Republican city officers by 200 majority last week. A trunk-stealer has been arrested in Bridgeport.
 The Stamford pottery works were burned last Wednesday loss, $25, ,00O. The Finkle & Lyon Sewing Machine Go. have made a 50 per cent. dividend.
 The workmen of the Portland quarries are on strike.
 They had sort of musical Easter service in the New Britain South Church.
 A New Havener recovered 1875 for tree spoiled by gas.
 A child was accidentally killed by poison in New London, last week.
 A Frenchman has sued the Catholic priest at Putnum for islander.
 Two hundred conversions are reported at the Bristol revival.
 Two powder mills have blown up at Haz- ardville. .~
 The cornerstone of the Yale Theological Chapel was laid, last week.
 Indications of coal bed have been found in New Canaan.
 All the best singers, in New Haven, l60 in number, have joined in a society under the lead of Dr. Stoekel.
 A breach of promise case has been settled in the Hartford Police Court for $7 and costs. ..er5...
 A New London minister has had his salary raised from $2, 800 to $2,8OO. ITO him that hath shall more be given"
 A drunkard was drowned in the Connec- ticut, near Middle Haddam, by the upset ting of his boat, last week.
 Gen. Eaton, U. s. Commissioner of Edu- cation, on tour of observation throughout the country. was at New Haven, last week.
 The Air Line is in trouble about the monopoly of the express business they gave to the Adams Express Co.,. lately, for $50, GOO.
 Fifteen New Haven ladies and gentle men, have formed a dramatic association and will soon give public entertainments.
 The Rev. Eugene Gafney, of the Roman Catholic Church, has left Stamford to take charge of a parish in Thomaston. His place is supplied by Rev. Father Daley.
 Twenty streets have been opened. a fac- tory employing 300 hands started 9. churches and 20 houses built, and 300 building lots sold, in suburb of New Ha- ven called Newhajlylle, during the past year. , ssre .. ze,sss .s. ..
 MT. and Mrs. Elias Coe, of Middlefield, celebrated their diamond wedding, last week. They were respectively 84 and 30 years old. The house in which they live is more than hundred years old, and both have been members of the Methodist church for oyer sixty years. ''4@
 Hon, O. F. Winchester gives Yale College land valued at $1O0, GOO for an ob- Professor Salisbury gives $1 ,00O to the library and Walter Phelps. of New York, gives $l, 200 in gold to the de- partment of political economy. HARTFORD, PROVIDENCE & F1sHK1r1 R. R.-The question of completing the west end of the road, between Hartford and Fishkill, will probably be indefinitely ad- iourned. But so much work is done upon it now, and such is the spirit for multiply ing railroads, even in New England, that it can be hardly said to be altogether aban- ed.-HaU0rd P0st i esAs