Litchfield enquirer., 1871-04-27
STATE ITEMs

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 STATE ITEMS
 A thief stole gold watch at a Danbury hotel, last week.
 Wallingford has built ssO.OOO school. house.
 New London has canary bird 20 years old.
 A New London bark lost six men in a storm lately.
 A MT. Wells hung himself in Weston, last week.
 The Portland quarry companies have voted quarterly dividend of 16 per cent.
 New London proposes a monument to its early settlers.
 A child was burned to death at Preston, lately.
 Work is begun on a government wharf 300 feet long, at Groton.
 New Haven is to build $1OO. 900 high school.
 The cup offered the first born of Il Yale class, this year, has been refused.
 There are cases of cattle disease in Red ding
 A man drowned himself at Hartford, Thursday. The school year is longer in this, than in any other State.
 An East Suffield man sells his tobacco for 35 cents per pound.
 The Naugatuck R. R. Go. are putting down 25, 900 new ties, this season.
 A paper mill was burned at Haddam Neck, last week; loss 5000.
 The pews in Centre Church, New Haven, rent for $22, 1881.
 A large cotton mill, with tenements, is bnilding ct Grovesnordale.
 Meriden amateurs played tbe "Rent Day" to crowded house, lately.
 Prof. Barker of Yale has been offered 6 $3, 900 professorship in Southern col lege. ...r
 There was severe hail storm in the southern portion of the State, Thursday night.
 A poor girl in Hartford became SO dis heartened with want of success in earning an honest livlihood as to attempt suicide lately.
 The Hartford Chief of Police is in trou- ble for making dishonorable proposals in writing to fast woman.
 A Thompson vile lad of IA has been sent to the State Reform School for stealing se. gars.
 33 widows of ofrevolutionary soldiers enjoy pensions in this state, while but 21 widows of the soldiers of 1872 are entitled thereto.
 The military companies of New Haven are determined to have an election parade, governor or no governor.
 A man and two girls were drowned by falling from an unprotected bridge at Col linsville on "Wednesday evening last
 The Middletown bridge across the Con. necticut will be finished in about two months. ''''
 The New Haven city court decides that conviction of an infamous crime while c miner does not disqualify for the suffrage.
 The body of murdered man has been \ found in the Connecticut river at Thomp- sonville. -
 A railroad is being surveyed from Port . land to the Mass State line, up the east side of the Connecticut.
 The Atlanta boat club, of New York, has challenged the Yale University crew to Q race. .+''' , The Rev. W. H. H. Murray of Boston has had the old family mansion at Guilford repaired and fitted up, has . park of five deer, four of them from the Adirondacks, a fine stock of poultry. and trout pond. P. T. Barnum's menagerie and circus re- ceives all the necessary newspaper puffing. That adroit snowman now announces that he has enlarged his hippodrome tent SO as to seat 1000 people, ''and can accommodate dA hereafterp .J .EAf}
 Lisbon has no lawyer, doctor, store, \ grist-mill, factory, or rum shop. Now, if there was only good local paper in the place it would be perfect Eden. The minister of the Stonington Congre. gational church wisely resigns, to accept .I the secretaryship of the American bible so- ciety at $5,OOO Q year.
 The bark Trinity, of New London, went ashore on Reefs Point near New London, Thursday night, laden with 200 barrels of elephant oil and 400 sealskins.