Litchfield enquirer., 1871-05-25
STATE ITEMS.


 A Hartford shoddy factory has failed. Fever and ague is raging in Hamden.
 Several large factories are to go up in Derby. -e
 A Putnam man poisoned himself last week.
 Saybrook devotes 80 acres of it's valuable surface to cranberries.
 Yale will not row with Harvard, this year. s~t
 A gift store has been closed in Hartford, by the authorities.
 A man has been arrested for shooting birds, Sunday, in Hartford Cemetery.
 A little girl was terribly burned at Mer- iden, Thursday. *,
 The New York parlor opera company sang Mariana at Stamford, Tuesday.
 A fifteen years courtship ended in mar riage, at Danhury, last week.
 A trotting mare was sold for $lO,OO0 at Middletown, last week. .-
 Burglary in New Haven on Wednesday night last.
 The New Haven Young Mems Institute report successful year last past.
 Some Groton girls have formed row. ing club. .l-.s-. . Barnum levied SIC, 900 on Hartford and vicinity for a two days performance.
 A fellow named Treat shot man at New Britain on Tuesday of last week.
 The Connecticut Homeopaths held their annual meeting at Hartford, last weeek. 'g An attempt is being made to revive the Order of Odd Fellows in this State.
 A man was killed at Portland last week by fall into quarry.
 Joe Jefferson is Rip vanwinkling at Hartford.
 Over 1,5OO. .OO0 tb of sugar came into the port of New Haven during April. 7 The April revenue of the 1st Compression al District amounted to $37, ,O00, over half from tobacco and spurious liquors.
 A Stamford boy stabbed two comrades, one of them probably fatally, while drunk, Sunday.
 A Hartford Catholic who died while drunk was denied the usual funeral mass and burial in consecrated ground.
 For about the twelfth time work has re- commenced on the Boston and Erie near Willimantic.
 The new $5O, ,O0O Episcopal church at Middletown is begun and will be finished in about year. -1 The Alpha Delta Phi Society held Na- tional convention at Middletown, last week, Thirty chapters were represented.
 The Hartford, Providence and Fishkill railroad took in ,490 passengers from the west to attend the election parade, last week. l@ iF-2
 The grading of the Conn. Valley railroad has been completed and its track is being The Hartford colored company attended the Fifteenth Amendment celebration at Rhode Island last week. Gnrdon. Kimball, the oldest merchant in New London died last week. He com. menced business in 1905. eg-.4s.gy
 The States Prison committee will report in favor of building an entire new wing at an expense of $100,O0O. Another incest case has turned np. and a New Britain man has been bound over for trial. hE.g a5.lasss. .soeg7T
 A New Britain man got engaged Sunday and finds that, under the Statute in such case provided, the contract is void.
  The Rev. Mir. Woolley, member of the legislature from Meriden, has resigned the pastorate of his church, there.
 A child died in Moodus, last week, from eating poison elder. Another Moodus child came near suicide from eating poison. ous paper. sa 2.gal.- 4s5i ezt- The Ellsworth Mill and Mining O., or. ganized in Bridgeport and mining in Ne vada, has sent on it's profits in two; actual silver bricks worth about q, 900 each.
 The New Canaan Era is dead. We don't feel about it as we probably should if we had ever known the New Canaan Era was alive. ss -ss.sg A new boy in one of the Ridgefeld Sun. day schools, being asked who made the beautiful hills about them. replied that he did not know, as: his parents only moved into town the Friday befofe d q z The Democrat who agreed tOcwalk from New Haven to New York in case Jewell was elected, has begun to meander in that direction. carrying the U. s. flag as per contract. a4 saA