Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-24


 with spade or shovel, breaking his skull in. DeLoury went home and the public has not heard of the matter till yesterday, Wednesday,, when DeLoury was not ex- pected to live through the day. '@a'th' .1 , TI5mGi% pH5 .LL.-L .-z- f,sls -s,H. s.a4 -@cei3. a4..a STATE ITEMS. ta f'.ol
 Reubenstein gives concert in Hart ford, Tuesday night. as'l''.,. s..'s t''Hh j.
 A young man killed himself with nor phine at Bristol z Friday night aiHe was formerly 8 druggists clerk. .il 6na ..latil . A Hartford liquor dealer shot himself Sunday evening, probably fatally. 9esa ol ! A young man who had cut his hand se- vere1y' with a broken bottle, fortnight since, died of, lockjaw, at Hartford, Sunday evening.
 Rockville boasts, of g thoroughfare call ed Prohibition street.
 Norwich has eight companies of foot Tanners and one of mounted. ' '''.'
 Fairfield county thus far realizes $21, 600 from the sale of licenses. i i'' .'.-
 The Charter Oak Press is the last ven ture in journalism in Hartford.
 John Cannon, of New London, commit ted suicide on Sunday by drowning.
 Stonington has voted to license the sale of liquors by vote of 167 against 158.
 Geerge P. Sanborn. prominent citizen of Bridgeport, died Tuesday, aged 62.
 The Odorless Rubber Company at Mid dletown has finally gone into bankruptcy.
 There have been $50 icenses granted by the Hartford county commissioners thus far. .'s.' ~ " '''.'7 't '@'f s'''} .'. N IT
 John w. Taylor was last week elected town clerk of Westport for the thirty eighth time. .'t,s .-r r..t... = A. H. Polk, son of the late Bishop Polk, and a graduate of Trinity, died at Hartford, last week. ts.r 4 ..t Messrs. A. P. Hyde, I. H. Bromley and W. w.. Eaton, addressed Democratic meeting in Hartford, Monday uight.
 Ground was broken for the new capital on Thursday. .s.f.a.s vs.. 5.....r. ..s..
 There was another incendiary fire in Meriden, last week. s*aE.a ft.,.. Prof. Calvin Stowe was stricken with paralysis at Amherst. last week, but is re- covering. a-.-..t -fy .t.9...
 The first vote in the Republican Con- gressional Convention for the First Dis trict was unanimous for Joseph R. Flaw ley. " Ha'fi'. #+es.'-.- ' '.5~ <. ..t.f2.
 A man was run over and killed by N. | Y. 6 N. H. train near Norwalk, Satur- day. .t.~ ..,+... -...+-... ...-. .... ....,
 A respectable young clerk in New Haven has been caught attempting lottery l swindle. s9faJsED 53EfnsE' 1sfl- 2. 4.fss 5-H
 An attempt was made, Sunday, to burn the Wooster Place Baptist Church, the Davenport chapel, and other buildings, Tn New Haven, sa r;5..si.-af |. :,.
 Winter apples bring from $1. .OO to $1. .25 bbl.' in Middletown.
 l A Connecticut man has invented a ma- chine that will make 4000 keys . day.
 The Hartford Boys in Blue had splen. did torch light procession, Monday night.
 Congressman Kellogg and Gen. Eye, oi l Maine, addressed 8 rousing meeting at New Haven, Monday night. t5 l There are many cases of dumb ague, l fever and ague and typhoid fever in 4ales- vile 2f72 92-.f -71lasg3 ar.5 so Lsfa4t | A deaf mute, was run over by team that had taken fright in Derby, Tuesday, ana was kllieo+ g ah3 ag .3E5a4-sia h. A large sized pumpkin was hollowed out and used as chicken coop during the Milford fair. 's1.s1 O. ( The Mohegan Indians at Norwich be- came free citizens on the 9th. The com munity numbers about 100 souls. iE@a
 The barn and outbuildings of J. M, Dow of Ellington were burned Thursday morning. Loss $5. .000;i insurance small Benjamin Moves, Esq.,. proposes the appropriation of the license fund for the establishment of free public library in New Haven. '1's''i" sG
 John R. Davis, we'll known resident of Oxford, fell from an apple tree on Thurs day and died soon after frpm hie, ,l injuries. A vote has just been taken by the Yale students on the presidential question, re- sulting in. 57S votes, divided as follows:-- Grant, 446; Greeley, 126. 70 's3 s'' x
 The proprietor of the Somers Hotel gives as reason for not taking out liquor i- cense, the strictness of the new law, which makes it equal to prohibition. A Weston mans; grief at the death of his father was in great measure ameli- orated by the intelligence, that he had drawn four dollar breast pin in a gift distribution. ii gieg sf1 s.sfs sssr,ss a An effort is being to secure reunion of the First Connecticut Artillery. Members of that organization are requested to ad- drsss Walter F. Sage, box 4S3. Bridgeport,
 At the Yale fall regatta at Lake Salton- stall, on Wednesday, J. ". Smith won the SouthweFth cup, the freshmen the barge race, and the juniors the shell race. eoi At the Democratic. Congressional Con- yention in the First District, the first bal | lot stood: ". ". Eaton, 4S ]; I. H. Brom- ley, 27; A. R. Goodrich, IS. Thenomina- ton of Mir. Eaton was then made unani.