Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-25
STATE ITEMS.
Westport wants a town hall.

 1 Westport wants town hall
 A mad dog was killed in Colchester last Sunday. ~ Small pox in Woodstock and scarlet fe- yer in Norwich.
 There is call for more gas lamps on the New Haven green.
 Petroleum V. Nasby was in Hartford, 1 last week -aa.a( ss. s- .ss9,
 Half the Gregory horse railroad stock has been taken
 General Stewart L. sWeodford, of New York, has leased a houseat Greenwich.
 The strawberry plants in New London county are reported largely winter killed. There have been heavy floods along the upper Housatonic during the past week.
 Mrs. Kivhlen, of Norwich Town, was Friday morning delivered of three living l children.
 rlver this year was the latest for forty years. '1
 l There is prospect of the early resump- tlon of active work on the Ridgefeld rail- road
 Cromwell has three cases of small pox- all Ill the house where the disease first appeared.
 1 A ferry boat makes two trips day be- tween Bridgeport and Port Jefferson, l.. | The Hartford Fire Insurance Go. lost $S, 0OO-not s30,000 as reported, by the Toledo fire. A laborer in the Portland quarries nam ed Timothy Kelley, WAS drowned Satur- day evening.
 The Wesleyan university students have raised $l ,O0O of the $1 300 required for college boat-house
 Base ball has begun again in Norwich Broken fingers and young doctors are ris- ing in popularity accordingly. 1 From the factory in. Westville large quantities of strawberry crates are being shipped southward by way of New Ha- ven.
 William H. Earle, of Earle's Hotel New York city, has purchased the G. A. St. John mansion, on East avenue, Norwalk. l
 Hartford is a richer city than New Ha- ven, In proprtion to population, but the latter does more manufacturing
 The annual Episcopal diocesan conven- tlon for Connecticut will be held in St Johns church in Hartford, on Tuesday, June 16.
 John Brown of Chichester, lost a barn containing several tonsof hay by fire, on Friday night hast, probably the work of an incendiary.
 George A. Wells of Bridgeport propo- ses to dispose of his house, building lots and other property amounting to about s5OO,0 by a lottery.
 Norwalk has two monstrosities, four legged chicken, which is dead and double-headed calf, which is stared at so much that it wishes it was. They must have had the humps in & virulent form up in Sherman. Every oth- CT person one meets on the street looks as Ii he had been guessing at the weight of Ia mule
 A crowd in New Haven of the penny wise-pound-foolish order mounted a shed | to ''see the circus" and all broke through. There were several broken legs, etc. The sale of pews at Rev. Olymphia Browns church in Bridgeport this spring brought nearly double the amount realiz- ed last year. There has been @ large number of accessions to that society re- gently. a<s yrs4 -rt ~.
 There was another harmless railroad &C., cldent on the Housatonic road near Bridge port, Friday. An engine ran off the track as It was starting away with the morning passenger train. No one was hurt. <&
 There is talk in Hartford of completing the Lee and New Haven railroad. Fifty thousand dollars are required to bring it to the State line, and $200, 900 to make connection with she Connecticut Western
 The family of MT. A. B. Scranton. of Willimantic, has recently been poisoned by drinking water from their well, into l which the sink drain had found access during the cold weather. A little daugh- ter, six years, of age, died last week.
 Just previous to the State election the prominent men of both parties in Holland met togetherand agreed to in no way in fuence men to vote by the use of money. It is acknowledged by all that this prom ise was faithfully observed on election day, and everybody said it was a good thing, making no difference in the result and saving good deal of money.
 a The Transcript states that an elm on the premises of Orrin Smith, in Pomfert, was struck by lightning on the 9th ult The elm was shattered, and MT. Smith, standing in the barn door, fifteen feet of, was struck senseless for season, and l could hear distant thunder all day. 1 It will cheer the reeling brain of many 8 future lunatic to learn that one compa- ny in Norwhich is now making 2,200 pis- tols month. The percentage of these that will fall into the hands of irresponsi- ble murderers has not bee computed, . The Rev. Phoebe Hanaford, the poet ministress of New Haven, has gone south onia tour. She will, preach next Sunday at Washington Mr. Haskell, now of Saltwater. Minnesota, will supply her pull. I pit while she is absent, which will proba- bly, be until the 18th. 5eg Fl ss.5 Ministers Schenck; Washburne, Caleb Cushing, Wm. Eyarts, and others happen ed to be at the New England Dinner at Paris, when the news Of Gov. Jewell's election was received. They at once united in sending him a congratulatoxy letter. sS