Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-11

The funeral of the fireman, Charles c. Flint, was largely attended on the 7th, from the South Baptist church of Hartford.
 The Dime Savings bank of Norwich, which has been established only abouttwo years, had over $500, GOO on deposit Tues day.
 An elopement, in which the principal characters were an aged parent and a young married lady, occurred lately in Norwich. @>
 The Baptist church of Groton. which was blown down on the 24th ut. is up again. Fifty dollars covered the loss in broken timbers.
 The First National bank of Ki1lingly has paid eleven per cent dividends the past year, and carried three per cent to the surplus fund account in addition.
 Rev. A. N. Lewis, formerly prihcipal of the Waterbury High school, is about to write history of Plainville, from statis- tics furnished by J. 0. Hart, Esq.
 The freight traffic of the Connecticut Western is opening we'll, freight being ta- ken from Hudson river at Fishkin to Pro- vidence, already, by the car load.
 The general railroad commissioners set tied the last dispute between the Conn. Western and Canal railroads bY Ordering siding which the Canal road had recent ly built at Simsbury across the sConnecti- cut Western track, to- be discontinued, and that no switch shall be put in within fifty feet of the crossing on either side.
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 A party of about ninety persons, com posed of some of the first familiesof Win sted, gave 8 surprise visit to ME. Sawyer of Derby. on New Years evening.
 The Finkle & Lyon manufacturing com pany, at Middletown, now manufacture 100 sewing machines daily -six times the number made one year agoaio3 se
 A fraud has been discovered iR the of fcial circles of Salem. Three hundred. dollars of fund belonging to the town. has disappeared in ten yeaas and no one knows where, how orswhen.ss9s oq 2a
 A Stamford lady, 73 years old, who has, great-grandchildren living, got lmaFried on New Years day. The happy bride groom is 69. .' e.- s'.ss.aI@st T. r7as
 On Friday last, 8 boy aged ten yeara named Joseph Carter, managed te secrete himself in 0. B. Holley's hardware store in Stamford and when the store was clos ed proceeded to possess himself of all the money In the drawer and of divers pairs of skates, but he reused watchman by the noise he made and then it went hard with him. ...g. ~!,',ias1., The German, Schmidt, who stole &2OO ln Thomaston, recently, went to New Ha- ven to spend the money and was arrested before he had time to do so, has been sent to the Litchfeld jail a 3s'. s5. ss @ Ss l A scamp in Bridgeport was recently taught lesson by the brother of young lady whom he followed about town in the evening. The brother dressed himself up i one evening in his sisters clothing and gave the fellow 8 sound thrashing with Q club he had concealed under the dreas.
 In the Weed will case which is now at tracting wide attention-the property in- volved being the estate of the late Nathan iel Weed, of Darien, valued at over sSOO.- 900, Messrs. Olmsted of Stamford, and Doolittle of New Haven,f are actine for the contestant, and Beardsley of Bridge- port, and Messrs. Ferris, Child and Fes- senden, of Stamford, for the defendant
 The Hartford Courant gives the follow, ing episode in the history of happy fam fly ln that city as the cause of a mmor that an atrocious murder had been soom-- mitted: MT. and Mrs. John Bogle live inl the upper part of a tenement, and devote the greater part of their spare time to, quarreling. Mrs. Bogle gets drunk fre.- quently, and that is the chief cause of the, difficulty between herself and husbandi. She had some money in the bank-the, earnings of Mir. Bogle--and drew it ont, and he made demand upon her, for it. some days ago., and punished her severely for refusing to give it to him. Monday. fresh controversy was excited, and Mir Bogle, arming himself with a razor, seized his wife by the throat, threw her to the floor, and was about to Gnt her throat, as she had every reason to believe and cried murder" in view of the danger, when outsiders same in and saved her life. Subsequently she refused to appear in court and testify concerning the assault. and MT. Bogle was not arrested.
 George White and Jesse Wilcox. re- turning recently to Danielsonvill6 from Indiana got into an altercation, when White struck Wilcox powerful blew un-> der the right ear which knocked him senseless. Wilcox was taken by his com panions to 8 farm house, where, tbAaah, energetic efforts were made to restore him. he soon died. A post-mortem e1aanina- tion revealed that the skull was oraaked for distance of about four inches, start ing at the base, behind the right ear. and extending to the crown centra, and that about three inches of clotted. blood. were on the brain. The coroner'g. iary found that White dealt the fatal. blow in self defense. White expresses great regret at the sad result of the difficulty, as the de- ceased was his intimate friend, and more especially as both were under the infu-- ence of liquor at the time of the unfortu- nate affair -r .sr- ,-.-yy-- sss-w.