Litchfield enquirer., 1872-03-14
STATE ITEMS.

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 A Teachers Institute was held at Birm- l ingham, last week.
 1 Ellington has had two shocks of earth quake, or at least thinks so. Trinity college will probably sell the college grounds for $500, ,OOO
 The Waterbury Clock Company turns out over 10, 900 clocks monthly. A football match between Yale and Co., lumbia colleges is projected l There were 461 deaths in Hartford in | 1871, 224 males and 237 females. B.
 The Courant denies the report that the Hartford Insane Retreat is crowded. New Londons police force is prostrated with varioloid, but he will soon be out In Enfield there are fifty-nine persons who pay more than $75 taxes every year. Nearly all the East Woodstock mills and factories are stopped for want of wa 1 ter. ..-.....-.s s-. 77-V s.--- A l Mir. S. J. Bestor, of Hartford, recently sold trio of game fowls to go west, for $1O0. 7s ..--@.-1 =.- t- .. Nza ' i All the women who made application for registration in New Haven have been refused. l.--...
 Frederick EtOld, ofNew Britain, had 6 leg broken and hand crushed by slab of marble.
 There have been twelve rails broken on the Hartford and New Haven railroad, this season. -.5
 The democrats of Fairfield county have nominated Edward A. Leeds, of Stam- ford, for sheriff. --..
 The Republicans of the 17th Senatorial district have nominated Marcus Wood ward, of Somers.
 The Normal school building at New Britain IS said to be in decaying and in- secure condition.
 The chancel of the St. James church, New London is to be illuminated by one hundred gas jets.
 The Portland quarrymen, 2,OOO in num- ber, were addressed by Alexander Troupe, Wednesday evening.
 The democrats of the Thirteenth dis trict have nominated Charles A. Brown, of Scotland, for Senator.
 At rather spicy meeting the Democrats of the Fifth Senatorial District nominated Thomas Elmes, of Derby.
 MT. Russell Hubbel and three of his children, residing in Monroe, are danger ously afflicted with trichina.
 The Annual State Sunday School Con vention is to be held at New London, on the 18th, 2Oth, and 21st insts. r. G. c. Breed, formerly of Stonington, has become general supply agent of the Louisville and Memphis R. R. Joel Chase, the man in East Killingly who attempted to commit suicide. is still alive, with fair prospect of recovery. 1 The ice in some parts of the Connecti- cut river is twenty inches thick. and the coal dealers gaze upon it with satisfaction
 MT. George Burroughs, cashier of the Bridgeport Bank, who was stricken with paralysis recently, died last week, aged The Naugatuck railroad company re- duced their freight tariff, March 1st, IT per cent on the average, the result of com petition. ..'...
 John Costello, aged 12, while catching a ride on passenger train, in Waterbury, l Wednesday, fell under the cars and was fatally injured.
 locomotive and three freight cars were precipitated down a bridge on the Shore Line railroad one mile west of Guil- ford on Wednesday. ia4 The body found cut to pieces on the, Hudson River Railroad, Tuesday, is drought to be thatSof an old man named Husted. of Stamford.
 Marshall Pease, Bridgeport butcher, went to New York the other day with $2OO to buy mutton, and got heeced out of it by the metropolitan sharpers.
 There were 1,569 arrests by the Bridge port police last year, of whom only 176 were females. There were 915 arrested for drunkenness, nearly all of them for 1 eigners. 1 A Norwich marble cutter recommends a marble coffin he makes in the following re- markable terms; "Those who have used them invariably say they should prefer this vault" etc.
 It is said that Tom Scott is negotiating for the control of the 'Stonington and Providence road, and intends to buy Rhode Island as a site for repair shop ! NoraVieh Bulletin. .3ss s8 r sA-farmers club has recently been organ 1 ized in Guilford, and the Rev. w.. H. H. Murray of Boston has promised to have delivered before the club five lectures at 1 his own expense. g-.s ,.g.1-g
 New Britain, last week, voted, 400 to 36, to subscribe $125, ,000 to the stock of the Connecticut Western railroad, to be ex- pended in building branch from New Bntain-to Collinsville. q F. B. Morse, foreman of H. D. Smith, Go. s works at Plantsville, and an invent or of some celebrity, died suddenly Sat urday. It is supposed he was drugged in New Haven the other day. III
 Never before, according to the recollec- 1 tion of the oldest person, has the Connec- ticut river been so sohdly frozen over be- tween this city and Springfield as at the present time. e.-HarJord CoIrGnt.
 The ultra-temperance men of Holland county have nominated the Rev. E. l.. Latham,of Holland, and Benezeal H. Bill I of Rockville, as candidates for the Twen- tieth, and Twenty first Senatorial district.
 A servant girl named Rosa Clark, was suffocated in her room in a. a..boarding house on Marshall street, South Norvalk, Sun day night She came home that night about twelve o'clock, and went to her room, and next morning was found dead 1 in her bed. " @ q s@ 't 1 C f8 -s TheaJewelry store of Clark X Hampton, in Danbury, was entered, by forcing the front doors, at 2 o'clock, Friday morning. The safe was drilled and blown open, and robbed of it's contents watches and jew elry: The loss is about $4 ,000. No clue to thethieves hasiyet been obtained. | Fires have been burning in the woods between Rye and Greenwich, on the line of the New York road, since last Friday. The dry weather of the past month has made the wood like finder, and the fire I aGaPfnd from 10o0uakivo coorEO r. boa