Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-18
STATE ITEMS.


 Middletown caught it's first shad, Fri day.
 A Democratic paper is to be started in New Britain.
 A man was killed by the cars at Hart ford, Friday.
 A cotton warp mill was burnt at West Stafford, last week.
 Regular price of black eye for your wife, in Bridgeport, $500
 The smallpox is said to be quite prev alent in portions of Windham county.
 A man was injured, fatallyit is thought, by stone from blast, at Essex, last week.
 Ten blue. heron, a rare bird in this state, were shot recently in North Ston- ington.
 A case of malignant small pox has ap- peared in Cromwell, and the patient died last week.
 The Conn Valley railroad has run over the same man twice. The first time he lost hand.
 Edward Devlin was knocked into the Birmingham dam Thursday, by a crank, and drowned.
 A young lady at Deep River has made quilt of 6,300 pieces, and taught school between times.
 There are numerous projects at this season for the extension of New Haven horse railroads.
 John M. Edson, one of the victims of the late boiler explosion in Stafford, died Thursday afternoon. A boiler explosion at Stafford Hollow, Wednesday, killed one man and seriously wounded two others. --.
 Major Glafcke, late of Hartford and Sec. of Wyoming Ter, has started dai- l ly paper in Cheyenne. The Hon. Gideon Welles has been sent for to Washington as a. witness i'll the Robeson investigation. Mir. c. l.. Blatch1ey, of Killingworth, dug out ten young foxes day or two since, and shot the old one. ..-..- Thomas Beckwith of the Vermont Gene tral has been employed as conductor on VAAS OOAAs VO0VOAA 4uAAVuus 1 Reuben Hodge. the newly elected rep- resentative from New Fairfield, is p years old. This is his fourth term. .. i Huntington has voted to purchase the bridge across the Housatonic. and pas sage hereafter across it will be free. l East Hartford is restive under the i bridge monopoly which now makes them pay tolls on crossing the Connecticut. i The Mansfelds of Middletown have l joined the National baseball association ] and will compete for the whip pennant. 1 The Hon. Erastus Coming, who died in 1 Albany on the evening of the 9th, was born in Norwich, December 14th, 1794 1 It is expected that Rev. Dr. Hendrick- en, the bishop elect of the diocese of l Providence, will be consecrated on the 10th inst. = @t -- Professor V. Yeager, of Terryville, has been engaged as the musical instructor 1 of the Westerly (R. l. ) brass band for one year. @ z.t 1 Mayor Fitch, of New Haven, has just completed an imposing granite residence on church street, in that. city, opposite 1 the green. '. The Palladium says there are two or three cases of small pox and several cases of varioloid in New Haven, but the dis ease is not spreading. 1 Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe has been engaged by the American literary bureau to give readings from her own works be- fore lecture associations this fall. | Mir. s. P. Curtis, of Stamford, while going home from his store Tuesday even- ing, was knocked down by blow of 8 club. He cried for help and the robber 1 fled. . l@ 1 Hewitt, thusly in the Norwich Adver- tiser Welcome always, gracious and beautiful spring, mother of flowers, sister of stars and daughter of Heavenr' Comes of good family, rather. | The Domestic" sewing machine can not be put out of 'stime" has no cams or
 cog-wheels. 7
 I sTRAvRLRRs. Never take a trip without
 a bottle of Williams Extract Jamaiea Gin ger.