Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-15
STATE ITEMS.

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 A verdaDt New Britainer was "doneo I out of Ss210 in Hartford, last week.
 The internal revenue receipts of the 1st l (Hartford) Dist. were $648, ,671, for 1871.
 The Westport town clock keeper gets $2.5O per year for his services.
 A death from smallpox in Westport. last week, caused considerable excitement
 The'Jubilee singers are meeting with unbounded success throughout the state
 A Deep River finn employ about 15o hands in manufacturing ivory into piano and melodeon keys.
 East Hartford has voted mill tax to De applied towards the construction of a free bridge over the Connecticut.
 Mark Twain's new book, ssRoughing it, has already a circulation of 20.OO0 copies. '....
 The cock fight projected to come of at Cromwell, on Saturday, did not take place.
 ,I Thomas Kennedy of the New Haven DO. Ice, has been on duty 365 consecutive nights.
 A new Wagner palace car, costing S2S,- O0O, has been placed on the Shore Line i owl train.
 A runaway horse in North Greenwich went right through grocery store, in at i one door and out another. { Charles Brown, painter, aged @, was drowned in Clinton harbor the other day while clamming
 1 The Jubilee singers were refused ad- mission into the hotels in New Haven. re- 1 gently, because of their color. 1 The Stratford authorities have arrested and fined several of tho persons engaged in the recent cock-fght in that town.
 Thomas G. Welles, of Hartford, is re- covering from the injuries he received in New Haven during the convention. Captain Johnson's beautiful residence near the depot at Stamford was burned on the 9th; loss $22, 1000.
 The Secretary of prominent Hartford insurance company was arrested on the 7th, on the charge of assaulting a lawyer from Northampton.
 Some Hartford tobacco dealers have shipped $1O0, 900 dollars worth of the ar ticle to the West Indies to be cured there. and then returned, doubled in value.
 A new bridge with a fifty foot draw will be erected on the site of the Noble bridge in Bridgeport at cost of from $12,OO0 to $15, 1000. ....
 There are no liquor saloons in Chap. lin, Conn.,, and no person in the town has been convicted of crime within the last five years. ...
 The Rev. J. J. Woolley has offered to be one of twenty men to present Merriam Post No. 8, G. A. R., of Meriden, $1 ,OO0 each. towards soldiers monument
 Mrs. Rawlins of Danbury, widow of Major General Rawlins late secretary of war, was married to MT. c. r. Daniels, of New York, Monday evening.
 On Sunday of last week, William Irving. man in the employ of Dr. Samuel Joh,,: son of Bozrah, enraged at the refusal of a daughter of his employer to marry hin, ] shot her dead and then cut his own thu. ,ot
 A gorgeous Hartford cook "Wb Q looks more like Parepa than cook, was caught stealing goods from the hop's 80 of her em- ployer, MT, Pliny Jewell, last week.
 4 Hartford man who insisted on seut1ie with frienso, after he had been re- qnested to ''stop fooling," and broke the reluctant r party leg, has judgment for $500 and eoTts to pay. v-s'
 An abeent minded resident of Danbury i shut own 8 window, Monday, and for 1 got to draw in his head He was calling ! for Helen Blazes when discovered.
 
 The Danbury News thinks good statue of Horace Greeley could be made out of the Cardiff Giant, by teaching the giant to sit in chair with it's feet on the parlor [ table.
 A company are putting up large fac . tory i'll Fairfield, and will shortly engage Tn the building of carriages made entirely of India rubber except the axles and tires.
 A young boy jumped from one of the upper stories of the state reform school building on Thursday. He was caught on the railroad track, which he had taken for New Haven Fr Cal
 The present is said to have been one of the dullest winters they have had in Wa terbury for many years. A large num- Der of mechanics are out of work, and the money market is unusually tight.
 The Rev. E. W. Bacon, son of the Rev. Dr.. Bacon, of New Haven, who was lately pastor of the Congregational church in Wolcottville, has accepted 8 call as pastor of the Congregation church at Flint, Michigan.
 Reports of small pox come from various l parts of the State. Three cases are re- ! .4o1 4 .s1l,- Il that of William Reid, a newly arrived em- igrant from England. The other two, fellow passengers, have been taken to the pest house.
 A large meeting was held at New Brit ain, last week, in favor of railroad branch connecting that place with the Conn. [ Western at Canton. If $200,00O can be raised in Pennington and NeW~Britain the branch is promised. -.f rf-l- 1 Congressman Strong, of the Hartford District, follows the good example of Con gressMan Barnum, and has named Gen. Hawley, Rev. Mir. Oviatt and Dr. J. s. l Curtis, committee to examine applicants for West Point cadetship,
 Hartford is peculiarly favored in re- 1 gard to gubernatorial candidates this year. Messrs. Jewell, Republican Hubbard, Democratic; and Gillette, ProhihisOnist, are all residents of that city. Ladies and gentlemen of the South Congregational church, Hartford, have been perpetrating a successful series of tableaux. This week there were to be amateur theatricals at the Opera House, and nearly all the seats were sold in advance.
 There is building in Hartford, corner of Asylum and Main streets, given tG snow-slides. Three occurred on Monday, l by which two women were knocked down. runaway started, and any number of people frightened out of years gro ,ytb
 A young man of Bristol. nSy ,oa Hal, lost the sight of one eye on .IonJov in o sinouIar xfay Ha was siD1 NHOliucJ m |"