Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-29
STATE lTEMa.

', The Huntington Home for old ladies in Norwich, has been opened. esss~s
 The Hon, Charles o'conor is spending few days at New London. s. -, = 8 The New London harbor is dotted stith number of beautiful little yachts. ssssss ss = { The 12th.and 18th Regts. held joint reunion at West Haven, Thursday. ns East Hartford reports the largest tobac. co crop ever known in that vicinity, All the New England governors are in- yited to Rhode Island clam bake = The brother of Fanny Hyde, the Brook lyn murderess, is in jail at Hartford.
 Mrs. H. B. Stowe gives readings from her writin gs at Bridgeport, Sept, 18th
 The Connecticut is unusually high for the season-12 feet above low water mark. ........ .g.eF ..sie+7
 An insane man was found dead in his cell In the New Haven lookup, Sunday morning. -2-1-Ss The stols of George SiIlick of Green VIC W1ch was hurglarizad on Monday night, 18th inst. .ss1z@s8 aFxsf7sss r8
 Cider apples sell for ten cents bushel. The barrels will probably cost more than the cider.
 A German named ohn Freeman suicided at Bridgeport on Tnesday morning in fit of insapity s& ,2 NlsSs2SssssE Monograms on the portico front are the latest style in house ornamsntation in Middletown. New Haven congressman has been caught stealing conductors. .chscks from baggage car.. .~Sas}4sa sa@ s0A5 YEighty;eightmilhons of young shad have been turned into the Connecticut river at South Hadley. Mass. @ -'sa'a'] A. daughter of Mrs. Lucy. Stone Black well has entered tha Freshman class ak Wesleyan University. z Hgg5ss Reports of injury to tobacco in Fol land county by Thursdays hail storm rep resent it as very serious. sAs4 The July internal revenue receipts from the 1st Dist, were $46, 626;;5 two-thirda from tobacco and spirits. s
 The third an1luaI convention of the State Catholic Temperance Union. ocoass at Bridgeport, Sept. 17th. NH" <S~&sa''@ Matthew Curran laborer on the Port Chester railroad, was murdered at New Rochelle, Saturday night. ------
 The Shore Line bridge al. Lyme is be- ing strengthened, and new steel rails will soon be laid over the road. ,'t.2 I'tsa Ists
 A Hartford clerk owned up, last week, to theft of $1O5 from his employer. sand was sent to jail for 30 days. '7lc
 William H. Burgess has been appointed postmaster at Clinton in place of Taintor, detected in robbing letters. 5,.s ..' ~ =. There Is undoubtedly more. small oox in Hartford than the authorities are will ling to admit, says the Post.
 The whiskey dealers of PIainyille are very uneasy They are taking aceount of stock with view to closing up. ..,,.,.s The directors of the Conn. Western will put their CollinsvilIe and New Britain branch under contract at once. --.---
 A severe hail storm did great damage to tobacco, and fruit and shade trees in Rock. vile, Ellington and Vernon Thursday. 1.
 MT. W. P. Williams of Stratford @owhs an Egyptian coin two thousafld years old, for which large sums have been offered aa' A young son of Congressman Kellogg, Waterbury, was badly kicked in the face by horse at Shalburne, Mass, afew days since. = - - ---.ssa.---
 The contract for the building of thspor- tion of the Lee 6 New Haven railroad be- tween Lee and the State Line has been let at $500, 1000.
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 A coroner's jury over the private soldier, killed at Fort Trumbu1l, have. found c verdict against Sergeant Mattigan for brutal assault >31. -s.
 The annual needing of the Connectiout state association of Spiritualists will be held at the Spiritualist church at Willi- mantle, September 7sasas n Dtese. At New London, Wednesday niess, sAe fog was so dense that it was necassafy tQ ring bell to enable the trains to AnA their way into the depot. ils N
 An insane man named HaWIey. in Bridgeport, tries to throw himself IndSr q the cars at the depot. So far the police have successfully defeated his efforts.
 A Hartford druggistl had an order, last week, for 's5 cts worth of Arkihale" (alco- hof1, 4-an article that hos occasiohed many hard spell before, says the Conrant -nn---