Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-29


 ty, has sold the property on Main street South NorWalk. k.-a-.-sezz-rs~-.. s..s..----s.sl.
 The Republicans of the Ninth Senator;- al District have nominated General Joseph 70. Perkins, of Lyme. -.tJ "
 The "Jubileers" received S825 in Nor wich, on Monday. In the afternoon they were entertained by Senator Buckingham The Bridgeport steamboat company are about to build propeller of 1,500 tons to i'd to their New York line.
 MT. Eming Morse purchased two acres of land and the Egyptian roofing factory, ill Yatesyille, last week.
 A contract has been let for the erection of thirty summer cottages in West Haven before June, to be rented or sold
 The gross income of the Naupatuck railroad, last year, was $624, 761, an in crease on last year, and more than double the income of ten years since.
 The stables and offices of Stephen E Alden, at Westport, were burned on the Ed Loss about $70,0o0; partially in sured.
 r A Hartford bridegroom, married OH Sunday of last week, is discovered to have another living bride of a considerably old CT date. rs.. -
 Alexander Harrison, of Hartford, fills | the vacancy on the State Central com mittee made by the resignation of H. T. Sperry.
 Senator Buckingham has been very i'll at Norwich, but will soon return to Wash ington. The Custom House examination would have made any honest man sick.
 Hartford had sheet and pillow case dance, Tuesday night. Ladies and gen tiemen all dressed alike in white sheets with pillow cases over their heads.
 Mrs. Mary Jane Shelton, nee Water bury, wife of Warren Shelton, of South Norwalk, committed suicide by tsking laudanum, Monday night.
 The internal revenue receipts for Hart ford district i'll January were S46, ,299. 57, $29, 900 of which were for spirit, tobacco and beer stamps.
 A liquor dealer in Bedding, a member of the Congregational church, was fined $50 and costs the other day, for selling beer on Sunday; and went to jail rather than pay it.
 A love match in Danbury, was broken up the other evening by the gentleman, while inspired by the inebriating glass, introducing the lady as his "future pois- oner," dss5s5s5 tsN
 Captain Elias Babeoek, storekeeper at ! Stonington, was knocked down on Thurs day night and had his skull fractured by | four roughs.
 The Engrossing Committee of the Leg lslature of 1871, have just finished their work at Hartford, and the bills are all ready for the signatures of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House.
 Dr. Hendriken, Catholic priest at Wat erbury, has been made bishop of Rhode Island, by the Pope Dr. Hendricken is highly considered in Waterbury and vicin- ity.
 The men of the Catholic church i'll Stamford turned out few days since, and voluntarily built wall about their cemetery. In three days they built eigh- teen rods of wall four feet wide at the base, four feet high, and two feet wide at the top.
 Messrs. o. Benedict X Co.,, whose hat factory i'll Bethel was burned last week, began the work of rebuilding on the old Nito, last week, temporary building to accommodate tha wOrkmen during the spring trade. 1..T .
 s. w. Osborne, young man, formerly of Norwalk, was found dead in his room at the St. Charles hotel, New York, Sun day morning. He had taken laudanum by the prescription of physician to quiet his nerves, and probably died from an overdose
 According to the East Haddam Adver- tlser there were grown in that town, last year, 164 acres of tobacco, weighing 29O,- 626 pounds with an estimaed value of | $71 ,953.78, Wm. H. Goodspeed, Esq, IS the largest producer, his crop footing up over $7, ,O00.
 A case of spontaneous combustion oc- cured at the bit shop, Forestville, on Mon day of lastweek. An enterprising rat had dragged some waste rags into crevice, which, being saturated with oil, caught fire spontaneously, and had it not been discovered in time would have proved serious matter