Litchfield enquirer., 1872-12-05
STATE ITEMS.

Putnam IS to have 2 new weekly paper.
 Mark Train has arrived home in Hart ford. They are having ghosts in North ston- ington.
 A large eagle was shot at West Haven, Saturday.
 Edwin Booth played in Hartford, Mon day night. s' An occasional dropsical horse subsidies in Hartford
 H. A. Cook cut his throat at Waiiing- ford, on Friday.
 There are 3, 3,5OO scholars in the several Norwalk shools.
 A Mrs. Hartwen has just died in New Fairfield, aged 105.
 There is considerable typhoid fever among Yale students.
 New Haven underwriters have advanced insurance 30, per cent
 Thomas orchestra, with Rubenstein will visit Hartford, next month.
 Hartford horses are getting better and are beginning to run away as usual.
 A smart New Haven business firm sends about it's cards ill wedding envelopes. F John Sour has been sent from Hartford to the Reform School to be sweeteued.
 Nelson Haven of East Lyme, killed four ducks at one shot on Thanksgiving day.
 It. is expected that the four revenue districts of this State will be cut down to two.
 A pile bridge is building across Win throp Cove, New London. It is five hum dred feet long. sa =
 Fraudulent Boston suffers are swindling benevolent people as Chicago sufferers" did year ago.
 A Hartford baby was killed by expos- ure, Sunday. The unnatural parents have not been discovered.
 A Hartford crowd on a bender stole four chickens; and before the scrape was over paid just $25 for the fun.
 The opinion prevails in East Hampton that the fires occurring in that neighbor- hood are caused by incendiaries.
 Three attempts have been made at Mil ford to wreck New York and New Ha- ven train by putting ties on the track.
 Hartford is talking about issning s5OO- OOO ln capital, water and other bonds. in order to fund the whole of the city debt,
 A Wethersfeld man went home from the club early, the other night-his wife having hold of his auricular appendage
 Two COWS in Chesterfield have durino five months, furnished an average of 13 pounds of butter week on pasture feed ing.
 The Norwich and Worcester railroad has just turned ont two passenger cars from the shops in Norwich. They cost $10,OOO -
 The Connecticut River Railroad Con- pany has declared dividend of five dol lars share, payable on the 1st of Janu- ary next. .-.r..
 The catalogue of Trinity College shows nineteen Juniors, twenty-five Sophomores and fifteen Freshmen in the course for regular degree.
 The Congregational church, of Chester, has been enlarged 1,5OO worth, to &C., commodate new $1, 700 organ which has been purchased.
 The Secor Sewing Machine Manufactur- ing Company, with a capital of half million, have gotten their new factory at Bridgeport into operation.
 Putnam having voted no license, some of the inhabitants are clamoring for the erection of town pump wherewith to satisfy their their thirsty appetite.
 It is proposed to sell the site for the Hartford county jail, which cost $15, 900, but Is now worth 10000, and to select another in . more desirable locality.
 The board of directors of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane have ratified the nomination of the committee of the Con- necticut Medical society, and appointed Dr. James Denny superintendent of the Retreat
 Harlow ,Rainsford, of Simsbury, was struck by a Connecticut Western train as he was trying to drive wagon across the track near Avon, last Thursday. The wagon was smashed, and he was pretty badly bruised.
 In both the Hartford Catholic church. es, on sunday, the pastors announced that hereafter dancing at fairs, picnica, excur- siQns, etc., would be abolished, as a great many pesons of questionable character visit them merely for the purpose of danc- ing: .-.-
 Daniel O'Laughin, laborer on the New London Northern railroad, in at tempting to take box from the door of a car which was entering the car house at East New London, last Saturday evening. was caught between the box and the door post and fatally injured.
 Rev. George P. Bryan, Methodist ciergyman,is to beard the lion in his s.'den, December 9th, when he reads 8 paper at the annual meeting of the Middlesex County Temperance Union, defending the ''lcense system in general and the Con- nectlcut license system in particular
 Lah Tip, who is connected with the Chinese delegation at Hartford as tailor has made application for admission to one of the Congregational churches. He produced letter from one of the mission aries of the church in China, saying that he had been baptized and admitted into the church.
 CLIPPINGS.
 Courtship is bliss; matrimony, blister;