Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-10
STATE MS.

" STATE ITEMS. Gov. Jewell sailed for Russia on We'd nesday last.
 l $15O worth of cigars were stolen from a Hartford saloon last week.
 A Hartford watch maker hung himself, 1 last week.
 Two men were drowned at Milford, last week.
 Yale admits 117 Freshmen already.
 Hartford is building a public bathing house.
 A man was killed at Waterville, We'd nesday, by the caving in of bank
 Thieves stole horse and buggy near l New Haven on the 29th ult l A Cromwellian has been sent to iail for | beating his son nearly to death. 1 Two men were drowned at Bolton on the Fourth.
 | Naugatuck Episcopalians are expecting to build new church, soon
 Geo. A. Mayne, of Bridgeport, has a white turtle
 The Episcopalians of Portland talk of building new church ediice, to cost $5O, ,00O. Catharine Carol attempted suicide in New Britain, Thursday, by jumping into 8 pond.
 The Wallingford dime savings bauk has declared a semi-annual dividend of B per cent. | The Derby postoffice was broken into and about $20O stolen, on the night of the 4th.
 A little boy ia inted from hunger in one of the New London public schools one day last'week. 1 Cook & Co.,, grocers, Bridgeport, were burglarized Wednesday night, and $40 in money stolen. l The New Haven city directory, just is. sued, shows an increase in population o1 but 367 names.
 O..S. Chatfeld's barn, in Seymour was struck by lightning, in thunder shower of last week, and destroyed. The body of man was found in the Connecticut near Hartford, Friday, who had been apparently murdered.
 On Saturday. the dead body of a man thought to have been murdered was found Tn Beaver dam near New Haven.
 Tine Hous, a weekly newspaper printed Ill Westport, IS to be removed to Norwalk and hereafter published from that town.
 A three-year old son of Mir. John Clark of Windsor Locks fell into mill stream and was drowned, last Saturday.
 A young woman, name and residence unknown, attempted suicide by drowning in Norwich, Saturday.
 Prof. Whitney of Yale has gone west to join the government typographical party in Denver City.
 A little son of Mr. John Clark of Wind sor Locks, fell into stream of water, Saturday, and was drowned
 Eight thousand Colts revolvers have been ordered by the United States gov ernment for the cavalry service.
 David Taylor, of Hartford, has been ar- rested for committing an indecent assault upon girl twelve years of age.
 The pawnbroker's shop of MT. George Thompson, in Bridgeport, was entered by burglars, Friday night. A Westport cat that had her tail and 1 ears frozen off last winter has given birth to taiIless and earless kittens.
 A young man about nineteen years of age was drowned in the Connecticut riv- CT at Hartford, Sunday, while bathing.
 Edwin Booth has purchased house on the bank of the river opposite Stam- ford, and will occupy it next summer. The Relectmen of Sufield have offered reward of 5000 for the detection of the authors of the recent fires in that 1 town.
 Rewards aggregating $1, 500 have been offered for the apprehension of the burg lars who have been preying on Great Bar fington residents. -t- r 't Mir. E. E. Bishop, of Bridgeport, was elected president of the Atlantic and Pa- ciic railroad, Friday last, in place of MT. A. B. Stockwel, resigned.
 A prisoner fell from the second tier, in the Bridgeport jail, Thursday, and sus- tained injuries from which he soon after died.
 A valuable horse belonging to Mir. Mer- lin Upson, of Woodbury, had foot cut nearly of by a moving machine, on the l 26th ult. s9 az s.a.. The Housatonic railroad company have declared dividend of four dollars on the preferred stock, payable on the 10th of July. The Rev. Dr. Carmody, of New Haven, will accept an offer to become a professor of toxicology in St. Mary's college, Mary l land.
 Early Saturday morning the building of the Sterry faucet company, in Norwich Town, was burned with all it's contents except the safe. The latest sensation in Somers is the elopement of a dashing miss of fifteen years with rascal of foreigner aged twenty. A dredging machine in Stonington har- Dor has brought up twelve-inch shell, a relic of the days when the British frigate Terror bombarded the town.
 Mayor Robinson of Hartford sent his congratulations to the Mayor of PouQh- keepsie, last week, on the near prospect of bridge over the Hudson near that place and of an early completion of the Boston and Erie line.