Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-31
STATE ITEMS.

The Putnam Phalanx excurt this week.
 The New Haven police made 43 arrests, Saturday.
 Hartford is to have another S2O,OOO school house.
 An Irishman was killed on the railroad track near Fairfield, last week.
 A Madison old bachelor of forty hung himself for love recently.
 The Plainville camp-meeting commenc- ed on Monday.
 Mr. J. G. Kellogg, a noted engraver, died at Hartford, last week.
 A canoe race is to come off soon at West Haven, soon.
 Hartford opened it's public bath house Saturday.
 The enforcement of the Sunday liquor law in Hartford IS working admirably.
 The enforcement of the Sunday liquor law in Hartford is working admirably.
 At Bridgeport trot, last week, the best time made was 2:47. Slow Bridgeport
 A Hartford wife advertises that she will pay no more debts of her husbands con- tracting.
 The Weed Sewing Machine Go. had or ders for 300 machines from abroad, last week.
 A horse thief was followed from New Britain to Poughkeepsie, recently, and caught there.
 A young girl from Brooklyn died sud- denly on the Sound steamer Continental, Sunday evening.
 Hiram Scranton, respected and we'll off citizen of Madison, hung himself, last week.
 A New Haven man was killed on Pa. railroad recently by being struck by a post as he leaned out of car window.
 The people of Bridgeport have voted to buy the city water work 8. which belong to private company.
 A brakeman on the Naugatuck road was arrested Monday on charge of swind- ling parties in Hartford and New Haven.
 Many of the Sprague mills are running on half time, owing to the scarcity of wa ter
 Hartford thinks its increased railroad business warrants the erection of new depot.
 A car driver was overcome by the heat Saturday, in Hartford, and fell over the dashboard of the car, and was banly hurt.
 In, New Haven, according to the Palla- 1117c1 cto 114 hot everybody is complaining.
 Mrs. Hanaford, Universalist preacher in New Haven, has resigned to accept a larger salary in Jersey City.
 A fire in Madison on Tuesday destroy ed the extensive peat works located about half mile west of the depot.
 The police of New York returned Henry Darsey, the lad who stole. $40 from his employers in Bloomfield the other day.
 The four Italian boys who have escap- ed from the clutches of Glione of New Haven, are at the state reform, school.
 AMr. Goodrich was thrown off load of hay upon pitchfork, recently. The tines entered his lungs and his recovery is doubtful.
 Children, huckleberrying on Thursday, set. fire to, and burned over, about fifty acres of huckleberry-producing land in Bozrah.
 Professor Bail, the Yale college draw ing teacher, has left the service of the college for that of the city in the public schools.
 The grocery store of John Jeffrey in New London was burglarized for the third time within few weeks on Monday night.
 Captain Jim Robbins of Stamford has been chosen navigator to accompany Prof. Wise on his unwise aerial flight across the Atlantic.
 The Rev. Joseph Anderson, of Water bury, is one of the secretaries of the American Pathological society, now in session at Easton, Pa. Twelve thousand dollars were subscrlb- ed by Catholics at the laying of the cor of the cathedral in Norwich on | Sunday, 18th inst.
 Deputy Sheriff Theodore Searies, of South Norwalk, fell into street opening Tuesday night, and broke one of his shoulders and two ribs.
 The dwelling of Lawton Wade, in Ab- ington. was considerably damaged by fire l one night last week. He was awakened bv the screams of parrot in time to pre- vent the total destruction of his house. The parrot was sufocated.