Litchfield enquirer., 1873-05-01
STATE ITEMS.
Meriden has had another elopement -

Meriden has had another elopement ~~- Cherry trees are in blossom in Bridge port. F. ~-1f'-s.- -f. ,. -s..".a.- b. -.st---s -
 A case of smallpox IS reported from Plainville. -.N....
 Smallpox has again appeared in Hart ford.
 Stafford boasts bear and cub lurking Tn the woods. ! Ni' /
 About two hundred acres of tobacco will be set in Somers this year. ..s.rssz
 A chess club, has been organized in Norwich with membership of thirty-two.
 All the streets in Wilimantic are to be lighted by kesosene after the first of May
 The Hartford High School had it's ami versary exercises on Friday. Hs
 A man was killed instantly at Norwalk, last week, by being thrown from buggy
 Twenty-Five thousand people went to see Barnum at New Haven.
 The last rail on the Air Line road was laid on Tuesday of last week.
 About May 1st, 5000 young salmon are to be put in the upper waters of Mystic River.
 Hon. Elisha Johnson, now of Hartford, formerly of Plymouth, is spoken of for Superior Court judge. -
 Dr. Thomas, recently murdered by the Modocs, was insured for $10,0OO ill Hartford companies. a#E
 Mr. Barnum presented the students of the Yale Theologlcals school with passes te his great moral show. There were three ''lost heirs" in the New Haven station house, at one time, Friday.
 Large hauls of shad are daily made at Wethersfeld, and the fish are now quite plenty in market. -r..
 The new building just erected by the National Life and Trust Company at New Haven was formally opened, last week.
 !. The main belt of the Howe shop was cut again between six and seven o'clock, Thursday evening. ....'.,
 Fully half of the I17 members of the senior class at Yale will adopt the law as a profession.
 Waterbury people are very much alarm ed over the smallpox. It is said there are fifteen cases in the city.
 Therewere 13, 900 tickets sold in Bridge port, for the afternoon performance at Barnum's Worlds Fair.
 Within a few years the channel of the HHn"nn+in-t ~t af;aaleto"l l4~o shifted eastward the whole width of the river.
 Frank Brown. aged 16. one of the wound by the fall of Shepard's building in Mid dietown, has since died of his injuries. The wife of the Rev. Francis Lobdell rector of St. Paurs church, New Haven, died Tuesday. She was Q native of Bridgep ort. ..-- Two. economical youths rode from Mil ford to New Haven the other night, hang ing to the iron rods under the cars, to avoid paying fare.
 The new Armory Hall Tn the Beardsley House block Winsted, was dedicated last week with ball, which was a very successful affair.
 The inhabitants of that portion of Bridgeport known as Black Rock will De- titlOn the next General Assembly to be Set off from that city.
 Mir. M. l.. Delavan announces in card his temporary retirement from the edito- rial and business management of the Mer- iden Republican.
 A fashionable young lady of New Brit ain received among other correspondence, a few days since, cigar case, containing live young alligator.
 The pews of the Center church, New Haven, sold Monday for $2O, 132, of which $7, 132 was received as bonus. The high est price bid for single pew was $329.
 General Hawley has received and ac- cepted an invitation from the Grand Army of the Republic of New York City, to de- liver an oration at the Academy of Music on Decoration day.
 The Boston Globe says: s'Miss Jennie Jewell, a relative of Governor Jewell of Connecticut, will give a series of read ings at Steinway Hall, New York, early in November"
 James. H. Willis and the Rev. Olym pia Brown, pastor of the Universalist church, Bridgeport, were married on Thursday of last week in Providence, R. l., at the house of Dr. Gilmore, relative of the