Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-30
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 Friday.
 There are 313 boys nthe State reform school at present
 Work has almost entirely>ceased in the New Haven carriage factories.
 An unknown man was beheaded by the cars at South Norwalk, Wednesday. ~--Fhe steamer Isaac PvSm1th was burnt at New Haven, Sturday night.
 The r. M. c. A. held their annual con vention at Meriden, last week. @
 The Norwalk Gazette complains of the heavy taxes in that town. .-.-..--
 The owners of Music Hall, New Haven. contemplate reinodeling. s0 si An employee of the Canal railroad was injured fatallyat New Haven. Friday ; Young Peabody, the Stamford inoen- diary, has been sent to the state reform school for six years.
 Delaney & Munson's paper mill in Unionville was burnt, Thursday; loss S75, GOO; insurance, S55, ,00O.
 Mrs. Nellie A. Douglass has been di- vorced from the Hon. John M. Douglass of Middletown.
 The croquet tournament of Friday last at New Haven resulted in the victory of the Norwich club. Four professional burglars, with com plete outfit of burglar tools were caught in New Haven, last week r
 A New Haven lad named Lovejoy shot another boy named Barnes accidentally with pistol Friday morning shattering his lower jaw.,;4 -r "
 There was successful raid on bad house in Hamden, Friday night Five women and seven or more men were cap- tured. .s
 There was yellow fever fright in New Haven, Friday. case having been re- ported on schooner in the harbor. It turned out to be bilious fever.
 A fire, Tuesday evening in Bridgeport, in the premises occupied by Wheeler & 1, Msfsh. day goods dealers, caused damage estimated at 5000. l. 4 New Haven man thinks there is no fear of the world coming to an end directly as Lutz, the adventist, proclaims-be- cause the earth is too wet to burn just now.
 Levi Saunders, of Voluntown, while hunting had portion of his face blown off by the sudden discharge of his gun.
 Robert E.. Supple, of Brookfeld, was killed, last week, by the accidental dis charge of his gun.
 The Hartford police made 1,616 arrests during the quarter ending October 1st, of which 844 were for drunkenness. One thousand five hundred pounds of cells were caught by one gang of men at Greenville, last Wednesday night. The Transcript reports that W. H. Fielding, manager of the Derby coop erative society, has absconded with it's funds.
 Yale beat Rutgers at football, Satur- day. The Palladium mentions c. Dem ing, of '72, as among the best players on the Yale side.
 The Hartford City Hall caught fire Saturday night, and sustained considera- ble damage before the flames could be extinguished Much trouble was experi- enced in getting a lookup full of drunken prisoners to some safer place. The Odd Fellows had parade in New Haven Tuesday, delegates being present from different parts of the state. There was banquet in the evening at Lock woods.
 The public schools of Windsor Locks 1 are more prosperous than ever before. The new school building on the hill has I375 of the 425 pupils. It has a library of 500 volumes. . Prof. Chas. G. Redwood, formerly of Norwalk, and Yale graduate, has taken Prof. Murray's place in Rutgers college as professor of mathematics. Prof Mur- ! ray goes to Japan as commissioner of edu- cation. | It is stated for fact that some of the operatives in the Howe sewing machine company's works, Bridgeport, have asked 1 to be allowed to work all winter for their board, but that their request was refused, owing to the stringency of the market. | Representatives of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston and Albany, Connecticut River, Boston, Hartford and Erie, Naugatuck, and Housatonic rail- reads met at New Haven recently and talked of a redution of wages but came to defininte conclusion.
 The valuable oriental manuscript which the dean of Canterbury found in the Yale library, and no copy of which exists in England, is Syriac account of the life of Alexander the Great.
 The storm of Sunday night was very se- were in New Haven and vicinity. An un- known schooner went ashore on Black rock bar, and at last accounts she was in great danger and assistance could not reach her. Another schooner is ashore at West Haven.