Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-26
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 At town meeting in Norwalk, recently, 1 seven citizens were present u | Captain Tyson of the Polaris, arrived in New London, Monday.
 A family in Fair Haven are the happy, possessor of singing mousse
 General Tom Thumb will erect a cot tage at West Haven this summer.
 Typhoid and other levers prevail to an alarming degree in Glastonbury. .l
 The French population of Danielson- Vlile IS 9oo, or about twenty-five per cent.
 Colhnsville cemetery has recently been the scene of many wanton desecrations. l Three fellows have been arrested for placing Instructions on the railroad track, at Dayville.
 The fireman who was injured in the re- cent accident on the Norwich & Worces- ter railroad, died on Friday. So 1 Yale Commencement commenced with the baeealaureate sermon delivered by Pres. Porter on Sunday. =, l Norwalk has new mail from New York, which, strangely enough, arrives Vi0 Dan, bury. 1 aI0.1 1uB I0t2iVUlg One hundred new tobacco sheds have 1 been erected in East Hartford the past year. E.. iy. -ru-.. ..I...
 The small pox excitement in Killingly has nearly died away; but two cases now 1 remain. s. l A patients the hospital for the insane III Mlddletown was drowned while'bath- ing Sunday morning.
 A vigilance committee Is being formed in Sufield. Numerous incendiary fires have led to this action.
 The temperance people of Danielson- vile are to have rodsing celebration on the Fourth. @
 Andrew McC Coffery, of New Britain. had one of his feet badly crushed, last Satur- day, while coupling ears. rg. <
 The Meriden Soldiers Monument was 1 dedicated, Wednesday, Gen. Hawley de- ivered the address.
 A blast hoisted piece of rock weigh ing twenty tons into a blacksnith's shop in Mystic, last week.
 l The Adelphi (Masonic) lodge of Fair Haven celebrated its mi-centennial on Thursday. ltllsyI
 1 The Congregational Association assem- 'bled at Talcottville, last week. Only forty-tive ministers were in attendance.
 A boy seven years old was drowned in Klllingly recently. U .sz~a4s 1 South Norwalk has elected w. c. Quin- tard Mayor. The citizens, ticket was gen. erally successful.
 l A new orchestrion, twelve feet high and six feet broad, has been placed in lager | beer saloon in Bridgeport.
 1 Fourteen children were consecrated l (whatever that may bel at the Norwich Uniyersalists church on Floral Sunday" I 'twhatever that tmay be).
 The Hartford and Waterbury districts of Good Templars are to hold a mass con- vention and picnic on the 4th of July at Plainville.
 New London is supposed to be the on- ly place in existence where the inhabit- ants, meeting after dark, say s.good night, instead of good evening.
 Prof Marsh, of Yale, is making brief soJourn ln Omaha previous to trip to Fort McPherson, where he will be joined with two companies of cavalry and make Q trip to Niobara. s& = #&
 A little daughter of E. c. Chapman. se- lectman and member of the Board of Health. of Plainville, has fallen ill of small pox. There have been eight cases in town, three of them fatal
 A clerk in Bridgeport clothing store shot himself through the heart, Wednes- day. A letter left behind explains by saying that mature has blundered in it. ting the wrong head or the wrong body.;' So he attempted to remedy the blunder by shooting off the body.
 There is great complaint of the drouth, 1 particularly Tn Windham and New Lon- don counties. Less than two thirds of an average hay crop is expected. The streams are so low that trouting is impos- sible. ;. z l-
 The salaries of school teachers in New Haven have been increased in the Web ster, Eaton, Wooster, Dwight, Skinner, Washington, and Woolsey schools. The principals were voted an increase of $500 year, which makes their pay $2, 300 a year: The assistant principals were rais- ed $50 to make $750 q year for each. Thursday morning, about two o'clock, Dr. Burrltt, of Bridgeport, heard noise, and saw by the light of a match, figure in his daughters room. He went for it and kicked what proved to be nineteen year old celored boy burglar, ont doors and then caused his arrest. 2. 9I~s 2 A farmer in the eastern part of the State, last fall, packed some apples in plaster, filling up all the interstices with this ma- terial. Opening the barrels on the 14th of June he found the fruit in a most won- derful state of preservation. There was not an eighth as many decayed ones as in barrels put up in the ordinary way, while the fruit was almost as fresh aswhen it was cyathepe6 ~f+#f-- 7s