Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-29
STATE ITEMS.

Manufacturing is generally very good 1 in Stamford.
 The Meriden Roman Catholics will soon build 0,O00 school-house. The Rev. John Evans has closed his pastorate at the Baptist church in Ches- | ter
 The Hony Tree coffee house in New Haven, has re-opened for the fall and winter
 William B. Hannam's barn in Killing worth, was burned Tuesday afternoon; loss $1 ,500.
 The Birmingham iron foundry has not been closed as reported, but is running on full time.
 The Rev Mir Orcutt, of WoIcottville, has been engaged to preach at Farming ton for the winter.
 The resignation of Colonel Stephen R. Smith of the second regiment, has been accepted, to take effect October 31st.
 Lewis Allen was severely injured by the accidental discharge of pistol he was carrying in his pocket.
 The Road House, at Gregory's point, Norwalk, will be improved $1O,UOO worth before the next season opens.
 Five tons and half of tobacco arrived in ore train from the Housatonic valley at Rridoenort the nthor evening.
 Henry Ward Beecher lectures ill New Haven and Hartford on Monday and Tuesday evenings next
 Mir J H Mellor announces the suspen- sion of the Bridgeport Lance It was five weeks old at the time of its death.
 It is said that the Rev VII Murray has received an $8,OO0 call from New Ha- ven and $12, 900 call from New York.
 Ira B Bennett, an old resident of Rock vile, dropped dead on Park street in that village, Wednesday night, of heart dis ease.
 There are quite number of Italians employed in the North Haven brick yards, but they are not considered very trust worthy men.
 The old South church in New Haven has been bought for $40, 900 by Father Carmody, and will be used for new Catholic congregation.
 The Union manufacturing company at Norwalk will soon erect a new factory which will add one-third to the capacity of their works
 Some of the mills in Danielsonville are obliged to run even less than the recently reduced time on account of low water in the streams.
 A woman pretending to sell religious ho01yc hxy c1,l,coriro&ia,, bly, peddling honey, tried to blackmail resident of Ansonia the other day:
 The Hlgganum manufacturing company have nearly completed one of the largest store houses in the state The company employ more than 100 men.
 Edward Higgins, aged 12, living on Grand street, New Haven, was shot and badley injured, Monday night, by pistol in the hands of a careless playmate.
 The Willimantic Journal says:-All the manufacturing companies in town are running their mills on full time and with no reduction in wages.
 The Hartford Times has been stitching into the supposed 'radical' judge of the Superior court who granted a quo sUar-
 
 out to be Judge Granger.
 The Cheshire musical association or ganized with capital of $500, for the purpose of making money off a cornet band in that town, has ''gone up." It wasn't 8 profitable enterprise. Mir H T Gauge of Wilmington. Del. a graduate in 1873 of the Sheffield scientific school, and Miss Virginia G Ingersou. daughter of Governor Ingersoll, were married in New Haven Wednesday. A tin box was found under stone wall two feet beneath the surface of the ground in Greenwich, Tuesday. In it were about ten dollars in silver coins of American coinage dating back, some Of them, more than hundred years. 1 Charles Whitney, son of H. Whitney of Waterbury, while acting as maker for the Chat6eld Guard, last week, wasstruck on the back of the head by bullet and probably fatally injured. He wasat least fifty feet from the target,
 A suspicious citizen of Bridgeport re- gently refused to take large box from him, fearing it contained some imfefaal | who paid $1, 50 expressage on 1t, and gt a handsome $65 bronze clock in return.
 An East Haddam man recently went to Middletown to get married, taking the would-b be bride with him. The priest re- fused to marry them, as he was Protest ant and she Catholic. A few days after he selected another woman, made a sec ond trip and was this time successful.
 The New Haven papers mention more accidents which have happened to that most unlucky man, MT W W Fowler, of Guilford. In addition to having his barn burned three times, dislocating his hip and receiving other severe bodily injuries, he once had his house and barn in New Haven burned. and when a member of the firm of Fowler { Newton, in the latter city, barrel of four fell upon him and | oR h 0kI,-