Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-12

Uhland lodge, No. 190. of the Independent Or
 der of Red Men, was instituted in Waterbury l February 4th
 The Novelty Manufacturing company. of Wat
 erburv. have to run nights ill order to keep up | with their orders.
 Nine young ladies took upon themselves the VOWS Of the "Children of Rome. at St. Roses church, New Haven, last week l The movement department of the New Haven 1 clock compauys " ,rhs are now running ten hours per day.
 The Goodyca Rubber shoe shop at Naugatuck Is running on fnli time. ut the Ph.aaix Rubber sho Is closed. A new trial has bee, granted in the ase of Ja.qu against Bridgeport horse railroad company.
 Three of the fur fellows wh5 were caught in New Haven with fall set of burg ar tools Il we been convicted of conspiracy.
 Mir Samuel Bailey. of Mcriden fell on the ice recently end broke his leg ba fly that it had to be amputated.
 By the reports in the New Haven papers. it is inferred that the Yal. alumni meeting of last week was fiZZe. The real estate of Charles Barnes on Main st.. Stafford. has been purchased for S, GOO for the site of an Epi-copal church. Small pox is still on the increase ill South Wind ham, and the factories ill that place have been closed on account of the epidemic. Lodges of the Sovcreigns of Industry are soon to be established in Bristol, Waterbury, Middle town and other places in the State. A Cheshire officer has been fined for imprison- ing drunken man ill the town lock-up, which is a wet and simy cellar, infested with rats.
 The store of Harmed & Hickey, in New Haven, was visited by burglars, Monday night who se- cured about S40 worth of tobacco and cigars.
 new three-masted schooner of 700 tons will soon be built at Captain Thomas yard in West Haven, for IT. w. Painter of Bri igeport
 Waterbury is still without chief of police. Capt. Laird whose ''head cut off'--meta- phoricaly speaking recently. is trying to get reinstated.
 Two gentlemen named Ward are to open new granite quarry at Jericho bridge, near Plymouth A rich bed of stone has been discovered at that spot
 The barn and tobacco house of l.. II. Thomas between Merden and Kensington, were destroy cd by fro Monday night Loss nearly Sc, ,0O9- fully insured
 On Thursday evening last, by an unanimous vote of the male members, the women of Park street church, Hartford, were admitted to vote at church meetings.
 James Salvln, Of South Norwalk, has been bound over for trial by the superior court on the charge of starting the recent large fire in South NorWalk. The prisoner was also fined for theft and sentenced to thirty days in jail for burglary.
 Michael McCann, an employe in paper mill at Burnside, was caught by his clothing in shaft revolving 309 times per minute. He was carried about the shaft several times when his clothing parted. and he was hurled into bin of rags un- hurt.
 A Wesleyan student has been teaching school at East Glastonbury. Among his pupils girl of 15 the daughter of poor widow. who had saved money by factory work so as to attend school. The other day the teacher saw the girl writing note, and ordered her to bring it to his desk She declined, saying that it was not suita ble for him to see, whereupon he told her to leave the school. She was just starting, when he approached her, and saying, 'You are not 16, and I'll lich you." struck her three blows upon the arm and shoulder with knotted stick inch in diameter. As she was starting again, he seized her by the hair and gave her another blow on the head. She went home badly crippled, perhaps for life. The citizens were very indig- nant and about 50 of them met the teacher in the street at night and mobbed him, but he escaped with few bruises. The next day he settled with his pupil by paying $25, and was warned out of town on pain of tar and feathers.