Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-01
STATE ITEMS.

Birmingham is suffering from incendia- rism.
 The Yantic mills average half tune for December.
 Milford has voted to erect $1 ,500 sol diers' monument next spring.
 W. P. Bishop, formerly of Woodbury, is now a county judge in Kansas.
 The snow was 9 inches deep on level in Hartford, Monday.
 There were three burglaries in stam- fold, last week.
 The Prohibitionists hold their State Convention on the 18th.
 An Irishman was killed in a Bolton quarry, last week.
 A New Haven bakery burnt down, 0uno"J --;el-+s l.,es S9. GOO.
 St. Paul's chuEeh, New Haven, has been renovated and was re-consecrated, last week. -s
 Edward H. Nash's barn in Westport was burned on Friday, causing a loss of $2, 900. ,.s
 GYle Parallel road surveyors are on the beaten track between Derby and New York.
 Samuel Truesdale and wife, of Putnam, celebrated their golden wedding on Christ mas eve.
 The wife of Hon. s. W. Kellogg, M. C., has been lying seriously i'll i'll Waterbury, but Is now better.
 The Dexter Paper Mill at Windsor Locks burnt, last week Loss, $75, ,000; insurance, $5O,OOO.
 Many of the creditors of J. Wilcox & Go. of Meriden have accepted the offer of B 1-3 per cent for settlement. ...
 Two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars worth of property in New Haven was burnt during the year.
 A joint stock company with a capital of $4, GOO has been organized at Nichols
 A company with capital of $12O,OOO has been organized in Meriden to manu- facture Halls Automatic Railway signals. The A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Go. s large cotton mill at Baltic, closed the past five weeks, has started upon full time again.
 Mir. Curtis l.. North, who failed so dis astrously in Meriden about 20 years since, is now a wealthy resident of Brooklyn, N, '. .....
 On Christmas day row occurred in Milford and one Halihan was nearly be- aten to death by two brothers named Led dy.
 A little son, seven years old, of Samuel W. Chattaway, of South Farms (Middle- town), was drowned in the Lanseer pond on Friday. zz sesae. ~s
 Dyer l.. Cheesebrough, we'll known merchant in Norwich, shot himself fatally by accident while out hunting on Christ mas day.
 Governor Booth of California, who has just been elected United States senator, is native of the town of Woodbridge, ill this state.
 North Stonington sent of over forty thousand pounds of Christmas turkeys, the largest one weighing nearly thirty four pounds dressed.
 Charles Crossland, a carpenter, fell from the new Congregational church in Waterbury, last week, and sustained fracture of the skull and hip. It is thought he will recover. HE- -.sE
 The only son of Michael Brady, ten years of age, was kicked by horse in Southington, on Saturday, and instantly killed. The horse was rolling and the boy struck him.
 The building of the Cheshire academy, which was burned short time ago, Is to be replaced with structure to cost $30 900, ground for which was broken last week. ls#azs. sET
 Mrs. Gilbert, leading singer in the choir of the Congregational church, Walling- ford, has been presented with 9 purse of some $200 as token of the appreciation of her services.
 James Gorton. an old man living in Central Village, strayed away from home on Sunday and on Monday his dead body was found in ditch near the mouth of the Moosup river. The Rev. Mrs. Hanaford has accepted 8 call made her to become pastor of the | Universalist church in Jersey City. She will remain in New Haven with her old charge until April next.
 During Saturday night the roof of 5. R. Dorman's carriage repository on Gofe street. New Haven, fell in from the weight | of snow upon it. Twenty-Five finished carriages were inside. The damage to the building is $500; to carriages $l, 300. |
 Henry Wilson's Christmas music at Christ church, Hartford, is highly prais- ed by the Courant. ''1t was in perfect keeping with fhe devotional and joyous