Litchfield enquirer., 1874-09-03
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
 Glastonbury had its first frost, H'ezncs day morning.
 Mr. Rufus Hoyt. prominent citizen of Stamford, died Thursday afternoon.
 A man named Liski has been again pres ecuted for selling liquor without license.
 A young woman named Belle Dnrand has been arrested in New Haven oa charge of forgery.
 Mir. F. J. Fox, of Bridgeport, is to be- come law partner of Hon. T. M Waller, at New London.
 John Murphy, of Thompsonville, be- came last week for the twentieth time a happy father.
 A party of l 200 from Wiasted and the Naugatuck Valley picnicked at Savin Rock, Thursday.
 Captain Andrew Selleck, of NorwalK, has resigned his position as aid to Gener- al Craufurd.
 c. NJ. Pond, of Hartford. has sold his Hambletonian stallion ''Rydsick'' to a Canadian for SlO,OO0
 The machinery of the woolen mill in North Bridgeport, was shipped on Tues day, to South Pennington. Mass.
 The Ninth and Twelfth Conn. held Savin Rock, on Thursday of last week.
 Charles Mallory fell overheard, Monday afternoon, while sculling boat in New London harbor, and was drowned.
 George ". Hooper of the Gregory Point House, Norwalk, disappeared Friday af- ternoon. leaving 1t is said many debts. Mrs. Horace Russell died last week at Rocky Hill after long and distressing illness, the result of an impure vacclna- tion.
 Hawley Olmsted of Wilton, aged @, died suddenly of heart disease on Friday night. while riding home from the railroad depot.
 The Hon. Henry Ruggles of Norwich, late United States consul at Barcelona, Spain, arrived in New York from Europe Sunday.
 Damon Trenton, of Norwalk, has been appointed by Governor Ingersoll harbor master of the port of Norwalk for the next three years.
 The Rev. Dr. Hallam of New London has presented the Episcopal church in Putnam with beautiful light colored sandstone font, worth $500.
 The Rev. Olympia Brown, Of Bridge port, has a son. He was born at EImira, New York, Friday last, and has been nam ed Henry Parker.
 The New England Ready Motor con pany, with a capital of $500, 900, to manu- facture the Brayton motor, has been or 'ganized in Hartford. A fireman was fatally scalded and the engineer badly burnt by an injury to an engine boiler on the New London North i ern road, last week.
 They are going to give 'Esther in preparations are in progress under the supervisions of Professor Seager. The removal of buildings for the erec- tion of the new Peabody museum at Yale is ended, and the work of laying the foun- dations of the new edifice begun Hubbard Brothers, of Middletown, who recently suspended business, have made a compromise with their creditors which will enable them to resume immediately.
 A Mrs. Potter was found dead recently, in Bridgeport, lying on her bed in the up- per story of small two story house of which she was the sole occupant Mrs. Celia Burleigh, a widely known speaker and writer III reform circles. and widow of the late William H. Burleigh, the Connecticut poet, is in the last stages of consumption.
 ! George Keller and Patterson < Can field, of Hartford, respectively get the first and second prizes offered by the town of Taunton, Mass, for designs for a S20,- | GOO soldiers monument. 1 The freight receipts of the Connecticut 1 Western railroad have been larger, all the spring and summer, than last year, though the ore freight, worth about $15,000 a month, has been withdrawn.
 E. A. Steadman, for the last two years connected with the actuary department of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company, has been appointed actuary of the state insurance department.
 Sunday morning, Mrs. Elizabeth Whit son, residing in the Rev. D. E. Austin s tenement in Washington street, South Nerwalk, committed suicide by hanging herself by Q sash cord to one of the beams in the cellar.
 There are serious rumors of scandal in the New Haven almshouse. The Journal says:-It is stated that the assistant keep CT at the almshouse, Mir. Gully, was de- tected recently in criminal eQnyersation with an inmate of the institution.
 Barnum causes paragraps to be inserted in the papers to the effect that it cost him s5o,09G to move his show from Boston to New York, Does he expect any body is fool enough to believe such absurd sto- ries. He could get his show moved to Patagonia cheaper than that. l The Bridgeport Standard Tears that Mr. Lorenzo Sterling has 2 horse that will ri- val the fastest animals m the country. At Seaside park day or two ago the horse trotted mile in 220, with a two-seated carriage attached, in which were two per- sons. Mir. G. B. Waller is the owner of a horse that has record of 2:22!.