Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-08
STATE ITEMS.

Town again.
 The Shore Line Railro ad company has declared dividend of B per cent.
 The farmers of North Stonington have formed club for mutual improvement.
 Reed, the New Haven incendiary, has been bound over for trial in the sum of $500.
 Edgar A. Moshier has been appointed post master at Poquonnock, Hartford county,
 Thirteen New Haven banks have de- clared semi-annual dividends amounting to $519,OOO
 Deacon Humphreys, well-known citiz- en of Unionville, committed suicide on Sunday morning.
 w. P. Bishop, former resident of Woodbury, has risen to the pos ition of judge of Labette county, Kansas.
 Mrs Riley, the New Haven som nambu list, has died from the effect of exposure ln her recent night-walking experience.
 It is quite remarkable that New Haven had last year only $1 ,OOO to pay to claim ants of damages for injury to the person.
 The Connecticut prohibitionists are to nominate state ticket, at New Haven, Jan. 15th
 The Palladium building in New Haven caught fire, last week. No serious dam age done.
 The banks and insurance companies of Hartford divided about one million dol lars among their stockholders on the 1st.
 The N. Y., N. H. S Hartford R. R. Co divides three-quarters of million among its stock holders this month.
 At St Roses Catholic church in Meridian Friday morning Miss Mary A. Burke. daughter of James Burke, took the White Veil.
 From the report of the secretary of the New Haven Harbor committee it appears that the survey of the harbor cost about Sl0,OO0, half of which he city pays.
 On Saturday night Miss Lucy Devine. aged about forty years, and em ployed in factory atIHopeville, near Norwich, drown ed herself in the river at that place.
 The receipts of tho Naugatuck railroad during the past year have been $543, 936.71, while the expenses have been $3lO. 7O8. g leaving profit of $224, 22839
 Tennie c. Clafin acted the part of "Portia" in the Merchant of Venice" at New Haven, Friday night. The cast was beneath criticism, as was Clafin's attempt at acting
 A small portion of the machinery in the Hartford carpet company's mills at ThompsOnville is idle, but there is no re- duction in the hours of labor. The wa ges of the employees have been cut down 10 per cent
 Two boys, Mccarthy and Murray, who escaped from the state reform school anl preyed upon various localities of the state, have at length been arrested by Cheshire sheriff for committing burglaries in that town.
 Russell Humphrey, for the past 30 years a well known manufacturer in Unionville cut his throat on the morning of Decem- Der 18th, while in fit of mental depres- sion. The wound proved fatal.
 The "Wilkesbarre and Lehigh coal com pany," which Is intended to be one of the largest and most powerful in the country, has selected New Haven as one of it's great depots.
 The Young Mems Christian debating society of New London which has eluci- dated so many knotty subjects, has at length met it's match i'll the question Do Animals Reason"
 It is proposed in Norwalk to unite the borough and city of South Norwalk into one city, and purchase the magnificent residence of the late Le Grand Lockwood for city hall.
 Prof Theo. W. Dwight of Columbia law school, who has lately been appoint ed a judge of the court of appeals of New York, is a grandson of Timothy Dwight, once president of Yale.
 The soprano of Trinity church, New Haven, recently visited thehospital and cheered the patients of each ward by singing 10 them many beautiful and appropriate selections.
 Elder Lutz of New Haven was present ed with thirty-one pieces of silver Gone more piece them Judas received) and de- cent suit of clothes, on New Years day by his flock. He is soon to depart on revival tour in Maine.
 Tine Norwalk Hour says, ''E. A. Wood ward has been ill town during the past week, has not been in the streets, it being deemed best for him to keep pretty close at least for the present"
 Norwich chronicles a new local indus try, it being the New England snow shov- el manufactory, which proposes to turn out three hundred snow shovels of new and improved pattern per day.
 The dividends paid by the New Haven banks in the last six moths, together with those paid by the gas and water compa- nies, and the consolidated, Shore Line and Canal railroads, amount to $1, ,453,- 888
 Birmingham authorities are sharp after the fire bugs who have caused so much trouble recently. A reward of $500 has been offered for the arrest of them. A young man by the name of Read, was caught few days since under suspicious circumstances, and was bound over for trial.
 A Poughkeepsie paper says:-"A book agent from ConnecticuE whose name we did not learn, was knocked down and rob- bed on Bridge street, last evening, of ten or twelve dollars in money and some art- cles he had on his person. He was quite badly injured. The villains escaped.
 Some people have strange passion for funerals. Two old ladies start ed not long since from - to attend a funeral in neighboring town. When there the man was recovering. In their desperation they asked the first person they met, 'Tsn't there & funeral some aohere that we can go to?''
 In settling the estate of the late Elisha Naples of Bozral1 Center the administra- tor found, stored away in an old bureau drawer, $150 in bank notes, which had lain undisturbed for yeals. They were all notes issued by Norwich banks, and covered all the discount banks in existence in town at the time