Litchfield enquirer., 1875-05-06
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 James Conedon died in Lebanon. las, week, aged 95 years. .,l
 They can't dlg parsnips nor post holes in Canton on account of the frost.
 An effort is to be made to raise $50. .OOC for free Academy in Norwich. Engineers are laying the line of pro. posed railroad along the East Haven shore. a'-a4 3. 1s5a
 The house of Elijah Williams, in Wal hngford, was entered by burglars, Friday night. zsasltz y.-Ga .4..,z
 By the recent advance'i in the value ol Union Pacific, New Haven gentleman gains about S200. 900. ...
 The Hon. o. H. Platt of Meriden. has purchased an S8,000 building lot and will erect a fine mansion.
 Nine new cottages have been built du- ring the winter in the vicinity of the Pc. quot House at New London.
 W. R. Holmes & Go. caught $500 ale. wives in Bride Pond brook, Mantle, last Monday morning.
 One thousand acres of woodland in the northeastern part of Lyme were burned over this week
 The Rev. Dr. Hawley, late of Danbury, will take charge of the Episcopal mission in Stafford Springs.
 Yale and Harvard are to have a foot ball contest. The first game will be al New Haven, May 18th.
 An anti-MasoAic society is holding 8 remind one of the days of Morgan.
 Judge Wiley of New London has re- moved to Hadlyme, and will hereafter practice in the Middlesex county bar.
 Thomas Hill, the Scovill House barber, on wager of $2O, smoked 100 cigars Figaro brand) in 13 hours.
 Stamford naw has a gentleman's club, of which c. G. Child, Esq. is president. It is named the Union club.
 AB Stone of Middletown, has leased the grounds around the old Savin Rock House, West Haven. for three years.
 Marital joys seem to disagree with Henry l. Fuller, of Stafford Springs. who was re- gently divorced from his sixth wife.
 The Meriden Republican says boy was killed in Middletown, Saturday, by an elephant connected with the Oriental cir GUS.
 A foundling was discovered on a street in South Norwalk Tuesday by the chief ot police. It was male infant two weeks old. .z..
 Mir Michael Burke's house in North Haven, was ransacked by burglars, Thurs day night. A watch and pocket book were stolen.
 Isaac Potts of Greenwich was run over and fatally injured while walking on the New and New Haven railroad track.
 A little girl in New Haven was terribly burned, Thursday afternoon, her clothing talking fire from the sparks of fire en- zine.
 A Saybrook fish dealer brought to town yesterday afternoon 129 fine shad, varying in weight from three to five and three quarter pounds.
 The schooner. Robert Palmer, of Noank, cut through by ice and sunk at Fall River, has been raised and repaired at a cost of about g, 900.
 There was another burglary in Meriden early Sunday morning, Mir. Philip Rand s house being entered and $15O worth of apparel, silver, &c., being taken.
 The Rev. David s. Brainard, for thirty four years pastor of the First Congrega; tional chuch in Lyme, and graduate of Yale, class of 1884, died on Friday.
 The Rev. Dr. William, an Episcopal clergyman, who died at Bedford. Pa, on the 25th ult, was 8 native of Woodbury, and had many friends in this state.
 An incendiary fire at Berlin Center.Sat, urday night, destroyed barn belonging to widow Bosworth, with a horse, two cows and two calves; Joss Sl ,000, uninsured
 4 swindler is reported in Meriden who sells . dozen spools of sewing silk for $1 to thirty housewives. When it is found that instead of 100 there are only 30 yards on spool, the bargain loses it's gilt edge.