Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

Melvin Foster, tho billiardist .of Nor uieh, IS going west. CaptMn St John, who cammittsd sui eide on an Albany steamer. Friday. was aI native of Norwich. si Twenty-six young women and nineteen young men graduated at the Hartford high school, Friday.
 The Meriden woolen mill was deluged with water by the bursting of 96 ton tank Wednesday night. George Lloyd, of Norwalk. was so ef- fected by the recent burning of his black smith shop asto lose his3wits.i f Alfred Merriman, of Piantsville, recent ly shot an osprey measuring five feet six inches from tip to tip of its wings. sA->-@
 The Hillyer Guard, of Hartford, have voted to take part in the Boston celebra- ton of the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17eh. x!sAgl41+s aa4 .se elH4,x saa John Cleary of Waterbury vent to con sult physician, Saturday, and fell dead of heart disease in the physicians office.
 The wood working shop of P, P. Brad leys wagon works in Meriden was burned Friday night. Loss s1,OOO; insurance %oUu. a2r8 vts{r Isp -5a.
 The first Connecticut river shad of the season, two in nnmber, were caught on the 22d inst. at, Griswold's pier, near Lyme. roia4 a't 9as II 7,7e2 ! ..a
 The old Day pottery works in Norwalk caught fire about four o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, and were burned to the ground.
 General Ross, we'll known as the colo l nel of the Twentieth Connecticut voluu- teers during the rebellion. has been de- clared insane.
 David A. Wells and Judge Foster. of Norwich, are among the invited guests to the dinner rendered Carl Schurz, in New York. .'-.
 The oldest man in the United States is Lomer Griffin, of Lodi, Medina county. Ohio. He was born on the 22d of April. 1759, or whereabouts, at Granby
 Rev. W. N. Morris, of West Hartford, who has been elected representative to the legislature, has resigned his pastorate of the Congregational church
 The trustees of the state reform school met at Meriden, Friday, to hear the charges of Superintendent Ingham against Assist ant Superintendent Little. + r. .t..t
 Benjamin E. Smith and wife, keepers of the house of ill-fame in Stafford, where Abram Wood was shot a few days ago, have been sent to Holland jail. to await trial. 1i.-- ' ''1'-...''.
 The epatent-sewing-machin motor fraud, George s Benson of New Haven, was sem fenced by the city conrt recently, on two counts, to jail for six months. lasl
 John Hooker, of Hartford. sailed for Europe, Saturday, to spend the summer with his wife, Mrs Isabella Beecher Hook. CT, and son, who have been abroad for more than year.
 Early Saturday morning the house of J. Winkley, in Warehouse Point, was burn ed, the family barely escaping with their lives. Loss @, ,5O0, on house, barn, and tobacco sheds. zIa3 < 5If; E. --.i,: -5 ;.
 A bIll will be introduced into the leeis- lature early in the approaching session. providing that no member shall be qualifi- cd to hold any office of trust or emoIu- ment in the gift of that body. 4 ...'... ''
 A man exhibiting q trained bear in Ches- hire, Tuesday, was attacked by the brute and severely injured. Nearly the whole of the scalp on one side of the keeper's head was torn of. -75.-a-..t t- -n...
 There was fight at the Grove house in Southington, Tuesday night. in which August Bedding was stabbed and John Miller had his head broken. The recovery of khA latter ia flouhted -''.s
 Professor Marsh, of Yale College has re- fused an offer of the chair of the late Jeff. ries Wyman in Harvard College, with a salary of $4 900, preferring to remain in his present position without any salary
 Chief of Police Chamberiin, of Hartford was tried Saturday for leasing and keeping house of illrepute, but vas discharged by Judge Merrill, who said not one of the four counts has been proven. sNr
 The Rev. A. B. Burdick, the Seventh day Baptist minister, of Westerly, R. l., who was involved in scandalous affair at Run Point, R. l., hss been deposed, and 1t is said will go into the life insurance business in New York. 1s1
 George 0. Woodruff. of Litchfield. Jo- seph Davenport, of West Hartford. and Samuel Mather, of Windsor, have been appointed to appraise land damages on the line of the Connecticut railroad in Wind sor and Enfield. ats. ,+s. EHs.,-s.-ff
 Proceedings have been instituted for foreclosure upon the Air Line railroad. by the legal firm of Seymour & Seymour of Bridgeport, who represent over S2. OOO. GOO of the first mortgage bonds of the road. On getting possession the bondholders propose to put the road in first-class con- dition.
 The old firm of Fairchild. & Stone. of Danbury, has been dissolved by sad and strange visitation of death to both part ners. MT. Fairehild died on Sunday, and Mir. Stone on Tuesday. They were both men of advanced years and were highly esteemed in the community. z,.i5s a,'
 Dr. Bacon, of New Haven, while in Mer- iden a few days since, to perform an op- eratioD, in all earnestness assured gem tleman that the number of cases of eye diseases he treated was unusually large since the Beeoher trial commenced. In almost every instance the patient sat up late, nights, reading the great trial reports.
 Among the minute men who rallied from old Connecticut, a hundred years ago. were Lieutenant Noah Grant, of Coventry, grandfater of the president, Captain Mo Clsllan, of Woodstock, grandfather of Geo. B. Mcclellan, and Captain John Adams, whose grandson, Rev. gDr. William Adams, of New York, delivered notable address at Lexington on Sunday. 4t4 t. fl
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