Litchfield enquirer., 1875-09-23
STATElTEMS.

 Christ church in Bethany was reconse- crated on Tuesday.
 There was "no license" meeting in Meriden, Thursday night.
 Putnam has voted to expend SIG, 900 for fire department purposes.
 Over forty cases of typhus fever are re- ported in North Stonington.
 The "Butchers'" pionic at Bridgeport on Wednesday was grand affair, draw Ing 5000 people together.
 E1-Gov. Wise of Va. has written a letter to the N. H. Register proposing re- sumption in silver. There are four or five cases of chills and fever at Hartford, the first known since the first settlement of the place.
 The Bridgeport opera house and Frank lin hall were sold at auction last week, to R. E. Stanton, for S73, 1892.
 Mir. Hiram Leonard, an aged :and re- spectable resident of Cannon's Station, Wilton, died suddenly Thursday evening. Premiums to the amount of S1 800 are offered for the Watertown cattle show and far. to occur September 29th and 30th. Prof. Whitney has returned from Flu rope, where he made arrangements for | a new edition of the "Atharaveda.' Five thousand people were present at the laying Of the corner stone of the new l St. Patrick's church in Hartford, Sunday.
 The Boston Red Stockings played an exhibition game with the Stars at New London on Thursday, beating them 19 to | 1.
 It is reported that the faculty of Yale college have determined to abolish the annual rush" which Is set down for next Saturday.
 The Rev. A. s. Fiske, formerly of Rock vile, is going to San Francisco, to be- come pastor of the Howard street Congre- gationai church.
 The schooner Chattanooga, from Darien, Ga, arrived in Bridgeport on Monday with three of the crew down with ship fever. There are now on the rolls of the United | States pension agency in Hartford, the names of nine widows of revolutionary soldiers.
 A Mansfield correspondent says:- While other branches of busidess are dull, the silk manufacturers hore seem to be doing prosperous trade. The citizens of Huntsville have pur- chasen land and begun the foundation for a new depot, in accordance with the pro- visions of the act passed by the last legls- lature.
 The old silver mine in the northeastern part of Wilton is to be reopened by Tiff fany < Co.,, who havv a number of pen engaged in removing from the pit the | rubbish.
 Sunday morning the barn of the widow of Admiral Gregory at Morris Cove, near New Haven burned with two horses. The fire was probably incendiary. Loss. 5000.
 X gold watch and chain were found by workmen in taking down the chimney in Bacon's hotel, New London. They were in good condition. and had probably been there D years. The eleventh annual convention of the Connecticut Association of Spirltualists will be held at Bridgeport, commencing on Friday, at q o'clock p. m., and con tinuIng in session over the 26th.
 True bills for murder in the first degree have been found against Dwight F. Steere, who killed Fred White of Spencer, Mass, n New London. and Emanuel Monteiro, who killed Thomas Mckay in | Preston.
 George s. Lincoln < Go. of Hartford. are casting some immense iron columns for Batterson's new building, eleven of I the largest weighing seven thousand pounds each. and being the largest ever cast in the state.
 G. ". Yale, of the American rife team, attended the sharp shooting festival in West Stratford, on Monday, and gave an exhibition of his skill as a marksman. At the 1000 yards target he struck the bulls eye twice, and came within two points oi