Litchfield enquirer., 1876-10-19
STATE ITEMS,

JOuA OuChous WHO 1htally SLaDOeQ EaC- rick Smith in Bristol, Sept. Both, was day night.
 A man eating ''raws" in Falr Haven oyster shop, the other day, found his mouth full of gravel. as he thought, but taking them out. counted 35 pears.
 Colonel Hoyt of the Fourth, IS on the stump for Hayes and Wheeler. i'll his dis trict. The Colonel is tt good talker as well as good soldier.
 George Gaylord of Watertowu, took an ounce of laudanum Thursday morning, but his wife gave him milk and lard and he thres it mp Jealousy i, suspected to be the cause, aud yet he is not four mouths married.
 John Wiley, of Hartford was found ly- ing On the gronnd, near Penfeid's woods, Sunday morning, nearly dead from expo sure to the weather. He was taken to the city hospital.
 Judge Carpenter has decided that school visitors being elected for term of three years and not for one, do not, un- der the law hold over till January, but enter at once upon their duties, and should therefore reorganize as heretofore.
 Mrs. Phoebe A, Hanaford, Universal ist minister in Jersey City, N. J. former ly of New Haven, recently performed the marriage ceremony at her daughters wedding This is perhaps the first fn- stance in the world in which a lady has been married by her own mother.
 Russell Johnson, of Bozrah. shot Os- car Dart, at that place, on Sunday, the 9th. The wound is a gunshot wound in the arm and face, and the right eye will be totally ruined. Johnson had his ex- animation before Justice Albert Water man and was bound over to the next term of the superior court on a charge of an assault with intent to kill.
 W. H. Nash of Plainfeld, Conn.,, beat W. c. Gompff of Waltham, Mass, in 8 contest for the croquet championship of New England, recently. scoring I2s wick cts to 21 for his opponent.
 Mark Twain has become an inventor, and has produced a new style of scrap book with the mucilage already on the leaves.
 The Democratic majority in Hartford will be reduced one ln November by the action of the Bridgeport city court Fri day morning in sending John O'Brien to jail for forty five days. He was pulled in for drunkenness and wanted to be released as he was on his way to Hartford, to vote for the great reformer Tilden. It is ex- tremely likely that he will fail to connect.
 They attempted to take one of Barnum' 's new giraffes across Rhode Island last week but just as it was on the Massachu- setts line it reached over and ate up about half of hay stack in farm yard in Connecticut, and when the farmer came out with a club and attacked the Connecticut end, the Massachusetts end, got mad and kicked man in Boston and nearly killed him It created a good deal of excitement at the time in Rhode Island, and most of the people stepped out of the State till it was over.-Nor- aCich Bulletin.
 The Tomlinson Spring and Axle works in Bridgeport were obliged to stop oper ations Saturday morning for want of wa- ter for their engine. An examination of the trap in their water-pipe revealed the cause, and four large eels weighing one pound and half each were soon taken out. The water then flowed freely and work in the shop was resumed. The Housatonic river is being trapped by professional trapper, who travels down the river with two boats, a tent and some 200 traps, moving down about two miles each day. He began at Pittsfeld a week ago. and on Saturday had already 3O8 muskrats and two otter He says that after an experience of 20 years in trapping, he never before was on river where the muskrats were so thick and good as on the Housatonic, and he pro- poses, if his good luck continues, to fol- low the river to the mouth. He has 8 contract with the Gunthers of New York, who pay him 20 cents each for muskrats, making his weeks work yield hum over S60