Litchfield enquirer., 1876-10-05
STATE ITEMS.

Hartford nas l4ad iss R-st A,,rry~ D. s. Thomas the aeronaut made an l ascension from Bridgeport on Tuesday.
 Tom Thumb cannot stay in Rhode
 Island. He feels so cramped up there.
 Judge Morrill, of the Police Court in
 Waterbury, had plenty of business on
 Tuesday after election. The result of the license victory there. Mark Twain presided at reception o1
 Gen. Hawley in Hartford last Saturday | evening. His introduction of General
 Hawley as a stranger to a Hartford audi
 ence was exquisite. - The varions banks in the state are ma
 king liberal contributions for the widow
 of Cashier Haywood who was shot by the
 robbers of the Northfeld, Minn. Bank
 while defending his post.
 | A convocation of the Episcopal clergy | New Haven county will be held at St.
 Johns church in Waterbury, Oct 24th
 and 25th. ..-,t .na
 A son of Noahdiah Warner, of South ! bury, fell from 8 car, ,and the wheel pass
 ing over him caused his death ina short l time. -a Work on the new opera house in
 Bridgeport proceeds rapidly. The front
 wall has been commenced, and the build i ing begins to assume recognizable form
 and shape.
 Mrs. Mary Potter, aged 56, killed her self with laudunum at the house of her
 brother-in-law, in Middletown. where she
 was visiting. through disgust at getting I drunk. Y @z1 5@s .ss z-.E
 At Creedmoor, the Second Regiment Ri. | he Team, J. E. Stetson, Captain, won the interstate match by thirteen points. The ] prize-ofered by the Commander.in- l Chief of the State of New York-is large
 bronze statuette, s'The Soldier of Mara thon," ]" valued at $35O.
 Philip Riley, of Waterbury, having
 beaten his wife Sunday before last 90 that she went to her fathers house, he follow l ed her and was ordered away. He then stabbed William Foster in the abdomen and his wife's father Robeft Woods, in l the head and arms, butboth will recover. Riley awaits hearing under $6,00O bonds.
 A little daughter of Thomas Smith, who I lives on the corner of Main and Congress
 streets, in Rrideepork fell from roof to the ground Friday afternoon. a distance
 of over three stories, and strange to say, l escaped with her life. Her leg was badly
 broken and her body covered with brui- ses. As she is not quite two years old. the fact that she was not instantly killed is almost beyond belief. @d @ = A Thompsonville father of a family re- gently desired the ordinance of baptism administered to his infant daughter, and it must be done that very. day. Calling successively upon a Methodist minister, then Baptist. Catholic and Congregation- ist, they were all absent from home, but. nothing daunted, he solicited the favor at the hands of Q dentist. As luck would haye-it, the dentist knew ofta ministerial stranger visiting in the village and he was pressed into service to relieve the fond fa- ther's anxiety. fsssa
 Hon. G. H. Hollister is engaged in pre- pairing a new edition of his history of Connecticut which will be brought down to the present time, giving carefully de- tailed account of the part taken by the State in the late war, as well as in the war of 1872, and in the war with Mexico. It is understood that the work will be pub- lished in four volumes with valuable maps and engravings, and will contain biographical sketches of all the eminent iurists, statesmen. lawyers, scholars, sol. diers. and other men of mark, from the earliest settlement of the colony It is hoped that all persons who can contribute any facts relating to the part taken by the State during the late rebellion, or to the. personal servlces of the officers and sol Ssl1ers of Connecticut, will forward them to HIT, Hollister without delay.
 The entire sophomore class of Williams College has been suspended for rushing freshmen. .ia af5as isaa teh