Litchfield enquirer., 1876-11-09
STATE ITEMS.

St. Patricks Catholic church in Hart ford will lbe dedicated on the 26th inst.
 To get up 8 handkerchief filtration: Rule first, Get two handkerchiefs and two fools"
 . The Danburv Neavs man will lecture in Winsted. Nov. l4th. and in New Haven on the 18th.
 A barn connected with Links brewery in Rockville was burned by incendiaries Saturday morning.
 Waterbury has new $1O,OOO bridge over Mad river near inc American suspen- der company's factory.
 Forty pupils in one school at Groton are sick with diphtheria, and the teacher is down with measles.
 Two of the four boys who escaped from the Merfden Reform school, recent ly. have been caught i'll Berlin.
 Children playing with matches burned John D. Gaylord's dwelling house, at Ashford. recently. Loss, $2,O00: insu- rance, 5000.
 A number of the Danielsonville cotton
 
 wafer, are to be supplied with steam pow- CT. - j.s
 At the pond of Yellow Mill bridge, in Bridgeport, Sunday, the 99th ult, con- vert aged niEety-two years was baptised.
 The dwelling house and most of the furniture of $. W. Twitchell of Berlin, were burned the other night; loss 8, 3,5OO, party insured.
 A six pound cannon ball, supposed to be relic of the British General Tyron's raid on Danbury, was found in field in Bethel, recently.
 In Bethel, Sunday evening, the 18th nlt., Mrs. Joshua Hoyt. who has been de- mented for some time, set her clothing on fire and was burned to death.
 A Danbury horse thief was spotted at Turner's near New burgh, N. T., but he show ed fight and an Orange county officer was afraid to arrest him.
 Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe is living in pretty little cottage at Hartford, and is as sprightly and full of enthusiasm as a bright young girl
 The Rev. B. w. Parker, who went out from New London forty-four years ago to the Sandwich Islands on a whale ship, is now home for the first time
 The Hon. Thomas EImes, of Derby, shipped between two cars of a train ln motion, Tuesday, the 31st ult., but es- capped by clinglng to the iron guard of the cars.
 Large quantities of the goods stolen from Atwood & Betts' store in Seymour were found, last week. hidden in the woods in Oxford between Oxford turnpike and Quaker's farms.
 The four paper mills in the vicinity of Quaker hill at New London have been idle for nearly five months through the scarci of water, though they have orders enough to keep them busy all winter.
 The two discharged Windsorville wool en mill employees, Russell and Tobin, who lately fired the mill premises in revenge, were arrested, tried and bound over to the Hartford superior court Wednesday.
 "West" Hart, the Hartford bnrglar who escaped from the state prison day or two ago, has been caught in Hartford, where he had openly called on acquain- tances without any attempt at disguise. He is probably insane.
 During the torchlight parade of the Democrats at OolliEsville, Oct. 30th, a young man named Considine, from Un- ionville, was thrown from and kicked by his horse, breaking one leg below the knee. He had only recently recovered from broken arm.
 On the 3Oth ult. ,the family of Mr. Mon- son Curtis, of Stratford, became alarmed at his prolonged absence from home, he having during the day entered the woods, some distance from the house. 4 neigh bor went in search of him and found his dead body in the woods. where it is SUD- posed he was prnstrated by fit.
 The Danbury Nesss states that New Ha- ven marched procession of thirty tramps to the guard house last week, and a mistaken Democratic editor came out in the next evenings issue with "Another great rally for reform"
 The Hartford tobacco market during the past week showed no noteworthy change. The transactions m seed.leaf were less than those in the preceding weeks. Prices have not altered materi- ally, although there appears to be gen. eral tendency to buy at lower figures.
 The New Haven Palladium says Pro- lessor Simmer, who spoke in Lnonia hall Wednesday evening, was greeted with 8 very large audience. He began by assert ing himself non partisan and declaring that his ticket on Tuesday would be 8 conglomerate, made up of the best men on both tickets. He was frequently in- terrupted by applause.
 Sanford Yeomans, of Columbia, made desperate efforts to commit suicide, Mon- day evening. He repaired to field near his house and gashed his arm frightfully with large knife, cutting it to the bone, but not severing the artery. He then cut his neck, but failed to sever the jugular vein. Being missed he was sought for, and found with his life nearly extinct. It is supposed that he will recover.
 Elizur c. Doolittle, of WATERrows. has grown a common turnip this year three feet and two inches in circumference and weighing eighteen pounds. A blood beet of his measured only twenty -one inches in length. Conductor Gregory of the Wa tertown train had some of his fingers smashed while coupling cars, Monday morning, and Col. Hotchkiss, the depot agent, had to run his train.-American ~@ The death of one of the oldest residents of Brookield recalls an incident which happened some fifteen years ago. She was going to Stamford to visit daughter and took her seat in the cars for the first and only time in her life. During the fide the car in which she was seated was thrown down an embankment and demol- ished. Crawling out from beneath the debris, she spied 8 man who was held down in sitting position by his legs being fastened. ''Is this Stamford?" she anxiously inquired. The man was from Boston. He was in considerable pain, but he did not lose sight of the fact that he was from Boston, so he said: "No, this is catastrophe. "Oh," ejaculated the old lady; 'then hadn't oughter got of here. "-SprinafeId Republican.
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