Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-11
STATE ITEMS.

The Danbury fire department has made $1, 900 out of a festival
 Parker'smill in Manchester was damaged by lightning, Thursday.
 Danielsonville is to haven soldiers monu- ment, to cost s, GOO.
 F. T. Barnum has bought fifty eight lots at Coney Island, each 20 by 100 feet.
 The Hartford nine was beatenin Providence, last week, by the New Bedfords, IS to 3.
 The Valley railroad took nearly thousand spectators to Fenwick, the 4th.
 There may, be single scull race between Yale. and Harvard on the Thames next fall
 The gift of I. c. Lewis of silver ware to the state reform school is valued at $1 ,000.
 Richard Delaney, while bathing on the 29th uit., in the Pequot dond in Montville, was drowned. s~
 South Norwalk has new paper, the Old WeU Local, published by John H. Wade and William A. Tolles.
 Que member of the winning Collegd crew, Mir, Ridabout, is a resident of Greenwich,
 Richard Rice, 19 years eld was drowned in the Pequot mill pond, Uncasville, Saturday afternoon. sfa3 g E
 :, E. T. Farnam $ Co.'s hat factory in Bethel was badly damaged by all incendiary fire Sat- urday evening. N,
 The county jail at Haddam is to be still fur ther improved, and the work will soon con- mence. !.
 The Hartford park bridges at Mulberry street and by the depot, long rotten and unsafe, are being replaced. m ...s.s.s
 The North Congregational church in Mid dletown was damaged by fire to the extent of $1 900 on the 2d. iRsa st.1 31
 George Allen ofSpringfeld, played checkers with A. O. Cleggett of Hartford, on the 2d Each won four games and ten were drawn.
 Wednesday afternoon an eight-year-old son of George Hellinger, a New Haven brewer, was drowned in Mill river while bathing.
 Walter F. Robinson. twenty years old, son of the Methodist minister in Yalesyille, was drowned while bathing, on the 2d. . +....
 The Harvard freshman crew have gone to Owasco (N. Y.) lake, where their race with the Cornell freshmen is to take place on the 17th.
 Charles Fletcher, eighteen years old, was drowned in the Glasgow pond, near the Gris- wold paper mill, on the 29th ut, while in bathing. s@- 5t{ ~ at
 George Gray, young man of South Man. chester, was drowned while bathing with a party of friends on the 1st in Globe pond.
 Broad Brook had rousing celebration on the Fourth. There was large gathering of people, dinner, an address by Joseph l.. Barbour etc. f>
 Pequonnock isenjoying revival of business. The Tunxis worsted mill is running over time, the weolen mill has started up, and the paper mill will soon follow suit.
 Cos Cob (StamfordD has house which, though tenanted, has been surrounded by scaffolding for years, because the state laws exempt unfinished houses from taxation
 A swarm of bees lighted on one of the trees in front of the old state house in Hartford Tuesday, and remained there all night, but were cut down Wednesday morning. and hived > l. E. Joseph NJ. MorehOuse, while loading hay in the field on his farm in Greenfield, Thursday was thrown to the ground by the sudden start ing up of his team, breaking his neck instant ly. a. 5..- ....r'
 Charles M. Drowne of Kenslngton lost 6 valuable COW on the 30th ult He had left 1T his barn box of Paris green mixed with flour for use on the potato bugs, and the COW got loose during the night and ate of it. The socialists held a mass meeting at th' old state house steps, in New Haven, Thnrs day afternoon, About 300 were present, ana were addressed by Leander Thompson of New York, V. G. Drury and Hugh McGregor. Mr. H. F. Bassett, the eminent entomologist | of Waterbury with some half dozen friend and their families, arc spending week a l Charles Island, bug hunting and enjoying thu | mellihuous salt air.
 l A Danbury woman of somewhat generou pedal extremities having spoken disparingly o another woman's fondness for a pet dog, ant l declared that she would not have such thin. about her, the other woman unkindly explain ed that the size of her feet prevented her iron keeping pet dog, unless the animal was stun! in hammock.
 From the Hartford library during June, 2, 23 books were taken out, the per centage being as follows: Fiction, 70R biography, A; his tory, 4; travels, B; arts and sciences, 6; poe try and drama, II; theology, H. miscelane ous, S. The average of fiction for six month was 6711 per cent. ...r
 Bishop J. H. Paddock of Massachusetts | Rev. Dr. Jehn A. Paddock and Emily Pad dock of Brooklyn, N. Y., and DT. Lewis l. Paddock of Norwich, have erected tablet t, the memory of their father, Rev. s. B. Pad | dock in Christ church at Norwich, where Il was formerly rector for twenty-two years. | The firing of a cannon in front of the hous of the injured White lad in East Bridgeport | Thursday, gave him such violent nervou | fright that he burst a blood vessel It will b l remembered that both his feet were amputate l few days ago on account of having bee crushed under the cars. The additional injur I renders his recovery doubtful. rss .--f
 At New Haven A naUe pras. has been CT tered in the long pending case of State vs. Ives in the superior court. The accused. who now in the south, was bound over by the cit, court, on charge of firing Kellogg x Ives keg factory in Fair Haven. It was charge that he hired John E. Powers to do the jo Land this man turned states evidence. Th' case never came to trial in the superior court but has Jagged along for number of years.
 The house of MT. Allen, the watchman a the Bristol rolling mill, was broken into, Sun day night. A day or two previous Mir. Ale I had drawn from the bank about $1 800 to bu place with, which sum was in the house Seven hundred dollars of the maney was i his coat, which. hung near the stove. Tn l burglars in their search knocked the coat frer it's hanging place, but did not disturb the mor ey. The burglars succeeded in finding but $ and a watch, which they carried off,, 1i... I .fa zsfst r., !.