Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-25
STATE ITEMS,
July 18th, 1878.

STATE ITEMS. The carpet bug has appeared in Hartford. Hay is selling through the state for $10 and 1 $1s ton. ys II. The river at Hartford is 80 low that the New York boats are having trouble. Hartford man is successfully cultivating pond lilies i'll barrel of water in his yard f Stephen V. Ingham, formerly prominent fcariage-maker in New Haven, died on Thurs day. .aa while bathing in the Norwalk river at Nor- | walk on the 18th. ..a. E. A large number of New Haven professional
 menhave gone into the country or to the shore l resorts. |t R. 'Es .H }t3 '5 1 Four months old New London chickens have been distinguishing themselves by laying l eggs @ > sI .s j.. ae1 l., Joseph Gloster, five years old, was drowned 1 while bathing in the Connecticut at Hartford l last week. ..''-.'.. ia i--'- .--
 Charles Chapman, Westport farmer, rup- l tured blood vessel, last week, and soon died. Arza Riggs, of North Haven, tried to kill himself with laudanum recently, but stomach pump saved him.. '" e. .- F. Samuel Thorp's barn above Beach's woods 1 in Bridgeport was burned, last week, with about thirty tons of hay, tools, etc. .,. :. Tramps broke into the store of the Yantic company at Yantic Wednesday night, pried open the safe, and got about $50. ~. A man named Stewart working in the em- tNInx <f NNTnn1 1l@ <>eS dead on the 18th, while at work. ..7I The notorious East Hartford lbertine, F. l H. Buffum, is preaching at North Pownal, Vt., under the name of ''Rev. Henry Buff fum."
 1 Secretary Thompson and other naval digni- ! taries with their families, arrived at New London on the Tallapoosa Wednesday after noon t-...' '.t t.H ..... ''Peter Parley's" old mansion at Southbury has been turned into summer hotel; his I grave is in small burial ground near by,
 marked by simple tablet. .. .~.... John Harris, who tried to run away without l paying his bill at New Haven hotel was fin 1 ed $10 and costsin the city court, and had l to go to jail. ..1 "9 .e.. ... ,.fa. ~'..l Professor Arthur Wright of Yale college,
 will accompany the party of distinguished l English scientists who have started for Col orado to observe the coming eclipse,
 MT. Robert c. Pike has sold the Middle l town Sentinel and Witness to Ernest King, proprietor of the Monitor, and the papers will l be consolidated. ~l 3aF s.. l Two Hartford runaways have recently been saved from serious and possibly fatal l results by having fat persons in the carriages
 who tumbled out and blocked the wheels
 Last Week the body of Wv. Earl was found near the railroad just west of the depot
 at Milford. It was very much mangled and
 the skull torn open,
 | The Adventists will hold a camp meeting in
 Clark's grove, at Tylerville, opposite Good 1 speeds Landing, on the Connecticut river, be-
 ginning August 4, and continuing for one | week. ~ f.. -.a .g.. ..
 Since work on the new Hartford postoffice
 building was resumed, from 150 to 200 tons
 granite have been placed in position and 150,- l 900 brick laid raising the walls to nearly l their full height,
 The temperance people at Thompsonville
 evidently mean business. They had Liquor
 Dealer Cook pulled out of bed recently at
 midnight for being drunk, and fined him the
 next day $10 and costs. .s@
 Levisa Bowen of Norwich, who was tried
 not long ago for murdering Benjamin Mqzzy,
 is again before the public The other day
 her father beat her, broke one of her arms,
 and then left for parts unknown. l The barytes mines of Cheshire, which at
 one time gave employment to five hundred
 men, now have only four. The falling off of
 the number of men employed is mainly due to l 6o cVp1o1 1vyfxv houxr
 The old copper mine near Wallingford, in
 which some $90, 900 was sunk 15 years ago, is
 HOW being preitably worked by Rhode Island | parties. The ore Is said to be very rich, and
 small quantities of gold and silver are also i found. - a4...t ALL, .-l.s ..,, The new company who are working tn e
 copper mines in Cheshire intend to expend l $75, 900, in getting the mines in working con-,
 dition. Thomas O. Shaw of Providence. a
 practical miner, is the superintendent Spec-
 mems of the ore assay $137 copper, $34.80
 silver, and $1s.12 gold, per ton. .}tfsf , 7" Professor Marsh of Yale, has been finding
 more toothed birds among the Wyoming and
 Colorado fossils, besides the petaifed remains
 of 300 or 400 dinosaurs, a mammoth kanga-
 roo of the crocodile order sometimes 100 feet long, and about 1, 1000 pterodactyles, sort of
 winged lizard 30 to 40 feet long. g.g +.,s.5
 One of the prominent physicians of Hart | ford the other evening ordered his hired man
 to ''harness up Bucephalus," his favorite
 horse. Soon after the doctor and a friend
 were greatly amused to hear the announce
 ment at the office door that ssEryspelas is hitched outside" H3s -f !72 s 1 At Newtown, Thursday afternoon, while in
 the hay-feld, Michael McNamara fatally
 stabbed Martin Nc Namara with a pitchfork, in the head. Death ensued in an hour. The
 murder is supposed to have been premeditated. They are cousins and had been drinking. At Meriden, Mary Brewster an unmarried
 laboring woman of about sixiy years. living I with the widow and family of her dead brother
 was found dead, recently, at 10 o'clock, in small pool made by damming brook running l through the swamp west of the avenue. 1 From all appearances the body had not been ] in the water over an hour. The feet were firmly tied together, but no cause is assigned | for the act. 'ftt t5i'} 1tt'f >ih = l The New York World says :7-Mrs. Emma
 Judson, the wife of retired liquor merchant
 of Bridgeport, and the daughter of Mrs Mar l garet F. Lindsley of Lexington avenue, Brook I lyn, while under the influence of liquor, few l weeks ago, assaulted her mother and was sen-
 tenced to the penitentiary for six months, l Yesterday, upon writ of certiorari she was
 admitted to bail Mir. Judson some years
 since obtained divorce from his wife, but afterwards remarried her. He subsequently,
 left her because of her habit of intemperance l Mrs. Judson is handsome and well educated
 woman, and of very respectable family,