Litchfield enquirer., 1878-08-08
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
 Three men caught 800 crabs off Black Rock Wednesday.
 The missing New Haven boy, John T. Coyle, has been found. "@ The river at Windsor Locks is full of black bass and surgeons. aii .,sE .. s -- The win of the late Mrs. Judge Butler of Norwalk is contested - The prosecuting attorney has driven band of gypsies outof Bridgeport. The borough election in Stenington resulted l in favor of the democrats '- Dr. Charles P, Uhle of Bridgeport died at Hachettstown, N J., on the 26th ult. . The reports from the Connecticut tobacco | crop are on the whole favorable.
 ] The factory of the insolvent New York
 Betting and Packing company is in Newtown. 1 H. w. Wakeman of Greens Farms has l raised s, 900 pounds of entrants this year. The Canal Paper company property in l Windsor Locks is fast deteriorating from neg ! lect | '5'@ ft@a'r
 l David Ritchie of Baltic has been made a
 raving lunatic by the loss of his wife and chil- | dren. at ..s ..-.g.t -,. ....... l New London has figured out the net ex- 1 penses, of the Yale-Harvard ragatta -$1, ,831. Oliver Cromwell, from England, was sent l to jail for a month in New Britain, Thursday, l for stealing. 3a3..s .s..- s.-. .rs.... -u. 1 Miss Ellen Day, a Norwich spinster, has | been sued for $4,OO0 for islander by her neph- ew's young wife.
 Burglars got into the pestofice in Danbury l the 25th ult., and stole a few dollars from some letters. ..f
 They are selling photographs of the Glas- tonbury Smith sisters at Hartford for the ben eht et the State Woman Suffrage association The government, despairing of beer being l reduced to three cents glass, has decided to call In the three-cent pieces. -DGne6ary Neacs. James Lyman is on the road to state prison. A kind New Haven lady gave him breakfast, | and in return he stole an umbrella .. Charles Allen of South Norwalk was ar l rested, last week, charged with keeping an
 unlicensed dog, found guilty and fined $1 and l costs. ,s'3 @ 5it l A few nights ago some scamps entered the barn of the hotel in Glastonbury and sheared 1 the tails, names and forelocks of three horses H. J. Arnold the New Britain correspond
 ent of Hartford Sunday paper, was hung in 1 effigy the other day by some people whom he had displeased. ''+ | --' 4 l Eighty thousand dollars have already been 1 expended on the Hartford cathedral, which is 1 finished only above the basement, and the
 more recent subscriptions foot up only $12 l 0O0
 There are seven men living in and near Put
 nam whose united weight tips the scale at 1 1, 79O pounds; the heaviest weights BIO pounds,
 and the Gglitest 245. -t "4t-5.t | At the saloon of one O'Brien in Pennington
 recently row occurred, and a son of the pro- | prietor hit the old man on the head with
 hatchet making probably fatal wound. @ 1 Morris Ketchum, upwards of eighty years
 of age, and for many years engaged in bank ing in New York and Charleston, S. O., is
 dangerously i'll at his country residence in Westport. is.r s" 1 Messrs Russell, Robinson and Benedict of Waterbury are prospering in the cattle bus
 mess in Colorado, eighteen miles from Denver,
 with 12, 900 head of cattle. They greatly en- l joy their life. rs. @.,s; | ,.sess-E r -y 1 Elihu Wilder of Manchester, N. H., has in vented mitraflleuse which he thinks is supe-
 rior to Dr. Gatling's invention, and he appeals l to Bridgeport capitalists to start company l for him. '@t5.5 @' 1 The Tweedy manufacturing company of l Danbury, the largest hat establishment in the
 state, is putting in additional machinery. Twelve telephones connect different rooms
 and buildings of their factory. @.. E.. 2 l Eli Goodrich, proprietor of shore resort at Indian Neck, Branford, grossly abused his wife and her sister, last week, and justice
 fined him to the extent of $43 His wife has
 left him and so have his thirty boarders. Y 1 Nine more of the Southington roughs were
 brought before a justice, Friday, and were 1 bound over for trial-making seventeen in all. l Others of the gang have fled, one to San Fran
 cisco and one to Buffale. f.s o | Fred Law Olmsted has submitted to the
 capitol commissioners his plan for the 1ay-ou
 of the capitol grounds. His sketch includes
 not only the late college property, but the west end of Bushnell Park, even as far as ! Asylum street. -"'.e-e - AtA' a",, l. Last week. as Otis Benger of South Norwalk ! was walking in a retired street, a man asked l how much money he had. BeRger replied l that it was none of his business, whereupon l the highwayman sprang for him, and as they
 came in close contact Benger stabbed pocket
 knife into his back. The wounded man es-
 capped. 1.a7.s aa tia!T r.. e..s4 .s- s.. | David O. Chapman is much married man. While in Yalesvilie, last fall, he married a re- l spectable young lady, but had to leave her | when the fact leaked out that he had three other living wives. " a < 7-l. asis l Simon Mccullough, twelve years old, fell out of an apple tree in Bridgeport, Thursday. | His arm caught upon an iron hammock hook l which tore in the flesh gash fifteen inches | long, reaching to the bone. He will probably l lose his arm, a.o. .s<fg ..ga xs 3i'Iz 7t:a Af, l The Stamford .AdcocGte says that at the | funeral of F. Cragie, who had been in the l liuuor business at Mianus, last week, Rev. 1 MT. Graves preached a funeral sermon from l the text ssWoe unto him that giveth his neigh l Dor drink, that putteth the bottle to him, and 1 makest him drunken also" Half the congrega- | ton, offended, left the church. l An attempt at robbery was made upon Dea- con Taylor, clerk at. Osbcrnes store, Brook l field, ensthe night of the 23d ult. He had just 1 rot home when some one knocked. As soon | as he opened the door, a man wilma drawn revolver demanded his money or his life. MT. ], Taylor, suddenly giving the man push. sent him some distances; and shut and locked .the | | door, Nothing more was heard from the would-be robber.