Litchfield enquirer., 1878-06-27
STATE ITEMS,

The Episcopal church in Ansonia made $500 by festival last week. Bethel has decided to issue $25, ,OOO worth of , per cent. water works bonds. George B. Graves of Waterbury, the popular 1 temperance lecturer, is very ill. The Danbury warden and bnrgesses have voted to appoint thirty fire police. William Merriman caught sword fish sev- en feet long off Shippan Point last week. William w. Astor of New York, has rented the Collender mansion in Darien for $1, 900
 per month.
 The next annual meeting of the general
 association of Connecticut will be held in West Hartford.
 The Douglases caught 250 pound sturgeon, eight feet long, recently, at their fish grounds in Enfield <t Last week a boy named Nicholas Bozelle
 was drowned while bathing in Plainfield A three year old child rescued a younger
 one from drowning in New London cistern recently.
 Mr. Scanlon's house on Cork hill, Portland, was destroyed by fire at two o'clock of the 17th.
 The net loss of the American deaf and dumb
 asylum at Hartford on investments last year
 was $2. 961.
 A dead whale drifted ashore at the foot of Pc nbroke street, East Bridgeport, Wednes-
 q ay. The inhabitants thereabout held their
 noses.
 Professor William G. Sumner of Yale will deliver the address at the annual alumni meet
 ing, at the Norwich Free Academy, on July 5th.
 The comptroller of the currency recently
 auth eriZed the First National bank of Willi-
 mantle, with capital of $100,000, to con-
 mence business.
 There are between eight hundred and nine
 hundred delinquents in New Haven for taxes
 and over two thousand liens are to be placed
 on property.
 David Hurlburts house in West Cromwell
 was entered by a burglar, Wednesday night,
 and $500 in money and gold watch were | stolen. No clue to the burglar. The town of Easton has paid nearly $200 for the damage recently done to the sheep of
 Samuel B. Osborne of Bedding by dogs be- l longing to irresponsible citizens of Easten. MT. M S. Phelps Yale '69, former tutor at Yale and afterwards professor at Middle | bury college, has been elected to professor | ship in Smith college, Northampton, Mass. | Willie Canary, aged fourteen, son of An drew Canary, was killed Thursday evening in | the Ansonia clock shop. He was engaged be-
 hind the plainer, and was struck by board coming out of the machine. Robert Moran of Waterbury stole $500 from l the trunk of roommate in that place, Satur- day night, and it is known that he took the owl train from Bridgeport for Jersey City Monday morning. A Waterbury officer follow
 ed the thief to New Jersey. The wife of Postmaster Kilbourn of New ington discovered a tramp hiding in the cellar one night recently. The fellow assaulted her. tearing her dress. Her cries alarmed her hus- band who was near by, and as he hurried to
 the rescue the tramp escaped. The senior class at Yale had their class SUD- l per in the Grove Palace at West Haven, We'd nesday night. The students were very noisy, and created considerable disturbance Tn the town, much to the annoyance of the people l there As a finale, one of the party threw a | claret bottle through the fine plate glass win
 dow in the postoffice.
 Bishop Williams confirmed twenty three
 persons at Trinity church, Hartford on the 16th Of the fifty-fve confirmed at Christ church in ! the evening, two were from the Church of the
 Good Shepherd, the other fifty three, with
 nineteen confirmed at an earlier visitation,
 making seventy-two persons confirmed in
 Christ church within the year. A party of nine Mystic people startedin
 sail boat for Fishers island on Sunday of last
 week. On the way across the sound one of the
 party, observing that there was no flag at the
 truck to decorate the craft skinned up the
 mast with an improvised streamer to supply ] this defcency, when a slight puff of wind and the weight aloft suddenly capsised the boat, ter. Captain Andrew Potter of Noank was sailing near by and rescued all of them.