Litchfield enquirer., 1878-08-01
STATE ITEMS.

rapidly. The Stonington railroad has declared onar- l terly dividend of 1I per cent.
 The reunion of the Twelfth c. V. will be held at Huntsville, Septemper 19.
 The Danbury hat manufacturers arg upite bnsy and feel confident of a good trade
 Mrs. James O'Neil of Portchester was drowned in the Byram river last week. The athletic sports of the Southington cut lers, in Southington on the 22d, were witness ed by 5000 people. The Stamford Game club offer S25 reward | for the arrest and conviction of any violator of the game laws. .., The Higganum Manufacturing company have recently shipped supply of trucks to equip railroad in Russia.
 A horse belonging to E. P. Brown of New Fairfield, died last week with every symptom I or having been poisoned.
 1 Willie Bowen, aged IS, was drowned by | the upseting of boat on the Ousatonic at Bir mingham recently. -=.
 The Seymour paper company of Windsor Locks have made 10 per cent. reduction in wages of their employees. ....f ,e. The turner's at A. E. Smiths Sons pottery. Norwalk, struck last week against reduction ot 10 per cent. in their wages.
 l Park church, Norwich, has called the Rev. 1 Leonard w. Bacon to it's pulpit. Mr. Bacon has just declined call to Pittsburg 1 Quite severe hail storm passed over the northern part of Holland, Sunday afternoon. doing considerable damage to the crops
 The Danbury reformed men have just erect ed drinking fountain, by the postoffice, which IS to be supplied with ice daily. Another is to be placed near the corner of Liberty and Main streets.
 Burglars took some cigars Sunday morning from w. Harlan's store in New Britain. and that night they took $1OO worth of cigars from Schmidts cigar store in the same city.
 At one haul with seine last week Captain Charles Hendley of Westport, took 1000 pounds of bluefish andnineteen sharks from three to eight feet long. s.3I1
 Kern Eagan, workman in the Hartford city quarry, had his body drawn into the stone crusher recently and was horribly cut, but 1t is said that he will recover. Bridgeport people had a meeting Monday I evening to see what could be done to enforce stricter observance of Sunday in that city. l The large barn and sheds of the Shakers in Enfield were burned by an accidental fire; loss $300O, insurance S1250. Heber Sanford, who is .ffty-seven years old l and always resident of Beacon Falls, rode on the steam cars the other day for the first time
 Mrs. Andrew Prentice's barn in Gilead was burned last week, with from twenty to thirty tons of hay. calf and other property. Francis Haas of New Jersey visited Charles Fix in Meriden the other day, and Fix stole $500, from him all the money he had in the world. -2e1 2si2e il.--' 5z;F s...
 Farnk D. Welton of Waterbury has receiv- ed the appointment of relief rout mail agent on the Naugatuek and Danbury and Norwalk railroads. sa.-3l .fs,s -I ,a
 George M Prout, prominent resident of Branford, has left his home and gone to parts unknown. He was the perpetrator of several forgenes. iE The long list of eutrages committed on the Blanchheid farm in Windsor is heightened by the burning of a shed with $380 worth of lum- Der init. s 8s fa-ss 5sf,sy 'sf. K-3
 h long range practice shooting at Willow brook, on Wednesday, Nathan Washburn made ( 900, and 72 at l, 1000 yards.
 John Hanford, one of the victims of yellow fever at the Brooklyn navy yard, was resi- dent of Stamford. He was soon to have been married to young lady of Roxbury.
 William Wagner, of Meriden, employed on a train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was struck by bridge at Saugatuck, Wednesday, and killed
 A new dwelling house belonging to Mir. Wm. Cole in Stratford was destroyed by fire, Wednesday morning. The loss is about $4,000, on which there is nc insurance
 Hartford is about to build new reservoir, with capacity of 600, GOO, 900 gallons which the last legislature authorized, and for which there is an nnexpended appropriation of $7O,- 900. The water will be taken from Farming ton river. @- 1t t4@s Es t=3 E. .*5t+.aI