Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-22
STATE ITEMS.

1 S4a1L 41Gx0O. A Winsted town meeting has resolved thai theTe should be court house and jail there.
 Mrs. Henry McVay of WilIimantic. who
 was bitten by dog ten years ago, has been attacked by hydrophobia. j
 Rev. W. E. Wright of Middletown, N Y., has accepted the call of the First Baptist church of Norwalk.
 Mrs. Alexander of Bridgeport. Charles Ly. on. Toswell s. Bartlett, George Bennett. and Arthur Bennett will petition the next legislat- ure for release from state prison. 7. s
 David Roach's barn, hay and one horse were
 burned Wednesday morning by an incendiary in Up-Town Derby. Partially insured by the Bridgeport agency for $2O0.
 Last week Wallace and George Terrell, aged twelve and ten years, sons of Mrs. Hen lrg Terrell of Colebrook, while on their way to sehpol stopped 10 try the skating on pond, and both were drowned by the bFeakipg of the lce. A s.s < 3 skd5sA 1sA 3a aS sh l Five years for breaking into and robbing the house of Charles W. Johnson, the Hart ford clerk of courts has been added to the ten I years Imprisonment to which Gillespie, Rev. Dr. Cages burglars was seteuced. b II The, latest plan in connection with an entry to New York city for trains of the New. Eng land. road is to have third elevated track built on Ninth avenue for their !accommoda- ton.
 Frank Evitts of New Preston IHiIl; was sur prised few days ago to find couple of deer feeding with his cattle. It is supposed they made. their escape from some ~menagerie and wandered up thete. CsS IUsAtD2 =
 The Northfield Knife company are compell- ed to run their factory evenings in order to keep up with orders The president of the com papy, Mir. F. H. Catlin, was delegate to the national tariff conveptoh yNsw York city. Fhe fcatafogie' of Wesleyan an university for 18S1-'82, shows that the number of students are: Seniors 26,jupiors; 8 sophgperes. 51, freshmen 61.a total of 184 ~ This is the farg. est number of students in any one year since the institution was found. There are also 16 female students. J@ FFas4
 Mrs Lucy Brainard of Hartford, celebrated her 90th. birthday last week, at the residence ,of~her daughter Mrs Florence Meafoy, iD that city. A large number of friends were present. together with her three remainlng children, grand and great grand4chiIdren. who spent pleasant evening. , } John Mpriarity Of sWilllmantic bought a coal stove recently and not understanding it's management the family on Wednesday night were nearly suffocated by coal gas. One was found upcofsscious, two were -arabie to stand, but prompt medical assistance restored them to their.nqrmal condition; sgnT
 While Gillespie and Thomas, the Hartford Ineff way to t6e state prIso oati,iaay s1 iautns M ing, the wagon was upset on Trumbuil street. and the four convicts were thrown out. How ever, they were safely chained together, and could not escape '+'-} <-- !
 The friends of the late Benjamin DeForest, of w atertewn, will mot suffer. much, the 5pangs of poverty through his charitable be aanests. saipunting to $50, 900 te avariois be nevolent institutions. It is said that his broth CT, Dr John DeF0rest, will realize about $15O, 900 from hls3 estate, and the children of his deceased sister as much more.
 Rev. J. E. Searles, pastor of the Washing ton Park ME Church, Bridgeport, has re- ceived a unanimous call to become the pastor of the Willard Street M. E. church, New York. Mir. Searles was formerly past or of the eWiiart Street church. z He expects to take selIarge of the church in New York next spring.
 It is settled matter that the New Haven and Derby Railroad will be extended to Shell ton. Tn the town of Huntington. President J. H. Bartholomew said recently, that all the land required for the extension could not be purchased readily, but the object desired could be effected byEleases costing but $18,- 200 a year. The extension's warranted by the increased manufacturing in Shelton, and may eventually lead to. g further extension and connecdon1 with the New England Road. -
 Chin Tah Fay. a Chinese student in the fam lily of MT. Charles Phelps. of Hebron, about two years ago was sent back to China by the commissioners for general misconduct A letter received a few days since from one of his fellow students, stated that MT. Chin had since his return tolChina displayed his fero- ebaa dispositionby nprdenng his fathel for which act he has been beheaded. He was while in this country terror to the family in which he lived.
 There is to be found in the office of the journal clerk of the house at Washington an ancient and interesting relic of star route af- fairs. It is a contract dated November 15 1882, between Charles Patrick of Norwalk, Conn.,, aad the United. States government, for the former to Garrytthe mails three times week in two horse coach. between Norwalk and Canaan, Conn.,, at $12.5O quarter, or $50 per annum. The contract is embelished with a wood cut;of an ancient Concofd coach, drawn by four spirited horses.