Brief round-ups of local news were quite common in the papers of yore, this one includes news of both Middletown and New Haven.
The "workhouse" mentioned in the Middletown news is probably the Haddam gaol and workhouse, built in 1845 for Middlesex County criminals.
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A chap entered a pupil at the school of Rev. Dr. Shears at new Haven, on Saturday, paid the years bill, $330, in advance, by a draft for $350 on a Boston house, and received $20 in change. His pupil has not come, and it has been ascertained that the draft is worthless. Dr. Shears should have been sharper.
Thomas Lawton, the proprietor of the New Haven News, received a caning at the hands of his employees, New Year's eve. He is said to have been pleased with the business.
Last Sunday, the Norwich churches contributed $250 to the relief of the Kansas sufferers.
E. Pendleton's chandlery shop on Long Wharf, New Haven, was burglariously [nice word!] entered Sunday and robbed of $100 worth of goods.
The clothing of a little daughter of George Brown of New Haven came in contact with a stove, Monday, and caught fire. The flames were not subdued before mortal injury had been received.
There was [sic] thirty-five fires in the city of New Haven during the year 1860.
Michael Smith and John Christie of New Haven died suddenly yesterday, of apoplexy.
The number of deaths in Middletown for the year 1860 was 116.
A man in New Haven bought a goose Monday, but it was so old he had not the heart or teeth to eat it and he gave it to a begger [sic]. He found it dangling from his door handle Tuesday morning. Beggars know what's what!
Edmund Smith of Middletown took a poor fellow to his house to give him a nights lodging last Wednesday, and the ungrateful dog rewarded him for his kindness by stealing an overcoat, a gold watch and $50, in cash from his protector. Not arrested.
They are waking up in Middletown. A negro stabbed an Irishman on Main street Monday evening during a fight, and another smashed in Paschley's show window, Christmas eve, for the purpose of getting winter quarters in the Workhoese [sic, should be 'workhouse']. He'll get it; and when they find the negro, he'll "get it," too.
Among the latest counterfeits reported by Hodges, are 5's on the New Haven Bank, altered--vig. haymakers, men, carts, hay, &c; 10's on Bridgeport City Bank; 5's on Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Hartford, vig. locomotive; 10's on Jewett City Bank, altered--vig. female seated on rock, men plowing in distance; 5's on Manufacturers' Bank of Birmingham, altered--vig. on right is child and lamb--red tinted.
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