Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-22
MISCELLANEOUS

A BEAR PAYS VIs1r.-The editor of the Sullivan (Pa.) DemocrM says that large bear entered dwelling-house in the town of Cherry, and seizlng little child which was playing about the floor, commenced caressing and fondling it in the most tender manner. The child as we'll as the bear seemed highly pleased, and, strange to say, this singular proceeding continued for several minutes, till the terrified mother-the only person about the house-seized upon the opportunity to bar the door upon the rough in truder while he chanced to be on the outside The offended animal being thus shut out from further sport, retired to his home Tn the woods SOLD BY TEIEGRApH.-The Lockport Journal reports a practical joke perpetrated by one of the operators in the telegraph office in this city ] on those engaged in the Lockport office. The following message was sent by the former to the latter:
 To J. Bird-Do you want any feathers Will sell cheap. Answer. BoB o. LINZ. The Journal says the messenger boy was de- spatched to find J. Bird, and after making the circuit of the town, found man of that name. cartman residing south of High street. He did not want any feathers, however. ard know noth- ing about it! The operator at this place began to be enlightened this morning when asked by the Rochester joker how Jay birds and bobo- links were.
 An anomaly of New York justice is witness ed in that city. Alderman Richard Barry. who is under sentence to the penitsntiary for assault and battery, and is at present nominally in cus- tody of Capt. Bowling upon bench warrant. has been for three days filling the chair of Jus tice Connolly, at the Tombs police court. There are those so peculiar as to consider it odd that convicted criminal should be selected to ad- minister justice to rogues.
 A correspondent of the Cincinnati GaseHe says that the following is the substance of the platform erected by the Democratic State Con- vention of Iowa on the 22d ult.
 l. The American Eagle is a very fine fowl y 2 We unanimously vote Old Osawatomle to the devil.
 B. For the Black Republican party-the same nasty dish of soup.
 4. The Little Giant is a brick.
 5. Stephen A. Douglas is trump.
 6. Douglas is right bower.
 2. He'll do to tie to generally.
 8. We don't care red cent what shall be done at Charleston-we go in lemons
 The writer says further:
 It is platform which, to endorse, requires the sacrifice of independence and manhood on the dituA Oi 1hO party. AC IHe suDlIfHe doctrine that the Charleston Convention can do no wrong It was, therefore, nothing more than consistent for the Convention to 20 for the distinguished Senator from Illinois," who IS ever too ready to give up to party what was meant for mankind.
 Hon. Delana R. Eckles of Greencastle, now Chief Justice of Utah, has written home that he intends to abandon his post and return home in the spring. It is said that he finds the busi- ness of courts and judges neither pleasant nor profitable among the Mormons. In short, he is disgusted with them. @- -
 A LANTERN CAsE.-An ingenious mechanic of Holyoke has invented a cane in which is also a iantern-a stout elegant walking stick, and brilliant, steady light It can be lighted at pleasure, or borne dead, and without close ob- servation, is undistinguishable from Q common large sized walking-stick. It is useiul InVen- tiOn for doctors, watchmen, editors or da,iy pa pers and all other classes who have to pc out nights.
 saxe, the poet, in answer to an inquiry in re- l gard to the proper pronunciation or nis name, Writes enthusiastically thus
 The man who speaks of Saxe as Sax-e,
 Of course would call an axe an axe.
 Pray, tell your friend, good Mistress Fame,
 i've no acquaintance with the dame9
 If she should wish to use my name,
 To make the word rhyme to axe,
 Knacks, whacks, or cracks, or even smacks. 1
 And ell me pIsnly John Q, esx& '