Litchfield enquirer., 1860-01-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

chaise, and after bidding him goodbye, said, I admit it. Admit what he exclaimed. That you are the greatest man in England.'" It was Smith, too, who spoke of Macauley's brilliant flashes of silence so constantly did the latter talk Macauley was never known to have had any female attachment He had many celebrities for intimate acquaintanccs, and these did him instead of friends.
 "Lo, THE PooR INDIAN !'-The worknen en- ployed on the Union Ferry dyke, exhumed, the other day. the skeleton of an Indian, who must have been, when living at least seven feet high. The bones retained their forms but were very 'crumbling. With the bones were found an ear thern mug Apparently of Dutch manufacture and quantity of wampum and beads-the lat ter also of civilized make, apparently of glass. The body was probably buried after the occu- pancy of Hartford by the Dutch.-7inses l4A.
 There was new excitement in Rev. Dr. Clree- ver's church, New York, last week. An Eng fish gentleman, who had heard much of Dr. Cheevers antl-slayery zeal, went to the church with his family and a colored servant. The ser want took seat in the pew behind the gentle man, but was not allowed to remain there, the sexton directing him to place for negroes in the gallery The gentleman not liking this dis tinction between the races in an abolition church. left with his family, and lost the opportunity to hear Dr. Cheever. On the following Sunday, Dr. Cheever explained the matter by saying that al- though the majority of his church are antislave- ", they cannot control the action of the pew holders. Dr. Cheever's church seems to need another expurgation and he can afford to make it BOW, since his agent in England is enlisting much sympathy in his favor A public meeting was held at Ednburg, Scotland. on the 22d ult., at which the Lord Provost presided, and the principal clergymen made speeches, in which Dr. ,+,I II for his fidelity on the slavery question, and as greatly in need of assistance. A committee was chosen to obtain subscriptions, and the Scotch Presbyterians will undoubtedly do something handsome. The declaration of Dr. Cheeyer's society. that they do not need hep makes this foreign begging operation look very much like obtaining money under false pretenscs.
 The progress of missions since the organiza- ton of tke American board in 1910 has been very great. The annual receipts of all the mis- sion societies then existing in England and America did not exceed &2C0 000O. There are now more than forty different missionary soce- ties. The income of the English societies last year was over two million dollars. In the United States the income of the American board for the last financial year was about $334 000 of the Presbyterian board S224,0OO, of the Baptist Union. near $97,0o0; and of the Episcopal board near S6o,GO0. The receipts of the Methodist Missionary society for Home and Foreign mis- sions were about Sl95,000; the expenses con nected with their Foreign missions not for from Sso'OO0. This makes an aggregate of nearly three millions annually contributed by the Chris tlans of England and America to foreign mis- sons.
 A large New York manufacturer ascribes the Tall of the Pemberton Mills to the vibrations produced by the ,asiform motion of all tho looms. The Springfield Republican says that in some mills pcrseR is employed to go round con stantly and prevent the looms from being so worked as to create this uniform motion. The steady tramp of body of soldiers over bridge proves more dangerous to it's frmness than their mere weight does. The operatives say that the building was frequently known to vibrate under the uniform mation of the machinery. The wing, winch had little machinery in it, was left standing.
 Mississippi paper says that no human pow CT "can break the bonds of the slaves" in that State. Whereupon the Louisville Journal ob- serves that we have no idea that the Mississip- pi blacks can as easily get rid of their bonds as the Mississippi whites managed to do few years ago"
 Out of the fourteen students of the New York University, who resolved few weeks since to leave for their southern homes on account of the John Brown affair, but three left, and one of them has since returned
 1t is believed that there are great many peo- pie ont of employment in New York at the pres ent time. An advertisement for porter and an office boy attracted three or four hundred mon to a store in Broadway on Monday morning, blocking up the sidewalk to such an extent that the police had to disperse them.
 A writer on domestic economy, in giving in- structiOns for keeping eggs fresh. says, Clay with the small end down. He does not specify wheth- CT this direction is for the hen or the housewife
 Mir. Amaziah String advertises in the Geor- gia Constltutionalist" that young man had run oil with his two daughters. That is outrageous. Whats the use of two Saiags to one beau?
 A Mr. Bentley has been indicted in Alabam, tor striking stranger with an axe. He says that he didn't kn0m but that the stranger was a roboer. He didn't know, and so he ared him.
 Young lady of New Orleans who recently performed remarkable feat in rowing, has been presented with beautiful yawl, A smack would nave been more appropriate
 A contemporary of ours says that {" Some edit ors are always trying to be witty and often fail" HIS readers might add that others seem always trying to be stupid and never fail.
 John T. Frost of Donaldsonville. has had to pay man five hundred dollars for biting off his nose. That's more than men generally pet for having their noses bitten by Jack Frost.
 AN UNEXPECTED CLIMAx-Speakng of the tendency of temperance orators to put them selves forward as previous examples of theblight- ing effects of drink, an exchange paper gives the following instance:
 ' My friends, three months ago I signed the pledge; lClapping of hands and approving cheers] In month, my friends had a good coat on nay back. a thing I never had before. lcheers and clapping of hands much louder.) fortnight after that, my friends boupht a coffin :"
 The audience was going to cheer here. bnt stopped and looked serious "You wonder" continued the speaker, why bought the coffin because l felt pretty certain if kept inc n,edgn another fortnight, should want it. re0
 FHE Augusta (Ga.) Dispatch says: "Onc of our contemporaries asks, What is to hinder ms from making our own shoes? ? To which we m. swer-the want of shoepegs. Thousands of bushels of shoe-pegs are brongh from the North and sold to Southern shoemakers. Is it possible that there is no wood in the Southern States suitable. or that the manufacture of shoe-pep is beyond Southern ingenuitys We know the