Litchfield enquirer., 1860-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The total number of emigrants who arrived at
the port of New York, last year, was 1892,
against 1859 for 1858.
The fund for John Browns family is likely to
reach $4,000.
Longworth, of Cincinnati, has sent TO Mr..
Sherman, the republican candidate for speaker.
200 bottles of his famous Catawba.
1t is said that the first quarter of the month
of January, 1860, was the coolest that has bean
experienced for thirty-six years.
"Well," said the old lady, throwing down the
Newspaper in disgust, II do think they ought to
make MIR; Sherman speaker without any moro
talk. If those fellows only knew what heap
of good his lozenges had done, y. would move
their bowels Of compas SION"
A Virginia lady wrote to gentleman in New
York that she had resolved not to patronizs
northern productions henceforth, but to dress in
home made lindsey woolsey. Two days after,
she wrote to the same gentleman, inclosing Q
sample of silk, and desiring dress pattern Of
the same kind sent to her. That's the way tho
commercial nOn-lntercOurSe works.
The month of December 1859 is said to BE-
the coolest on record
The Alabama Legislature has passed law
imposing fine of $500 on all spirit mediums
who give public sittings.
The failures in business in the United States
the past year were $685. involving liabilities Of
$64,294, 900. This is o decrease in the number
of failures since 1858 of 312, and in liabilities
of $3l ass ,662.
The Morse telegraph patent expires in 1861.
and will then be free to the public. 1t will cause
considerable extension of telegraph lines, and
will give rise to good deal of competition.
A gentleman of New York tells us that there
must have been twenty thousand persons on the
skating ground, at Central Park, on Monday.
" New Years Day" 1t was one of the most
animating scenes he ever saw
The Republicans of Rhode Island have nomi-
mated Seth Padelford, of Providence, as their
candidate for Governor.
In the year 1859, there were, in the City OF
New York, Is murders, A homicides, and II
suicides.
In the last seven years there have been 9O3
accidents on railways by which 1lO9 have been
killed, and 36l1 wounded. On steamboats, there
have been 2l3 accidents, by which 25O4 persons
have been killed, and 956 wounded
\ Human hna1u cold 10 ha El,o
the less they contain, the louder the report they
give of themselves. The smaller the calibra
of the mind, the greater the bore Of q perpetu.
ally open mouth.
A cubic inch of gold worth one hundred and
forty-six dollars; cubic foot, two hun,irvd and
ffty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-eiVAt
dollars cubic yard six millions eight hundred
and seventysix dollars. The quantity Of cola
now in existence is estimated to be three tAop.
sand millions of dollars which, welded in ono
mass, could be contained in cube Of twenty.
three feet.
There was nothing like inuendo in the remark
of an out-spoken member of Western legisIa-
ture Mr.. Speaker" said he, al would like to
go on boring me with his contemplate speech"
The Postmaster-G General says that the delay /.
the organization of the House of Represents
tives, caused by the Administration members.
will cost the Government million Of dollars IN
the biddings upon the mail contracts alone
Who is responsible?
A POSTMASTER in New Jersey has followed up
the Virginia doctrine by refusing to distribute
abolition documents that come by mail.
STATISTICS OF 1s59-There wete so railroad
accidents in this country In 1859, by which $50
persons were killed and All wounded, not includ-
ing any of those killed and wounded by their own
reckessness in getting in and off trains in motion.
The steamboat accidents worthy OF mention WesN
% by which 242 persons were killed and lAe
wounded.
The fires during the year by which property
amounting to 1000, or more was destroyed.
were 208 in number, inficting an aggregate loss
of over Is millions, which would be Increased to
over 20 millions by adding the smaller Arsa
There were 112 lives lost at these fires. Including
those burned in the buildings and those destroy
ed by falling walls.
The list of distinguished dead at home m fsoa
includes the names of william q. Prescott, the
historian Prof. william G. Bond, of Cambridge
Postmaster General Aaron v. Brown; Rufus
Cboate John Y Mason, minister to France and
washington Irving. And abroad. Henry Hailam.
tho historian DeTocqueville, the author Of "De-
r,ooacy in America" Lardneri Humboldt
Metternich Leigh Hunt Brunei and Stephsn-
son, the great English Engineers; and Thomas
DeQuincey, " the opium eater. Nhlty Glsen~,
E. Merriam of Brooklyn Heights has an eld
grudge against camphene and turning Auid He
keeps record of the victims, and annually tsota
it out to scare people from using this suble iliu.
minator, Last year be counted up 81 deaths. and
106 injuries not resulting in death, from the uss
of these fluids, and reckons that 424 persous have
been killed by samphepe since 1850, The loas b.
fire from the use of casuphene was 81. $40. mQsts
ly in small dwelling houses and stores.
The Professor speaks of the poor relation When
he last saw her, I'm half mouruing.) as being clad
not in absolute black Init in n stuff with ane<1n