Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

The people of Sigourney, Keokuk county, Iowa, are planting out large-sized elm and ma pie trees around their public square, under the direction and at the expense of Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, of Hartford Connecticut, who asked the privilege to bestow this ornament on the town which bears her name.
 "MY BROTHER" said a good old backwoods preacher, I'm gwine to preach you plain sar- ment, that even wimmin can understand. You can find my text in the five verses of the two eyed chapter of the one-eyed John." It was some time before it was perceived that he meant l. John, chapter II.
 The Register said that prize-fghting was en- couraged by the Jews, but on being pushed for its authority, said it copied the item from some other paper, and added: "We shall dodge be- hind that passage of scripture,' which says two shall be grinding at q miu.' That's all tcs know about it."
 No one by merely conversing with fish, ever succeeded in drawing him Erchange.
 Of course not. It is necessary to drop him 0 line.
 A negro servant of an American Consul at e port in the Mediterranean was recently mistaken for his master The boys shouting after him in the streets, look at the American Consul"
 The proprietors of the Aaas aud Bee, (Bos-- ton) announce an evening daily paper, price one cent, to start on the l6th. UPON LATE EVENT.
 The American eagle with Heenan comes back. Looking wise from his trip as an owl; He expected lion to meet, but, good lack! He was met by an English foM
 A girl about twelve years of age lately passed through Detroit, who had two separate and dis tinct noses !-Erchanqe
 Which does she follow? Who nose? When it comes on to blow, does she experience any thing of gale?
 The clown attached to circus exhibiting at Nashville. Tenn., was on Wednesday last drawn about the Cumberland River in a wash-tub, to which a pair of geese were attached. The sub lime spectacle was witnessed by large crowd.
 The National Convention of the Printers Unions, at Nashville May 7th, is to be the non- pariel of all events.
 A woman in New Orleans just married her eighth husband. She has married one every year since 1852. Husbands seem to be only an- nual plants in that region.
 The Japanese thought that the ladies whom they saw at the Sandwich Islands wearing erin oline actually filled the immense skirts One of the men, who happened to touch a dress in pass ing, was much surprised to find it caving in, and burst out into roars of laughter at his astonish- ing discovery His ideas of the bodily propor- tion of the fair one suddenly collapsed.
 The Japanese have discovered that few sec onds previous to an earthquake, the magnet tenn porarily loses its power, and have ingeniously fnI o Eulf froOon hnrS shoe magnet beneath which is cup of bell metal To the armature is attached weight, so. that upon the magnet becoming paralyzed. the weight drops, and striking the cup, gives the alarm. Every one in the house then seeks the open air for safety.
 The latest suggestion for the torture of the coming Japanese is that all the Missionary Boards send delegates to Washington to lay be- fore the Princess the leading points of doctrine, with view to their proper understanding of the religious condition of the United States.
 A hungry juryman ran out of cour.. room in Taunton. Eng, during trial. to get his break fast. The meal cost him $l00, the amount of his fine for misdemeanor.
 TIE FOLLOWING is Aunt Betsey's description of her mlkman V" He is the meanest man in the world" she exclaimed. He skins his milk on the top. and then turns it over and skins the ! bottom.'
 '" IT IS SAID that the ladies-I.ord bless each one | Hate cigars worse than anything under the sun | That to lips that have pressed one, nor widow
 nor miss
 Can vouchsafe, without pouting, that love-seal- a kiss
 But smoke morn and even, and yet may say I've been several times heartily kissed in my day; And believing that men have in this world some
 rights
 I say, take our boots, take our beavers, our tights,
 But leave us, dear ladies' whose servants we are, One balm for our sorrows-a fragrant cigar"
 A sharp gentleman living in Milwaukee man. ages to get the rent ofa fine large store for noth- ing. The former occupants of the store had ta- ken it under lease, but the hard times caused them to think that the rent was exorbitant and they left the store before it's expiration, and tho l sharp gentleman popped in, and neither of the contending parties ask him for any rent, fearing that by so doing they would confess being holden for the store.
 l EfaFa A matter of fact wag. not very enthusi- astic in his admiration of Mir. Douglas, has maGe up the following table of estimates of the smash up of offce-seekers and spoilsmen, resulting
 from the tremendous fall of Mir. Douglas at
 Charleston, to wit :-
 Douglas candidate for the Vice Presidency B |. Douglas expectants of cabinet places. l5O Douglas aspirants for foreign missions. ...275 Other office-seekers, great and small, blow CTS and growers for Douglas. ..... 100000 Lobby jobbers contract hunters and spoils- hucksters generally. ...... 25y0O0 Railroad monopolists and spectators. 5000 } Sum total of spoilsmen. ..... .l3o,43S , ga~ Among the northerners who addressed the seceders in Charleston was Colin M. Inger- soil of New Haven, and an out-and-out negro driving talk the fellow made of it, we understand. The slave power may we'll despair when it secs itself reduced to such supporters at the north.