Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-16

The original cost of the Great Eastern was $4, ,50O0 000 She stands charged to tho present owners at $2,l50000. Of this amount S5OOO00 is preferred stock. The holders of this stock will doubtless soon own the ship, and they are likely to find her an elephant which they eahnos manage.
 A countryman being at an Englshman table, expressed his surprise by loud exclamations, oB seeing large quantity of froth ooze out of bottle of porter as soon as the cork was drawn. Being asked what surprised him, he replied, Il don't wonder at all at the froth that comes out of the bottle but how the deuce did you ever contrive to squeeze it all in?"
 A meteorlc stone weighing from four hundred to nve hundred pounds, fell, or was supposed to .en Ill McAlllstervile, Juniata County Pennsyl- hi san.a' on the 9th inst. A rumbling noise was Ssa ea'e oy many persons at p. m., and one lady th" sJ1metning falling rapidly into field. Near .he place indicated by her this stone was found: navng been examined by a ceoIog;st bo made ns report That it resembled limestone, that it IS c,rcuiar inform, feet inches in diameter, IS inches thick. A0s in u'''A''e'' ID
 The following anecdote is extracted from tls Court Journal:
 A distinguished author was recently ovortoLor in shower, and took refuge under uortico at the West End. A young and beautiful lady wbo was at the parlor window, after looking attent lively at him for a moment, sent A servant I,, with an umbrella. The next day the deligb,eJ author dressed himself up to his last result of the problem of what was becoming and as the umbrella was an old one, laid it aside as n son. venr, and purchasing one of the costliest taste. called on the lady to return her fattering loan. She received the new umbrella evidently without marking the change, and after listening with cu- rlous gravity to the rather pressing tenderness of the dramatist's acknowledgements she suddenly comprehended that he was under the impressiou that she was enamored of him. and forthwith
 noirely expfained, aehe stood in the way of m expected, visit from her intended, who wished to come and see her unobservcd she had sent him
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 The most curious instance of labor saving that we have hesrd of lately is attributed to the cen- sus man. of Presque Isle. by the Aroostook Herdld. Calling on citizen who had double name, lie commenced by entering the name on his book without the middle initial. I3u, [ have middle nalne.'' said the citizen An. wei, said the marshall never tako the mid die name, there is nothing said about it in my instructions, and H sares irTitin1,"
 Mcl,ougall and hs clerk Montague who hal ahsconded from Cincinnati with s.5 eco in gold. raised suddenly the credit of the firrl of ,se
 S Mcl'oueal were caught at Toronto C. :l last Tuesday evening. as they landed from ,t. steamer. Mcrousvll escaped from ths o.Ec-, and has net been caught but MortaSue a.g!
 flcDs wife were detained. and S25.CcG |, unl n their truaks. An effort will be u;.4}e to ,.-I Montague back for trial if charge can b- made against him that will hold.
 I A young boy died in Newburyport fs~ ,lav. since from internal inflammation and rUsc n. -- ten examination proved that ho had swallowed tke hull of an oat or some grain. which E0Gg-ar
 int intcstines had gathered mattnr anl caused death. But shcrt time before he had swa! v- ed Q cent from which no evil resulted
 1 The North Adams -Nescs says the hapry f.-h CT of two promising little boys of Ia-s SIita... while braggng to friend of tnen1 as h., l,sI.-
 las boys. was somewhat taken down hv ta. eason of one of the little fst o~s, Nal su.iI-7.- broke cut with '' Pa. ain Douglas boy :" N hose boy are you, then 2 lm old A-6-e l-i-nc-o-lis.'
 ! The Long Branch, New Jersey mystsrv $ \ mystery no longer Ths affair turn, cut t5 ge simply a hoax. coucocted Ly one of the -,-ya. 5 of the hotels, who procured some b!ood al.4 a quantity of hair from harbers shoi, and gl. l.A- ing them together smearad the EllX.urs eyer a club and boat 5 sail. and thus cau>gL [ hei.-i that an atrocious murder had been c,,uiult,-,.
 A Brussels papor records tha lacone aG,.res, { to the King, ci the President of the trp.s Ass.- clatlon ol I'rintcrs i'll Brusaels-a uur1s-,l- ...- tel'lgeEt, and important body. Sire" j.. s... Il place in your hands the address oi tbe ;.,,- graphical body of Brussels lu preseuce vt .a- ger the people range themselves aruuuI i. throne The Kings reply. as gi,sa by h. .s- d'pend'rnce was equally Urlef ana to the pGrryss II thank you, gentlemen he said: my 5s-. and my life have always been fer Eas wc-xr- man, and as long as live the working 7ian c;r- reckon upon nc The words rau tnrsu-u :: :, crowd, and caused fresh burst uf calhcs.s.r Friday evening, bail of fro wss seen ia ,L.. sky near Bridgeport, moving in different G7 e. tions, and occasionally standing apparently .:a- tlonary. There were some clouds but tbov C l not appear to hide from view the interestiug ah- lect After some learned delibera,ion ana so forth the meteor was found to he a lan;nra which some boys had tied to kite-tail | A CUEIocs DIsCovEEY-Thcre has lately becu found in the township of t;reenbush. a hatchet
 firmly imbeddcd in the heait of a white oak tree
 The tree perfectly sound and nothing was noticeable indicating that such thing was i'm beddrd therein until it was struck by the axe Upon examination it was ascer;ained that it lad stuck there when the tree was about thirty years growth, and had remained there more than two centuries, as more than two hundred years growth could be counted outside of wkerc tho hatchet lay. We think this must be the identi- cal hatchct with which the woodman' spared the tree. .-London Journal.
 How rich the following paragraph appears, which was originally printed in the English Quarterly Review, in March. 1925: 1 We are not advocates for visionary projects that interfere with useful establishments Hc ! scout the ideH gf q railroad as impracticoble. l* What can be more palpaby absurd and ridiculous than. the prospects held ort of To- comotives travelling t'rice as fast as stage coach es? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwch to suffer themselves to be fired of upon one of Congreves ricochet rockets. as to put themselves at the mercy of such machine, going at such rate.".
 There are now published in Connecticut thir- ty-seven weekly newspapers, sixteen dailies, one semi weekly, two monthly, and one semi-occa- sionally. or these,nineteen are for Lincoln and fvo for,, Lole r--