Litchfield enquirer., 1865-07-27
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 -Gov. Curtin's daughter has eloped with and married gay soldier boy. 'tA.- Brigham Young has more than hundred children all told. He has a school house. where seventy of his offspring attend. D3.fl Isa-.A gentleman stopping in Northampton, as an agent, has received 17S2 letters from his wife. She writes once and sometimes twice . day. Such wife is worth having. aU
 The resignation of General Butler reached Washington about the 1st of June, but was not accepted, and was returned to him. The event will bring on another season of cussing and swearing from the gallant Democracy. t- t-.
 "A disastrous fire occurred in Lockport on Saturday night week. The Washington House, nearly destroyed, was one of the old est buildings in the city. I: was erected forty two years ago; and Lafayette put up there when he passed through Lockpert in 1925. c.
 = The papers tell big story of gold in Iowa. One boy, near New Virginia, in that State, went fishing, and foun six pound | lump of pure gold. As might be expected, he will not tell where he ::ound it.. and excitement grows apace. t,..-l.ss," | The papers say the reason of General Dix's resignation is because he could not well serve under Gen. Meade. Gen. Dix ranks every officer in the army except Lieut.. Gen. Grant He was first appointed, and therefore can be second to none. t- .. .e't1.
 = Capt. H. E. Goodwin, assistant quarter master at Point Lookout, Md, lately received orders to make every preparation to break up that post as the rebel prisoners have been nearly all removed, in consequence of which all material there is being rapidly shipped to Fortress Monroe and to Washington.
 Admiral Dupont, closed a life of devo- l tion in the service of his country by deed of benevolencs which will link his name with l the great and good men of the world He has bequeathed the entire amount of his prize money. estimated at s5O,OOO for the establish ment of a National Asylum at Washington for the orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors. | - Some audacious thieves, one of whom was woman, broke into the house of gen. teel Boston family rusticating in the poultry, and made free use of the cooking utensils, beds and wardrobe, for three days and nights. The house was found shockingly deranged, and the meanest sort of garments left in ex- change for the best dresses and coats. The burglars are still at large.
 - The New Hampshire Superior Court has decided that an express company delivering parcel marked with the cabalistic "C.O,D.," collect on delivery allow person to whom it is..consigned reasonable time to open the package and determine whether he will receive it or not The rule heretofore has been that no examination could take place. This decision of the court is both legal and sensible, which latter cannot be said of all legal decisions. t9fr.,.r4r f... ...-, - Lord Westburyt the disgraced Lord Chan cellor of England, has been succeeded by Lord l Cranworth who is a man of only ordinary abilities, lawyer by profession, the child of wealth, who has never known diversity. He is of the Whig school, but has never signalized l himself by any act of consequence. He has twice been Chancellor, and how long he will now remain in office will depend upon the strength the Whig party developes at the ap nroachino election. gLi H'- tf Fr f:+ " "'HH"
 Considerable lager beer is drank in the city of Philadelphia. Two brewers there have sold during one month. to retailers, l2,772 kegs of beer. The cost to the retailers was $44,7O2. Each keg laverages ninety five glasses, thus giving 1,223, $40 glasses. At five cents per glass, the price obtained, the sum of $6O, ,287 50 was realized making the profits of the retailers $l5 965 This is all from only two breweries, and there are thirty such es- tablishments in that city: gaf zu!s-sa-.s sI it. | A curious calculation has been lately made by savant well knownin Paris by his peculiar antipathy to the fly. He collected eight thousand flies in a room, and on the floor hespread & pulverized loaf of sugar. At the end of four days he went to investigate the result of his experiment, He calculates that sugar being at. the rate of thirteen cents per pound, fly costs the country twenty cents from its birth to its demise
 The New Bedford Standard says: Work men are busily engaged in scraping the iron sides of the Georgia, preparatory to painting her. Caulkers are at work upon her decks, and her cabins are being thoroughly cleaned. She will leave this port shortly for New York' and will probably find her way back to ner former Liverpool owners. She brought oniy $42.OO and it is said her engines alone are worth over O,0OO. j.. .s5sss, I lD-The Army of the Shenandoah IS virtaaiiy discontinued. The 18th Penn. Cavalry took their departure for home, from Winchester, recentlv. There are now no troops left in the valley but one year men. The guerrillas are represented as having totally disappeared. and the people are diligently employed in raising crops, etc. In few days more there t,a xo fronnu laff in fho va11nv