Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

worth or petroleum A"eS J0"A'
 Colorado has adopted her new state con
 stitution.
 It is reported that good gold has been dis 1 covered at Oil City, Pa.
 Three. .fourths of the members of the South l 4garolins convention were active participants 1 in the rebellion.
 Gen. Rufus Saxton, commanding at Hill | tnn Head. has married one of the school super l intendents who went down there from Massa- l chusetts.
 A son of the late President Polk is en- nloyed with two blacks. the three at five dol Iars her day in taking care of mules purchased by . northern speculator at the army sales near Nashville. ;a ,yqsi. v,sfgssa .alt4 l case of Arguelles, who was sent to ,ruba from New York on the charge of being | a dave trader, has been laid before the Presi- l :, dept and by him referred to Secretary Seward for investigation 'a @ I isao..'A coroner's jury in Oneida Co.,, N. T., .eo....ntIv randered verdict that a certain de- caased man came to his death by excessive drinking, producing apoplexy in the minds of the jury. n 70, - There. are three brothers. two of whom live in Methuen, Mass, who have had in the aggregate, eleven wives. One of the gentle men is widower. Here is Q chance for an snterprising young woman, s.f s~s .-- A boy of fifteen lately committed suicide. in London, because the servant maid took away his candle while he was reading Pick wick Papers.' Mr. Dickens should immortal ize him in his next novel
 - Pithole, the great oil city in Pennsylva- mia was thus named in consequence of an ex- traordinary pit or cavern that exists about three miles from the city. In this pit stones are thrown, but they are never heard to drop. Its depth has not yet been fathomed
 Secretary Seward has been officially in formed that the Canadian authorities have paid over to the St. Albans banks $395l2 75I in gold, and $S0.01 in bank notes. being part of the treasure stolen by the St. Albans raiders.
 g.l --s Edith Wheatley. daughter of Nathaniel Wheatley, of Brookfeld, Vt, is what we call 0 smart girl, though but fifteen years of age.- She has this season raked 100 tons of hay, and while guiding the rake she quiety pursued her knitnng.loe sdf E6s 1...57.'-. -.. ... I .l5-- Toronto has ghost. which walks in Col borne street almost on every night, to the great discomfort of the citizens. The police i think it is burglar, aud the newspapers with q such sensation head lines as Another Visit of the Spectrer .The Ghost still at Largep sell rapidly eaa ie9 @ .| = The best information that the agricultur- sl department at Washington can get about the wheat crop is, that there will be more than is needed for home use The advance in wheat and flour is all the work of speculators, and the stories of short crops are all manufactured to suit their purposes. .1 T A California editor speaking of complaint by his readers that he don't publish all the local items that they desire to see, justly ob- serves that it is often their own fault in not sending the facts. He says he don't like to publish birth after the child is weaned, Q marriage after the honey moon is over, or the death of man after his widow is married. 20 l--- It is stated that Edwin Booth is about to | marry an interesting young Massachusetts la dy of personal charms and pecuniary conse- 4sq squence, who wrote him tender and sympa- thizing letter at the time when he was terribly depressed by the crime of his brother, the cor rNepondence thus begun, having ripened into lote and all that sort of thing
 ia -- Lady L. Duncan was an heiress, and Sir w. Duncan was her physician during severe illness. One day she told him she had made up u6E mluV tV u6IEyS 0uu upUU HIS 8SklUK LQe . name of the fortunate chosen one, she bade him 10 home and open his Bible. giving him chap ter and verse, and he lwonld find it out He did SO, and read what Nathan said unto David r' Thou art the man s,aE. .,... r.t .e ','' "A funny dog case is before the courts in Washington It seems that in rear of the church of the Rev. Dr. Nadal, who formerly was pastor in that city, are kept five dogs, Asuf, ha h,,k khnsr constant barking. Some of the members of Dr. Nadels church have made complaint, and an injunction in the case is expected to DC is. sued to prevent the disturbance. The dogs are said to belong to member of Congress.
 }" . - The Atlanta (Ga.) Intelli gencer, says = The sounding hammer, the grating saw, the
 metal clang of the trowel, the aye, ave- of
 the bod carrier, the screaming locomotive, the
 moving, jostling crowd, the tumbling down of
 old walls, to be replaced by new, is fair pie trre of Atlanta, to-day. Those who saw the
 city month since, would be astonished to see { it now. Houses are built in thirty days and
 opened for trade with large stocks of goods. , - .. When the Pewabic went down, the place
 was buoyei with . beer barrel and 8 steering
 wheel, which foated to the surface. The buoys have disappeared, thick headed and small souled tug captain concluded to save the
 D0x10I anu Wu6eI 1OT HIS OWu uSe, 8uU CBrTlou them off i'1 The attempt to find the exact loca- tiop of the wreck is likely to.proye fruitless,
 owing to the enterprise of the tug captain. .,,,- In the Old Testament thers are 39 books, 929 chapters, 23. 214 verses, 592, 493 words and
 2,728, 100 letters. In the New Testament there are 27 books, 260 chapters, 7,959 verses, 1s1,-
 253 lines and 828, ,380 letters. The middle
 chapter is the 117th Psalm, which is also the smallest. The middle verse is the eighth of the 18th Psalm. The middle line is the 18th
 verse of the 4th chapter of the Second Book of h Chronicles. The 18th chapter of the Second
 Book of Kings and the 37th chapter of Isaiah
 are alike. i9 s@ ei aa..lii- .E 'j as i,,.,-- A practical farmer of Pleasant Valley, Ohio, has discovered a remedy for cracked
 hoofs :,s Take . piece of copper four inches
 long and two inches wide. and drill eight holes,
 four in each end, 80 as not to interfere with
 the crack; then take . hot iron with sharp ' Sage. and burn the crack at the edge of the hair, till it goes through the quick. After this let the horse run On pasture. and it will begin F to heal up ina few weeks. This remedy have 7 fried, aud it did the work complete, and I worried the horse all the time. Care should ii be taken to close the track tight before the g plate is fastened on. 3 }t 8 : !n' "A celebrated pork contractor for the Fed II asr,i army presented himself short time back 9TSI IL,.,S4nrsa e tal;er in Rome and stafed his