Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Crop prospects were never better in Eng land.
 Mrs. Gen, Gains has again gone to New f,r,sans to secure the estate long in hhga- tiou of her father, Daniel Clark.
 --Frederick Seward is improving. His father attends to his duties at the State De- partment.
 The Eagle brewery at Chicago, and 50, 900 barrels of ale, have been seized by the gov ernment for making false revenue returns.
 We zee it stated that Pierre Soule, former lv United States Senator from Louisiana, is eoin to open law office in the city of Mexico.
 The Treasury Department on Saturday resumes the issue of Certificates of Indebted ness, in taking up vouchers given by officers in the field.
 The Richmond Republic says that four teen thousand five hundred and 6fty-seven citizens, soldiers and ladies have taken the ca1h of allegiance to the United States in that city since the Sd of April last.
 It appears from a Parliamentary return that the militia establishment in Great Britain and Ireland last year amounted to 4, 6s6 ofh- cers, 5,O27 commissioned officers and 4,622 privates.
 At a recent inquest in London, it was stated that cheap undertakers, instead of bu- rying the bodies of stillborn children, ire qusntly placed them in by.places and pocket ed the burial fee.
 "A monster pig trough has been manufac- tured at Dorchester, for swinery in Enelapd, The trough H five hundred feet long, and is shaped like horseshoe. Two thousand pigs will be able to feed out of it at one time.
 "A great sensation has been produced iu Paris by a speech made by Prince Napoleon at Ajsccio, in which the, Prince declares himself warm admirer of the republican institutions of the United States.
 A white deer was lately taken alive near ,he town of Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y. Ehe deer is as white as snow, all except his ears and . spot on the top of bis head, and slight tinse of gray on each side of the shoulder.
 --An iron.clad on a new principle, discov- cred by the Emperor of the French, is now being constructed at Toulon. It is called La Cboc, carries no guns, and only acts by its wei ht and speed. sinking the ships it attacks by breaking them in pieces.
 The accounts received from the French vine producing districts state that vegetation, favored by magnificent weather was as promi- sing. as the wine growers could desire. Eff teen days more, however, would have to elapse befoie thu vines are out of danger.
 Prof. Gasperis, the director of the obs ar vatory at Milan, having discovered a nev planet, has determined to mako his rep ,rt or the subject at the anniversary of J .,ante,, birthday, and in honor to the poet, he ha. ehristened the new planet Beatrice.
 The Savannah Republican AVS that fo, eight or ten months a Unio' Iesoue ha, existed in Southwestern Geor .eia, it consis ted of six ot seven hundre' 1 men. who wer, well armed for the pur' oose of nrotec,iu, themselves against guerr alias.
 Some i'm. .,crtant discoveries have bee, iatsly made at Pom peii. Among others is sun.dlai' with nu'nerous Greek inscriptions A very valuable and rare cameo has also bee Iound by child, and has been placed in tn s'cp collection of the Museum at Naples.
 An Irish peasant being asked why D permitted bis pig to take up his quarters wit kis family, made an answer abounding wit satirical naivet,e. "Why notq Doesn't tn place afford every convenience that pig ca require ?"
 --Mr. Joseph H. Richards, for some year the publisher of the Independent, has Tel that establishment, and will, on the 9th ( July, issue the first number of literar Journal called The Nation, with most of tn Atlantic set of contributors and a few of tn New York ring of political Gterati.
 A boy, sixteen years of age, was through up at one of the London police courts on th 9th, and bound over to keep the peace for ai saulting his wife. It appeared from the evi dence that the lad was married several month ago, when he could only have been about fl teen years of age.
 An extraordinary Spanish dancer is ez pected to visit London this season. She tho daughter of Andalusiau peasants of th lowest class, yet native genius and beautifi leas have brought her to the highest pitch { fame in Madrid, as we'll as to considerabl wealth.
 Charles Nordhoff, for the last four yeal one of the editors of the New York Evenin Post, is about to start new Union paper | Wilmington, Del. He formerly conducte Harper's Magazine, before that concern fe into the less. .scapable hands of George w Curtiss, its preseht manager.
 --The Pars exhibition of dogs opened o the 9th of May. Seventeen hundred dog were sent into the jury, who admitted br twelve hundred and fifty. This number dot not include twenty-five packs of hounds, { 6ftsen couples each. Dogs have been sent i from France, England, Belgium, Russia, Oh na and Australia.
 A negro girl in Salem, Mass, one of tt eontrabands brought north, lately poisoned whole family, consisting of mother and thre CT four children, by mixing arsenic in thei soup. She comics ed the deed and implica ted two negro servants of other families m tn plot. One of the children, l2 years of age died the same night, the others were in a fai way of recovery. The motive she gave ft the deed was that she wished to get back 1 her old home
 "A Boston paper says: GA gentleman wh returned 6 few days since from the easter shore of Maryland, stopped at hotel in small town m that locality, and found thirt, six farmefs from the Northern States who vel there for ihe purpose of purchasing farms. l some cases Ss0 an acre was aid for farmin lands in Mary land and Delaware. This i we believe, but the advance wave of that tid of emigration which there will be not only !, Delasars and Maryland but to Virginia an e.