Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-26

uegt0 buHEaRc III 4enAcssec. s4 Il IA carpet bag, hanging on hook in the Vermont central cars fell on the head of an infant child recently, causing almost instant death. 3 1..t.s. sR- Emma Jones, of Charleston, s. o., tramp led on the United States flag, and paid fne of one hundred dollars for the fun, one day l last week. A French traveller, recently in this coun- try, says that the chief occupation of the la dies at Saratoga, was dressing, undressing and redressing A young lady of fashion was accustomed to change her waterfall three times day.
 which was only slightly agitated, was asked by timid lady in his boat whether any per sons were ever lost in that river. ''Oh mo-" said he, we always find 'em ag'in the next day"
 - If Solomon was the son of David, and Jo- ab the son of Zeruiah what relation was Z' ruiah to Joab? Father. of course.' No, try again. Can't you guess Girer up! Mny Zeruiah was Joab's moths'' don't you remem- Der? a-. E - The Hon. Freeman Clarke peremptorily ordered Gov. Pierpont of Virginia to leave his office at the Treasury on account of uttering disloyal sentiments. The language used in part was i" We people of the South never will submit to being taxed to pay the Union war debt. We never will stand it sir,' etc.
 There was a copied paragraph in the Journal 8 day or two ago. saying that at Col umbia, Ky, 1000 or 5000 negroes were draw ing rations from the government. We are au- thorized by Gen. Fisk. to say that not one ne. gro is drawing rations there from the govern ment.-LouisviSe Journal. 11
 - Mrs. Burlington says that Ike, having become very much enamelled of siren of Bos- ton, has led her to the menial alter. He didn't appear the least bit decomposed. On the back of his wedding cards were. little Cubebs with wings. 45 ...
 - There is plan to connect the Harlem Railroad with the Western Vermont road building line from Chatham, N. Y., to Ben nington, Vt., forming straight through line detween New York and Montreal Commo- : dore Vanderbilt, in the Harlem interest has subscribed $500, 1000, and Mr.. Park of Ben nington, $2O0,000 for the Vermont road.
 A son of of Charles McKeown, at Hudson N. Y., accidentally got bean into his wind pipe three weeks ago, and, although not par. 2 ticularly troubled by it, he was seized with severe pains on Friday last, and died during the. afternoon. The lad was five years of age and very promising. 1f
 A man named Lang, in foot race, al Manchester, accomplished one mile in minutes and 22 seconds. This was consider ed extraordinary but shortly afterwards, in another match, he and man named Richards ran dead heat, their time being 4 minutes ? and l73 seconds. .5 D.. - Some mischieyous boys, in Macon, Ga, were coaxing goats on to g bridge. and ma king them jump into the river. They were getting along very nicely, when the old pat riarch of the flock suddenly eturned the ta- bles" on them, by putting them off into the drink-a trick that was not on the boys pro
 --Ayoung man in Mobile, recently bough a hen in the rnarkek and tank it home in sh, street cars. During thsr ride it set up tre ;, mendous csckle; the ladies giggled, the gen tlemen roared, when the blushing youth found new laid egg in his lap. He got out ant walked the rest of the way. %
 F- The immense business doing in the New England cotton mills is shown by the fac
 that several of them have lately sent agents t, England for additional operatives havin. found it impossible to procure enough in thii couutry to meet the demand. Every cottol min in the New England States is now report cd to be running to the full extent of it's ca pacitY, and in many ofthem the hands ar, working from sixteen to eighteen hours out O
 the twenty-four receiving extra wages for over
 work. It is said that the mills are now ma
 king nearly one hundred per cent profit, whicl
 is occasioned by the late heavy advance il
 prices. A.. ' = Ruth Blay was hung at Portsmouth N
 H., ninety-seyen years ago, for child murder
 and it is a.singular fact that the person wht caused her execution is still alive. She was Q school teacher, and Mrs. Betsy Eastman, oi Salisbury, N. H., now l0S years 0laai laais and TO. ofher scholars JAtastaces., The teacher was ab. sssskt one day, and Mrs E., then a girl of six years, while at play in the school house saw a loose board in the floor, which she raise d from motives of curiestty, and there discov- cred the er;-'..s Of dead infant She told ,,t.. shs had seen, and an investigation show cd it to be the child of the teacher who m,,r. aerea It to conceal its birth, She was tried
 = WHAT SOUTH CAROLINA HAS LOST BY THE kHBELLloN.-The Charleston Daily News tbns sums up the losses of South Carolina bvs stbe war. "1 '"'
 "Of $l5. DOC, 900 in bank stock. all is last 2 Of $6, ,0O0'0O0 bills in circulation, the martat
 value is not more than twenty per cent. or three insurAnce companies neither can con- tinue basiness. Of $2O, ,OOO, 900 in rsiiroads
 no dividends can be expected, Of $, 900 hous, ! es in Charleston, 1,500 have been burned and others almost irreparably damaged Of es. tates of descendants and minors, and of nron
 erty in litigation, four-ffths are represent ad by confederate securities, and are therefore valueless. "
 Of our many merchants. lately of larea capital and unblemished credit, few have as- sets to pay the small debts against them at the beginning of the war. Of the many large and valuable estates in Beaufort District and the adjacent islands, all have bcen abandoned and many have been sold for taxes Of the large cotton estates, still further from the seaboard many have been desolated. Of the cotton on nand at the beginning and raised during the var (amouniing in value to at least $2O,OOO.- vVO) the larger portion has been taken or des- troyed Of the stock, horses, hogs, cattle
 farming implements. utensils and furniture
 and silver ware,, all but an insonsiderable amount have been consumed, destroyed or ta- "Of the money in the hands of our c;t;zens at the commencement of the war. or accrn;rr |