Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10
,rrsoELLAsEous ITEMS.

Tribune. There is no official announcement of his retirement.
 George E. Robinson, the soldier who saved Secretary Stewards life, was married on the 18th inst, at spring6e cid, Maine. He has also been presented with a farm ont West
 "A western paper, speaking of the acquit- tai or Mrs. Harris, says: TO kill a man seems good speculation for Q woman who ba. played out her ordinary chances
 Chang and Eng, the siamese twins, who have been engaged in farming for some years in North Carolina, are soon to appear ou er- hibition again in the Northern cities.
 Anegro baby was born in Petersburg, Va, the other day, with the exact impression of a two cent U. s. revenue stamp on his fore head.
 -One honest Georgia postmaster has paid over to the Post Office Department in green backs the value of the postage stamps he had on hand at the breaking out of the war.
 - In 1919, at a dinner to Mr. Adams, at Browns Hotel, Washington. Mir. Calhoun pro posed the following sentiment: {: "Universal suffrage and universal eaucation!"
 - Work at the Norwich ar,no,y on govern ment contracts hps nearly closed. Several oi the U. ;. inspectors got through on We,lnes, day. For three years the armory has given employment to a large number of pe6ple.
 - A screw steamer. named the Olive Branch, of 1900 tons burthen which has been built at the yard of c. 5. Bushnell, in New Haven. was launched on Thursday.
 -- During the war number of insane men were enlisted as sesmen in the United States service, their bounties securpd by sharpers and themselves left without anything. The most prolific source of supply was from Canada.
 - The news from Alabama shows an iu- proved state of public feeling, although the planters express their skeplicism in the success of free labor.
 A negro woman in Richmond complained that her proAgate husband was blockading round her" and had some one he " loved better nor hor." She Was advised to raise the block ade aud departed satisfied with the advice
 - The value of property in London, Eng land, is estimated ut G4,5O0 600 OOO equal to the national dei't and $sOO,OOOOOO to spare It has been industriously circulated that the council for Mrs. Surratt performed their services in her behalf graiuitously It now: appears that previous 10 her execution her council obtained from her an acknow dgment for $3. 800, secured upon her real estate.
 -DR. NorT, the venerable President of tue Union College, Schenectady. N. Y is 9S years old, has not stood erect for two years past,. and is now failing rapidly.
 A NEW use fer Confederate money has been found. A lady in Texas stuffed a mattrass with five hundred thousand dollars worth of it. L<'t.''li'. .N' a, ..-a 2" V. IT is stated that dozen bells in flock of sheep will effectually prevent any interference with thsM by dogs. Dogs, like assassins, want everything perfectly quiet when they undertake Q job. It would not cost much to try the experiment
 A Richmond paper invites emigration to the Old Dominion. from the hardy popula- ton of the North. Among the inducements offered are--.A, genial country, hOspitable people, easy employment, indulgent tdskmas-, ters, Sc. 'Taskmasters' is beautiful word to charm Northern white men into the South. A dispatch from Washington states that there are no counterfets of national currency so far as known. There is a slight difference: between $5 notes issued to the first i've or six; National Banks and those subsequently print ed, but only trifling change of lettering
 - There is queer family at Detroit. The luther and mother have each been married three times, andA have had children by each marriage, and all are now living happily to- gether under one roof-sx sets of children. - The bridge across the Hudson ut Albany, for the Hudson River Railway, is begun. The draw is to allow all vessels to pass, is to swing upon circular rail about 27 feet in diameter, and wilIsweigh about two hundred tons. A man named Joseph Creel. who was two, or three years old when Washington was born, is now living in Wisconsin. at the age of one hundred and thirty-nine. He is great smok CT. and the doctor thinks that but for this, he might live to be a pretty old man.
 The Butler Porter Fort Fisher quarrel ap- pears to have been settled, and the tomahawk buried. Gen. Butler and Admiral Porter have been observed upon the streets and upon the Presidents grounds, arm in arm, and in most pleasant confidential converse.
 -M Miss Clara Barton, who. went to Ander- sonvlle with the party sent to look after the bodies of the Union soldiers at that place, has written letter, dated two days after their ar rival, in which she says they had already found 27S bodies just outside the dead line,' beyond which the poor soldiers had strayed for the purpose of procuring . little fresh water or the roots < of shrabs or trees to allay the bangs of thirst and hunger, and for so doing was bar barously murdered. '.... ....,.t s.5.
 The total number of National Banks