Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10

Lieut. Gen. Grant arrived in Boston on Friday evening, en route to Nova scotiassszs
 z President Johnson havde Leiliehed til paa berommelig Made at gjore sig udodehg.- Scandinarian (N.,Y) Post, .~-s..t #, 7 1 An exciting controversy is now pending at Chicago relative to the final disposition of the funds of the recent Sanitary Fair. A strong feeling exists in the community in favor of the appropriation of all the money raised by the fair to the erection of a permanent Soldiers Home, where all sick crippled, or otherwise disabled veterans of the war, from the Western States may be properly taken care of
 Since Mrs Surratt was sentenced to be hung. the question has often been asked, when before was woman hanged in this country.- The two following cases are mentioned in the newspapers In ITS, Bathseeba Spooner was hanged at Worcester for the murder of her husband. About seventy years ago, a woman was hanged in Boston for highway robbery the crime consisting in snatching bonnet and a reticule from lady in the street.
 Open an oyster, retain the liquor in the lower or deep shell, and, if viewed through a microscope, it will be found to contain multi tades of small oysters, covered with shells, and swimming nimbly abont-cne hundred and twenty of which, extend but one inch. Besides these young oysters, the liquor contains a ya- riety of animalcules and myriads of three dis tinct species of worms. Sometimes their light resembles blush star abont the center of the shell, which will be beautifully luminous in a dark room.
 A New York despatch on the 29th says: Santa Anna, at present residing at the island of St. Thomas, has issued pronunciamento, in witch he dsnounces the attempted empire in Mexico, and calls for a rally in favor of de mocaacy, and urges the Mexicans to fight against the invaders. He explains that his declaration in favor of French intervention was forced upon him by requiring him to sign such paper before he would be permitted to land in Mexico and visit his sick wife. A man named Stocking, while enjoying a steamboat trip on Thursday afternoon from La Crosse to St: Paul, on the Mississippi river, varied the monotony of the voyage by firing three or four shots from revolver into crowd of passengers on the prominade deck. j One man, s. Roberts of Syracuse, was killed, and others were hurt. It was stated that Stocking was crazy. This and similar outrages remind one of the early days of California, as depicted by John Phenix, when 'all night long was heard the pleasant pop of the pistol, and now and then the cheerful shriek of the victim
 In answer to reception address at the Burnett House, Cincinnati, General Sherman sisted this interesting fact It was here in this city, in this very hotel, through which I passed to reach this spot, that General Grant and myself me: over q year since and in that very room we laid down the maps and studied out the campaigns which ended this war. l had been away down in Mississippi, attending t.. a little matter there, and when Gen Grant and myself ended our conference here, we sep ,arated, he to go to Richmond and to Atlanta, and the result has been just as we planned it here in 1864"