Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-15
Miscellaneous Items.

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 i!' Miscellaneous Items | Letters have been received in Glasgow
 from, Dr. Livingstone the African traveller,
 dated May |, 1866. The doctor was in
 good health, and prosecuting his important
 mission in Africa successfully.
 The Cascoi Notional Bank, of Portland,
 Me-, was robbed on Monday of Q package
 containing $1, 100 in gold, it being stolen
 from the counter Most of it was in double
 eagles. '' '' 1T !'''.5 .> ''. '.' l Coal veins, respectively six and three feet
 in thickness, have been struck near Leaven-
 worth at a distance of about six hundred
 feet beneath the surface. The Leavenworth
 Conservative thinks the supply will be suffi-
 cient for the entire State of Kansas. The corporation of Yale College, on
 Thursday, formally, accepted George Pea
 body's gift of $15O, 900 for the erection of
 museum of natural history and will carry
 out the plans already announced.
 The rebel Postmaster General Reagan
 publishes long letter referring to former
 letter. He is very strongly in favor of T granting negroes suffrage and all other rights the same ds white men. | ALondon correspondent says it will as-
 tonish rent payers in American cities to be
 informed that ill the incest and healthiest
 parts of London, handsomei three-story
 and basement, or eight-roomed house, in
 perfect order, can be rented at from $25O
 to $500 per annum.
 Buffalo has Q poor house that is worth living in. The Express says that among the items of expense the last year were | $3000 for tea $500 for oysters, and $9OO for whiskey and cigars. The paupers in that institution must live almost as well as some of the traitors who are fed at Govern ment expense.
 l Griffith Gaunt" has been dramatized and was produced at the New York Theatre Wednesday night.
 | Advices from Arkansas bring information of twenty nine murders of freedmen during the months of July and August, in those districts of the State moro immediately un- der the eye of our authorities. In no single instance arrest by the civil authorities for this class of crimes has brought to light. The Richmond Ecap,iner estimates the tobacco crop in Virginia at two thirds of the crop of 1860.
 As noted instance of the changed con- dition of affairs in this section of the coun- try, says the Jacksonville (Fla,) Union we mention the fact that 8 full blooded white man was arraigned in the county criminal |eourt lately, before his Honor Judge Dog gett, on charge of assault with intent to kill. He e'was tried by 8 jury of white men and convicted,by negro testimony, and the judge sentenced him in accordance with their verdict to pay a fine of $1 ,000.
 When were there only two vowels? In the days of no (Noah), before u and (you and ! were born. ....,u ...,
 Two friends meeting, one remarked, 'I have just met a man who told me I looked exactly like you. ,s.a ''Tell me who it was, thatI may knock him down" replied his friend.
 :, Don't tronble yourself, said he, 'I did ICY -'"':'-'' ",'ll .rn.,.5, ..,r osJ ! It is said that John Morrissey paid into the Tammany fund S75,OOO upon being nominated for Congress.
 There is an unusually stupid copperhead in Peterborough, New York, who listened attentively to the reading of one of Petro- leum V..Nasby's letters describing the Pres- ident,s Western journey, and then growled out in much disgust: What in Heavens name did Andy want to take such blasted fool with him for?''-
 STREET DRAMA.-( Eater beggar-,coman and saceH, meeting.) .p
 Beggar- omanHI'm 2 poor lone widdy S1rT7T---4aa.. Hal d i-iEa4t -t ib & E e,. SsceN-Aw, yes, Isee. You're very cliakm- ing, you know, But the fact isJ I'm not q marrying man. Aaod7 s4Byrhgi
 Why is an armchair like the Marseilles Hymn? Because it has :.sTo arms" j How TO RAISE CmoKENs AT SrA,LIf tbe crew of ,a g vessel want young chickens. let them put their eggs in the hatchway.- Ec.
 If they want eggs, let the vessel Iayto.- Western R. R. Gaseae.
 Aiady .teacheris charged with sbrutally beating aschoolboy in West Milford, Mass. on Tuesday. The Boston Traveler states that the teacher's name is D. F. OdeIl. and adds: s.It must be admitted that fjhrent has just cause for indignation when 'h'Hcnt a1i inch long is made through the skin of n child's forehead by heavy ruler in the hands of an infuriated and vixenish teacher, The time for smlpingr school lchildren in this manner, in old Massachusetts,, has gone by." aii is,ia1 sad Hu&Kput k By a comparison X of Gen. Butler,s vo.s ' with the gpbernational vote in, his' disir;ct It.seems tl,at he ran behind the ticket n nj. most every town ie In NeN95uryport he lra,, sbout 300 behind, in Salem about 100 Ne- hind, in Lynn 60 behind, etc. Notwi1h. this his majority in the dislylst will be six t0 seven thousand. noiesFld7q "A pneumatic tube, like the one at wort h London, is being hid down. in Pafis for he conveyance of letters and packages be tween the Grand Hotel and the Boufse,