Litchfield enquirer., 1867-11-07
Miscellaneous Items.

in their disloyalty that there must be an accelerated flow of MT. Johnson's contra band whisky. If he does not draw rein on the illicit distilleries, The will speedily be ruined by the frankness of his friends. !" That's so.
 Anthony Trollope has resigned his place in the British post-office. He prefers | lighter kind of literature. 1 Emerson is worth $4O,OOO.
 Charlotte Cushman has fortune of over $25O, 900.
 James Gordon Bennett is T years old and worth s3O00,OOO.
 The New Haven clergy are busy marry ing people, and the Supreme Court equally as busy in divorcing others. The court is said to be leetle ahead. 1 Complete official returns show the Ohio Legislature to stand thus: Senate, Is Re publicans and 19 Democrats: House, 49 Republicans and 56 Democrats; showing seven Democratic majority on joint ballot
 1 Now that the campaign in Pennsylvania and Ohio is over, the Copperheads won't recognize the President any more. That IS always the way. When low-bred men get up in the world the first they do is to cut their vul gar relations.
 The Democrats of the Vallandigham stamp are now burning more powder than they did all through the war for the Union.
 Bn11Nas1sMs.- aint no general rule for happiness; man hez tu be meas ured for hiz happiness, jist as he does for hiz boots, and even then he don't always git good fit.
 | Joy will make man change ends quick CT than sorrow.
 l If a yung man kant find ennything else that he is fit for, like tu see him carry gold headed cane.
 The top rounds ov ladder are always the most dangerous.
 1 believ in the final salvashun ov men, but l want the privilege ov picking the men.
 Here iz jist the difference between suc- cess and failure-1h ov an inch. | PoETRY.-There have been poets of note who first wrote out their poems in prose, adding from time to time what ideas oc- cured on the subject; and then putting the whole in rythmical form, with such additions as suggested themselves during the last process. We do not recommend this, but it is surely better than to start your poem with no ideas at all
 Ruskin's advice is better than that, for such case: "Read only the best poetry, and write none at all"
 The Poughkeepsie people are getting somewhat awakened, at last, on the subject of Poughkeepsie and Eastern railroad A spirited meeting was held at the Court House one evening last week, in which the Mayor and many leading citizens partici- pated, and able speeches and resolutions were put forth favoring the project. t.-Ame- mia Times
 NOVEL WRITING. An editorial friend tells us good story in point. He wanted se- rial novel for his paper, and intending to select subject for an author, asked the opinion of one of the carriers, on the same principle that caused Moliere to read his plays in manuscript to his washerwoman. Well, replied the character, 'If want ed to write a story that d take, I'd get young girl booty as picture, and modest and good, and I'd make her suffer like -;" and here the blank was filled by word more forcible than pious. He had hit the philosophy of the matter. The spectacle of undeserved suffering always rouses the sympathy: and if the result be doubtful, the interest is awakened and maintained so long as the doubt exists
 Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati, in a recent letter to Rev. Thomas Vickers, main tains that the Pope is not opposed to, but IS friend of progress, that the Catholic Church is in favor of the circulation of the the Bible, and that he himself is oppos- ed to 8 union of church and state, and therefore prefers the condition of the Church in the United States to its condi- tlon in Italy, France and Spain. The arch bishop no doubt represents the thing truly The Pope IS in favor of progress, but it is the progress of the French arms, now prob- l ably on their way to Rome to defend the temporal authority of his Holiness and the Church is in favor of the circulation of the Bible, that is the Douay translation We are glad to know that there is one arch bishop of the Catholic Church in this coun- try who fayors the separation of Church. If the Pope were in favor of the same thing, the same thing the little conflict in ; Italy might be settled very easily. The Lincoln society of Yale has received a challenge from the Philologian society of AmHefSt, tO engage III pflZe deDate. That caps the climax of the champion busi- ness.
 At wedding in St. Paul's church, New Haven, Thursday evening, student was robbed of gold watch and couple of l rings attached to it.
 The Rev. Newman Hall preached four times in New York on Sunday, before crowded audiences of four different de- nominations first to the Presbyterians, next to the Reformed Dutch, then to the Congregationalsts, and finally to the Epis- copalians. This, we believe, is unprece- dented. The Evening Post says" No ec- clesiastical discipline is to be inflicted for this broad Christianity, so far as is known.
 Seven years ago St. Louis merchant caught burglar in his chamber, but let him go on promise of good behaviour That burglar made his pile during the war, whereas, the merchant failed, and a few days ago, the former paid his debt of grat- itude by loaniDg the latter SlO,O with which to start in business again. l THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.