Litchfield enquirer., 1867-02-07
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 EA rr Gko~5 Gno. Palmer, alias Rood. was arrested in Lebanon last week by Litchfeld county sheriff, on the charge of stealing. in Litch- field, some three years ago, $4O0, g silver- plated harness and ten bushels of corn. There are IS charges against him. His wife was arrested then next dkyA for i'll treatment of girl named Miaes. whom they had ta- ken to bring up.
 IN the Fourth District, the probabilities favor the nomination of a Mir. Taylor, of Danbury, a local politician, who has been once or twice in the State Senate, and fre- quently candidate for offices of minor inn portance. There are not many candidates for the nomination in that district; in fact, with the exception of William D. Bishop and Edward ". Seymour, they have very few that are in any sense fit for it.
 MRS Colt is sooneh build : brown stone Episcopal church on Charter Oak avenue. opposite the south end of Commerce street, for the benefit of those living in the vicini- ty of the armory. It will be handsome edifice, though not very large, and will cost about $50,O 900. The congregation for which it is intended are now worshiping in Char ter Oak Hall under the ministration of Rev. w. H. Nelson, Jr., It is called the ssChurch of the Good Shepherd" and has been iber- ally patronized by Mrs. Colt ever since it's organization.
 THE installation and lecture of and before Harmony Masonic Lodge at New Britain, on Wednesday night was well attended. The lecture by Rev. MT. Williams, of Winsted, was very fine and satisfactory, especially to the craft
 AN unknown man, about fifty years old, was found last week, frozen to death in a barn In Old Lyme, where he had taken ref uge during the severe storm.
 AN Irishman named Toole got drunk and made furious and upprovoked assault up- on the gate-keeper of the Hartford Carpet Company, hitting head whenever he could see it. He was sent to Hartford for sixty days, on two indictments, with costs
 The grand jury of Norwich have been investigating the circumstances of the re- rent death of Thomas Shields of that city, rom drinking 2 quart of whiskey, and will probably indict the proprietors of the sal oon where the liquor was sold.
 On the 31st of December, a pack of young fox-hounds, consisting of forty couple, ar- rived in London from Warwickshire, to be shipped to this country for wolf hunting
 A fellow who had seen the 'sBlack Crook" in New York, says he is convinced of the folly of women spending money for so much dress. when they can render them selves so fascinating with very little.
 A brother editor tells us that when he was in prison for labelling justice of the peace he was requested by the iailor to give the prison puff.
 James B. Campbell, lately chosen U, s. Senator from South Carolina is @ native of Oxford, Mass., and is 8 decendant of the old Huguenot stock
 Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony have had hearing before the judiciary commit tee of the New York Senate and Assembly in favor of women's rights.
 The first English guinea was coined by Charles II. in 1675, and so called, of African gold.
 Greece is to send son of Marco Boxza. ris, of whom Fitz Greene Halleck wrote his famous ode to this country as minister. The appointment at this time has certain poetic propriety.
 In Washington county, Tennessee, twen- ty miles northeast of Jonesboro, is an an- cient birch tree, On the bark of which is still legible, the following inscription "1771-D. Boon killed @ bar"
 The national lconvention of tobacco man. ufacturers meets in Washington on We'd nesday the 9th of Febuary.
 THE BERLIN POISONING CAsE.-Prof. Bar ker of New Haven, reports on the Berlin poisoning case, that he has found arsenic in the stomach of Mrs Peck, the old lady The body of Nelson Taylor has not been examined yet.
 The trial of Nielsen Dewey, just finished at New London. for the murder of Rouse Rodman at North Stonihgton in November resulted in conviction of manslaughter.
 Besides the four express robbers who es- capped from Danbury jail, Wednesday night noted horse thief named Brady took his departure at the same time.
 The three wives of the Adams Express robbers have been placed on plea at the Su- perior Court in Bridgeport, and are held for trial accessories to the escape of the robbers from Danbury iail
 MT. Charles, Read in letter published in the London S,n, -confesses himself in- dsbted to the ''Pivardiere" case, in the Clauses Celebres, ," for the main incidents in Griffith Gaunt"
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 EMIGRATION OF FRREDmN. Macon Ga Journal notices an extensive move ment of free blacks from Georgia to the Mississippi Valley remarking that ".we must accustom ourselves to regard this en- igration as Q fixed and irrepressible fact and forecast of the day when Georgia will boast an almost exclusively white popula- tion."