Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-09
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 Miscellaneous Items.

 on the crime of perjury, two of these being general and the third o special statute framed for the District of Columbia. The last, however, does nothing more than pre- scribe the punishment for perjury upon conviction in due form. The indictment in this case was framed upon the general statute, and it was under the general statute that the accused was tried and convicted. Conover was sentenced to-day under the special statute, and his counsel, H. c. Good rich, appealed from the sentence to the Su- perior Court of the District of Columbia in banc, on the ground that the prisoner should have been sentenced in accordance with the statute under which he was con- victed.
 The Oberlin News says 1t is ungenerous to criticise our fashionable young ladies for walking on tip-toe as they do nowadays The waterfalls on the top of their heads draw up the back hair so tightly that they can't put down their heels squarelv without great pain.
 Three years ago the Duke of Wellington hadan income of $750,0O0 year. By reck: less dissipation and profigacy of every con- ceivable kind he has reduced it to about $7,5O0, and is now the poorest man of his rank in Europe. He is distantly related to the Emperor Napoleon, and is married to one of the most beautiful women of the day A quaint old Methodist preacher, of Tex as, years ago, used to announce his text thus : "You will find my text in the 9th chapter Of Isaiah, 9th verse And if you don't find it thar, you will find it ef you hunt the book through from Ginnesis to Revelations and if you don't find it then. you will find great many things which will do you a power of good.
 Western editor lately married one of his compositors, another compositor acting as bridesmaid, the officiating clergyman being 8 retired printer, the local editor giv- ing the bride away-Erch Where was the devil?
 A correspondent of the Bridgeport Far mer states that the name of the unfortunate young lady who died at Providence few days since, under treatment for abortion, was Laura c. Tomlinson, the same as at first stated in the Courant, that she was the daughter of the late James Tomlinson of Squawtuck, four miles north of Birming- ham, that her paramour is believed to be Dickerman Bassett, a Birmingham manu- facturer, some forty years of age, with a family, and that he has fled to parts un- known.
 The child starver, Williams, now in jail at Norwich, is evidently in @ very wild state of mind. On Sunday, he would claw his finger nails into his bald head until the blood ran in streams, and 1t was necessary to keep some one with him constantly to prevent him doing himself some serious in jury.
 A Cincinnati saloon keeper lost ah eye recently by the explosion of bottle of min eral water that he was about to open, one Of the fragments flying with the velocity of a bullet, cutting his left eye completely in two.
 The finance committee of the Massachu- setts legislature have recommended the loan to the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad of $3,oOo,o ,o0o, the amount asked for.
 Dr. Luke Blackburn, who attempted to introduce the yellow fever by means of in fected clothing into the United States dur ing the war, has petitioned the attorney general for permission to return from Can ada to his native land and take a trial in Kentucky. The attorney general is under stood to have answered that he has no pow CT to grant the request.
 A "Democratic" member of the New York legislature, by the name of Jacobs, is accused of stealing @ bill to prevent the pub ication and circulation of obscene litera- ture and concealing it to prevent its pas sage. He doubtless received payment for the act.
 A Cleveland merchant lately received a package labeled "1 box Tom Cats'' It took him some time to decipher the fact that the inscription meant a box of tomato catsup.
 The New York Herald, speaking of Dix on's foolish speech in Hartford, on Satur- day evening, says
 "We expect to hear from Senator Dixon next that Jeff Davis has issued pardon to Andrew Johnson"
 Why is room full of married folks like Q room that is empty? Because there is not single person in it.
 Why are young widows like 8 band of Ethiopian minstrels? Because they do not stay long in black.
 The Virginia legislature has appropria- ted $8O,000 toward the education of chil- dren in the state, irrespective of color.
 The Supreme Court of Michigan has is sued mandamus compelling the registra- tion of colored man as a voter, under the recent decision that person with one quarter or less of negro blood was white man in the meaning of the Constitution of Michigan.
 "Ma," said a five year old young lady to her mother, the other day, do they make men the same as they do stocl1ings?" ''How absurd you are, Jane-of course not" "Then what made you say this morning, ma, that Major Spanker was remarkably apeU knit man?'
 A footman, proud of his grammar, usl- cred into the drawing-room 6 MT. Foote and his two daughters, with this introduc- tion: MT. Foote, and two Misses Feet"
 Agentleman having occasion to call up- on an author, found him in his study. vii ting. He remarked the great heat of the apartment, and said, |" It is as hot as an oven" "So it ought to be-" replied the author, |" for it's here make my bread"
 There will be special election for con- gressmen in Kentucky, on the 4th of May. There are three candidates in nearly all of the nine districts-the radicals and the