Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-24
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
 Wheat IS up four inches in California, and the San Francisco market has green peas and string beans. Three burglaries were committed Tues day night at Bridgeport.
 Apastor of one of the Methodist church es in Brooklyn was presented on Christmas day with baked potatoe, in which was en- closed a $500 greenback.
 Timothy Kahoe was found frozen to death, some dave since, in some woods nearly mile south of Monroe center. From appearances he had been dead week or more.
 The Fenian prisoners whose sentences have been commuted, are to remain in Kingston jail until after all the trials are finished.
 D. c. Carr Esq, radical, has been elec- ted mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn, by 107 majority.
 Artemus Ward clears $50, 900 by his trip to Europe. His artemesian well is pro- ductiye.
 Boston is savage with Parton for his re- cent article upon Daniel Webster.
 The grand jury of New Orleans failed to find indictment against any persons con- cerned in the July riots.
 Rebel sympathizers have given Gen. Price warm reception at St. Louis,
 Gen. Croole has had fight with Indians on the Owyhee river killing 30. Big Foot, chief, escaped, but Little Foot was cap- tured.
 In Wilmington, North Carolina, letters of administration have been issued to col ored man orssthe settlement of an estate the first instance of the kind in the South. On Tuesday Daniel Corners, of Hartford while drunk, went about some of the city streets with loaded rifle threatening to shoot folks. and wipe out few of his ene- mics He was arrested and fined ten dol lars and costs
 A personal encounter took place in Hart fond on Wednesday, on the steps of the State Bank, between George s. Gilman, Esq, (ex-Polce Court Judgel, and John c. Day, Esq, lson of Calvin Day, Esq., The difference, 1t is said, grew out of the Ex- change Bank election. Each in turn was pushed or knocked into the glass showcases of Webster & Popkin's photographic estab- hshlnent, so that the showcase on both sides of the entrance way to the upper rooms of the building were in turn smash ed. The gentlemen were separated before either was badly hurt
 WELL BESTOWED. Winsted He,.ald Conn awards leather medal to the au- thor of the following: ''Why is rascality the breast of fowl? Because it ia piece of ckScnse.
 Smart! As cotrollary to the above "why would 1t be impossible for us to com pete with the Her0ld in the squib ine?" Because all our efforts would be of no o. FGiL
 THE SUEz CANAL.-The Malta Observer. of a late date, says: 'By reliable informa- tion, recently received, we learn that the works of the Isthmus of Suez canal are be- ing very actively carried forward by M de Lesseps, who however Is at this moment in France. An average depth of from seven to nine feet has been obtained from Port along the salt water canal, and the rest of the distance to Suez is travelled temporarily by fresh water one about seven feet deep, connected to the other by means of locks and powerful pumps. As far as 60 stations the full width of the proposed ship canal i.iss been excavated to 50 metres, but from that point to the seventy-fifth station and Ishmaha the width Is incomplete"
 n9~ Whether wise or not, it is certainly most palpable to all observers here that the President is held in utter contempt by a large majority of both Houses of Congress- while, on his part, he retaliates with spirit of resentment; and yet, he betrays to those who visit him feeling of tiieneUessness that in most cases would inspire a degree of sympathy. He gave state dinner day or so since, which was but indifferently attended. Connecticut however seems to have enjoyed monopoly of seats thereat. Secretary Welles and Lady and his son Ed gar, now Chief Clerk of the Navy Dept. and Mir. and Mrs. Foster, who have ever been we'll recognized favorites at the White House, were present.-Corres. Cowant
 AsHAMED.-A little girl of three years, who had disobeyed her parents, was order ed to go and sit on the cellar stairs. for pun . ishment The little thing obeyed, and af- ter she had been seated there for some time her father opened the door and asked her If she was not ashamed. The little girl with tears in her eyes and finger in her mouth. replied, 'Yes." "What are you ashamed of?" asked her father. She replied, s'I am ashamed of my pa." The kind-hearted father appreciated the answer, and releas- SO ASA HUH AoA AnipIISouiueHt.- Ht.-heg1SIef.
 CAUTIOUS MEN-Some men use words as rifemen do bullets. They say little. The few words used go right to the mark. They let you talk, and guide with their eye and face. on and on, till what you say can be answered in a word or two, and then they lance out O sentence, pierce the matter to the quick, and are done. You never know where you stand with them. Your conver- sation falls into their minds, as rivers fall into deep chasms, aud are lost from sight by its depths and darkness They will sometimes surprise you with a few words that go right to the mark like a gunshot. and then they are silent again, as if they were loading
 JosH BILLINGS SAYINGS is hnt phew men who have character enuf to Iced life of idleness
 Those who retire from the world on ac- count of its sins and peskiness, must not forget they have got to keep company with person who wants just as much watching as anybody else
 When man loses his health, then he