Litchfield enquirer., 1867-08-01
Misc oellaneous Items.

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 'Pray sir, beg your pardon is this the way to the workhouse?'
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 Why are radishes like teleg graphic dis patches? The most natural reply is be- cause they are re(a)d The real answer, however, is because both must be taken cam g''ano sails.
 The population of Iowa is rapidly in creaslng. The census returns of the 7th judicial district of that state for the present year show a total population of 1O2, ,261, be- ing an increase of 15,O55 since 1865 A similar rate of increase in the other dis tricts would give population of 900, 900 for the state
 At the beginning of the war the popula- tion of Texas was between six and seven hundred thousand. ANans Monthly esti- mates 1t to be at least one million now Population is flowing into the State from Europe as well as from the southern states east of the Mississippi.
 Somebody says the ladies' pet animals are West Pointers.
 The headquarters of the United States forces at Galveston is overwhelmed with the reports of outrages in the Red River country. Colored people dare not accept appointments as registrars for fear of their lives. Judge Latlmer, prominent Tex an, has resigned his appointment in the bu- reau: being afraid of the chief outlaw, named Guest. The colored people fled to "a 1C oo1o IT arrested, but escaped. In Sterling, Rob- ed, and two men and one woman were kill ed. Capt. Randall, freedmen's bureau agent, raised hundred freedmen and ar rested two of the ringleaders.
 Littell, the veteran editor and publisher, has completed his seventieth year. Ever since he was of age, he has been engaged in republishing the ablest articles of cur rent foreign magazines. He founded this department of American periodical litera- ture. His Lioing Age, of which the fifth volume of the fourth series has just been printed, was first issued in the spring of 1S44. Ninety-three volumes of it have been published Its circulation was never better than now.
 The Memphis AvalancAe says:-''There is fixed unutterable determination on the part of the Conservatives throughout the entire state of Tennessee to refuse employ ment to every negro who arrays himself spect damand such course.'' This is the true conservative way of doing things
 WHOLESALE ~MURDERs OF FREEDMEN The Bureau agent of Robertson county. Texas, reports during the last three months that thirty bodies sofmurdered freedmenhave been seen floating down the Brazos river. Within Nine consecutive days this month, eight freedmen have been murdered in that one country. There is no redress from the civil authorities.
 Dispatches from the capital of Alabama say that registration returns have been re- ceived from nearly half the state, and that they show great indifference on the part of the whites. Only fourteen thousand whites have registered to thirty-two thou sand blacks. Registration will probably be completed in three weeks, and it is es- timated now that there will not be over one hundred and thirty-fve thousand per sons registered.
 special dispatch from Galveston, says: -"On Sunday last, while the freed people of Sterling, Robertson county, were wor- SnlPPInS III GHelF cnurcn, they were at- tackled by four desperadoes, who said the d-d negroes should not hold church. , They then drove the colored people away, shooting down in cold blood three of their number, two men and one woman. The agent of the freedman's bureau in two hours collected 8 hundred of the freedmen who, mounted and armed, pursued, over took and captured two of the villains, who are now in custody, but their trial before the civil authorities is considered farce Military trials and summary executions are needed here to preserve the peace.
 Mr. $. s. Cox has urged the name of Gen. Grant as the proper Democratic nominee for President. He has been to Washington to persuade the Democrats to nominate the General at an early day. but the Democrats don't seem to see it in that light. He thinks George H. Pendeton hill be the nominee of the party, but, as we says, the Democratic party has been virtually defunct for four years, there is not the remotest chance for them with any one.
 When landlord raises the rent it makes it more difficult for his tenants to raise the rent. This sounds paradoxical but it is true.