Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-16
Miscellaneous Items.

The Washington agent of the Adams Ex- press Company testified before the I'm peachment Committee that the company forwarded pardons to Alabama, from parties in Washington, marked $500, cash on de- livery, y to the parties to whom they were granted.
 The Prussian, Bessemer, who only few years since advanced his simple, cheap and short method of converting pig iron di rectly into malleable steel is already en- toying from it an income of $500, GOO pe1 annum.
 The dogs in Chicago have become so shy of policemen that the latter have to dress up in citizens clothes when they go to exe- cute the law on unmuzzled canines.
 Successful love takes load off man s heart and puts it on his shoulders.
 Men not infrequently slip on water when it's frozen and 1t is no rare thing to hear of their slipping on whiskey when it's not frozen.
 1T see villain in your face,' said Wes- tern judge to prisoner. "May it please your worship" replied the prisoner, " that is a personal reflection"
 A Nevada paper wishes bachelors to be taxed heavily enough to drive them to mat rimony or to suicide.
 Wanted by a confectioner-a candid young woman.
 At radical meeting in Shelby county, Tenn, day or two since, colored orator who was slave two years ago, said 1.-The rebels are trying to use us as catspaws; they say we ought to hold office but seven years ago we didn't hold anything but hoe han dle, and would not now if they could have their way"
 The King of Sweden and Norway has con- ferred upon Captain John Ericsson, the well known inventor of the iron monitors, the grand cross of the Swedish order of the Polar Star.
 Recent occurrences in Austria add au- other instance to the vicissitudes of htera- ry regulations. In lS49 the poet Petof was among the Magyar patriots doomed to death, and his last and bitterest outpour- ings were upon Francis Joseph, the empe- TOT of Austria In 1867, the same Francis Joseph, king of Hungary, subscribes one hundred guilders towards the erection of a
 
 Hungarian newspapers publish a letter from the Empress-an excellent Magyar scholar-thanking Sir John Bowring for having made the Hungarian bard better known to English readers
 A rich young lady of New York is about to be married to an Italian prince, whose father lives in the garret of his house in Rome, lets the lower rooms for restaurants and billiard rooms, and whose only income is from their rental. Whats in name? On Monday night of last week, while some slight repairs were being made at the furnace O the Millerton Iron Co.,, near us, the wind was shut off short time, when the gas followed down the pipes to the wind chest, Cor regulator, believe il is called;) lodging there; and when the wind was again put on, as it came in contact with the gas fearful explosion ensued, bursting the regulator shattering the windows, sash and all, and to some extent disturbing the foundations of the engine room. The damage was not very heavy making perhaps thousand or two dollars. The engineer MT. J. P. Jewell narrowly escaped with his life, piece of iron weighing about pound passing with great velocity within few inches ofhis head. None were injured, though it was frightful scene- Anoenid Times.