Litchfield enquirer., 1867-08-15
Miscellaneous Items.

Some villainous rascal lately tried to de- stroy the steeple of the new Catholic church at Easton, Pa., and the workmen upon it, by applying sulphuric acid to one of the | guy ropes. rope an inch and an eighth
 thick was eaten through, but the plot wa
 discovered in time to prevent further injn | ry.
 The Boston Female College has twenty four students of whom one. Lucy Vi Southmayd, is from Connecticut There are over three hundred women in the couE- try who have graduated at Medical Schools
 Max Maretzek, having discovered tlat he cannot make the opera pay in Chicago, will now, 1t is said, limit his operations to New York, Philadelphia and Boston. open ing in the latter place about December 1
 Miss Ann Dickinson is soon to be maI- ] rled to gentleman at the West, reputed very wealthy.
 The largest room ill the world.-the room
 for improvement.
 Beverly Nash, the whilom South CarOli- na conservative negro, now amour ces that he heartily indorses the platform Cf the late radical convention of his state, and asserts that it will carry with it every man of color.
 The Boston Transcript observes: Per sons out of town wishing 9 supply of Con gress, Kissingen or Excelsior water sent to them should first ask the permission of the . state constables. The office is ill Broomfield street."
 The arrival of the Sultan in Paris gave rise to many anecdotes in the papers Among them is one to this effect: M. Leo pold DeMeyer, the pianist, was called up on to play before Abdul Azim. In order that no injury might be done to the bear- tiful mosaic floor, the piano was placed on the backs eff five Turks, then when NJ. De Meyer desired to sit down, he was told that no one would be permitted to be seated ill the presence of the Sultan. Finally this difficulty was got over, and the professor was accommodated with chair. The Sul- tan expressed himself as highly delighted with the performance, and, then asked the pianist to dance.
 About ten per cent. of the democratic county treasurers in Indiana have become defaulters within the last three months. The last added to the roll is the treasurer of Wells county.
 The Pope has civil list of about $7OO,- GOO @ year. Out of this sum he keeps Pa. pal nuncios in foreign courts, and pays $4, 400 @ year to each of the cardinals who reside in Rome. Out of this, too, he keeps up the Vatican, which contains no less than 4,OOO rooms, and requires large staff of domestics The Pope also pays the Pala- tine Guard and the Noble Guard; keeps up the Pontifical Chapel, pays the cdnaeriereS, his household. &c. All this is administer ed with regularity and econ omy
 A man named Walker went to a Dutch tailor and had his measure taken for a pair of pantaloons. He gave directions to have them made large and full. Walker was {. heavy man and liked his clothes loose, and when he came to try on the new unmen- tionables, found that they stuck tight to his legs, whereat he thus remonstrated: "J told you to make these pants full" After some obligatory expressions of a profane nature, the tailor ended the controversy by declaring: ':I dinks desc pants is full enough. If dey was any fuller dey would shplit''
 The Boston Advertiser defines the Dem ocratic method of voting us:-"Cumula- tive voting, early and often.
 In digging on the canal near Goshen, Indiana, the other day, the workmen found the tusks of mastodon, some ten feet un- der ground. Itmeasured nearly three feet, and the lines made by that portion which had decayed, show it originally to have been ten feet long. It is confidently ex- pected that the skeleton of the monster animal will be found in few days.
 Madame Pareda Rosa is concertizing through Canada.
 Fare from New York by the Erie Rail road has been reduced from $6 25 to $5.
 The gossips again talk of Edwin Booths marriage to Fifth Avenue lady.
 The Chinese in California send home their dead for interment.
 Tite butes, says Josh Billings, air lux ury, in-azmutch az they kause feller 2 forget all hiz other mizeries.