Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-31
Miscellaneous Items.


 It cost ss, 900, 900, last year for the keep ing dogs in Illinois.
 A BAD CAsR.-A fine horse ran away on Central street, yesterday, throwing the driver ont and cutting severe gash in one of his hind legs."-Spsinqfeld Republican.
 We take 1t the drivers fore legs were un-' injured. Zvg --1.-
 Notwithstanding Alabama has repudiated the rebel war debt: it now appears that she has paid out over S150, ,O0O to civil and mil itary offices of the days of the rebellion since the repudiatior, besides paying over elgnIy thousand dollars to banks for money oaned in confederate currency.
 An enraged parent had ierked his pro- voking son across his knee, and was opera ting on the exposed portion of the urch- in's person with great vehemence, when the young one dug into the parental legs with his venomons little teeth. |" Blazesl what are you biting me for?' Well, dad, you beginned this war" e
 The man who ate his dinner with the fork of river has been attempting to spin mountain top. .-,... .,sr B.. d
 Coal has fallen half dollar on a ton at New Haven, and Lehigh now sells for $9
 An eminent story teller was very fond of relating the following touching anecdote An Englishman and a Frenchman fought a duel in 8 darkened room. The English man, unwilling to take his antagonists life, generously fired up the chimney and brought down the Frenchman. 'sWhen I tell this story in France" pleasantly adds the narrator, 'tI make the Englishman go up the chimney"
 QUEBEC, Jan S.-The imperial govern ment of the province has indignantly re- fused the demand of MT. Seward for the papers upon the subject of the Fenian tri- als in Canada. s..s-
 The prisoners under sentence of death, but which were commuted by order of the home government to twenty years hard la- bor,Ahave been sent to serve out their term to the provincial penitentiarg at Kingston. The military guard at that point has been strongly augmented.
 Nasby's letters are sometimes taken seri- ously An honest Democrat lately in a so- Der conversation relative to the faults of President Johnson, candidly admitted that one of his greatest mistakes was the ap pointing of ''that fool, the Rev. P. " Mas by, his Chaplain; he might know enough to keep post office, butlhe wasn't fit for 8 spiritual adviser. '' -.
 Smooth-bore. musket are still supplied to Sepoy troops in Indiav it being against their religion to use animal grease, which is required to lubricate rife cartridges.
 Three burglaries were committed in Bridgeport Tuesday night, two coal offices and one lumber office being broke into The burglars secured the sum of ninety nine cents in all, and the parties robbed offer to furnish the one cent necessary to make the even dollar on application at eith- CT of their offices.
 USKND.lSome of the papers have sta ted that Albert Sedgwick, our late School Commissioner, was among the delegates to last week. This is a mistake It was MT. Philo Sedgwick, of Cornwall Hollow MT. Albert Sedgwick is man of unblemished character. = Winsted Herald. E: <. i
 The eldest stove in the country which warns the hall of the State House at Rich mond, Va It was made in England and sent to Virginia in 17S7, and warmed, the house of Burgesses and the General Assem- ply for sixty years before it was removed to | its present location, where it has been up- ward of thirty years. ~s s-sg-kE
 Gen. Phil Sheridan denies that he is about to get married or run for the Presi- deney cs-TI- IsasE ! '---5~
 A story is told of young man in Free port III, who was crossed in love and att I tempted suicide recently by taking a dose of yeast powder. He immediately rose above his troubles.
 BENNINGTON AHRAD.-Bennington, Yer. mont, has a new water fountain knear the residence of Seth B. Hunt, which throws water othe height of one hundred and Hf- r tesn feet, twenty feet higher than any known fountain in the world The water s conveyed over mile in iron pipes, and las fan of three hundred and five feet