Litchfield enquirer., 1867-10-17
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three dozen of various sorts now in session in the different states. Perhaps they are called together on the principle that con- cention is better than cure.
 General Ord has appointed former slave of Jeff Davis justice of the peace for the Davis's Bend precinct in Warren county, Mississippi. The New Orleans Times says curiously, that s'ike all who were faithful as slaves, he now possesses the confidence and respect of the white people"
 Charles E. Harris, brother of Colonel s. D. Harris, of the Ohio Farmer, deliber- ately shot his only son, aged twenty-five years, on Friday night, at Kent, Portage county, Ohio. Harris is in jail in Raven ma.
 The rate of taxation for city, school and state purposes iu St. Paul, this year, is fraction over thirty three mills on the dol lar.
 Mrs. Tom Thumb promenades Broad way in black silk dress and basque, jockey hat and dark kid gloves.
 BaE The New York and New Haven road is at best a cheaply managed road like all other monopolies. The managers assume the right of doing as they please without the least regard to the comfort of passengers. Old cars are used upon it and the public realizes all. tue inconveniences of money making monopoly. How long the price of the Connecticut Legislature will be within the reach of the annual in come of the road we cannot say. As long as it is, however, we must submit to mon- opoly and indifference to public comfort. We trust when competition does come the company will find, like the old express companies, that reform and courtesy comes too late. N F. Ere MaiL
 Dean Stanley says he has never been able fully to believe any historical event until he has seen the place where it occur red. As the Dean confesses he has not been much of traveller, his faith must be exceedingly limited-for Dean.
 American and English influences violent 1y dispute with each other the ascendency in the Sandwich Islands. As with the death of the present childless King the royal line becomes extinct, it is common belief that the Islands in that case, will become either an English dependency, or be annexed to the United States The latest news from the Islands indicates that the Legislature
 
 ty with the United States, great excite ment was gotten up by the circulation of report that the Americans intended to seize the Government of the Islands. Public opinion, however, was in favor of ratifying the treaty.-1ri6uue.
 The Chicago Irish Republic favors inn partial suffrage.
 The Norwich Bulletin says: We under stand that Henry McNelly of Norwich town has been appointed mail agent on the and Worcester route, vice Charles R. Burdick, removed MT. Burdick's ofense consists in not being a supporter of Johnsonism. He has been faithful and efficient off, ficer, and by no means active as politi- aian. His removal by this administration is compliment, rather thanea reproach.
 The first game for the championship" between the Pequot and Bridgeport base ball clubs was played upon the grounds of the latter club on the 8.h inst. An inn mense crowd of spectators was present but strong police force preserved perfect or der, and everything passed off quietly. The game was called at the close of the seventh inning on account of the lateness of the hour, the Pequots being one ahead, and the score standing 32 to 31.
 The number of working men engaged in the building trades in England is estimat- ed at $40, ,2l9 persons. Of these 2O4, ,l33 are carpenters and ioiners, IF, 483 masons SO,391 bricklayers, 2O,821 plasterers, 2,O73 painters, 27,O87 quarrymen, 42,O23 brlck- makers, 218, ,695 laborers, while the others belong to smaller trades.
 A western New York paper wants the la- dies to play base ball, maintaining that It is worth s'twice as much as this lnslpld, Amanda-Ar game called 'Crow-h, which is nothing but mighty poor kind of billiards on the grass. <"
 It will not be encouraging to those who are hunting up fortunes left in England to unknown American heirs, to learn that statute of limitation, passed in the latter part of the reign of William III., a century and half ago, legislates away all chance of receiving such property, if left by testa- ment or otherwise, after ten years from the passage of the Act of Parliament.
 Semmes. pirate, has ceased to edit the Memphis Bulletin. He is failure all around, as "moral philosopher, editor and pirate.
 The New York Evening Mail declares that Barnum's gorilla is nothing but dog nosed babboon.
 The Homeopathic college of Pennsylva- mia has determined to open its doors to women, provided sufficient number offer to make it desirable as test of its bene- fits.
 The following dispatch from Chicago ap- pears in yesterdays New York Herald:- The stories concerning Mrs. Lincoln's pow erty which appear in the New York papers occasion much surprise here. As they are untrue they are looked upon as an adver- Using dodge of the parties engaged Tn dis posing of property which she does not wish to retain"
 The postage stamps consumed annually in the United States amount to $35O, ,OOO,- 900.
 Peaches are so cheap in some parts Of Michigan that thousands of bushels will rot under the trees. They are to be had in endless quantities at from twenty-fv to fifty cents 9 bushel
 The Conservative, Free Conservative and &r A.... a1 r ;baro1 ,,ortios in thn North Cer