Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-20
Miscellaneous Items.

A divorce suit was recently tried in Phelps County, Mo-, in which the plaintiff was a Judge who sat in his own case, and upon l the pleading, entered @ decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony between himself and wife, who agreed to the arrangement A Georgia paper suggests that as there will be greater yield of wheat in that State than there has been for many years, the Governor appoint day of thanksgiv- ing and prayer.
 A short time since, lady of Troy, sit ting in her room, was instantaneously op- pressed with the conviction that her little son had fallen from the window of his sleeping apartment to the ground below. She repelled the thought as an impossibil- ity. In few moments more 1t flashed up on her mind with such force that she could not resist it. She hurried to the bedside of her son, and there, to her intense hor- TOT, she discovered the lad sleeping upon i the window-sill, the window open, his head projecting outside-he was on the very point of falling to the pavement below.
 PHENOMENA charming young lady was recently obliged to wait over Sunday in an Illinois town, where she met sus- ceptible young merchant who was similar ly circumstanced. They passed the day pleasantly in conversation and parted. A week afterward two trains from opposite directions met at the same town, and the two lovers, by strange coincidence, were brought face to face at the windows of the different trains. The young man changed cars, and the next day there was we'd ding not many miles distant from the point of the romantic adventure.
 The Nashville Press and Times states that the prospects for the wheat crop in Middle Tennessee are extremely eneourag- ing A great deal of ground has been put into wheat, and should the weather be pro- pitious for the next month the harvest will be 8 bountiful one.
 There is bit of romance connected with the Derby race in England, which took place fortnight ago. A young lady was engaged to be married to MT. Chapin, but 24 hours before the proposed wedding, eloped with the Marquis of Hastings. At the Derby races, MT. Chapin's horse won, and the Marquis of Hastings in conse- quence lost G129, 00O-nearly $750, in currency The Marquis is now very "hard up." and MT. Chapin has had his revenge.
 The Nation truly says, that "no politi cal opinions, however sound, can make knaves and charlatans anything but curse to the country.'
 General Tom Thumb and family, with Commodore Mutt and Mrs. Mutt have hir- ed themselves to Barnum for tour through the country. It is said that the little fami- ly get $1O, ,OOO for five weeks. Their en- gagement in England was to terminate on the 18th of June, when they were to sail for this country. They will probably nr rive here about the first of July.
 The tide of Irish Emigration continues to flow. Although the less enlightened portions of Ireland-the southern and wes- tern districts-furnish the largest number of emigrants, yet the wealthier north, the region about Londonderry, is contributing it's quota towards the exodus. It appears from the Londonderry Standard, to take one instance, that the emigration from that port is greatly on the increase, and that at the present time ''The outgoing steamers, both by the Canadian and Anchor lines, find it very difficult, and frequently impos- ible, to accommodate the numbers seeking passages, and parties have frequently to be left behind for want of room. Some sixty young men and women, belonging to the labor1ng and small farmer class appeared before the Mayor of Derry the other day to complain that after they had left the usual deposit with agent of the American steam CT (''Anchor Line') the vessel had left without taking them on board This was a matter beyond the jurisdiction of the magistrates, but it is an indication of the prevalence of emigration on an extensive scale from the most prosperous part of the Emerald Isle.