Litchfield enquirer., 1867-07-11
Miscellaneous Items.

Surveys have been commenced for the improvement of the Illinois river, and it's extension by means of ship canal so as to admit the passage of 1900 ton steamers, direct from Chicago to St. Louis.
 The millennium may now be daily expec- ted. ANew York hackman has been fined $lO for e1tortion. He carried 8 country man from pier Al to pier 39,-a distance of less than four blocks-and charged him therefor three dollars!
 The Chicago lake tunnel is in great suc- cess. It furnishes an unlimited supply of pure water, equal to Croton, and the citi- zens are delighted.
 It is proposed to change the name of our newly acquired territory at the North to Bullrushia, in honor of the modern @Moses.''
 The "Paradise''-the third and final volume of Longfellow's magnificent trans latlon of Dante-has just been published. The constitution of the North German confederation has provision in favor of universal suffrage In the Prussian house :. lords this constitution was recently adopt ed by 8 unanimous vote, universal suffrage and all Is it not strange that when the ancient monarchies of Europe are making such rapid strides toward right and justice, we should have single man in this coun- try who should dare to resist these steps toward the right?
 The New York Evening Gazette closes a notice of C. Chimpanzee Burr thus: sHe was the last of the men to whom Lola Men teZ attached herself in the course of her long career.'
 A. T. Stewart has lately made hanl- some gift ts William and Mary College. Jones has been heard to say that if the Shah of Persia visits the Paris Exhibition he Shahn't.
 We believe there is no foundation for the rumor that well-known company has re- the New. York Times, on the ground that it was quite impossible to make out his policy.
 A clergyman was one day talking with his landlord, Universalist, on the per- the gentleman remarked, ''I should like to see the devil" Cant you waltz" was the reply.
 After much training of quite youngste1 to keep him still at table long enough for 'the blessing" he sat very quietly one day till near the close of the service, his mother beginning inwardly to congratulate her self that for once he had kept still when he suddenly called out, 'sAt'll do, papa; pass plates now"
 Doctor.-"Well, madam, how's your husband to-day?"
 Wife.-''Why, doctor, he seems no bet ter"
 Doctor. -':Did you get the leeches?"
 Wife. -''Yes; but he only took three of them raw; I had to fry the rest!''
 The Marquis of Hastings, who lost a million dollars on the Derby, has sold his Scotch estates for e35O,OO sterling to a young nobleman who has just come of age All the English newspapers are writing savage articles on the demoralization of so- ciety.
 The other day town crier took in charge a lost child, and proceeded to hunt up it's parents. On being asked by a lady what the matter was, he replied, Here's an orphan child, madam, and I'm trying to find it's parents"
 A SHEEPIsH CoMPLIMENT.-Lord Cock burn was sitting on the hill side at Bonaly, with Shepherd, and, observing the sheep reposing in the coldest situation, remarked to him: "John, if I were a sheep, I would lie on the other side of the hill.
 The shepherd answered answered answer ed, "Ah, my Lord,; had ye been sheep, ye'd hae had mair sense''
 When James l. heard that Ben Johnson was living in great poverty in an obscure place in London, he sent the poet e1O to relieve his necessities. Some of the cour- tiers remarking on the smallness of the dole, the King said it was enough "for a man who lived in an alley"
 The last instance of communication with spirits through medium, is that of gen. tleman lately deceased, who sent word to his wife, " now believe. Please send me my thin clothes"
 What particular facilities had the An cient Egyptians for the manufacture of Kossuth hats? Darkness that was felt
 In the gardens of a certain nobleman' $ country house there happened to be fixed mp at certain spots painted boards with this request:-'' Please not pick the flow CTS without leave" Some wag got paint brush and added to the last word
 It has transpired that MT. Hiscock was under an engagement of marriage to we'll to do and accomplished widow of bany. The night of his assassination, she and a lady friend took passage on the St. John to New York, where purchases of cer n indispensable articles of bridal wardrobe were to be made. The intelligence of the tragic and sudden death of MT. H. so greatly shocked her that she has not been able to leave her room at the Metropolitan Hotel
 The third wife of poor man in Putnam has worked in factory till she has saved $l2O, which she expended, without the knowledge of her husband, in the erection of two neat headstones in the cemetery to the memory of the two dead wives. That woman deserves monument when she dles, on which perseverance and unselfish- ness should be inscribed as among her yir- tues.
 General Longstreet was one of the most honest as well as most able rebels. When he resigned his position as United States paymaster, to enter the rebel army. he turned over to his old government all of it's funds he had on hand, and made provision for the payment of all checks which he