Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-13

their summer recreations. Hundreds of graduates will be sent out to the world with we'll disciplined minds, and with stores of knowledge that will strengthen them for the duties of life The next month or two will see lively times in our lstitutions of learning East and West
 The word "white' has been struck out of the city ordinances of Mobile
 An exchange shows that musical people are ingenious Ill their way of making mon ey' MT. A., distinguished tenor or Madame B., scarcely less distinpuished contralto, we will say makes an arrange ment with Messrs. - and -, music publishers, that on every copy of certain song which is sold, A. or B. as the case may be, shall have royalty. Forthwith, the d'fiste insists on singing such and snch song whenever and wherever possible. and the result is that beautiful voice and a faultless execution combine to make tbe song popular, and when once this is arhiey- ed the profits on the sale of the copyright song are enormous, and the royalty is paid willingly
 A Widow in Harris, aged 45, married young man aged IS. By her first husband she had son whose age at the time of her second marriage was 21. She recently died, and by her will left her fortune to her son and husband. As her husband was not of age, her son was appointed his guar dian.
 Bishop Eastburn has sailed for England, and Bishops Potter, Clarke Hopkins and Winner will soon follow, their leading oh ject being to attend the grand council of Episcopal bishops to commence its session in Westminster Abbey on the 24th of Sep tember. The number of Bishops invited is 14s, and although the primary object of the convention Is to adjust the relations of the home establishment to it's colonial branches, all the interests of the Episcopal church will come under consideration, and the great ritualistic controversy will hardly be avoi led.
 AS a specimen of true Democratic doe trines, we clip the following from the New York Day Book:
 An exchange says: "About two inches of the spine cut from Booths neck is now on exhibition in the. Government Medical Mu- scum, Washington" If about an ounce of patriotism could have been cut from that unfortunate young mans heart, and given to Stanton, Holt CT Seward, 1t would have greatly improved that very bad breed of men.
 John Antrim, of the firm of Antrim & Sweet, of St. Louis, has fallen heir to property in Ireland worth S3,5O0,O0O.
 It is gratifying to learn that the wheat crop in the South is being rapidly harvest ed, and all agree that it is the largest ever known in that section of the country The South IS Tn no danger of lacking fool at least for another year.
 The canker worms are as numerous and as destructive as ever in Hartford. In New Haven there are very few of them
 A few years ago an English practitioner presented bill to D widow for services rendered her deceased husband, in which the word " "cure' was employed in its ori- ginal and appropriate sense. There was in the account but one item preceding modest sum of $. s. d., which read as fol- died'
 Don't be afther making fun of the bird, " said 8 newly imported Hibernian to lad whom he discovered annoying a land terrapin with 8 bullrush; chow do you know but he has blessed fine feathers un- der his overcoat?"
 The Chicago strikes have ended, after the loss of twenty-eight days. Work is re- stunned on the old terms
 Montreal is the most unhealthy. and London the most healthy of the Canadian cities. For every ten persons who die in London, twenty-five die in Montreal; and out of every hundred deaths, twenty-six additional cases of children cut off under five years of age are found in Montreal For every hundred children who die under one year in Montreal, only sixty die in Quebec, and thirty in the country districts.
 Dr. Frank Buckland, the English natu- ralist, had Brazilian monkey which he wished to take from Southampton to Lon don in the rail car, but the guard of the train objected, and said he was dog, and must go in the dog-van. The Doctor, by way of reductio ad absurduna, took a tor toise out of his coat pocket, and asked the guard If that, too, were dog. After att tentive consideration, the guard replied slowly but firmly, "No, sir-them's all right; them be hinsexr'
 Senator Wilson since his return from the South has indited 8 letter on the condition of the section of our country he has visited which is published in this weeks Inde- pendent. In opening the letter lie says:
 Ibelieve that the bloody civil war through which the nation has passed was inevitable, that the hand of God was in it. Thus be- jeving came also to believe that when slavery, the sole cause of that bloody strug- gle, should perish in spirit as we'll as in name, our estranged countrymen in the South would again love their country and heir countrymen. Believing this, I have 'triven, since the surrender of the rebel srmies, so to close the great contest that it would never moro be reopened The way o complete success seemed to me to be, lot through punishments, but through am ,esty for the guilty and manhood suffrage or the freedmen. The nation conquered he material forces of the rebellion by the cartridge box; its spirit can only be con- luered by reason, through the ballot-box.
 These words are the words of soberness md wisdom, and MT. Wilson in expressing hem gives utterance to the feelings and wishes of the great majority of the Ameri- ,an people. The war was undertaken, not 70 wreck vengeance upon the south, but in 'elf defence and to save the nation. In the course of his letter the Massachusetts sen stor speaks in glowing terms of the infiu-