Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-27
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
 Blind Tom, the young negro pianist, is creating quite sensation in Paris.
 Delmonico, who addresses the palate of New York, returns an income of $206, ,504 Dr. Bushnell, who addresses the intellect of the country, returns an income of S400.
 A South Carolina paper remarks that of all the expatriated leaders or office holders in the late Confederacy, J. F. Benjamin is apparently the only one who has at all prospered abroad
 The crops in Eastern Connecticut prom ise finely. A good crop of rye is secure, oats never looked better, heavy crop of clover will be cut, other grasses promise well, and corn and potatoes and beans are rapidly coming forward. The prospect for heavy apple crop is not so good; the young fruit is falling from the trees from a kind of blast.
 At the Hartford stock board on Saturday S225 per share was bid for carpet stock, with no sellers.
 Norwich has prohibited the use of fire works and crackers July 4th, and a peti- tion to the Hartford Common Council is circulating.
 The Hartford Carpet Company intend to take large number of their Tariffville operatives over to Thompsonville, and run the mills at the latter place night and day.
 It is estimated that Illinois contains no less than eight hundred thousand persons between the ages of five and twenty-one. Of these, only about three hundred thou sand attend Sabbath schools The remain ing five hundred thousand do not enjoy the privilege of public religious instruc- tion.
 An old lady was in Lewiston, shopping. the other day, and handed out in payment for goods few real old Spanish dollars. worth $1. 45 each. She seemed altogether oblivious of the fact that her Spanish dol lars were more valuable than greenbacks, and was most agreeably surprised when the merchant volunteered a generous premium on the specie.
 society of Glastonbury, will hold fair and festival for furnishing their new church. at the Town Hall, Wednesday afternoon and evening ofnext week. A variety of fancy articles will be exhibited for sale, and an abundant supply of strawberries and ice cream and other good things adapted to the season, will be provided. Supper will be furnished for those who wish in tent adjoining.
 General Longstreets letters are makino the Democratic journals squirm. So lonS as he was a rebel they gave him their an, piause, but the mopent he came out frank ly for the Union they withdrew their ad- miration.
 Two boys from Middletown, while sail- ing on the river on Sunday, were capsize d near Middle Haddam, and one named Dal- ton, about IS years of age, was drowned.
 The Chicago Times suggests good-natur- edly, that the best way to get the foul wa ter out of Chicago river, would be to en- gage Horace Greeley to bail it out.
 Under the new English reform bill it is calculated that 43, 5l6 voters will be added to the constituency of Glasgow alone
 By the census which has been taken in Meriden, 1t appears that there is a popula- tion of 2, Al within the limits of the nro- posed city, which embraces 1. .4O6 families.
 The Emperor of Russia was very badly received in Paris. Several times as he passed, cries of Poland! Poland! were heard, and when he visited the law courts he was positively insulted by the lawyers. who turned their backs on him.
 King Victor Emanuel replied to a oues- ton as to whether he was going to Paris: Why should I go? I have not money enough to take third class ticket"
 A stump orator of New York State want ed the wings of bird to fly to every town and county. to every village and hamlet in the broad land; but he wilted when a naughty boy in the crowd sang out. "Drv up: you old fool; you'd get shot for goose before you flew a mile oO'o
 At a celebration of marriage in a westarn clty large number of young ladies were present. The minister said: Those wish. ing to be joined in the holy bonds of matri- moRy will please stand up;' and nearly all arose.
 Mental Arithmetic Hook here Johnny suppose you had twenty sugar plums. and you wanted to divide them into four narts You give five to baby and five to Gaylord now what would you do with the other ten?"
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 A gentleman once asked, ssWhat is wo- man?" when happy married man re- piled. ''She Is an essay on grace, in one volume elegantly bound. Although it may be deGr, every man should have copy of 1t" Corn is selling at Americus at g. 50 per onshel and bacon at 9 cents pound pay. able next fall Cotton, corn, land, stock SlIe and children, pledged to secure the IeOt' and II the borrowers could tell where 1ey are going when they die they would sNe mortgage on their interest in the THE PEN Is MIGHTIER THAN THE
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