Litchfield enquirer., 1867-02-28
Misoelianeous Items.

Th1 Connecticut river has risen IS feet and two inches above water mark at Hart ford, and the ice is blocked up just below sAe clsy.3ls2 zEzsoa 2 agrsra.,
 The cotton crop of the South will amount ts 2,000, 900 bales. -..I.-.l z2-'.~1 .' -h
 What to do with the national debt leave it loan.
 democratic meeting in Bedford coun- E, Kentucky, has unanimously nominated John c. Breckenridge for Governor.
 A moral debating society ssout West" is engaged in discussion on the following question: tsIf a husband deserts his wife. which is the most abandoned, the man or wonan?' U ] L s I U Miss Mary Harris, who shot man nam- ed Burroughs two years ago, in the Treas Try Department, and was discharged by the jury, has been lately committed to an insane asylum in Washington. .g Idldsley, the child whipper, has been decided to be of unsound mind by tn phy sician at the Auburn (N. Y.) state prison, and will be placed at an avocation that is not laborious. .-s -- asl.si -..- 1a...- One of the-qualifcations of Mr. Hotch- kiss, the Democratic candidate for Con ere&s in the Second District, as stated by an enthusiastic delegate was that he knew every waterfall in the district. There's oae more he'll know about election time waterfall was there my countrymen. NOrscich Bulletin The Richmond Times speaks of General Terry as the pettiest of petty tyrants." |" and IS fearful that under the new military Ill he will be recalled frem the plains ssto lord 1t once more over the sacred soil of Virginia"
 Aterrible earthquake has occurred in the Island of Cephalonia, on the western coast of Greece. Every town in the island was laid in ruins, and the destruction of human life was very great
 Mr. George Lee of Hartford, of the firm of Lee & Dane, has received the painting he drew in the Chicago opera house lottery It is said to be worth about $1 ,OOO.
 A four year old daughter of Austin Per klns of South Coventry was burned to death while lying in cradle, few days since, by the explosion of kerosene oil lamp.
 A little fellow going to church for the first time, where the pews were very high, was asked, on coming out, what he did in church, when he replied: 'I went into :. cupboard, and took a seat on the shelf Ths author of the Bonnie Blue Flag un dertook to give entertainments in Indian apOlis, but got drunk and boisterous, and was taken care of by inc police.
 Eight hundred millions of dollars of pure gold has been extracted from the mines oi California within the last eleven years This amount would fill room fifteen feet long, twelve feet wide, and twelve feet foul inches high, and weigh 1,327 tuns.
 An editor thus indulges his delinquent subscribers: ''We don't want money des perately bad. but our creditors do. anl they no doubt owe you. If you pay us we'll pay them and they'll pay you"
 Several thousand tons of the table rock a Niagara Falls fell last week, and the re maining portion of the rock has every ap pearance of insecurity. Large Assures SC paratlng 1t from the main land are plainl, to be seen. In communicating the latest Johnson plan of reconstruction to the Mississipp legislature Governor Humphrey says :" have no recommendation to make on thes propositions, as disapprove them entire Iys f..-.t
 The Clarke House at Winsted has beer purchased by R. D. Hicks, lately of tn Housatonic House at Lee, for $f5,OOO.
 Twenty four freedmen have been brough to New London to be tried at farm labor il that vicinity.
 The loss to the King woolen company a Norwich, by the destruction of their mi and dam during the recent flood, will reac $1O0,0
 h the Kentucky House of Representa- avSs the ast for the benefit of negroes an mulattoes has been passed by a vote of 5 to 24 1t provides that the equalization and other taxes collected from negroe shall be set ai1art to support their paupers and to educate their children. The resi- due of the fund is to constitute the negr paupef fund.
 East Tennessee has tombstone whereol IS inscribed ths the following epitaph: 'Sh hved life of virtue, and died of the chol era-morbIs, caused by eating green fruit Tn tle fu1 hope of blessed immortality a the early age of twenty-four. Reader, g thou and do likewise
 The New York Sun congratulates th Connecticut Democracy ''upon hayin, drswr over Pease," but think they shay thr poorest apology for platform that w hare lately seen. The resolutions it style ga tumble of ungrammatical nonsense ana ct the only it comments, the eight] says 'is IS manifestly bid for votes an, nothing eise.'
 Warren Coturn of Chaplin in fit of de hnr-s, cansed by intemperance, on Thurs day 'ast sirdied all the fruit trees arount hlE h-uss, set fire to his barn, which wa dasEcyso, together with COW in the sam, sEc c1oscd by cutting his own throat. ant ehcr Syirg to hang himself. The woun( IS yl,s throat will not be fatal as it only par aG.iy severed his windpipe
 -he regist-ar's report of births marriaee and oeaths jn the town of Watertown dur lr- s.e year 1866, shows there were birth, = males arG 16 females, 36 in all-the lar gc-s TT --y one year since the system Q ree-s:-stior was inaugurated. Of mari aEcs tnc-e were 16; both parties America1 =. hcts parties foreign2, American nal, ard fo-s;sa female l, Total number O The Holland County Journar7, ;s +1,