Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-02

| that state.
 Ex-Gov Perry of South Carolina, pre- i sents novel reason for supporting the re- construction measures. He says "A des- potism wisely administered is the most per- feet government on earth, being the gov ernment established by God for the control of the universe"
 A story is told of Middlebury Republi- can, poor man, who was offered barrel of flour to vote the Democratic ticket at the late election. He took the ticket and the flour, and after erasing the copperhead candidates names and writing Union tick ct on the back with count this side,' he deposited the ticket in the ballot-box.
 The Springfield Republican is responsi- ble for this "A Connecticut minister has sent Gov. elect English @ quill from an American Eagle to write his message. An appropriate inscription would be: "A quill from an admiring goose.
 Some time ago they started 8 female seminary in Salt Lake city. It fiourished well; but i'll the night of it's prosperity the Mormon principal eloped with and ''mar- ried' the whole school.
 Att wedding after the clergyman had united happy pair, an awful silence ensu- ed which becoming rather irksome to 8 young gentleman, he cried out, ''You need not be so upspeakbly happy"
 The credit system has been carried to a pret- ty fine pcintin some districts, if we may judge from the following dialogue said to have re- gently occurred between the customer and the proprietor:
 |'Haow's trade, square?"
 Wall, cash trades kinder dull naow, major"
 ''Dnn anything tor-day"'
 ''Wau, only leetle-on credit. Aunt Betsy Puslarl has bort an eggs worth of tea, and got trusted for 1t till her spectled bullet lays"
 Avoung fellow whose better half had just presented him with 2 bouncing pair of twins attended church one Sunday, Dur ing tho discourse, the clergyman looked right at our innocent friend and said, i'll tone of thrilling eloquenca. "Young man you have an important responsibility thrust upon you" The newly fedged dad, SUD- dosing the preacher alluded to his peculiar home event, considerably startled the andi- enco by exclaiming, 'Yes I have two of them"
 Mr. Brady of New York; once said to
 
 you vegetate in a little country village Q Why don't you go to New York, where you could find proper sphere for your talents, and you would certainly rise to fortune and distinction }" Little country village' replied the lawyer; "take the thieves and pickpockets and gamblers out of New York and 1t is not so much bigger than Wickford as you think it is.'
 A man with very large bald head was complimented on the fact that his caput was analogous to Greenland. ''Why sop he asked. Because 1t is @ great white bare (bear) place, was the reply, 1 On Lord Howe's return to England, after his memorable victory on the 1st of June, he went one Sunday to his parish church. bit of wag, gave out the psalm beginning -"Lord Hoav glorious are thy works!' | A CoNUNDRUM-Sm spent two whole days and nights in considering an answer to the conundrlm "Why is an egg under done like an egg oyerdone? He would sui ] fer no one to tell him. and at last hit upon the solution because both are Aardly done. + A cruel Radical paper says: '"The freshet at the South has compelled many of the i late confederates to take high ground" cAGo-''Whata are your amusements?" said at length, anxious to change the sub 1 ject of conversation.
 'Attending inquests, sitting on coroner's iuries, dragging the river, looking in at tho police courts, listening to divorce trials, and attending executions.
 In Italy no man is allowed to vote who is under twenty-five years of age. If candi- date does not obtain one third of the whole number of votes east the election is adiour- ned for one week, when the two candidates who received the highest number of votes are put up, and no new competitor is allow cd
 lTiddle-aged Unclc-''Not proposed to her yet! Why, what & shilly -shallying fel- low you are, George! You'll have that lit tie widow snapped up from under your like that-nico little property-evidently too, and you sporting man"
 Nephew-'' An! that's where it is, uncle! Her fsning's good, I know; but I'm not so sure of her gT0uSe!"
 A second brick of gold, weighing l3O ounces, and worth s, 800 has been received in New Haven from Charles w. Allen, agent or Iilo NCW IldN0I dLlI 1GculI0W nlulnP company, Nova Scotia, and is now on ex- hibition. Similar ingots are to be sent by each steamer, two month.
 Fred Goodwin of Willimantic, IT years old, is serving out sentence of thirty days in Brooklyn jail, for pounding and kicking his mother It ought to be thirty years.
 A horse belonging to B. R. Stetson,' and drawing 8 wagon containing 8 ton of coal, while descending hill at Winsted, began to kick, and kicked himself, load and all down 8 steep bank, fifty feet high, into the river. By means of moose the horses nose was kept out of water and the wagon drawn out backward by ropes.
 A daughter of Mrs. Jorey, of Van Deu- senville, five years old, while crossing the Housatonic on narrow foot bridge, fell into the river and was drowned
 s. Edgar Wildman, aged 26, was the companion of Col. Farnsworth who was drowned with him near Savannah, Ga. He was son of $. c. Wildman, of Danbury.