Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-07
Miscellaneous Itsma.

O0k@n@t m t4@ fe&UI&I army. Two shildren of A1stins M. Birce of Tor ] siagford were accidentally drowned last Thursday by dipping into hole in the foe. Ten thousand persons in Chicago have besa driven froM their homes by the re- cent flood. egss.5fe ''You want nothing, do youe' said Pat. 'sBedad. if it's nothing you want. you'll find is in the jug where the whisky was" Radical repubicanism is developing it. self in Southwestern Virginia. In Carroll county there was recently lively demon ssration in favor of Congress.
 Samuel Downing, the last surviving Rev dictionary Pensioner. died at Edinburgh, Saratoga Co.,, New York, on Tuesday of hast week. r r.s f
 Gen. Jabsl Early is talked of as g candi- date for Governor of the Slate of Virginia. Ne will undoubtedly ran well in the Shen- aadoah Valley. s-- .s.-.-
 TKa internal revenue receipt for the third district, New London and Windham counties for January foot up $62, 877. de- crease of $28, ,823 from the month previous. ONE of the workmsn of Sargent & Go. of New Haven, piayfully threw piece of iron st fellow workman named Cooper, and put his eye out
 A married wretch says the greatest gift veushafed to- any living man was that granted to Adam, as he was blessed with wife without ever having mother-in-law.
 ''Jinka. l am going to raise your rent" said Q landlord to his tenant ''Thank you," said links, '" for I'm blessed if can raise it myself
 A correspondent criticisinga prima dor- na rather deficient in physique, says: "A chest is as essential to @ singer, as 8 bureau to freedman" --
 A Carib being asked if he remembered certain benevolent missionary calmly re- piled. "Hs was a good man; me eat part of him."
 youth in Wheeling, West Virginia, took Audanum to cure love sickness. It proved efectual, and he was buried the very next day.
 Why was the whale that swallowed Jo- nah like c retired milkman? Because he had taken great profit (prophet) out of the water.
 THH 1st Cong. Society of Winsted, have given call to the Rev. J. E. R. Walker, who has accepted It is expected that his Lbors will commence about the second Sabbath in March.
 CoLRBRooK.- Emily o. Stanwood last week left for Richmond, Va, to engage in teaching white children in that city un- der the direction of the Soldiers Memorial Society of Boston.
 HENRY TERRY of the Terry manufactur- ing company at Terryvills, has fitted up a large hall in the upper story of his mill for inc use of his operatives, for public relig- tous and temperance meetings
 Coy. Brownlow has issued proclamation announcing his determination to call out the military to enforce the laws and pro- tect Union men and all citizens from evil doers.
 THE Boston, Hartford and Erie Explor- CTS are on new scent. and are trying to see what they oan make out of Watertown. Next we shall expect to hear of them sur veying Stonington and Msrtha's Vineyard, for Northwest Passage"
 Barclay Hainss, g New Jersey lobbyist, has been convicted of ofaring bribe to a member of the legislature and has been fined one thousand dollars besides beina forever disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit under the state.
 The house at Hampstead, near the Heath. and the Militia Barracks. SO long tenanted by the mother and sister of the Poet Lau- rsate. and where Alfred Tennyson, was so often a visitor, is about to be let in ssapart- ~1 I
 A petition signed by one hundred and fifty leading democrats of New York, has been presented to the President. asking him to sign the military reconstruction bill Anumbef are personally working in favor of the bill
 poets toast is recorded as follows: Monsieur Karr," said the chairman of a ooAvivial party, at which Alphonse Karr. the delicate Parisian author assisted, "you have not proposed the health of any one. The poet rose and proposed, ''The health of the sick"
 family in Hartford, Conn, consisting of gentleman, his wife and several chil- dren were all poisoned day or two since by taking what was supposed to be dande- hon bitters, which contained bella donna. The mistake occurred through the careless ness ofa druggists clerk. None of the cases proved fatal
 The Lodi Manufacturing Company's Pou- dretts advertised in another column is made from the night soil of New York City.
 The Company was incorporated in 184O. and have been manufacturing ever since. This with the fact of the large quantity of 6o.0OO barrels sold annually, is sufficient to give it character.
 General Speed S. Fry. who killed Zoli- oofsr, Captain Harlan, who first raised a company in Kentucky for the Union army. the officers of the Freedman's E Bureau, and several prominent Uni0nists resident in Boyle county. Kentucky, have been notifi- cd by the rebels to leave on penalty of death. General Thomas has been applied to for protection. sft --ss
 Simeon Smith, New London grand iu- TOE was attacked in the street Monday night by some of the liquor dealers against whom he had lately entered prosecutions, knocked down and severely injured Other ,onk1anaan xynf miYod mn in fho Hrrhk o,1