Litchfield enquirer., 1868-01-30
Miscellaneous Items.

announce his arrest and release:-
 "Have just been arrested by the British government Was seized on the Scotia immediately upon the arrival out Have told the Derby Cabinet that the American ultimatum is: payment of Alabama claims and release of American citizens, or war;
 GGoRGE FRANCIS TRAIN"
 'I have just been released on the inter- yentlon of MT. Adams. l have brought suit against the British Government for one hundred thousand pounds damages.
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN"
 If the British government knew Train as we'll as Americans know him they would engage him to deliver Fenian lectures. He would kill the movement in month. Last summer the woman's suffrage amendment seemed certain of passing in Kansas; Train took the matter in hand and it was defeat ed two to one, in November.
 The Meriden Conn.,, TIsitor says that one of the grand jurors in that village has been detected in stealing S10 from money drawer.
 Meriden, Conn.,, is happy in the pos session of new school house, costing $31- GOO.
 Horace Greedy says, the wealthy men of New York endeayor to earn a reputation for meanness, to protect themselves from beg gars Whatever their motive, the efforts of our Croesuses have been crowned with brilliant success.
 From all accounts, the "White Pawn at Nlblo's was a ponderous failure. Per haps the public passion for indelicate bal lets is beginning to decline. Any way, the successor of the "Black Crook" was any thing but successfully. r. -HaiL
 The Register has renounced its conf dence in General Meade. It says: '' Gen. Meade is forfeiting his claim to a Conser- vative reputation by his course in Georgia We had reason for thinking that he would have pursued a very different policy"
 The soldiers generally formed :" 8 policy our neighbor did not like.
 It IS again reported that Commodore Vanderbilt IS trying to get possession of the New York and New Haven railroad- N H. Palladium.
 Neighbor Train, who chances to De a stockholder in the New York and New Ha- ven Railroad does not seem to keep him.
 
 tors of his investments, else he would know that Vanderbilt has this great New Eng land monopoly completely under his control noW. The New York and New Haven is as much under his iron grasp as the Hartford and Springfield, or the Harlem, Hudson River or Central of New York, and if the old Railroad King lives five years, he will rule through line from Boston to Chica- go.-NoraUaM Gazette
 Speaking of the English practice of inn posing upon visitors to their cathedrals. &c., the N Y. IMaz says
 Trinity Church steeple has inaugurated the Pan-Anglican system-thirteen cents to the sexton for the privilege of climbing into the spire.
 John Calne was killed by a bull. lately. on the Starr farm at South East. It seems the man had shovel, and was engaged with it ln a playful manner about the bull and when he had ceased his sport he turned to go away Immediately upon his back be- Ing turned, the animal sprang for him, and caught him on his horns and tossed him into the air; on coming down, the animal commenced goring him, and before assis. tance could reach him, he had received iniu- res from which he died in about ten min utes. His body was brought to Danbury, and buried last Saturday.
 What many of the Southern cotton lords seem to have tasted-Plantation bitters.
 LADY MoRGAN's IDEAS ABOUT YorNa TA. DIEs.-In tete-a -a-tete conversation on inc subject of some young ladies who had been suddenly bereft of fortune, Lady Morgan said, with an emphatic wave of her dear old green fan, "They do every thing that IS shionable-imperfectly their singing. and drawing, and dancing, and languages. amount to nothing. They were educated to marry, and had there been time they might have gone off with and hereafter had husbands. They cannot earn their own salt; they do not even know how to dress themselves. desire to give every girl, no matter what her rank may be, a trade-a profession, Ii the word pleases you better; cultivate what IS necessary in the position she IS born to; cultivate all things in mod eratlon, but one thing to perfection. no matter what 1t Is, for which she has tal- ent-draWlng, music, embroidery, house. keeping even; give her staff to lay hold of let her feel this will carry me through life without dependence.' was indepen- dent at fourteen, and never went in debt. "
 Two young fellows recently entered the confessional of church near Paris. one as- suming the part of priest, and the other pretending to confess. Among others who came was lady closely yelled. She prov ed to be lady to whom the bogus profes- sor was engaged, and hearing some disa- greeable disclosures, he rushed from the box in rage and repudiated her. He was arrested and put on trial for causing a scandal in the church, and outraging the practice of religion.
 While Judge William B. Wright was dy- ! ing at Albany, his daughter was at his bed 1 sioe. While attending upon her father, in l! 1ls last moments, she received news of the | oeath of her husband, Lieutenant Adams 3t W the Navy, at the family residence in Angston' Ulster County. Misunderstanding is rapidly increasino Tn Russia. Several prominent SfG army off cers nave recently died from that danoar- ous dissipation. ''' '"nser- The proportion of deaths here amono temperate Sa and incorporate people is 10 to