Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-23
Miscellaneous Items.

The Mississippi planters think the re- cent rams have saved their crops.
 'I should be dishonored if I accepted your nomination. ."-Horatio Seymour.
 To botanists: Has Pat-rnos any affinity with Irish moss?>
 A tender-hearted man in Maine disposes of squash bugs by the use of chloroform.
 4 Montreal Clergyman has been fined for uniting widow of 49 to youth of Is.
 After Sept. 1st, Atlantic cable rates will be $1 word. in gold.
 Birmingham is to have town clock. at a cost of $500 or $1 1000.
 A little New Haven boy rolled offa sofa the other day and broke his arm.
 The stables belonging to the United States Arsenal in Augusta, Me-, were burn- ed last week. Loss $1O,0OO.
 New York merchants combine patriot ism with thrift by ordering advertising fire- works for the Fourth
 Great destruction to property is being caused by fires raging in the woods between Montreal and Quebec
 While the English press pay the Allan tic Telegraph Go. 1000 yearly, for news; the American press pay it $70,0O0.
 Nearly two hundred cases of sunstroke were reported by telegraph on the 18th. many of them fatal.
 A young woman named Jane Loyney was killed by sunstroke in Norwich on the 18th. a
 A young man named James Hesslin was sunstruck and killed in New Haven about o'clock, on the 18th.
 The campaign medals for the whole country are manufactured in Waterbury. A large number of factories are working constantly turning them out.
 The Senate on the 18th, confirmed the nomination of George Hubbard, collector of customs for the District of Stonington. Conn.
 The Editor of the Kansas Chief thinks General Buckner of the Louisville Couoie,. acts ungratefully in not going for Grant. as Grant went for him at Fort Donelson.
 It IS said that the Democrats have adop- ted the apple blossom as campaign badge 1t will be worn on the nose.-PhiladelpHio Press.
 The World says in one place that every body is coming over to Seymour and Blair. and in another that ssthe Rads are making jackasses of themselves" If the former statement is true, the latter must be.
 SUCCESSFUL, BECAUSE OF SUPERIOR MFR TT. MRs s. A. ALIENS IMPROVED 6qea, styIe) HAIR REsToRER or DRESSING, (iaa one mea0 6otle. Every Druggist sells it. Price One Dollar.
 A man in Danbury having hen in dele cate health. on Wednesday last admins tered to her three bilious pills, and the result of this novel remedy was the entire recovery of the hen.
 A bellows fish weighing about fifty pounds with dog fish in its mouth two and half feet in length, was caught Fri day morning off the New London light house.
 INTERTRoPICAL fragrance rises in invisi- ble clouds the moment that bottle of Pha- Ions FLOR DE MAYO," the new per- fume for the handkerchief, is opened; one single drop scents handkerchief. Sold by all druggists.
 John O. Stevens, superintendent of the Alberton iron works in Naugatuck, has finished 8 steam fire engine which can throw four streams at once, distance of 175 feet horizontally. Efforts are being made to remove the works to Bridgeport. Some of the delegates got very tired of the Iammany convention One from Cal | ifornia said at his hotel Wednesday even- ing, after looking sadly at his collapsed purse:-Well, I swear, some one has got to buy us very soon, or we'll have to swim home."
 Reader are you troubled with headache? Try Renne's Pain killing Magic Oil! For all kinds of pain, and for sprains, or bru- ses, or for internal pains, or cramps. ssIt works like charm" Call for it where you trade. Sold by druggists, merchants and grocers.
 The Way ''to minister to mind diseas- ed IS to take Peruvian Syrup, a protected solus1on of the protoxide of Iron, which glves strength and vigor to the whole sys- tenn, restores the digestive organs to per- feet health, thereby restoring the mind to its natural vigor.
 In the spring of 1861, Horatio Seymour meeting Judge Charles H. Ruggles, asked him: Judge, have you read the Confed- crate (Montgomery) constitution? I have; ana 1 as better than ours" (the FederaD. l
 Then why not" he continued, "Obviate | aii dl1tlculty by simply adopting utat Con- 1ederate) constitution" There is little child living in the yil- 1 iage of Baltic, only four years old, who | plays more than forty tunes correctly on the piano. Her name is Susa Med6ury aeaughter of George Medbury, chorister in | Sae,! sne Baptist church. She played, a few | SSappaths since, all the tunes sung in the oaDDath school concert, to the delieht and ~Ieonisnment n1e of large concourse of peo. CONNECTICUT WESTERN RoAn-Tba ;n corporators of the Connecticut Western M m Railroad Company met in New Haven nn the 18th, and elected directors who nbosa the following oficers:-President V W;ll;oge ITose H. Barnum; treasurer, Wm. L. G;lhart. \ .,,h secretary, Wm. G. Coe A meetine viii ho held soon at Salisbury, and the worL ". oe oe building the road will be begun in oood earnest.
 A Hartford man recentlywent to a neigh. bor and said to him, 'I am told that you are willing to sell the piece of land that joins my lot" "Why, yes, would like to sell it to some good citizen" ''Wen, what makes good citizen, in your judg- ment?" GA good citizen is man who