Litchfield enquirer., 1868-11-26
Miscellaneous Items.
General Grant is forty-six years old.

:Had mhlion Arabs have died during the Algerian famine.
 p- Cheyenne offered Parepa 5000 to ssswitch of there and sing song" oa Francis Joseph would be gray if he did not dye his hair.
 a Snow. fell in St. Joseph, Mo-, yesterday. 9 9 a6se. WHAT MAKES YOUR HAIR so BEAUTIFUL 2 MRS. s. A. ALIENS IM- PROVED (ae,0, ssyle) HAIR REsToRER OR DRESSING, (in one boule). Price One Dol lar. Every Druggist sells it.
 The damage by theearthquake in Calfor- mia is between 1850, ,000 and $4O0, 900.
 The Supreme Court of Missouri decided lately that shares of National Banks are taxable, like those of other monied corpo- ations.
 Louisa Pyne, the singer, has recently married Frank HI. Bodda, and two London funny papers simultaneously exclaim, "Gin Bodda meet Bodda.''
 The Princess of Prussia, who is the old- est daughter of Queen Victoria, has six children. The youngest is six months old, the next eighteen. She was married in 1857.a5 rs~.j... aT
 Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is severely ill at the Falmouth Hotel, Port land, Me, from inflammation of the throat. having taken sudden cold. She is un- der the care of skillful homeopathic physi clan. Her concerts at Portland and Wor- 2 cester had to be given up.
 A Windham county minister lay very sick of typhoid fever at the time of the re- cent election, and, as was needful, he was kept as quiet and as free from all distur- bance as possible. The night following several guns were fired in the neighbor- } hood, which he noticed and inquired what it was for. Probably on account of the news of the election of General Grant," he was told; ''the noise distubs you, does it aot?" "No.' he replied. slet them fire, I like to hear 1t" Soon another gun was heard. 'Fire away" said he, 'it sounds good"
 As ''good idea," the London (Canada) Pretotype says that Alderman Hughes has made arrangements with one of the agents of the India Rubber works at Colchester, Conn.,, to ship to him all the female va grants now incarcerated in the county jail at London as speedily as possible. The Prytotype adds that the agent at olchester IS certainly welcome to them, while London will rejoice in their departure.
 There are forty Young Mems Christian Associations in Vermont, with about twens ty two hundred members.
 Cider apples are plenty in Plymouth, and cider sells for $4 to $5 per barrel One mill grinds about 40 bushels every day. and has been doing it for seme time.
 Nearly 10, 300 quarts of milk were taken down on the Housatonic railroad by the "milk train"
 On Monday night Bridgeport private watchman thought he heard a burglar in a Main street store, sent a messenger to the residence of the proprietor while he qui- etly proceeded to obtain the assistance of the police. The watchman, the propriee tor, and four policemen entered the store from front and rear, and discovered a rat that had been caught in trap making vi- olent exertions to escape.
 An Irishman, voter in Portland, wish ing to vote for Grant, objected to Colfax on the ground of the assertion that he was once Know-Nothing. He therefore eras- ed the name of .'Colfax" on the title vo- t1ng the rest entire.
 Another list of about 50 females clerks is being prepared for dismissal in the Regis ter's office at the Treasury Department, These Will go out from the 10th. The pressure to be retained is unprecedented but the lack of work, and the lack of ap- propriations to pay, render the order inn e perative.
 The late Democratic legislature of Ohio having enacted that no device of any kind be printed on ballots, only the bare name of candidates and the offices for which they were supported, and the Democrats of Monroe county having headed their bal lots. ''The white mans government" the state canvassers have been constrained te reject them all, returning Republican can- didates as elected in that Democratic stronghold.
 A few nights since some thieves stole barrels of cider from the premises of Mar shall Hill, in New Milford, also nice ban. her from the Grant and Colfax pole.
 The Secretary of the Boys in Blue or ganization in this State, gives the following facts in letter to James T. Smith, Esq, Secretary of the National Organization:- Ninety-two towns and cities of Connecti- cut report an aggregate membership of seventeen thousand men. The State Gen. tral Committee during the campaign, print ed and circulated 10000 addresses of the Committee, and 2,500 other documents, be- sides 300 circular letters of instruction. Documents were also printed in the news papers, making a total of 100000 copies circulated. A good record for our little commonwealth, but the work paid.
 A gang of rowdies congregated about the doors of the First Baptist Church, New London, on Sunday evening, and fooled the congregation by standing there with open umbrellas as if it ralned. As some unsuspecting party would come out and open his umbrella, these roughs would shout and howl in the most uproarious manner. Some of them afterwards went down to Bank street and broke out several windows in Captain Austin's furnishing store. :. Among the many relicts of revolutionary times which have been brought to light by the demolition of the old Washington House. in Stamford, is the following letter fro,o tl,a +ra;tor Ranedict Arnold to Gan.