Litchfield enquirer., 1868-01-16
Miscellaneous Items.
BED TIME.

And fixed her innocent eyes on me,
 Ma1 nhe o over seee
 I pray to the father my soul to keep;
 And he comes and carries it far away,
 To the beautiful home where his angels stay; gather red roses and lilies so white.
 sing with the angels through al the long night; And when in the morning wake from my sleep. He gives back the soul gave hlm to keep,
 And only remember like beautiful dreams The gariands of lilies, the wonderful streams
 Little Corporal. It has been decided in the superior court in New York, that Edwin Forrest must pay his divorced wife the alimony due her which now amounts to $1OO,OO0
 A Mir. Bushnell who belongs in Litch- field County, while going to New Haven on the cars, had stolen from his pocket his purse containing sixty dollars.
 William B. Bradbury, the wel-knovn music composer, died recently, at Mount Clair N. J.
 The Pacific railroad is now laid within ten miles of the Black Hills, the highest of the Rocky Mountain ranges The internal revenue receipts in this dis trict (New London and Windllam Coun- ties) for the month of November were $552.- 538,O6.
 Another attempt to throw off a train on the Housatonic railroad occurred on WeI- nesday last near Vandeusenville. but with out success.
 SHAEoN.-Two women exchanged rings recently, on condition that the exchange should last but few weeks One Of them refused to give back the ring she had. and the other and her three daughters thrashed her and took 1t away, for, which the wIlip- ped woman brought 8 suit and got $575 damages
 Thirty per cent of the population of England and Wales, as shown from the marriage register, are unable to writo their names; and 1t is calculated that at least one million of the children are unprovided with means of education.
 The N. '. World says that nearly seven- ty thousand females on Manhattan Island and in Brooklyn earn their own and oth- CTS livelihood by honest toil. Their wages average five dollars per week. Some re- celve four times that amount and some not half 1t. Most of them are girls between the ages of IA and 20 years. A few are women sixty and seventy years old More than twenty five thousand are engaged in various departments of sewing. Fourteen hundred are compositors in publishing and printing offices. Three thousand help to manufacture hoop skirts The rest of the seventy thousand are occupied at least two hundred different ways.
 We condense the following from the Waterbury Americau:-
 WoLcoTTvILLE.- Christmas passed off with the usual festivals. A concert was given on the 26th, for the benefit of J. r. 1sbel, one of the members of the Hotch- kiss Cornet Band, by the Band, assisted by two fine violinists from New Haven. The hall was packed, and the concert was excel lent and we'll received. The proceeds of the concert were about $40, which, after deducting expenses, will probably leave about $l0O for the " beneft'' The young. CT portion of the audience thought it a good time to foot it lightly, so persuaded the orchestra to remain two or three hours longer that they might enjoy that privi lege.
 The children of the Episcopal Sunday School enjoyed their annual Christmas tree on Friday evening, the 27th inst.
 The drug store of Barber & Hanchett has been removed to the Wadhams Block Dr. Barber being the proprietor.
 Robert Pelton, the old sexton, died o1 lung fever on Sunday morning last, being sick only four or five days.
 HUNTsvnLE.-Hunt Canfeld Iron Co., have lately bought trip hammer from the "Mlne Hill' works, and put it up in theil forge Original cost, $1, loo.
 70. < G. H. Brown & Co., intend to take out tlRir old wooden water wheel immedi- ately yahd replace it by two "Patent'' Iron ones.
 A countryman, driving two-horse -teay q came in contact with horse car standi. no on the track in Grand street, New Haven when he exclaimed in loud voice;-ssWel thar, that is smart to let that darn'd thinl stand right in the middle of the str ,et ant not turn out one darn inch for fe ,llow." The employees in the Pallad; nm offic, made New Years present of ?. handsom, gold watch guard to Abner L. Train. Esq, the editor of that paper, a.cco,mpanied by handsomely engrossed ezpre,ssion of thei regard.
 The New London Daily Press made it first appearance New Yef.r's evening. iron the Chronicle office, well filled with appro priate matter. The est ablishment is con ducted on the co-opera tive system, all en gagged in it being interested. The Rev Daniel Fox is editor, with Daniel Lake. a 'slocal.' and G. R. Fox as bushes manager.
 WALLINaFoRD.-The Communists refus to receive any more applicants into thei fold at present,
 On Monday morning, a young ma about twenty-five years old, and recentl married, named Henry Hart, employed il the spoke and wheel factory of Elihu Hall while at work with one of the machines il the factory, got his left hand caught in i and had all his fingers severed from hi hand, the little finger just hanging by thread of skin.
 In the World office the female compost tors get the same wages as the males an earn from $l7 to $25 week. That is as should be.
 PRESTON. N.-Nathan D. Bates one of th selectmen and justice of the peace, ,recen ly sentenced to jail for thirty days as a vs grant, with a bill of costs amounting t over SIS, an old negro 90 years af age, wh wassnearly blind and who had both of hi