Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-16
n1isoeIlaneous Items.
Ja,a,,schek is coming back.

in the MOutICsA paPC1os
 The Thames is to be tunneled second time at London.
 Mnrchison thinks pr. Livingstone will be home in August.
 The Canadas celebrated July lst as ''Do' minion Day."
 Tburlow Weed continues dangerously ill.
 r. ;s rumored that Mrs. Stanton is to be- oone 2 deaconess in Plymouth Church.
 central Illinois farmers report the best wheat crop ever gathered. World.
 Capital punishment has been abolished in the kingdom of Saxopy,
 ssseats reserved for freedmen at Demo- cratic meetings in Mississippi.
 Great Britain derived revenue of e34. GOO from its patent office last year.
 Woodward Bates fell dead in Southing- ton July 1st, it is supposed with heart dis ease. He was 69 years of age.
 hoy in Meriden lost the sight of one eve on the 4th by the explosion of a fire cracker.
 The Supreme Court of Tennessee has de- clared Judge Hunters orders void Tn The Avalanche contempt case
 Eighteen members of the present British Parliament have been unseated for bribery since 1865.
 The Boston Post calls. the Athanasian creed the most ghastly piece of imp1ety in the English language.
 Peaches are scarce this year in Delaware. Several hundred bushels have arrived in New York; they sell at % cts apiece.
 An alligator, about twenty feet long, was seen lately at the St. Paul, Minn. levee in the river.
 Ex-President Buchanan left property to the amount of $330, ,582 but not a dollar in U. s. bonds. Characteristic
 An edition of Pilgrims Progress has been published in England, which is sold for penny
 Copper mines have been discovered in Texas and several specimens are on exhibi- tion in New York.
 On the 3d a boy living in Prospect street New Haven, ate about 28 grains of bella dona and died soon after.
 New Haven had mad dog on the 9th, which was slaughtered with pitchfork and rife before it had bitten any one.
 Detective Lafayette 0. Baker, Chief of the Government Detective Bureau during the war, died at Philadelphia, last week.
 Hole-in-the-Day has gone to Hole-in- the Sky.-World.
 The old "miscegenationist" leaves six widows-one white, ..
 An ex-city official of Troy advised his wife not to help hermself to butter with her own knife. He enforced his suggestion with an axe-helve.
 'Al transient guests will please pay their board in advance, '" is the notice pos ted in all the N. Y. hotels during the Con- vention.
 Chase's Cisco letter commits him entirely to the nominee of the Democratic Conven- tion, whether Chase. Pendleton, or J. Da- wis.
 The exceeding popularity of two young ladies in Middletown ran up the price of a silver napkin ring, at recent strawberry festival there, to $214. 80.
 The Democratic delegates from the coun- try will have an opportunity of explaining to their people how the ''drop game" is played in New York.
 On the 9th son of George Oatman of New Haven, 15 years old, had the side of his hand blown off by the premature ex- plosion of a pistol.
 Professor Brewer of Yale, recommends Breton COWS for scanty pastures. They thrive where other herds fail, and yield eight times their weight in milk per year. Gen Stoneman says that measures have been taken to pay the interest on the debt of the state of Virginia without resorting to loan.
 Gov. McCormick's majority as delegate to Congress Arizona is the largest ever re- ceived by any candidate in that Terri tory.
 A representation of flute and harp nos been found on tomb near the pyra- mlds, which is considered to prove that old.
 A Georgia paper reports the death of w.. F. Edwards, a Radical member of the late reconstruction Convention, and Congress man elect from the third district of that State.
 "Do you know how this hash is seasoned was the inquiry made by one democratic leg. lslator of another in New Haven, the other evening. as both were making way with a goodly quantity of chicken salad.
 MT. Goldwin Smith, who has decided tc take up his residence in this country, ha. selected Providence for his home, and he IS expected to arrive there in the coming Autumn.
 New York is suffering not only from a, irruption of Democrats, but also from a, irruption of thieves. The Pauadiun re marks, Justice to these predatory rentle men compels us to add that they are m all delegates"
 The New York Commercial says: GA old army captain remarked in our hearin yesterday, that he had not seen so man rebel officers since the surrender of Flo, Donelson. There are indeed a rigl smart heap of them,' to be seen in town.
 With Seymour's friends burning negl orphan ASylums, an Blair's friends diSper