Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-09
Miscellaneous Items.

The assessed value of property in Me- braska is $32, 2,OOO,OOO, an increase of $14.- OOO,O since last year.
 Crowds cheer MT. Longfellow at English Railway stations. Reverdy Johnson sails on the 1st prox. Mrs. Lincoln starts for Europe by the same steamer. Hope she won't start in the 'old clothes line again.
 Llszts former mistress has gone crazy since he joined the church.
 Jefferson Davis has hurt himself falling down stairs.
 There are thirty-five private schools in t"fs"Te 5n s oonnty, onn with an aggregate atten-
 The New York Seventh Regiment is to visit Norwich, this week It is claimed that Yates has kept sober for some weeks World
 What becomes of Salisbury in the mean time?
 It cost the Australians over $1 800. GOO to entertain Prince Alfred
 Fifty female employees in the govern ment printing office in Washington, who were recently furloughed, have been re- called.
 It is said that Elbridge T. Gerry, Esq., of New York, has the best law library in the country.
 Two very respectable citizens of Auburn, N. Y.. recently eloped, each with the oth- CTS wife, on the same train.
 The reports of the ravages of grasshop- pers in Iowa are greatly exaggerated. Only fifteen counties are infested with them.
 1869 - Senators Fowler and Ross are among the number who visit the White House very otten They are always immediately given an audience by His Excellency. Their friends find favor with Andy in his ap- pointments.
 General Breckinridge, late of the Con- federate States Army, has arrived in To- ronto, from Paris. He will remain a l while in Canada. The trade at Charleston, s. C.. in cucum- 1 bers, tomatoes, potatoes, and early veeeta- bles of all kinds for the Northern market. l continues brisk, and the steamships leav. Ing the harbor on Saturday were well load ed with these articles. A reporter in Detroit paper, in an arti. cle on the city poor, spoke of the great number of persons reduced to poverty by the mysterious decrees of Providence" His astonishment may be imagined when he saw the passage printed mysterious decrease of provisions"
 Alice Witham, maiden of twelve. at Portland. Me-, has recently raised consid- l erable money by two entertainments got up wholly by herself. The receipts of one were used to purchase gravestone for the child of poor washerwoman, who had not the means to pay for it herself.
 In compliance with law recently passed. the toll bridges in Essex county, Mass. will all be made free within sixty days. The county commissioners will assess the ex pense upon towns benefited, and decide who shall maintain the bridges in the fu- ture.
 An institution called" "Whittier College. '' in honor of the poet, has been opened at Salem, Henry county, Iowa. It is to be conducted according to the principles of tne society of Friends, and is open to all alike who will conform to it's rules and req ulations. ''-->> Aes l The Newark (N. J.) Water Board have awarded the contract forlaying the main plpes between the basins on the Passaic rlyer and the reservoir upon the Belleville hills, and the contractors heve now large force ot men at work making preparations
 for putting down the pipes.