Litchfield enquirer., 1868-02-20

Ehglneer discovered error and backed out , frelght train dispatched to remove the es- tabhshment, and shall forward it in sec tons as requested"
 The way in which the last election in Ohio was made to appear so favorable the the copperheads begins to appear. In the town otz Portsmouth one of their candi- dates took from the ballot-box fifty repub- llcan votes, putting in place of them fifty democratic votes The fact has been as- certalned through the efforts of the repub- lcan candidate who was declared defeated, m IT, contestlng the seat of his competitor. The investigation lasted eighty days.
 leading paper at the West, whose po- lltlcal principles coincide with the New Ha- ven Registers, shows the following para graph, how far Democratic venom can go: 1.-The main regret of the American peo- pie IS that Abe Lincoln and John Brown were notihung side by side on the pine seahold in Virginia. The admirers of Abe Lincoln have the efrontery to ask for aid to erect monument over the angular car cass of their miserable idol"
 The English Punch recently had 8 car toon representing white winged Peace dis playing to Napoleon his call for an army of twelve hundred thousand men. The emperor politely raises his hat in reply to 8 query: Peace-'Pray what does this mean your majesty?" Emperor Napo- leon-'E Entirely in your interest, my dear madame. Special constables, merely. My special constables.''
 Thieves in East Lyme steal chickens from one man and corn from another to feed them with.
 Two enterprising men opened 8 saloon at New Paris, Ohio recently, and 8 number of ladies, with leap year audacity and their every day knitting marched to the saloon, took seats, and staid until night. Next day the visit was repeated and prolonged until nine o'clock in the evening. The following day the enterprising saloon keep CTS had left town, and the saloon was to rent -.
 The Catholic priest of Stonington has declared war against rumsellers, and pre- sents the temperance pledge to his people with the compelling authority of the church.
 In Syracuse, N. Y, on the 2Oth of Nov. Joseph Nolan received slight scratch on the back of the hand, barely enough to
 
 which he drove out of his grocery. The scratch soon healed and left no scar and nothing more was thought of the matter until about week ago, when a numbness of the fingers of the hand which had been bitten and some pain extending through the arm and shoulder, and across the chest with strong distaste for water, in duced him to call physician. His symptoms grew worse, and after four or five days of intense suffering, in spite of all the doctors could do the patient died. The case was
 clearly one of hydrophobia.
 The Democratic papers ineKentucky ar que that the process of abolishing slavery has been revolutionary; that the ratifca- thereof by the seeded states was compul- sory, and that the whole matter will be re- considered when the democracy get the : power. '.a Senator Doolittle, in letter to the ed. itor of the Janesville Gazette, in 1862, said t ''As we have war, and the rebels insist up. on war, under the proclamation oft the President, l would make negro territory Tn the United States, beginning with South Carolina i~ n.y. fsgo EGieI''7 : The nomination of Wm. D. Bishop. of Bridgeport, as Commissioner of Patents, has been rejected by the Senate. 5 A city laundry is about to be established 3 in Waterbury, -T... The stockholders of the Housatonic rail- road hold their annual meeting at Bridge port on the 28th inst.
 JoNEs.-sI thought warned you par r ticularly, cook against boiling my eggs r hard. Nov, how is this? Here they are e boiled fit for salad, in spite of evecy di- l rection What did I tell you?"s aeE v CooK.-s'Oh, Sir, I remember exactly 2 what you told me, and acted accordingly. l The eggs were in the water to a moment. l precisely nine minutes s .-5..sY t JONES. -''Nine! I told you three"
 CooK.-''Yes sir; but there are three ! eggs. Of course, if one takes three min. t utes boiling three must take nine. ~oI may 2 be a fool, Sir but happen to know wha : three times three makes, for all that" Horace Greedy lectured in, Little Falls N. I, Friday night. He arrived there tn, night previous, and registered his name 3 but no one could read it. An experienced
 porter took it in at a glance. the slouchet
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