Litchfield enquirer., 1868-02-27
Miscellaneous Items.

serve on school committees Tn the MaSSa- ehusetts House of Representatives, stood: yeas, S7; nays. 112.
 The New York Sun says:-The alacr;ty of old Mir. Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, in endorsing Mir. Johnson's account of his conversation of Jan. IA with General Grant, reminds us of a saying of Mir. Lin coin. If there is ever any difference in the Cabinet" said Mr. l.. with twinkle in his eye, "there is one thing I am always certain of. The member from Connecti- cut is sure to be.on my side.' .H California owes S, l26, 800 less than she did four years ago.
 They have now come to the point, in the West, of timing divorce suits. One has been granted in Terre Haute, Ind. in a minute from the time the trial began, the best time yet made. ...:E ; The New York Herald has been brought to this confession: "We believe that no op- posing candidate cansbe brought forth conl- potent to defeat Gen. Grant" ' The Cecil, Del, Whig says:-''The rich man with whip, and the poor man with hoe, Is the Democratic idea of the millen- ium!'' ..
 The New York Post is told, on what;t considers good authority, that the Amer. can consul at Rome, Mr. Cushing. was Q volunteer ill the Papal army during the late warlike movements of the Gariba! dians
 The Baltimore Sun says: "General Long, street has been the recipient of much at tention during his visit here, both from the army officers and the politicians At General Grants reception, on Wednesday night, he divided with Sheridan the honor of being the greatest attraction. When his name was announced by the her, General Grant immediately turned from the person with whom he was speaking and met Gen. Longstreet halfway, presen- ted him to Mrs. Grant with great cordiali ty, and remained in conversation with him for several minutes. It is said that on his recommendation and in consideration of General Longstreet's support of the recon struction measures, Congress will soon pass bill removing the political disabili- ties of that confederate general"
 From the mines of Idaho to the brown stone fronts of Madison Avenue. Phalon s Might Blooming Cereus' is in request. Through the standard perfume sof fashion. its popularity is limited to no class or sec- tion-it is national staple.-Patterson Guardian.
 Bishop Williams of the Catholic diocese of Massachusetts,, has declined to allow the Catholic clergy in Worcester to say high requiem masses for the repose of the souls of Allen. Larkin and O'Brien.
 The Rev. T. K. Beecher gives the fol- lowing expression to an undoubted fact: ''The less man knows, and the more liquor he drinks, the more determined he is to make this white mans govern ment.
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 The finest street in Constantinople is but 20 feet wide.
 Jefferson Davis returned to his brothers house in Ficksburg on the 18th inst.
 Brigham Young married his thirty first wife, January 31, Miss Merivine Van Cott, who had been divorced from 8 Gen. tile husband.
 MT. David Whitney has caught in com mon steel trap the past month near his resi- dence in Westport, three large hen hawks, measuring from tip to tip of wings respec. lively, 2l, A. and 46 inches.
 We cannot say that President Johnson is not 8 merciful man. He has pardoned a hundred counterfeiters of the national cur rency. He has sympathy with all that is bogus.
 Tennyson's income Is reported to be about El0,0 900 per annum, and steadily in. creasing. He is very industrious, reading meditating and writing seven or eight stan. gas day.
 The New Haven Register thinks the ne groes at the south ought to be disfranchis ed because they steal chickens. And this notwithstanding the fact that one of the delegates to the last democratic state con vention was unable to be present having been arrested on the morning of the con- vention for robbing hen roosts.-BuNe Gn.
 James Gallagher of New Haven is re- nominated as the Democratic senator from the Fourth District.
 George Thorndike of Waterbury, fifteen years of age, was run over by an iron sled, last week, and fatally injured.
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