Litchfield enquirer., 1868-07-09

Covering. ran in mortal fear to the police station. where he again tainted. He was so overcome with fear that two policemen accompanied him to his place of work, and stayed with him till morning.
 Packard's Monthly says that MT Bowen of the Independent has distributed more than 15, 900 copies of Webster's unabridg- ed dictionary, and about 1000 sewing ma- chimes and l5,O00 copies of Carpenters book, as premiums for subscription clubs, and the circulation of the Independent now exceeds that of any religious newspa- per in the world. When Mir. Bowen took sunk $4O,O00. It is now worth over $50O,- OOO. ra-1r. rsf
 Nearly one thousand workmen in the quarries at Portland, Conn.,, struck lately, but they have recommended work Their demand for $250 cents per day was acce- ded to, but the quarry owners refused to comply with the further demand that the workmen should be discharged at o'clock on Saturday afternoons. A compromise was effected by this arrangement.
 LIVELY FEAT.-A Sheffield squirrel ran into saw mill few days ago, ran on the log to the saw, jumped upon the teeth, which were making about two cuts sec- ond, and thence reached the loft. Whats the telegraph beside such squirrel as that?
 Dr. Lugol, of Paris, one of the most em- inent chemists of Europe, says when Iodine can be dissolved in pure water, the most astonishing results may be anticipated. Dr, H. Anders' Iodine Water is Iodine dissolv- ed in puro water, aHd the 1aoat astonishing results have followed ir7 Hos ip cases of scrofula and a}! eiirDnio I iseasc8.-
 SUccEsssUr. Brc ts15 or .f5t-rHmo,s hTER- IT. Mrs. s <. Afis4E5 Improved iaczc stylel HA1is E sg,1I5; CT i1fLssIHo (i5. ouc 6onle). Ey@S1TQS&;bt sells ii. Price One Dollar.
 4 machine has recently boan invented which, rom ordinary ash or other soft and flexible wood, turns cut two hundred strawberry boxes per minute. The im mense number which can be manufactul ed Ill short time materially reduces the price, and these boxes, which are of q uniquas design, can be purchased at six cents dozen.
 p1- The Charleston Mercury says of deceased Confederate:
 ''He was ono of the lea ders of those three hun- dred thousand slave ho ders who for seventy years ruled the politics of tn United States and gave all it's wisdom, success and glory. They are now OverthrOwn and with their overthrow, has gone free government in the United States; and history may yet tell, that with their fall, free government perished on this contnen t, or was saved by their regeneration"
 Those partisans who are so earnestly ad- vocating what tn ey term taxing the bonds of the United s tates, but which is really a repudiati on of part of the interest, and by consequence of the principal also, will do well to consider the effect which such a measure has had upon the national credit of other countries The bare proposition to adopt 1t by Italy sent her securities down 10 or l5 per cent in the market; and now that Austria IS undertaking 1t, the syn dicate of the stock exchange of Paris have addressed letter to the Austrian minister Of finance, warning him that if the project IS consumated they will be compelled to discontinue all dealings in the Austrian public debt. The result would be the same here, and the demagogues who advise it are the worst enemies of the working clas- ses whose champions they assume to be- PaNGdium.
 Gen: Grant is supported by every illustri: soldier in tue Union-6her.,aasa, Meade, Sheridan, Sickles, Geo. H. Thomas, Hook CT, Pleasanton, Mcdowell, Canby, Emory, Schofeld, Meeker, Ord, Halleck, KiIpat- rick, Logan, Rawlings, and host of vol unteer Generals, many of whom have here bU1Ox0 U06u D6mOCTdGSs C0u. HANCOCK IS the only really promin ent officer who seems willing to train with tho auti-war DemOc- racy
 A WEALTHY and very liberal gentleman residing in this locality, lost his wallet, containing some five hundred dollars, few mornings since, and upon its being found and returned to him by bright-eyed little girl, he generously rewarded her with the princely sum of .foe cents!-lieriden Recorder.
 A NEW HAVEN merchant dropped pock- etbook, with over $500 in it, in Q car on one of the New York trains, last week. A car cleaner, named Kelley, found it, and returned it to him. The honest man found barrel of four at his house shortly after.
 A FASCINATING and immensely wealthy young lady is working, by her own choice, as common operative, in one of the large Meriden manufactories She carefully conceals the kno wledge of her wealth, wears unassuming clothes, and differs in no outward respect from those by whom she is surrounded. The reason of this ec- centricity is a womanly and praise-worthy one. She is waiting for some interesting young man to woo and win her "for her self alone"
 When the interesting young man" comes forward, she may be pretty certain her secret has been discovered
 Now that the Connecticut Western rail- road is chartered, with all the features en- braced in the bill which its friends deemed essential to the success of the enterprise. We hope no time will be lost in perfecting the surveys and in locating the road So lar as Hartford Is concerned, more direct means of oonrnun ication with the north western portion ol the state has come to De necessity, anu We believe our citizens VIII actively co-uper&tc with tue towns through which ti.o pr6pasea road is to Pass, ln efforts to buiid the road, or n nor ton ot 1t, at least, at an early day.-Coar GulG
 The Express business is mcraasipe, o,, on tho housatonlc railroad notwithston1- ing tho persistent efforts on the part of tho old monopohes to iniure it. One of onr merchants showed us two letters on rrnes day from business houses in Boston. in which 1t IS said the Adams or Mercbants' Union, either denied that there was any express accommodations on this road. or else refused to forward the packages of fered.~-I IBerkslat.,e C1n3-ies.