Litchfield enquirer., 1868-11-19
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  Misc oellaneous Items. | Fashionable paradox-a sun-shade. The key of A mnor-a latch key.
 The Fakir of Ava fakes away in Springfield
 Paris has velocpede riding school.
 Dore has lost s2OO, 900 by speculation. Perfumed tooth-picks What next2
 In Nevada they use mahogany for fuel. sE Baltimore has homeopathic horse doctor. The Kanucks are building wooden railroad. | Oxen are wanted in Oregon at $1, 900 a yoke. | General Mcclellan has been chosen President of the University of California. | St. Pauls Minn., is buried under six inches of snow, which fell on the 9th.
 Buffalo had heavy snow storm on the 1lth, and a severe gale swept the Lake,
 In New York and Brooklyn, there are 1,67S bill- iard rooms.
 One small Massachusetts town has 146 shoe man. l ufactOrles.
 The daughter of the bishop of Oxford is con- vert to Catholicism.
 British Minister Thornton gets f6,OOO sterling year. n
 Edward Benson, of Boston, is the new mayor of Yokohama, Japan. Another carpet-bagger? ] A Hindoo gentleman, just deceased left 16, 900, rupees to his family idol Ought to have been a 1 Christian.
 John Eigamberg tried to kill himself with lau- danum ill Buffalo, because his wife asked him for money. Wouldn't it have been justifiabe homi- eide
 Confederate General John G. Walker has be- come a Louisvillain. Confederate General N. B.. Forrest is the same thing without the Louis."
 heavy frost was experienced Tn the neighbor- hood of Augusta, Ga., Thursday morning.
 woman in Troy has been arrested for inadver- tently stealing her own chickens.
 New York has an ti-tobocco club which meets once week for the purpose of not smoking. A recent hurricane in Tennessee carried brick | church half mile and tumbled it into a creek. Probably an African church. Negro school-hous- es, too, are apt to be mysteriously "tumbled into a creek."t Tho Unity Church of Chicago (the Rev. Robert Coyer's) have offered Miss Houston $2, 300 year to slug soprano for them. .. t.t.. A. '.
 Gen. Robert E. Lee has been offered the South ern supervsorshp of agencies of the Knickerbock- erbocker Life Insurance Company, with salary Of $1O, ,O00s
 Governor Burnside had dinner party the other day, at which two hundred millions of dollars sat down. Must have been about the heaviest ente',- tainment on record. g- A. % g-
 The women of America wear $50, ,OOO, ,OOO Yards of calico in a year. And yet the Episcopal bishops accuse them of extravaganza in dressl
 Motto for 6 sheriff-Render unto seizer the things that are seizer's.
 The coopers of Milwaukee have left of pound ing and begun striking. '-'.- -'" 4' .---''-'
 Three stolen articles week are offered to the editor of Harper's Monthly. ap t,.+fn8
 An Illinois paper says there is man in Oiney so dirty that the assessors put him down as real estate. @h4- IVY c $ s. d a"4s~&s
 Thurlow Weed and daughter arrived in New York lately in the steamship Java. Mir. W's health is much improved Not quite well enough, though, to work at his old trade-cab inet-naking.
 Mrs. George Elliot speaks, in one of her novels of that highly respectable type of the upper class British society, s'who get their science done for them by Faraday and their religion by the digni- fled clergy" ' '''" ts'0 ''' (which would you rather lose, your father or your mother? "I don't know" q do. would rath- CT lose mamma. because it's papa who makes all the money. A Tennesse correspondent says he has been ih- formed by real estate agents that they have been
 
 ern men of capital and enterprise, and that most of all these men have made their coming to Ten nessee conditional upon the election of General Grant and republican Congress. tt1s t-F . fi' The Boston 1hansgipt says:--" The light of Heaven has been so successfully excluded in ma- ny of our city churches, that both morning and afternoon services are conducted by gas light"
 The Sophomore class of the Agricultural Col lege at Amherst recently put in practice their ag- ricultural science, by huskng 45O bushels of corn in one afternoon. ,.s.,4.s .t4... A Memphis ritualistic clergyman concludes to 's go the whole hog," and publishes card to that effect. e7."t+ fff'a -i3 @7'
 sThe newspapers have you married as well as chosen vice president" said friend to Mir. Speak er, the other day. Effected, but not yet sworn in n either case, was the reply. f An airline railroad from Washington to New York is vigorously talked of.
 Governor Scott of South Carolina proclaims g. on the 26th inst What will these nfernal Yankee carpet baggers do next2 2r{ Walt Whitman will soon issue a small prose 2 york called ' Democratic Vistas." Isn't that a. ather slender foundation even for 8 small ''prose york ?" sY4laeasaf3 tltt;&s .53' 5t3.tHT -IifH' A Convention to consider the question of Wo-. nan's Suffrage meets soon at Boston. Mrs. 'tanton objects that those who have been hith- rto the most prominent advocates of that meas Ire, are not invited.
 More than half millions worth of real estate, las been sold to actual settlers within ten miles ' # Warrenton, Va., since the war. r5 J~' 3 s' P An Indian was lately convicted of murder for. hooting another Indian, before an Indian Jury,' ately, in Wisconsin. Now, when we hear oi conv1cted of murder for shooting. Inother Kentuckian before Kentucky jury, We = hail think there has been real progress among he unreconstructed races. 4 < .,t iFs5.g Thaddeus Stevens property proves to be only I-