Litchfield enquirer., 1868-06-11
MIsoelIaneous Items.

Germany sends twenty delegates to Chicago singing festival.
 sixteen hundred and forty-one in grants arrived at New York on the 3o ut
 Itwin cost $3,00O,O0 to supply Ney York city with ice tl,is summer.
 Eight thousand candles are consumed weekly in the excavation of the Hoosac tunnel
 Upwards of twenty millions of dollars are invested in the wine interests in Cali fornia.
 THE Yonng Mems Christian Association of Ansonia, have purchased library of 1000 volumes.
 The Marquis of Hastings lost one mil lion pounds on the Derby races, Wednes- day, the 20th ult., and blew out his brains on Wednesday night.
 [Can't be true--no brains to blow out!l The great championship fight between rohnrn & McCooie fzzled. The princi- naIs lacked principle, and the the seconds didn't come to time.
 The following anecdote is related of the English court:-Queen was unwell-bran- dy was prescribed. A bottle was bought and used, and Her Majesty's rumseller ill ordinary was ordered to supply one, daily. Some twenty years after, a bill was brought in for seven thousand three hundred and one bottles of brandy!
 A little boy, while bird-nesting on the Grown lands in the New Forest, Hamp- shire, England, appropriated to himself four pheasant's eggs. For this heinous of fense he was arraigned before local ma- gistrate. who fined him e1 for the offence, or five shillings an egg, and seven shillings and sixpence more for costs; er in default of payment, to one months confinement at hard labor.
 There are seven Republican newspapers in Alabama.
 Gen. Shields refuses to be candidate for Governor of Missouri.
 Horatio Seymour has declared himself in favor of Chase for President.
 Baron Rothschild is said to have made S2,0OO, 900 by his recent transactions on the Brouse.
 A frisky old Florentine of the name of Cavalchini, has just made jor -ney to Pa ris at the age of 117.
 The little lady who presisted that g crooked handled cane was Gan umbre"a without any clothes on" was two and { half years old.
 Omaha discourages any from emigrating thither, unless they wish. to labor witt their hands for living. They have ''gen uemen" enough.
 The Democratic journals that think tha Grant won't run we'll, have the experienc of rebels to support them-they tried t. make him run and couldn't.
 Two clothes-line thieves were caught lately, in Madison, convicted, and sent t New Haven jail.
 Ex-Gov. SEYMOUR has gone to Lan'a
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 ceived 95 tons 19 nf x H railroad hsve re bnsIa, rCgArOEs sell at 0ol';nsville, at $2 pc
 TIE Nsqss Tevemug ecIu1ou. u IS ;au eA ceIlent paper.
 LAST week, MT. Joseph Lent of Guilford tried to kill himself. Cause-jealousy.
 The Nation says '.that unless Collector Smythe can show that Thurlow Weeds ev idence with regard to him is false, hi continuance one day longer in the public service, IS scandal and an insult to every citizen"
 The Citizen, good democratic authority. informs its readers that the Chicago plat form is 'fso worded that democrats can scarcely take exception to it, and the can nnIa ko &loA might vote for them if it were not for the party they represent"
 The district central executive committee of the democracy in Columbia S. c., have prepared handsame certificate to be is sued to all the colored members of the club. In Savannah this has been adopted with great success. Is the Democracy white mans party?
 Two thieves in Pittsburgh met gentle man walking tho streets late at night with box under his arm, and undertook to show him hotel They relieved him oi tho box and ran off with it. The gentle mon was naturalist, and the box con. tained four rattlesnakesl
 At LaMancha, Spain, recently, O man who was being led to execution made his CoN3tFCs LII klo ScdECu WHICH 1OuOW6O. lls brother, deaf mute, was mistaken fol him, and arrested and then executed before the error was discovered.
 ilteen years ago the New York and New Ha%n railroad had only 15 locomotives. 25 passZ ger cars, and one hundred freight cars. Now the road ;requires 50 loco motives, 100 passenger cars, and 400 to 500 freight cars. A rapid increase of business for that road in fifteen yes,s.
 A case was tried in Norwich lately. in which the plaintiff gained the case, and in the generosity evoked by his success. paid the me. costs and fees of the defendant's awyer-a proceeding nearly uuprecedent- Inc entire amount claimed by ,,or.;.a Tor damages sustained by the wasl;ns h;es SS252.7l-of which $6, ,5Ss e2 has , hss,r was ai lowed s peen al- The bill increasing the can;t., ae , New York and New Haven Rail~oaao VI the 8ws 04 n