Litchfield enquirer., 1868-08-20
WHOLE NO. 2SOT
Miscellaneous Itema-
Queen Victoria's chief cook gets G. .soo

3 A Syracuse signboard bears the curious names of Settle & Burst ra, N. Y. A-A ASA"'' The assessed value of the real estst. ;n
 New Orleans is SIC. .O42, ,175. ~ - 3 Robert Dale Owen is writino hi. a... 3 novel, He is only 60 years old. A'S' Twenty eight and (four-seventbs, dos. expire daily by violence, in Philadeiph;s Young New Orleanists call thar..,.. oialr Knights" and behave as such.
 A a new Republican paper is to be stsrts,
 The Administration seems still inclined
 to preserve strict neutrality.
 The Republicans of Willimantio oru.n;.. Cd a Grant club, Tuesday evening.
 Charles Francis Adams comes ou. fms Grant and Colfax. " 0"' AoS Senator Grimes is on his wsv to ,;.;. Senator Fessenden. !" 'A'ls
 We regret to see that Gen. Bntlar w;,, o1er himself as candidate for re.eiect;or to Congress. N A0A'''0n
 The Elmira Gazette, the only Democrat,o paper of Chemung Go. N. r., has come ont for Grant and Colfax. --0 '"'
 The Fort Wayne Gnd.) GaseRs annorr. ces that General James B. Staedman -en.. dlates Seymour and Blair. -f"-
 They are lnquiring in Boston why vouno Aoams ms does not pronounce for Seymour
 The Hon. Horace Maynard has tbraa competitors for the nomination in his d;s. trlct' but will undoubtedly be reelected. A really first class dinner in Japsn .or- slsts of fried eels, boiled oraneaa. % and snails "e0'' anu sIWeek before last 1s3, ,seo soreion ,... ters were sent from tho New York post of. fee. ~OA~ P0S' OA- The corner stone of the brown .stona front to the Waterbury City Hall was ~ Snc. cessfully laid on Saturday morning.
 It is said to be the intention of the Ohio Democrats to run MT. Pendleton for Con. gress in the First district, All gRs be-! Chinese embassady ran up a little house.
 Braxton Bragg has been appointed su. perintendent of tthe New Orleans water works.
 Life in Peoria is anything but tame. The annals of a recent day includes riot, 8 robbery, an eIopement, aud 8 suicide.
 During the month of July 2, 500 cases of cholera and nearly 400 deaths occurred in Havana.
 The Democratic candidate for the lieu tenant goveruorsbip of Indiana, is "bloat- ed bond-holder" to the extent of $168, 900 in fve-twentIes.
 Judge Kelley is speaking in Portland to- morrow evening. He will stay with the Maine Republicans two weeks, and will speak at several important points.
 The campaign has commenced in earnest in Maine. On Friday. General Logan d. dressed, at Augusta, the largest political meeting ever held in that city.
 The secretary of the Republican State Central Committee of California thinks that his state will give ten thousand maior- ity for the Republican ticket.
 The Hon. T. W. Green, a prominent 1n- dianapolis Democrat, has announced that his sense of duty to the country requires him to vote for Grant and Colfsx.
 It is rumored that P. G. S. Beauregard has won the affections of 8 young New York lady who is well furnished in the mat ter of dot.
 Patti's bridesmaids were Mariol daugh- ter Rita, Miss Harris, the opera singer, and Mile. Zani. Costa, Mario and Grisi were present as spectators
 General J. B. Webster, of Pittsburg, who was the Democratic candidate for Congress against Gov Moorhead in 1866, has declar- ed his intention to vote and speak for Grant and Colfax.
 The Richmond Enquirer and EG0minsT
 says that the white men of the Southern States |" had seen dse dag soben Mey could Ess the bullet, and # God in his anger permit sSs : necessity to arise, hey aOiH see t aga'"."
 The Albany Journal cautions Frank bialr } to remember. when he threatens violent re- sistance. that the majority ot ms support . ers eas'''e are under parole not to bear arms } against General Grant, Tbev have base ball club in New Lon - aon composed of colored gentlemen, called
 H tbe Might Blooming Cerus club. The club by any other name would smell aa " v sweet.
 t Toseph T. Button of Preston, sold eight. - ean eve sheep, weighing eighteen hundred l. and nine pounds, for ten cents per pound f He gathered eighty three pounds of woo @ from them, which he sold for forty cent @ ner pound, making the total amount reali 8 Fed $214. 10. Profitable sheep. t On Thursday, July g, the wife of Q. " r. Powell, of West Granby. (formerly of Mid
 dlebury and Wolcottvi1le), was accidental
 ly thrown from 8 carriage at Tarifvine g and badly injured. Her left hip was disle a cated and her knee-joint displaced, beside @ which she suffered severe internal injury t from the effects of which she died on Sa e urday, August 1. To add to the sorroy
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