Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-25

Black silks are now the fashionable reception dresses in New York. E
 It is said that the Georgia cotton crop will be worth $40,0OO,00O.
 It takes each year 15 GOO 900 yards of sacking to bag California grain.
 A Swedish baroness has misused her leisure hours in translatins Tupper.
 Over s4OO, ,9oo taxes on wlriskey and tobacco were paid ill Chicago last month.
 Moral Louisville is prosecuting saloon keepers who allow boys to play billiards. 4
 Quails are fast disappearing from the prairies, even as far west as kansas.a e5 s..,@@
 Buffalo s'artist"is at work an a two-hundred dollar pair of boots for Gen. Grant.
 The Victoria legislature has rejected the confed- eration scheme by vote of Il to 5.
 Dubuque judge punched criminals head the other day for calling him liar.
 The fashion-making ladies of Paris have deter mined to do away with the chignon.
 Parepa must have fallen away rapidly Carl Rosa speaks of her as his s'poor wife,"
 seventy five pound nugget, ono third gold. was iateiy found Tn an Oregon mine.@
 Five gentlemen in New York city have made a wager or $l, ,5OO to ride velocipedes to Chicago.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony arc featuring in Illinois and Missouri.
 German prince is making an honest livelihood by waiting on the table at New Orle ans Hotel.
 The San Francisco Alta Califo,mia has seen 8 cluster of ripe cherries piucked in that city in January.
 Not less than eight million French people make the whole or part of their living out of the vine yards. z5s ra s4 President Johnson has pardoned John Disbrow, sentenced to twelve years in Sing Sing for coun- terfeiting.
 A married Pittsburger of Mormon proclivities lately performed the extraordinary feat of elopng with two widows Mir. Geo. Peabody is quite sick, and intends to go to one of the German Spas this spring to recu- perate. E& There is a member of the Freshman class of Yale who IS 36 years of age, while another in the same class is but 15. ..ss f
 MT. Dixon is promised unanimous nomination without ballot, by the democratic congressional convention in the 1st Dist. Texas cattle in large numbers are being trans ported through Indiana. The panic caused by the cattle disease, seems to have subsided.
 Texas papers say that beef cattle four and five years old in good condition, are selling in Browns vile under $5 in specie per head. Horse flesh is growing in popularity at Berlin. 444 horses were slaughtered in that city for human food during 1868
 In the Illinois House on Friday, bill repeating an act relative to capital punishment restoring the death penalty, was passed by vote of ffty-one to thirty-one. 7f
 The New York Tribune says there are moro ag- rlcultural implements ill the new State of Iowa. than in Germany. Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia, Africa and Asia. a's 7 fst& ~
 The Cleveland Herald ays:-.sss.Ihe tour of Miss Kellogg through the West has tlseen 8 continual ovation that has had no parellel since Jenny Lind visited this country" EE
 The wealthiest man in America is young Stevens son of the late Edwin A. Stevens of Hoboken who, when he reaches his ma ajorty, will be worth $150 100000. 'a 'sf .,tl " Ffty-fo companies have gone from San Fran cisco to the new White Pine gold mines in Caifor- mia, and have been incorporated with nominal cap itals aggregating $62,0O0,0OO.
 A cOroners jury of Pittsburgers recently found verdict that Catherine Reanur sdid feloniously and of Mahco aforethought, strangle and murder hersef against the peace and dignity of the con- monwealth of Pennsylvania"
 eff you had eighty years to live, how would you spend 1t so as to be perfectly happy here below?" asks French writer, and answers it himself ''Tho first thirty years as pretty woman, thirty years more as general, and the rest as a bishop" A gentlemen from Southwestern Georgia re- ports that lands in that section have greatly ad- vanced, year ago he was offered a 6OO-acre place for 5000, but now the owner demands $3 OOO forit and can probably get this price. l ''...