Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-18
Miscellaneous Items.

HOUSEHOLD WORD. THE BEST, the only reliable, the cheapest. Try it. Mrs. s. A. Aliens Improved (new style) Hair Restorer or. Dressing, (in one boR!s). My wife and children prefer it. Every Drug gist sells it. Price One Dollar. 42-4w
 The Adventists in Waterbury have hired Lathrop Hall. and prophecy the worlds dissolution in the spring.
 A smart respectable young eolored man was taken into the employ of the clock manufactory at New Haven; whereupon about dozen young men of Irish procliv- ities refused to work unless he was dis charged. The contractor refused to dis charge him and the objecting hands left The places are being rapidly supplied with men.
 In the argument before the supreme court, at Boston, on the 1st inst, upon the meaning of the word "suryiye," in the will i. of the late Joseph E. Worcester, ILL. D., the distinguished lexicographer, one of the counsel cited the definition of that word given in Worcester's dictionary as indicat- ing the intent of the testator. <'~A. -
 The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine works at Bridgeport are turning out 300 machines daily, or 20,500 month. They arc largely in arrears oforders.
 While MT. Myers, the manager of For rest's.drafaatic troupe, lwas on the stage ct Music Hall, New Haven, on Friday night, in the Jack Cade, some one entered the green room and stole $200 in government bonds from his coat pocket, made of with them, and left no trace behind. #
 A .monomaniac named Benjamin Shee- han, applied for lodginge at the Norwich police headquarters lately. Under the de- fusion that he is afflicted with a disease within the limits of Connecticut for the space of two years. he has been in nearly every town in thSstates and in some of them two or three times His time will expire. he says, next March. During all Sitting upon what the charitable have Riv- en him.
 Recent investigations ail tend 70 estaD- liah tho fact that eo-called miasms are noth- inc mere nor less than microscopic organ isms. diffused through the atmosphere; living things; not gases to be absorbed by plants. as the article alluded to would have us suppose;s incabie of being assimilated to the economy of Q living being. be it plant or animal, and, on this account. Q poison when Introduced into the sys- tenn
 Ths Vifginians are planting corn.
 Ex-Goy. Bramlette, s. S. Nichols and H. J. Sites Judges of the Supreme Court, and several other eminent Democratic law yers of Kentucky, have petitioned the Legislature of that State to pass an act admitting negroes to testify ia courts.
 The humps prevail, in Norwich and neighboring towns to an extent unparelled in the memory of the oldest physician. Some of the city schools are slimly attend ed in conseQuence. ar
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 Aacat in Beaver Brook, whose four little kittens had been drowned, took to her heart and'homs three young rats in their place. .sfssoaa ca i1!ss' a~lsa.g ss3e sssssiK
 A bald eagle measuring six feet from tip to tip, was shot in Fairfield, on Sunday last. a1cs woa st hga Ggg. ssaaas
 The Housatonic railway company have commenced runninga cattle train every week. aEAH T | E.
 The New Canaan railroad carried about twenty three hundred passenger and 90 tons of freight during the month of Jan- uary, k.,e, = .,s
 The demand for houses in Bridgeport, is on the increase. The new steel factory is expected to bring from seventy-five to one hundred families to the city in the spring, and the new hat factory very nearly as many more, and there are not tenements enough to; supply the present demand.
 A man. called atia Daubury farm house last week after dAxk. and asked for some thing to eat, and when the tender hearted farmer offered him bed for the night, he respectfully declined his offer, stating that he had not occupied bed for twenty-five years. but hAd'mostly slept in barns and hay ,mows and . large portion of the time
 Som people suffer- and their friends sulIer. from severe pains while they spend more i11oney foolishly, than it would cost to cure them, if they used Renne's Pain- KilIinc Maaio Oil. T Taks our advice and nse this .popnlar and pertain cure for such jlls as fesh and bone are heir to.