Litchfield enquirer., 1869-03-25
Miscellaneous Items.

1 Miscellaneous Items.
 In the Rhode Island House the Woman suffrage proposition has been rejected.
 MT. George W. Ross, freighter from Shafon station on the Harlem railroad, became insane while in the transaction of ouslness, and died on Friday, the 9th.
 The Collins Company's workshops and storehouses at Collinsville, reduced to one story, would extend over mile and a half Tn length. Their belting in use measures IS, TSP feet, nearly 3A miles long. Some of the belts are l3 inches in width, and one belt Is inches wide is 236 feet long. A New Britain lady had one of those stuffed birds Tn her hat, which was so nat ural that the cat, thinking it genuine, cap- tured It, and had eaten more than half of It before she discovered her mistake. The result is ruined hat and sick cat.
 Henry c. Bowen has offered to give the town of Woodstock $5,000 if they would remove their indebtedness, which is be- tween forty and fifty thousand dollars, in nve years The proposition was received with general favor, and tax has been laid ~~~-sO "AAA A~A1S ~AOSVOO L4AS y06E.
 In the "Powder Hill' quarries in Mid. dlefield the stone abounds with sbird tracks" of enormous size and distinct i'm pressions. They are found in every layer forty or fifty feet downward.
 of the factories in Waterbury, Q native of Massachusetts, who has eighteen brothers and one sister. A few more such families would relieve that state from the necessity of exporting her single females to Colora- do.
 A youngster being shown at 8 toy shop a papler nlache mouse, which when wound up, ran about in very life-ike manner, exclaimed. with contempt, 70, mamma, I don't want that; we've got lots of them at home, and don't have to wind them up either"
 The recent revival in the Congregations Church in Ellington touched the pockets as we'll as the hearts of the people, and they came forward with $500, $500, $1O0, and smaller sums, until the debt of the church was entirely extinguished. .
 A great accident is often the result of small carelessness. Every traveller should have bottle of Renne's Pain Killing Mag lc Oil In his pocket or satchel to use in case VI @SSAOCAu. 1US uS0 G'uF0S OEulSSS. con. tuslons, scalds, and relieves pain, from any cause, as if by magic. "It works like a charm .-tl WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED Ir?-A bus. mess of monstrous magnitude has been created by Horace Waters, 481 Broadway. simply by his benevolent plan of selling Pianos, Melodeons, and Organs of all the first class makers, and giving the purcha- ser the use of the instrument while it is being paid for Tn monthly installments l
 An old gentleman in Bridgeport, who keeps tin box full of valuables in one of the city banks, went to the bank the other day and discovered on examining his box. that $15, 900 in bonds was missing. Here was robbery sure, and the old man began to suspect the bank clerks, After while he remembered to have taken the box home about fortnight before, and on going | there and making an examination of the room where he had opened it, the missing bonds were found in chair where he had 1 left them.
 | Munich is now also to have statue of Goethe, which is to be erected on the next anniversary of the poets birthday. The sculptor Widumann has copied the head from the magnificent bust of Trippel. re. presenting Goethe at the age of forty. The statue, however, belongs to the class of "ldeals"-the costume is purely Greek. and the poet holds an impossible Tyre in his hand.
 The notorious forger of ancient Syriac. Coptic, and Greek manuscripts, Dr. Con- stantine Simonide, died recently in Alex. andria, of leprosy. A few years ago. be succeeded in disposing of large quantities of forged manuscripts of the early Chris ] tlan ages to the libraries of England and France, deceiving the scholars of those countries, until he was finally detected through the acuteness of Professor Tis. chendorf, of Leipzig. '.- A CHURCH PRAoT1cE CoNDEnNED.-R;ah op Mcllvaine, of Ohio, says of the practice ot lowing when the nanae of Jesris is l,,f tered ln the creed, that it is not rennirai Tn tne formulas of the church, and ia nf
 test ot churchmanship, but a step in th, dlrection of ritualistic and superstitiou
 usages. That is what we always thourl;t
 and we hope to see the unmeaninr prac tice discontinued. At the .time the cus tom was instituted, some fifteen hundre, years ago, there was prevalent donbt porn or superstition and idolatry, concern . Ing that particular portion of the creed ana the practice of lowing was adopted b those Wno wished to signify their belief t T the divine attributes of the Saviour. Tin ' and reason have swept away all doubt uu ,, on the point, and it seem to us an absurdi r ty to cling to such usage, which certainl ana falsely implies that there is still q