Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-29

<tssssxw le3s4 0uE sS1lSu149ol& @pd AH tue uo- s9osrst gSae &aS kSH fheir respects fthe SzAshAHSaqar They were greatly fS SMHkkSSsa were absolutely disgusted HHer HAT found that the general had nev- 4FeTen been in the Confederate army.
 : One half of Prince Napoleon's civil list
 of two million francs is paid, not to him.
 but to his creditors. The Prince has squan- dered the whole dover of the Princess Chlothilde, who owned property worth up-
 wards of five million francs in her own
 right. She was generous enough to place it at the disposal of her spendthrift hUs-
 band.
 Theophile Gautier, now an abject Hate terer of the Emperor Napoleon, called
 him, in pamphlet published shortly after the disastrous attempt at Strasburg, v a
 blear-eyed booby. with the bearing and appearance of chimpanzee." sacaricaz ture on the First Empire" ss clown who
 ought to be engaged by the proprietors of the hippodrome." bGa noi1eT efsi. The directors of the Naugatuck railroad company, at their regular meeting at Bridgeport on Tuesday, presented to Rus sell Tomlinson, formerly president of the road, splendid silver sett, consisting of q salver, pitcher. and two goblsts of ibeanti- ful finish and manufacture, from ai the well known house of Tiffany & O., of New York. 9.f5 fga sg..a T.i ae.l11 ese e. A Boston correspondent writes to the
 Booksellers Guide that Mrs StoWe's new
 novel is an autobiography of Horace Hols yoke. The scene of the story is the prin-' | tl,1 rn1 away back in the anent-railroad times. Among the characters are g number of Vad-s mirabie, life. like personages; such,r for fn- stance, as the minister with his cooked hat and ample clerical wig-homely Aunt l Keziah -tall, shambling Sam Lawson, and Hepsey his wife, a 'spepper-box of 8 wo- man." The work is full of fresh and graph. | ic descriptions of outdoor GandGin-ao0r | life. sa@3 E s8ss1d t9esl.2 hea AsWrTo | '~.5ss f-.@ a15513f 4g efe4C. .s4-l5L-.0J ,ytgBc ! Associations have recently been formed
 in certain neighborhoods in England, to
 protect society against the incnrsi0ns of
 beggars. i The residents Of many towns
 and villages in the vicinity of London
 have been overwhelmed with the alarming
 increase of '' tramps'' and ;beggars from the great metropolis. The custom of giv | ing penny for the sole purpose of get I impostors that the most vigorous meas
 ures have been found needfuI. At Black
 heath, the Mendicity Society slpp !ies tick-
 cts to every house in the neighborhood !;
 one of these is given to the beggar,s by which he has a right to apply toothe officer of the Society, at his room. ii If the ticket is presented, the officer investigates the case, and makes arrangements for the re- lief of the applicant. if deserving. Noth- ing but tickets are given by private indi- viduals; when the beggar is on the point of starvation, he is supplied with, a piece l of breadsto be eaten under the eye Of the officer. This system is rapidly rsducing the number of professional mendicants. | Some time last summer daughter of Eli
 Martin, of Middletown, missed af gold watch and chain, two gold breastpins,s a bracelet. silver spoons, etc., and supposed
 that some person had stolen them Two prominent clairvoyants Were sconsu1bed,
 who said they had been stolen, and each gave like description of the thief. it was not thought best, however, to maka an ar-
 rest on what clairvoyant might say 80 the
 articleswere given up for lost. About a
 week ago MT. Martin pulled off some rag ged plastering in one of the rooms in his house, and discovered an umbreHa inside 1 the wall, which he got out and foundsIail the missing articles in it. It seems sa.that
 Mrs. Martin Tn an insane freak, placed the l iewelry into the um brella and then put the
 umbrella between the walls from the gar
 ret. She afterward committed suicide by i jumping into the Connecticut rivaf!ld5seT I 1f F5F a4f 4E s.frn