Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-22
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Miscsllaneous Items. A young man tell dead in the lwhirl of Cor. man waltz, It Chicago, last week. California pays | premium of q to any one who VIII planta tree by the roadside.
 Rome is so full of yisitors that late corners have great difficulty in finding lodgings.
 Don Carlos has contracted for II. 900 Belgian ri fies, which looks like : fresh row in Spain.
 The colonies of Victoria and New South Wales are both suffering terribly from the want of rain.
 Four thousand pawnbrokers with sss.O 900 | capital, carry on business in England and Wales.
 Queen Victoria proposes, it is said, to publish two more books upon the Scotch Highlands. The Mayor of Portland has. asked thss his sala- ry may be reduced from Sl,6oo to ,, soos Ma(yo) res nest
 Miss Rye is coming over with another cargo Of servant girls. They like Coming thro' the Rye"
 The King of Bavaria has ordered necklace of magnificent pearls, costing 100000 forins.
 There is great financial distress in those parts of Wisconsin known as the hop-growing region. A subscription is being taken to buy John c Breckinridge residence at Lexington. rq fs,,
 Cora Pearl has left Paris. She is believed to be tune.
 When public clerk is removed from his '1 posi- tion in Washington, he ia now said to be Gre trenched."
 The amount of specie in the Bank of France has decreased seven millions of francs since last week.
 The Mission and and Pacific Woolen mills of San Francisco have consolidated their capital of $5, ,000, 900.
 The Congregational churches of Illinois gave $40, ,92263. -fli'' s9 l'.7' " lG77Esl' ' There are upwards of one hundred and twenty theological students in the various seminaries of Chicago. >Afs<.+t-a f5 .Il5 f.ls1 < EitJ anne Pauline viardot, called Le Dernier des Sor- ciers." 'ts. .t. y-...,s-Isf1 :, -
 The Catholic priest at Klein Zell, well known holy place on the continent, has turned Protest ant and married 8 pretty girl. .,-sr,p.s s,,'
 The Russian gun-shops are hard at work ma king needle guns of the Baranow pattern 100000 of them are to be done at once. s-tq sso Il
 The imperial family of France and the ex-royal family of Spain exchange visits in Paris with reg ularity.
 Private equipages can now be hired in New; York Dy the month Gilded harness, monogram door, The business portion of Madison, Ga. and many residences in the town, were destroyed by fire lact night, and caused heavy loss. @aToi,g'9 aa1 The present English War Minister dissenta from the hitherto universal opinion that yeterans or old soldiers are more desirable than new recruits
 The Sultan has abolished throughout the Turk ish Empire the prohibition, hitherto riQidly en- forced, against the admission of Christians to the Anos4u0e' Gr@ /t&E@a, a8Iss Q3s1sa.!
 A will has been thrown out in New Hampshire as fraudulent, on proof that the paper company whose imprint it bore, did not exist ct the date of the will. =5I3la1 ao sr-fI n,
 Mile. Bettini, young opera singer, while prac- ticing her debut in Paris a few weeks ago stopped short in ro,alade, sank down and died. 51@t
 Mir. Samuel Miller of Campbell County. Vireiais died on Saturday. He was the richest man in the State, and had made all his property himseF Though impaired by the war, the estate is estima- A French journalist, in announcing that Mme Aibonl has been engaged to appear for twenty pgnss at the ;, 1aan a opera in Pars says that the phant with the voice of nightingale" w
 The Canadian newspapers are full of complaints on the subject of the French Canadians enaigra- ting to the States. Notwithstanding inducsments held out, the French population is daily leaving in increased numbers. g9 " The Chinese expend annually over $20 OOO, 900 to appease and propitiate the souls of the dead. About $30, DOC, 900 are annually expended in wor- ! of family ancestors.
 As a proof of the remarkable decline of Alex der Dumass popularity as q romancist, it is said that the manuscript of his last novel was offered to six publishers, none of whom would give him more than few thousand forins for it. Sir Kenelm Digby of England, wrote to Govern or Winthrop, the second, of Massachusetts, in the eighteenth century, and recommended the follow ing cure for the ague :-s Pare the patients nails put the parngs in little bag round the neck of a live eel, and put him in a tub of water the eel will die, and the patient will recover.