Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-14

Beecher's church has 1,797 members. Parepa and Ole Bull are in New York. ar There are 1,25O, ,OSO Free Ma sons in the World Qa og1S At5 .t4 i, nj Edwin Booths engagements in Buffalo netted him $7, 186. Ic. saist |. ..,.5 The Extra Ordinary is the title of the Christmas number of Chambers Journal. -H One county in California makes 25O GOO gallons of wlne this year.
 Baron Rothschld by his will left an an.
 nuity of $50O to every. clerk who had been
 ten years in his service. 1a
 At St, Albans, on Tuesday, the best fall butter sold for 8 cents, and the best win , ter made for B cents Poorer grades
 ranged lower. =, -. /" Elk County, Pa., is covered with 3 feet
 of snow. I
 ,7' Now Albany. Indiana, is oyerrun with street beggars.
 9fThe sale of pews in Beecher's church, a | short time since, netted the extraordinary E sum of $97, ,00O
 }i George w. Cole, according to syra- cuse paper, declares that he will never re- o cognize Mrs. Cole as his wife, a5 i General Mcclellan has declined the Pres ldeucy of the University of California. It is said that he now holds positions which ' give him from $l5,oOo to SIS, ,OoO year. sT The Grand Jury has dismissed the case against Surratt. on the ground that the Fresldents amnesty proclamation pardons , him of3 all past treasonable offences against
 the government. saE o- ,J . The Hon. Charles Parker. of Meride, 6 at the civil authority supper which took place on Monday evening" said in response to . toast that he thought Marshall Jewell
 the most fitting person to be elected gov anernor of the state for the coming year.
 A farmer from Missouri drove into ouiu-
 cy, LII. the other day, with a load of hogs.
 and, while waiting for his turn to unload
 went into tavern near by fora drink
 Upon returning soon afterward he foun,l
 that some one had, in his absence. sold ont
 his team, hogs and all, pocketed the pro. ceeds, and disappeared. .s. rF~
 More economical, remarkable certainty of prompt action, in fact, every good oua- lty IS guaranteed for Mrs. s. A. Aliens Improved ('aew style) Hair Restorer or Dressing (in one bonteJ. Every Druggist seiis els' IL. Frlce one dollar 39-3w carpenter in Washington prizes among ms treasures scrap of paper on which is written: eff you have piece of board to spare, please let Tad have it. A. Lincoln D It was brought to him by the boy while he was at work at the White House. - ., MT. Joel B: Taylor, of Cromwell. dnrine 6 S5 sne Mse nfty years, has rescued one rhn,. toIed, bodies from the Connecticut r;var ss.Mn'cn were either drowned or in n drown, 'tinS s'a.e, ne has rescued three in ono 7s suay ontWo different occasions. The last one was rescued on Saturday week. which T was the body ot young Hacking of Pnra. i land, who was drowned on Christmas dar
 A rather good joke is going the ron,d os Vest End London drawing-rooms ;n.. Y. now. It Is attributed to MT. Disraeli. and was made before his. defeat. .fWhy is Gladstone like . telescope?' asked the ex- premier. Because you, can draw him out see through him, ndshut him np," was the ex premier's reply to himself. U Awhite oak tree was lately cut near Ha- ' ney's Bridge, Pa, on the line of the Bran dywine and Reading Railroad. It was two hundred and twenty-five years old, and six feet across the stump at the ground, and contains seven cords of wood. It was | sound and healthy, and had the railroad | o, nos encroached on it, might have lived sev- l a. pa hundred years longer. When William 1 treat. an ioanded Philadelphia and formed al treaty with the Indians, it was . good .sized . ,1a pang, t.. ana was more than one hundred aa prs pswenty-i -iive years old when the battle doi. ot Brandy sra was fought. e'' - o''''e
 n D., lures, such as soap makino ., ona manuiac, on by burning gas from wells. at the oaLlied d of few hundred feet, the constant stsa' tepsn of flame being madelayailable for haat: s.rsa m | tie kettles. These streams of gas caa T quickly lighted, cause no trouble, there ,'as oe ing neither dirt nor cinders, and at tha 3 same time are safe, as every particle of fire