Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-11
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 Prairie fires are raging in the southerl part of Minnesota. ~
 Specnlators are passing through Yer mont buying up potatoes at from 25 to A cents per bushel.
 The young ladies of Evanston, ILL, col lege play base ball three times week.
 Thirteen fraudulent divorce cases ar. now before the criminal courts in Brook lyn. 4.dtaaaoU a '
 Tho Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, IT,, has invited Father Hyacinthe to visit Connect. icut with him, on the 18th inst. and par. ticipate in good old fashioned New Eng land Thanksgiving.
 Dr. Buckley of Norwich, has, been to see the ':Syracuse giant. "and gives it as hi. opinion that 1t is human petrifcation sof great antiquity. It further appears thai the soil about Cardiff, (where this curiosity was found, has long been known for it's In New London, where an evening school for young men has been in Success. fnl operation for several years, efforts arc being made to establish an evening school for females, and a town meeting will be called to establish such school as soon aa a sufficient number of scholars signify their desire to attend.
 A train on the Norwich and Worcester road, in leaving Worcester, a day or two since; was stopped at point in Auburn. by a young lady who stood upon the track, beckoning. She had discovered broken rail, and by her conduct probably saved valuable lives and prevented damage to property. ais sl1l ascs.4 ii 1H.
 @. The Ku Klux are in Bridgeport Dr. Lyman Abbott was called to his door the other night, and on opening it large stone hit him in the forehead, knocking him down and opening large wound to the bone. Who the scoundrel was is un- known. Ha ID .s15ag .
 A member of the Sixth regiment writes to the Stamford Adr0cate that the reunion of the regiment at Shippan Point has proved rather of an expensive entertain ment to the committee, because one-half the expense promised by the citizens of Stamford has not been forthcoming and the committees have had to pay it themselves. :. In the zinc business, at La Salle, Ill.,, over three hundred persons are employed, one hundred tons of coal are daily con- sumed, and about fifty tons of ore are dai- ly smelted.' 'a,' ''.-'.-@ ..,.l Wise men are lpuzzling themselves to account for the fresh water which comes up through an iron tube, sunk fifteen feet through the constantly shifting sands of Cape Cod, from fifteen to twenty feet from high water and not more than three feet above it. The water in this tube rises and falls regularly with the tide, yet more than one hundred barrels have been pumped from it at one time without finding the slightest trace of saline matter. It is of such fine quality that vessels supply them. selves for sea voyage from this we'll.
 In Muskegon, Wisconsin, it is estimated that about 200. .000. 900 feet of lumber has been cut and shipped the present season. It was sold on an average of $12 per 1000, realizing sum of $2, 100000. Whitehall has exported during the present season about 65. .000, 900 feet of lumber, which, at SIP per 1000 in Chicago, sold for $7sO, ,OOO, making grand total for Muskegon county of 265, ,000, 900 feet of lumber, bringing $3, 1s0,O There yet remains for the re- mainder of this season, to be cut and ship ped, about 80, ,000,000 feet on Muskegon lake, and about 35, ,000, ,000 feet on White lake. or 115. 900, 900 in the county.
 The Marquis of Westminster, whose death was announced by cable on the 1st inst, was the wealthiest man in England. His income which was chiefly derived from building sites in the cities of London and Westminster, was estimated at over two millions of dollars, and was yearly increas- ing. It began in the enterprise of build CT who saw that a large tract of marshy land in the west of London could be made the fashionable quarter. As most of this land is let out at long leases, and the prop erty is everysyear rising in value, the Mar quis' descendants will be even richer than he was. The deceased peer was somewhat famous for avarice, which often made him the butt of Punch. He never took any prominent part in politics.
 Prof Loomis communicates to the Co., lege C0urant his meteorological observa- tions for October: ssIhe mean tempera- ture of the month of Oct. at New Haven was 4S.S degrees, which is 2.2 degrees be- low, the average temperature of this month for the past 9Oyears. The highest temper, ature was 72.5 degrees on the 1st, the low est was 26,3 degrees on the 18th. The range of the thermometer for the month was 46.2 degrees, which is about the average range for this month at New Haven. The amount of rain for the month was 10.51 inches, which is about 8 times the average fall for October at this place. There is only one other instance on record at this place of fall of rain equally remarkable, viz: in July 1928, when it was II. 10 inches. More than half the rain of the past month fell during Q single storm, commencing Saturday, Oct 2 and continuing with interruptions until Mon day afternoon, Oct. 4.