Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
Miscellaneous Items.

On Wednesday last, the cornerstone of the new state house for West Virginia was laid at Charleston, Kanawha county.
 A. Bininger & Co.,, of, Liberty street, N. Y., wine dealers, and one of the oldest firms in the city. suspended on Monday.
 It is probable that Senator Morrill, will be restored to his old place at the head of the committee on appropriations, .,r
 Areport comes from Washington that the Pacific railroad will be thoroughly dis cussed when Congress convenes. There is deep dissatisfaction among the western members with the report of the govern ment commissioners and it is called white washing affair. It is currently charged here that the Union Pacific company have never spent all their money upon the road, but that very large percentage went into the pockets of the stockholders.
 The tide of immigration setting toward Virginia is healthy. The Petersburg Ln- der has sensible article on this subject, a passage of which is as follows: The bugbear that northerners are not made vel come among us has had it's day, and those who have come know that they are treated as kindly, and with as much consideration as they received at their old homes. Such, we know, has been the treatment of those who have settled in this vieinity.nrs
 k Whether for good or for evil, what is vulgarly called " the woman's movement" is gaining ground every day, Cautiously enough, it's rate of progress is much great CT on the other side of the Atlantic than on this. Not only are women's names found by thousands on the registration lists of English cities, but the most aris- tocratic of English schools has opened it's doors to them. Eton has undertaken to give instruction to ladies " not under six teen" in English history, elementary ge- ometry, physical geography and Latin. How long will it be, we wonder, before Phillips Academy, Exeter, and our other great classical schools will follow suit
 Capt. Ford of the Meriden police met with singular, accident on Monday. While in the army, he received wound in the right thigh, the bullet passing downward and resting on one side of the right knee, and while walking along the street on Monday, he slipped on rolling stone and shortly after became lame, the jerk from the stone having moved the bull let from it's original position to the oppo- site of the knee. The Spain was so acute that he had to go home on crutches. He will have to undergo an operation for the removal of the bullet. .eH3s L4ad
 On Sunday night, the 24thp ult,l an at- tempt was made to enter the residence of Mir. John 0. Stevens, superintendent of the Allerton iron works, South Norwalk. Tn the effort the would be burglar, broke window and aroused MT. Stevens, who got up and fired at him, when he ran away. In breaking the window the man cut his hand and lost ring off his finger, which ring was picked up and the next day was iden- tified as belonging to man named John Pryor, who came with the company from Naugatuck. and who had recently been dis charged. by Mir. Stevens. He was arrest ed Monday morning. brought before Jus tice Foote. bound over to the superior court for trial, and in default of bail was committed to tho Bridgeport jail On the Saturday following he was tried an sen- tenced by Judge Granger to 4 years im- prisonment. 1t feodw ebceaoodt
 The official vote of the late election in Ohio is now published, showing that the total number of votes cast was 465, 1888, against 519 (. .254 in the Presidential election making falling off of 53, ,921.ls Of this 47, 923 is on the republican vote, and 12.- GUS on the sdemocratic vote. Hayes ma iority over Pendleton is 7;50l! Il From this it is seen that Pendleton's claim to be Ohio's 'sfavorite son" is not well founded, for while Governor Hayes has ,633 votes less than he had two years ago, Pendleton falls IF, 290 behind the democratic. vote in the same election, when Thurman receiv- ed 240, ,622 votes. 1 bG8 smAiliW