Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-18

number Of large mauufact0fleS are to b built. A report Is going the rounds tLa the dam IS to be reservoir to suppl
 Stamford with water; but it is more prot
 able that IS to be rendered available as lake for the benefit of sumn1er visitors
 with the secondary purposes in view :,
 supplying the village with water an | .aa,, ufactories with motive power. sskA3ss 7s1 Miscsllaneous Items 5 New York eats 3s 900 oranges daily. ! Dr. Holland is now at Rome. t4 ! New York has eoo, 900 Catholics.
 Boston is nearly seven miles long. < San Francisco has ifty-fye churches. ; Brgandage is dying out in southern Italy. ' Only one Australian soldier in nine can write E } General Frank P. Blair is ins Washington again . health. ' - = f9@ Chicago paid s15,ooo for hearing Miss Kellog,
 John 6. Beckinridge. the distinguished exile, ia } in Baltimore. @
 About 40 New Workers believe in Brigham and polygamy.
 Asa @ Parker of Philadelphia is moderately well of
 One half of the Iowa editors are under thirty years of age.
 .hasIl hBanIIrggssy is epidemic among the rural Mef
 Milwaukee was inabstinent last year to the ex- tent of s4.O6S .009.
 Walter M. Bracket of Bosten has just finished portrait of "Nasby." Fs
 MT. James Parton is in Washington on lnterna- uonai copyright businsss. 8 8 gtE
 Oregon sends out Macedonian cry for two hun- dred and fifty servant-girls. .g0ssm
 A firm in Boston has received an order from China TOT 6OO cases of boots and shoes.
 There are 50, 900 members and AS churches of the Baptist faith in Pennsylvania.
 The progress of the small pox at Springfield is such as to be alarming to the citizens.
 No wonderthat Delaware cllngs to the whipping post. She has but one esily newspaper"
 The blue-glass region of Kentucky has sent $2,O00,oO0, worth of mules, South, this winter.
 A. T. Stewart has sold this season twenty $s.OOO shawls, and one at the high figure of $46O0.
 A Western paper announces the shooting of a wild cat by little boy five feet eight inches long,
 The English are learning to play bezique and urlnk lager.
 Hoop skirts are now entirely discarded by fash They say in Paristh Eugenie has turned spir 4. woman actually voted at Manchester, Eng
 A sewing machine driven by eletricity, is on ex- hibition at Paris. eSf sl5 VI VI
 ~snsn over three thousand school-houses. D4'''
 Henry Ward Beecher has bought four veloci. pedes TOT dlfterent members of his family.
 The Shah of Persia has concluded to- have railroad from his capital to his summer residence
 It is said that the debt of the city of par;s amounts to the pretty figure of 200 OO GOO francs |, Kossuth cannot be reconciled 10 anything thing less than an independent Hungary.
 One of the Minnesota newspapers which ;s most uniriendly to wonaan's suffrage is edited by n Each state is to be supplied with full set of 1 the French decimal weights and measures before l the end Of the year. .,,.z z.s...'
 Norfolk. Ve.s sent sent oyer a million dollars worth of early vegetables to the New York market.
 It has been found out that the secret of making | ciaer h ascm sorghum juice, is in making the liquid , Ine Pacific Omnibus scheme cannot too soon POst. ' o~ '0nei'le'-o"'cdgo
 It has cost the sum of $23 eOS "A to fake care o, the Indians in Massachusetts during the past f,ya years .f 5y4 ,l,.'.1-'1 - N's 'Ao p"s' nVe
 An Australian horse recently ran tan m;,as ;n z3 minutes and S1 seconds, said to be the fastast tune on record for that distance. wealthy Chicago gentleman has bouobt ma hundred and twenty-five square miles of land in Kansas for wheat field. - =, ''''-~ -'-S- --.
 It Is estimated that there are nearly am nool young men in Boston under marriage enrages | ments, waiting for better times velocipedes are said to be more in demand in Marengo, Iowa, than in any other place in the its peer cannot be sold within the town lim- dnere IS not in the present House of Lords q singie descendant of the twenty-fiye barons an. pointed to enforce the observance of Maena Chsr- One hundred and twenty velocipede patents have been applied for already in this countr /, One hundred caveats in addition to the above are also on dle.f 3 Sf&sf s3 N~.SS4 The velocipede will eclipse the trotting stailions in the field with q 900 premiums for the best and fastest veiocipeding.
 Mira. w. A. Johnson of Westfeld, wife of the r celebrated organ builder, has studio beautiful with portraits and landscape paintings from her own hand. nss Is aos} f,f 0a lesa lf .ts The Tribune says :-" The farmers near the sea-board in Maine have learned that fish make as good feed as hay, and that one fish makes full feed for Q sheep"
 Thirty shoe-pegging machines are in operation in the town of Alton, New Hampshire. A shoe l can be begged in two minutes with one of these machlnes. }El it.t sotA3t8 8 "s4 ' a5 T
 An oak tree was recently cut in Candid, which was four feet in diameter and measured four tons of sh,p timber. Ithad hollow wherein eighty pounds of honey were found. s.8 .aA s.-.esg
 Alanson Stewart and Frank Fraser employed in the Pembroke mills at Suncook, were burned to death on Thursday, by the accidental ignition of napthas while repairing 6 leak in the gas-pipes.
 CAUTION TO BLACK SPIDERS. --"A, black spider bit "a Missourian the other day. . Both are dead. "-- Courant. saG bsa ]
 10 In the sharp debate which took plaC0 between Sumner and Patterson on