Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-01
miscellaneous Items.


 A loan-some place-A pawnbroker's of-
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 Pillersof the Constitution -Quack Doc tors. YseqasRo hge .sgf5aHxs9nI .sf.s The Prince of Wales has been made Mason. .YgOf} S1sfe8 k5a .A Knowledge is power-hence the widows Beef sellsfor six cents pound in the New Orleans market.
 Galloping Consum ption-Eating at . railroad station. sl5 @ aa
 Rarnie, the cotton of the future. is doing nicely in Texas.
 Domestic magazines-Wives who blow up their husbands. da Esa aIY4f
 Thirty cents day will support life very handsomely in Houston. ee faeer1
 Many of the richest planters of Jamaica live on seofee-grounds. - s.a, The Danbury boot and shoe company are turning out IA pairs of boots per day. DArBURY borough costs about $l5, 900 a year. T ,a ~
 A STAMFORD husband has gone to jail for beating his wife. r-r
 O. F. LUTz, has been promoted to be baggage master on the Naugatuck railroad. HoN. Alfred Hall, of Portland is recov- ering from his late shock of paralysis.
 MR. John W.Hil, sueceeds J. J. Jacques ss postmaster of Waterbury.
 MT, Motley has for some time bee" 1" rhte rft ouaSk If Ghar1as 1lickanc
 Alargs cotton factory is to be built in Wilmington, s. C..
 Over 24,000 passengers were conveyed over the Naugatuck railroad last month. 61 new newspapers were started in the United States during May. The Boston Post says the legislature "has been sitting so long that it can't get A cargo of oranges from Tahiti for the Chicago market has been received at San Francisco. .'HAos'A t'ah 5o .1 Ja'
 A NORWICH man blind-folded his colt, late- ly.whereat the animal broke it's neck against tree. Loss $400. @' .-
 NoRwALK young s'lady" tried to kill her brother aud then tried to kill herself. She failed both times. sE4! 3.l ..... .ia,s.
 California expects to supply the. people of the Mississippi Valley States, with grapes and pears. as.+tg
 During the month of May the Seth Thomas Clock company at Thomaston manufactured IA 900 brass clocks.
 An amiable German gentleman who late ly died, confessed on his death-bed to hay ing poisoned sixteen members of his own family in order to inherit their property.
 Prisoner, you have heard the complaint for habitual drunkenness; what have you to say in your defenceY' ssNotbing, phase your honor, but habitual thirst"
 Three thousand duels were fought in the German universities last year, most of them very harmless affairs.
 Kit Burns is having run of bad luck. The Methodists spoiled his business, and now policeman has drowned his favorite dog, the incomparable '' Billy"
 a"Have you seen my blackfaced ante- lopeY inquired the manager of menage- rie. "No, I haven't,'' was the reply. Whom did your black-faced aunt elope with?", ",4 ,s...< IF s
 
 the probable tobacco crop of the Western States this, year at 10000 hogshoads.
 One man in Naples, Cal, recently ship ped 20, 900 gallons of wine and brandy, the product of his vineyard .la1 - aaWon't tthat oa-constrictor bite me?'' said little urchin to showman. "Ohl no. boy, he never bites, he swallows his wittles whole.''a 3,+'s yt9ai~ a> e~a4 The Petersburg Inder says:-" All the reports that have reached us represent the crop of wheat now harvesting as the finest that has been reaped for number of years. The ears are well filed, and the grain not affected by rust, !" ,1, . ....- .-.'.. ..a .'2 .
 An,M. O. recently in debate shouted: ."sAnsicus Plato, Anaicus Socrdtes, sed naajor Veritas. The reporter next morning made the speech read, 1T may cuss Plato, may cuss Socrates. said Major Veritas. !" Two physicians at the bedside of pa- tient disputed as to the nature of the dis ease. At last one of them ended the dis cussion by saying: ssVery well, have it your own way now, but the post-mortem will show that I am right" The patient was notmuch encouraged. gIs,4.e5sz l-a BY the premature explosion of blast on section of the Hartford and Erie Rail- road in Southbnry on Tuesday, one man had his leg broker, and another was thrown some fifty feet, badly bruising his body and filling his face with powder. 9.li gT The railroads of the world, at the close of 1868, are reported to have been in the aggregate 109, 177 miles long. The com parative mileage9of the different countries is given as follows: The United States, 42.255; Great Britain, IA, PAT; France g, ,934; Prussia, 5,026; Russia, 4.317; and Italy, 4ll9. The total for Europe is 56, 66O. Asia has 4, ,474 miles; South America, 1,424; Australia, 789; Africa, 5s3. aig aes,1l. , ss1 Horace Greeley, in writing of the house. hhclds where cider was used as beverage. says s,s The boys who graduated from those hresides too often evlnced, at an ear ly age, an unsuitable appetite for stimu- lants-an appetite created, but by no means tsatisfied, by cider; an appetite which very often consigned them to early