Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-29
WHOLE NO. 2201o

The Housatonic railroad company intend running an early train from New Milford reaching Bridgeport in time for the steam CT and early trains for New York. They also propose running car from Pittsield through to New York direct. o.4 lo gs gn
 The milk trade on the Naugatuck road is rapidly increasing. Large quantities are sent from Litchfeld County, the people there finding it much more profitable to sell their milk than to make it into cheese. The price received is 31a Az and 515 cents, per quart, according to the time of year. Il
 It is now the custom in Parisian ceme- teries to engrave the dying words of the inferred on the tombstones. ooh, mam- ma!'' is the general exclamation with chil- dren, and "Oh, Godp' with adults. l5m D.
 A Aiourneyman tailor of Bridgeport, after concluding his work, late at night, recently made some noise as he was leaving the building and reused the apprehensions of nervous lodger, who yelled for the police. brilliant number of that force arrested the unfortunate man, and placed him in durance vile, in which condition he re- malned until his employer could be found.
 The Sun says that when Anna E. Dick inson lectured at Des Moines she received a note while on the plItform. The writer asked for an interview at the close of the lecture, which was granted, and he proved to be rich Omaha merchant who proposed to Miss D. on the spot. ->.~ e'-" -@l
 A few days ago two women, living in Mansfield, Webster county, Ill., were ob- served, in full bloomer costume, return ing from hunting expedition, each sport ing double barrelled shot gun, carrying numerous snipe, woo cock and tomtits, the fruit of the day's campaign.
 The physicians of Buchanan, Michigan, have adopted uniform rate bill, and em- ployed collector who collects all bills af- ter they are due sixty days Any person allowing his account to run over sixty days will be refused the services of any phy- sician, except on an order from super visor ha
 A remarkable cease of conscience" was exemphfed few days since, in the recep- tion, by a gentleman of Boston, of gold ring, stolen from his wife by domestic, some eight years since. It was returned through the medium of Catholic priest, of Buffalo, N. Y.-a.-a -ri
 The Boston Post says:-" Half a dozen girls in an English boarding-school thought 1t a good joke to send valentine to the Pope, and they did so, also enclosing the letter with the pretty falsehood that they had discarded chignons and trains, in ac- cordance with his suggestions. They re- ceiVed nice letter from Antonelli and the autograph blessing of the Pope"
 A party of twenty five laborers had been engaged at Castle Garden, in New York, to be trans shipped to Norwalk, there to SUD-
 ply the same number of other workmen,
 who had struck for higher wages. They
 were all Germans, unable to speak English, except one. Being placed on board of propeller, they were left without food or any provision for bedding, and the same carelessness was shown them at Norwalk, where they were walking the town all night, unable to obtain accommodation for sleep, or even a meal. --'' --'--'.7 A correspondent of the ". Y. Herald re- gently had an interview with Senator Sprague on the subject of his late startling speeches. The Senator says that he in- tends to keep at his work, and not to fold his arms and see the country go to the devil. He confesses to being crazy in the sense that all great reformers are crazy. He is not bidding for the presidency, and would not take 1t unless he was permitted to appoint whom be chose to office. In big bundle of letters asking for copies of his late speeches only two came from Rhode Island, where, he said, the truth about the great family monopoly was un- palateable. e''1- s. ,.a:2g
 The soul of the department of Foreign Affairs at Constantinople is Catholic priest, Father Benevent, an Italian, who writes nearly all the foreign dispatches of the Turkish Government. He possesses @ wonderful familiarity with the leading statesmen, the soverigns, and the political affairs of the various countries of Europe. No measure of importance is resolved upon by the Turkish Government until his opin- ion has been ascertained. It is said that he receives a larger salary than the Turkish minister of Foreign Affairs. sbam 'at# a 33s7 lF7,3 ' T----s'sbita es4 d2sdp A young couple, engaged to be married, were recently walking in the vicinity of Bristol, England, when some slight disa- greement arose between them, and the young man walked hastily away. The young woman soon went in search of I. him and found that he had climbed a tree, and hanged himself by his handkerchief. No- body was near the spot, and the girl at once climbed the tree to cut her lover down, but she had 10 knife with, her, and the only way by which she could effect her object was by biting through the knotted This with some difficulty she succeeded in doing, and the foolish boy fell on the ground insenslble. The young woman then succeeded in getting asslstance,z and he was taken to the Bristol lntirmary, where he was lying in very perllous condition at last accounts.
 J.sA. Lakin, of Thompsonville, manufac- turer of yeIocipedes, on Tuesday last, drove one of those machines from that village to Springfield on the common road. He was accompanied by referees in wagons, tofsee that the work was fairly done, MT. Ilakin made the whole distance, about eight miles in one hour and thirty minutes, exclusive of ten minutes stop in Longmeadow, and he rode the entlre trip on his bicycle, with the exception of two or three hills. up which it was impossible to propel the ma. chine. In view of the fact that the roadis extremely sandy and unfavorable to vel0ci- pede riding. the time made was very good.
 Frank J. Naramore, of the Bridceport post office. while runnin0 nn tho ' Narco