Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1870-04-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Thalberg has retired with fortune o
half O million.
One thousand Chinese cigar makers will
soon be imported TO New York from Sal
Francisco. 9ez8 a'&sg5@ s1AA 1&zo
A volume of s'Songs before Sunrise" by
Mr.. Swinburne, is to be published in Lon
don, next month G1S1&9 3 @ e.sse1@-
The Governor Of California has signed
bill raising the legal rate OF interest from
Ito 10 per cent Reats-saaea = ~
Chicago is rapidly growing. Within
three months land to the value of 80, 600,
600 has been sold within seven miles o
the court house. g lis e1aas sansz z.s1 g
The viceroy Of Egypt has invited LOUIS
MIhlbach to spend six. months on thu
banks Of the Nile and write novel abou
the land Of the Pharaohs. gaoo s2
The New Haven Register is awarded th,
first premium for it's show of masculine
poultry on Tuesday.
An attempt is being made by ex-rebels
in Georgia to return Robert Toombs to
congress. ,aIda 81 nor ii s,4traoe.. Z s 81
The senate committee on foreign rela.
tons has agreed to report bill appropria-
ting one hundred thousand dollars to aid
Captain Hall in exploring the Arctic re.
gions. '-'0.'~~' 0-
The house committee on claims has done
an immense business this season. It has
acted on over two hundred claims, about
twenty-five of whicn have been approved
and the rest rejected. SO far. the House
has sustained all the reports of this COM
mite. r.6 Cas
The importations of wheat, oats, an
other grains into into England from the
Baltic provinces of Russia have been so
heavy lately as to depress the br eadstuffs
market at London and Liverpool. ID
The Massachusetts House Committee on
Woman's Suffrage haye reported in favor
OF resolution for submitting to the people
an amendment striking out the word male
from the Constitution.
Notice Of an application for Receiver of
the Union Pacific Railroad has been given
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, by creditors to
the amount of a million of dollars, The
hearing is to be before Chief Justice Howe
on the 9th Of April. The bill gives
detailed statement of the manner in
which the road was built, showing that
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The Air Line railroad is now about com.
pleted between New Haven and Middle
town, and is being pushed forward rapidly
on the balance of the line to Willimantic,
distance of only thirty miles, with 80
much vigor as to give assurance of the ear
" completion of the whole line.
The democrats fought the educational
hill IN a Hnnco hitforlv hrf hoo$a,,
They insist that it perpetuates the freed
mems bureau. General Howard does not
think so, for he is giving the money in his
hands very freely to schools and colleges,
and very little will be left to turn over to
the new bureau. He undoubtedly believes
he can aid the freedmen better than the
bureau.
The Newalk Advertiser estimates that
the colored men will throw about 5000
votes in New Jersey, and that this will be
sufficient in all general elections to give
the State to the republicans The Sey-
Randolph, in 1868, had 1867 majority.
The Advertiser is also of the opinion that
the colored vote will increase the republi-
can majority in the first Congressional dis.
trict, and make the second and fourth Sc
curely republican, leaving the third demo-
cratic, and the fifth fair field for contest.
A recent publication on the prices of
wild beasts for shows, states that first
class hippopotamus is worth $5, 900 to
$4,000; a lion, 81, 900 to $1,000; an ele-
plant. So, 900 to $1,000; giraffe, $1,000;
Bengal tiger, 81, 900; leopard, 5000 to
5000; q hyena, $500, and that New York
house, in the last three years, has sold
OF 000 x,ortb Of fhoso opinools owo1r.;,,o
of a lively trade in monkeys, birds, etc.
In response to the numerous inquiries
as to when the funding bill will be report
ed, it can be stated that there is no pros
pect of that event for fully two weeks to
come. The ways and means committee
are not at present giving the subject regu-
lar consideration, and they will not do so
until the tariff is concluded, which will
not be sooner than the last of next week.
In the meantime, Secretary Boutwell, is
absent in Massachusetts,, and nothing will
be done until he returns.
The we'll known silk manufacturing firm
of Belding Brothers & Co., of New York,
Chicago and Cincinnati, has purchased the
building known as the Rose silk mill in
Rockville, with all its appurtenances, and
commenced reftting it for immediate oc-
cupancy. The building is a frst-class
structure, having been completed only
about three years ago, and was purchased
for about 81, 900, or one third its original
COST The mill proper is 100 A feet, and
the dye house and wheel houee adjoining
45 K 20 feet. The power is in a thirty
three feet breast wheel, with fall of wat
er sufficient for all the machinery the bull
ding is capable OF containing. The new
owners are increasing the amount of ma
chinery and will shortly have in operation
an aggregate of full 200 per cent. more
than they have heretofore run This will
require 100 additional hands, with pros
pective increase of 200. The consumption
of raw silk will be from 100 pounds daily
upwards. This enlargement will make the
silk business one of the most important
branches of manufacture in Rockville. so
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