Litchfield enquirer., 1870-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

white folks. "-ANantic M0ntb!yJor October.
 MIscELLANEoUs ITEMS.
 Edwin Booth is playing at Chicago.
 The death penalty has been abolished in Holland.
 American flags are now largely manufac- tured in Paris. ts.r
 The Oregon Legislature has elected Col. J. B. Kelley United States Senator.
 Brazil will bag about SOO,OOO sacks of coffee this year. .- .A.
 Senor Roberts, the Spanish minister, is to be married it is said to New York belle.
 The Palais Royal, new place of enter tainment capable of holding 1000 persons, has recently been opened in London.
 The democrats in Maryland are trying to secure part of the negro vote. It is said to vary from 25,O0O to 35,OOO.
 A Georgia court has fixed the damages for killing wife at $7,OOO. The husbands bill against the railroad company was $20, GOO. -.. ..-.. a t- ray1
 Benjamin Turner l(colored) is the con- gressional candidate for the first Alabama district. ,,..s.
 Seventy Chinese have arrived at Belle. vile, N. J., to work in a laundry under Q three years contract.
 The Presidents eldest son, who is West Point cadet, was put back one year by the last examination, so that he will have to serve there five years. .'p .slszsE
 Guerrilla Moseby is spoken of as prob able candidate for United States Senator for Virginia. e-....... .,.ts
 Some idea of the value of real estate in California may be estimated from the fact that the value of property in one county (Stoekton) is estimated at $20, 0,O0O,00O.5
 Mrs. M. M. Bostwick has been appoint ed Clerk to the Washington Dead Letter office, 0ice Mrs. Petigru King, who recent ly resigned to get married. ..a4s
 An industrious young man won wager of $4OO last week by driving a horse from Belfast to Rockland, Me-, and returning, distance of ffty-six miles, every day for week. ,3E -t.,G 9Togh
 The Home and home game at New York Thursday, between the Atlantics and Mu- tuals for the base ball championship of the country twas won by the latter-1O to 4.
 The liquor law which recently went into effect in New Hampshire, provides that damage done to property by drunken per- sons must be paid for by the dealers from whom they had obtained the lquor.
 A man living in central New York and having 8 along-neglected claim to valuable piece of land in Washington street, New Haven, returned to that city lately to look up his property, but found that it had been for some time appropriated by the city for street. ,.#. zf.f
 The Prussians wear breast-plat of thick sole leather underneath their shirts, about ten inches square, which is hard enough to turn bullet, unless struck per. pendicularlY, and is @ good protection against lance or sabre. .s .s1 ii3-l sse
 Gov. Hill, of Newfoundland, is in the United States for the purpose of informing himself relative to the opinions of our lead- ing men on the subject of a peaceful an- nexation of Newfoundland to the United States. The governor will go to Wash ingten in few days. .,l..4 Agv
 A drover from Texas, while passing through Pleasantown, Kansas, the other day, was politely requested to withdraw from the neighborhood after the farmers had shot his cattle, thirty-six in number, and threatened to hang him. f1a.5sssi
 It is reported that early developments concerning the murder of Charles Rogers, nearly two years ago may bs expected. We'll known detectives have been carefully watching certain houses and partieedfor some time ,and have obtained facts bearing upon the identity of the murderer of Rog- CTS. .....s
 The Chassepot, even by the confession of unfriendly critics, has really 'worked won- ders." It is effective at 1,SO0 paces, and may easily be fired five timesa minute" so that with thousand French soldiers in possession of this deadly weapon, five thou sand bullets a minute may be hurled on an advancing column at the distance of one mile, and taking the most rapid rate ofaad- vance at ten minutes, the assailants must pass through storm of 50,O00, bullets be- fore they can be close to the enemy. As the needle-gun only becomes effective at distance of six hundred yards. the Prus- sians have to mtrayerse 1,200 yardswithout being able to return the 1enemys fire. These facts sufficiently explain the new tactics followed by the French in the pFes- ent war of awaiting instead of advancing to the attack. and they render still more marvellous the almost uninterrupted course of German successes.