Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-25
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 Indiana will be out of debt next month.
 Crops in Oregon were never better than this year.
 Chicago will open women's medical col lege in the fall.
 It is reported that Ole Bull will be mar ried on the 20th.
 A son of Lord Brougham has been de- clared bankrupt
 California produces 5000, 900 pounds of quicksilver annually.
 The San Francisco Germans on Tuesday remitted $1O,OoO to Berlin.
 President Woolsey and his family are spending few weeks at New Milford.
 Pere Hyacinthe has volunteered as pri- vate in regiment for the defense of Paris.
 President Grant and Mark Twain are ex- pected at Newport next week.
 Saratoga is filled to overfowing. The west is now largely represented there.
 The Los Angeles grape crop is largely in excess of last year.
 The southern papers promise cotton crop of not less than 4,000,O bales.
 The Delaware crop of peaches this sea- son is estimated at 1860, 900 baskets.
 Six admissions day is the average at the Illinois State Lunatic Asylum.
 Miss Green. of Alliance, O., is the first woman compositor in the government print ing office.
 Professor Blot has dyspepsia. He must have been eating some one else's cookery.
 Speaking of Provost Paradol, a Paris cor respondent says he leaves three children entirely destitute.
 One of the Sia:nese twins is paralyzed, and the other is reviving the inquiry if sep aration is possible in case of death.
 The Germans of St. Louis are preparing for monster celebration of the Prussian victories.
 A colored woman took the first premium for dentistry at the recent State Fair at Houston, Texas.
 M. D. Conway, correspondent The New York World, with McMahon's army, is shut up in Strasburg. A Lady in Kansas is carrying on an ex- tensive blacksmlthing and wagon making business. .. Ten millions three hundred and fifty thousand persons have died of small -pox in Russia during the last seventy years!
 Sir Morton Peto is in Hungary, ,construc- ting railroads for the Austrian govern ment.
 The European war has increased the cir culytion of the leadingLondon daileys from fifty to seventy five per cent.
 Paris ladies now wear the same style of hat as was worn hundred and five years ago.
 If tailor agrees to put braid on a coat, does he always consider the agreement binding?
 .'Use Jones bottled ale if you would keep out ot here" IS painted on the fences of the Pennsylvania graveysrds. Dr; Nelaton, the great French surgeon, earned four hundred thousand francs last year.
 All the French correspondents have re- turned to Paris, no opportunity being af- forded them for observing operations in the field.
 Mir. James Fisk, Jr., is distinguishing himself at Long Branch by putting his thumb to his nose whenever he passes the President.
 The property left to Mrs Samuel l.. Clem- ems (whose husband is better known as Mark Twain), by the death of her father, amounts to quarter of 8 million of dollars
 A man out West, hearing that dry cop peras put in a bed of ants would cause them to leave, put some in his mother-in- laws bed to see if she would go.
 On tombstone in churchyard in Ulster is the following epitaph: Erected to the memory of John Phillips, accidentally shot as mark of affection by his brother"
 On a gate-post in front of a farm house near Indianapolis is sign which says: 'sNo life insurance nor lightning rods wanted here"
 The laying of the corner stone of the Saint Mary's Catholic church, took place at New London, Monday, with imposing ceremonies.
 Thomas Hughes,M M. P. but better known as the author of School Days at Rugby, ar- rived at Quebec on Tuesday from Eng land.
 Ex-Governor James l.. Orr, of South Car olina, published letter on the 18th, an- nouncing his adhesion to the republican party in South Carolina.
 Miss Bartlett, who some years ago mar. ried Senor Oviedo, the Cuban millionaire. returns to New York widow with $1 1000, GOO.
 'sThe Baptism of fire" which the French Prince Imperial experienced last week, according to the Emperor's reports, was a decided case of infant baptism.
 The campaign of theFrench against news paper correspondents has been far more successful than that against the Prus- sians.
 Once when bad man died, savage wifi being apprlsed of the event, observed that the average value of mankind wss sensibly raised.
 Twenty bishops of the Protestant Epis- copal Church have been furnished by Con- necticut. and about half of them came from