Litchfield enquirer., 1871-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
 M. Loyson, once Pere Hyacinth. talks of marrying. s.f
 The total population of New England is 2.487, 1924. .as.- a~,,-
 Louisiana's sugar crop this year is IA, 844 hogsheads. .cEEr.t.
 An Indiana melon. patch covers seven teen hunded acres. ..-.
 The public debt of Victoria, Australia, is over 60,000,OO0. a....... .s.s...y..r.
 Samuel Bowies, of the Springfield Re- publican, has returned from Europe.
 The great tunnel under the Mont Cenis was opened on the 18th of September.
 The duke of Montpensier, Spanish jour- nal says, Sis as bold as a plebian. vain as a noble, rich as king. .i . ...- +"
 Charlotte Bronte's husband, Mir. Nichols has married the authors cousin, Miss. Bell, and is living in Ireland.
 The City of Middletown voted last week 4S2 to 453 against granting any further aid to the Air Line railroad. .~-
 It is stated that by recent decision in the law courts the marquis of Butte comes into an additional income of $2OO, ,OOO and arrears to the amount of $5OO,OOO.
 In ten years mich COWS in Vermont have increased ten per cent The butter produced has increased two million and cheese has declined three million pounds.
 The New York E1vening ALail says Sir Michael Costa has refused to act as joint conductor with Sir Patrick Gilmore at the coming Boston musical blow out. Sensible man, that Costa. . -- .sI -...
 It is said that Thiers cannot conceal his complacency at being the central figure of ons and 400 others of noble lineage.
 Seven hundred heads of families, repre- senting twenty thousand Roman Catholics, in one province iu Germany, have signed an address sustaining Dr. Dolliuger in his opposition to tue pope ill his assumption of infalliability. ...... ...t.....r *-s
 The Ward crew won the four-oared race at Saratoga, last week, in "A minutes and A seconds. They came in two lengths ahead. The Tyne were second, leading the Big lins and Taylor-Windships by half do: zen lengths. .. A#
 Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton who, few years ago, could hardly get a hearing for her radical views on the woman question, deposited last week seven hundred dollars in gold in bank in San Fransiscop the proceeds of three meetings ill that city, above all expenses.
 The value of the Protestant Episcopal church edifices in the city of New York is estimated at $7, ,5O0, ,00O, not including the ground on which they stand. This is about &, 1000, 900 in advance of any other Protes- tant church, and $1, 500, 900 more than the Roman Catholic. 1 -ss | On the first inst. there was reported at Washington, as in operation at that time 1 in the United States, 19O grain and nine molasses distileries, with daily produc- tive capacity of 192,82O gallons of grain spirits, and 8,032 gallons of rum Ohio has eighty six distileries, the largest mum Der reported in any state. ....-.
 l According to the statistics published by Doctor Everit, French physician. the fol lowing numbers of persons die annually ot intemperance,v viz In England. 90. 900, of whom 12,00O are females; n Germany, 40, GOO; in Russia, 15.000; in Belgium, 4,OOO in Spain, 5000; in Italy, l.SOO; in France, 1.500. ...... ...... .aE l Dry goods men are preparing for the largest fall trade known for years. The , amount paid for import duties in New York during August was more than five millions greater than for the same month last year, and seven millions greater than in 1869 The value of imported entries during the first eight months of 1871 is SIC, ,874, ,595 against $5l, ,994 .269 in 1870. sa
 The people of Geneva recently beset an unlucky Belgian, who were visiting Swift zerIand. under the idea that he was the ex. Emperor Napoleon, to whom he bore re, semblance in facial expression, moustache and imperial. The unfortunate man was neary killed in the melee, and the Geneva journals now apologize for the affront te the stranger, who turns out to be the may or of Brussels. ai85n
 | Genral Bixio, who was on the staff o1 Garibaldi in his early campaigns, afterwarc a general of divisition and successively g member of both houses of the Italian Parlia
 ment recently received grand testimoni Ia from Italians residing in London. At th' age of fifty the general has begun a new ; life. He has resigned his position in the army and his seat in the Senate, and en
 tered upon the career of a, merchant ship
 captain, trading with China and Japan Il his own vessel. He is the oldest of Gari baldi's generals, except. perhaps, Garibal dis son, Ricciotti.
 TIE COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY OF GREA
 BRrrA1N.-The report of the English Com missioners of Customs for the year 1870 re yeals remarkable prosperity in Englis
 trade for that year. The business of tha ? period was greater, says the London Time
 than the British or any other nation ha T ever done in the time. The imports fror ' foreign countries and British possession : abroad amounted to $1, ,515, 900. 900, nearl forty millions more than those of 186s
 The exports amounted to $1. .22O. .0OO. .0O( D nearly 35 millions more than those (