Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS THEME.

A charitable Cincinnati man keeps a pair of dogs chained at his front door, so that poor people who stop to ''get bite'' can be accommodated without taking the trouble to go in the house.
 That man out west who is always doing surprising things recently sent an order to Chicago for piano. and soon after wrote the dealers that he and his wife couldn't find the place to wind it up, and they want. ed to be told at once how to make things go.
 The Lincoln monument, at Springfield, ILL, will cost $152, 75O, not including the statuary in the corners of the pedestal. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars have already been raised, and the statue o1 MT. Lincoln has been begun at Chicopee, Mass.
 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided that, if man puts his head or arm through car window, and is injured by coming in contact with something which reaches close to the window, he cannot re. cover for the injury, the act being consid. cred negligence on the part of the passen. ger.
 A colored barber was admitted to the bar m Nashville Tenn, on Wednesday last. and on Thursday made his first appeal as a counsel for negro charged with murder. His name is Nelson Walker, and he is the drst colored lawyer practicing in the crim- inal Court of Nashville.
 The Woman's Journal, published in f3os. ton, is an able champion of female suffrage and free from the offensive assaults on mar riage which characterize some other organs of the cause. It is certainly worth reading and as it has recently enlarged its form, is, we presume, achieving that degree of pros per1ty which its very great ability should command.-Palladi
 From all parts of the South there is a strong demand for labor. Planters are se- curing all the available labor in their re- spective districts. This shows that the planters are far from being discouraged, and that the whole laboring force of the South IS likely to be fully employed dur ing the present season. While many plant. CTS are holding out for O reduction in wa. ges, others are paying last years rates.
 A committee of 150 ladies, many of them representing the best and wealthiest fam. lilies in North Attleborough, have for several months past been persistently working for the closing up of the rum-shops in that town. Their visits to the dealers and their appeals have been fruitless. and they now announce thorough change O, programme. They propose to exchange turf for stones. and test the result.
 The democrats of the fourth district vii meet in Bridgeport on the 9th of February to choose nominee for Congress. The re pubhcans have not yet sounded their call but their convention will not be much later It is Q subject of importance with politi cians, but appears to be of precious littl interest to other people. MT. Barnum. th present incumbent, democrat, stoutlv de clines a re nomination and there is n pros pect that his preference will be respected In this case Danbury may properly furnisl the man. as the nomination is due it. an, James s. Taylor is talked of. Brideepor hos twice in succession furnished the re publican nominee, and some other plac will do it this time. Norwalk alone i mentioned, presenting Byington. But VI arc inclined to think Danbury will put i, lts claim, but with what success remains t be seen.-Dan. Ne,ps.
 The strong minded ladies held A mea. ing as their headquarters in the Capitol Q, the 10th inst, and a new Declaration o independence which they have just fulmi gated, was signed by Mrs. Dreamer. s;sta of President Grant; Mrs. Gov. Jewell. o Connecticut; Mrs. Coy. McCook, of Color 60, and other distinguished ladies. Mr. President Grant sent message savin, that she was unavoidably detained fror Deing present. but that her heart was wit mem and she wished them much success, den. Butler says: ''It is bound to come and we may as well go for it now as an tme"-C0r. N F. Times.
 It will be remembered by many that remarkable case was before our Suprem eOart some i've years since, Q case in whic WKs. Sarah s. Sherwood. of Greenfiel