Litchfield enquirer., 1871-01-26
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Illinois has 1,733 idiots and 2,3S7 luna. tics. $ kAA&g6H tE
 Philadelphias contains over four hun- dred churches. ar ttse
 New Orleans raised $6.OOO by tax on dogs last year. ss asfAo-
 Cotton was first planted in the United States in 1759. 4Ilo
 The lumbermen in Manistee. Michigan. are cutting 1000, 900 feet of logs per day.
 The District of Columbia is running lively opposition to Indiana on diyorces.
 There are "A, 900 doctors in the United States, or one doctor to 518 inhabitants. In 1860 there was one doctor to 572 peo- pie. a4' ea 2.
 The town of Harwich, on Cape Cod, rais- ed 4,084 barrels of cranberries last year, and sold them for $46, 900.
 Kansas will pay it's outstanding debt. amounting to $239, during the month, and will still have large balance in the Treas ury. 9oe ..,....-.'
 The growth of Philadelphia in the last decade, according to the second census, is. precisely that of Cincinnati
 Sixty-six per cent. of the population of Chicago have no religious belief, according to reie ious paper published tlere.
 The average daily attendance in the pub lie schools of Ohio last year was ASA, 1885, There were 20, O,O0O more boys than girls.
 There is a great deal of excitement lin Nova Scotia as to the alleged discovery of not I0T1F 1.atT oH0 olS
 Bret Harte, according to San Francisco letter, IS to take up his residence in Boston. and write, exclusively for The Aaantic.
 Gen. Anderson, of Fort sumpter fame. is in such delicate health that his friends feel alarmed about it.
 Kansas has but $239, 1000 of outstanding debt, which will be paid during the month, and leave "a considerable balance in the Treasury.
 Sir Edward Landseer is such miserable health thet he has relinquished his brush and easel forever.
 The Siamese twins are worth $2O0, ,OOO. Each has an equal undivided half interest in the fortune.
 Mark Twain receives $2400 year for be- ing periodically funny in. IAe Galaxy.
 Olive Logan has bought house in West Ninth street, New York. for $20.000.
 The corn crop of the United States for 1870 was ], 100000 bushels, a gain over last year of more than five bushels to the aero. The hop crop is little over 2O,OOO- 900 lbs, fifteen per cent. less than that of 1869. K
 A loaded team, crossing the Connecticut river, last week. went through the ice. The driver barely saved his life, the horses, wagon and freight being lost.
 There are 500 and have been 2, 500 Scho fields in Stamford, says the Stamford Ad- 0ocdFe. sesB &4
 A girl employed at the Bridgeport Car fridge works, wounded her finger. lately. and died of lock-jaw.
 The Cromwell brown-stone quarry di- vides 10 per cent. earnings of the last 9 months.
 The keeper of New Haven saloon seiz- cd fellow who attempted to take her pocket-book, and held him till the police came and arrested him.
 A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Legislature making the seller of intoxica- ting liquors responsible for the damage done by intoxicated persons to whom liquor was sold, releasing the owner of the prem ises on which the liquor was sold from re- sponsibility.
 A thief recently went through the house Of Gov. Warmoth of Louisiana. and among other ''loot" captured Q portion of the Goyernor'a message to the legislature, in consequence of which it was not delivered upon the assembling of that body.
 Miss Garrett, the heroine of 43,OOO ma. iority as member of the London School Board. is but twenty -four or twenty-five years old, is about the middle height, has a graceful figure. ga soft low voice." taste. full dress, and, altogether, is a neat, trim, and prepossessing young doctor, who brings sunshine into the sick room. A nondescript animal, more nearly re. sembling wild cat than any other class, that has for several years been foraging a. mong the lambs and chickens in the south. ern part of Southbridge, was captured a few days since by MT. Schuyler Dodge of Woodstock, Ct, who shot it after it had been dragging trap around day or two fastened 10 one leg, It was four feet and five inches in length, and apparently very old.
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