Litchfield enquirer., 1871-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Of the 6, ,731 arrests made by the Boston police for the past three months, 2,726 I were for drunkenness.
 Eggs at 16 to 20 cents dozen are much cheaper than beef at 30 to 40, and the peo. pie are beginning to realize it.
 Col Albert Pike, of Arkansas, has been the editor and proprietor of not less than twenty-five different newspap CTS. two. thirds of which he boasts of killing.
 It estimated that over $6s5, ,OOO, 900 and l,600, 900 people are employed in the liquor traffic of Great Britain.
 Erial navigation is not likely to be pop. ular immediately, if it is true, as stated, that out of sixty.seven balloons sent out from Paris during the seige, each contain. ing two persons, nearly half were never heard from.
 John Kendrick is reported as saying if the Democrats of his district like the fun of defeating their own candidate, he will give them enough of it for some years to come. Es
 The English House of Lords again stops the way. It has, by 97 votes against T. rejected the motion for the second reading of the bill legalizing marriage with @ de- ceased wife's sister, thus reversing the yer. dict of the House of Commons.
 Those who hold that croquet is vicious. leading to checkers, from thence to back. gammon, and from thence to cards and tigerish faro, will rejoice to know-under the head of "warnings"-that daughter of Mayor Belden, of Galesburg, H., broke her arm while playing croquet, on Thurs day last, being thrown to the ground by catching her foot in an arch.
 The Pan Mau Gazette, the model of cor rectness of diction and accuracy of expres- sion, in describing an Alpine accident. says of some guides who escaped, that ''the rope snapped just below them. and couple of eminent members of the club, an ear. nest American, three guides and four DOT. ters were hurried into eternity, cdyrvino isuidh them rope ladders. ics-aees and provi sions." s e.'
 -b.}i A lady of Springfield. H., writes that member of Che Legislature from Chicago was 90 lost the other day to sense of the ordinary decencies of life as to stand in Iii, place in the House, face the gallery, filled with ladies, and with whisksy bottle ir his hand and grotesque bow to the gale ries, toss into his mouth portion of tht bottles contents.
 The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says that the known opposition to the heresy of ne - gro suffrage on the part of the Northern Democracy, was the strongest liRament that bound the South to that organization i and that it feels it to be it's duty to wafr the leaders of that party everywhere against the danger they will incur by cutting that ligament in twain.
 . n'e" Frank Blair's speech appears to have been very satisfactory to the republicans ir Congress. ! A special says: "It made votes for an effective Ku Kiux bill, and that il what few Republican speeches thus ia, have done
 k~ Gavazzi breaches Professionalism in Rome and times and manners have so mucl Y changed that ha is allowed to do so unim peded. Thirty years ago George Borrow was bothered when distributing Protestan Bibles in Spain, and now thousands of Ri bles are exposed for sale all over tha country" ss
 Four-hfths of all the Republican mem bers of the Missouri Legislature hay, ,aigned aA appeal for the union of the part, in that State, saying: "We further earnest ly implore all Republicans in the State t i ..s lay aside the past and look to the future asa to act as one party against the unholy an, ss dangerous schems and policies of the De mocracy." 33 3 sa
 The house of Samuel Curtis, Bristol, wa struck by lightning on Tuesduy evening saThs electric fluid went through nearl every room in the house. tearing paper o the walls, overturning furniture, an
 breaking windows, but without iniurin
 the family, who had retired.