Litchfield enquirer., 1871-11-30
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 Cider is being imported from England.
 Acorn soup is . new dish at Cincinnati.
 There are 7bs lawyers in Boston.
 Oalifornia's vintage this year was worth $2,5O0. 900.
 A canal is to be conslructed from Berlin to Dresden.
 Nashville. Tenn:, has over two hundred opium. eaters.
 Four girls in Iowa aggregate fifty years and LIT pounds.
 St. Paul, Minn., boasts of twenty.six thousand population now.
 The Tribune nominates MT. Oswald Ct. tendorfer for Mayor of New York.
 Brigands render southern Italy rather unhealthy for travellers this season. South Carolina has less sewing machines at work than any State in the Union.
 An Iowa girl, aged seventeen. beat all the boys and got the equestrian prize at the fair.
 The Palestine Central Railroad is about to become reality, and an American is to blame for it.
 Samuel Newby, l06 years old, is running for constable in Seymour, Ind. He is Quaker and Democrat.
 The Government proposes to spend SI.. coo. 900 for land and s, 900. 900 for buill- ings at Chicago.
 Lieut.. Gov O. J. Dunn, of Louisiana. died. last week. of congestion of the lungs. Snow is three or four feet deep in the mining camps in. Utah. and the weather is erycold ' ], The Supreme Court of Illinois has re- fused to admit Miss Alta Huiett. law student, to the bar, on account of her sex.
 Horse thieves Tn Michigan are doing thriving business by stealing horses and swimming them across Detroit river to Canada.
 The Taylor and the Rensorth crews row. ed for the championship of the Tyue, last :. week, and the Taylor crew won by three lengths.
 In Fond dn Lac, Wis. there is man who is almost, literally ''as broad us he is long" He is but five feet and half high. and weighs four hundred and thirty-fve pounds. '
 The Galveston News states that the ship. ment of preserved beef from Texas is steadily increasing. It is sent to Liver pool, Hamburg and other ports in Europe us well as to tha North. - NIT. ThOmas J. UnPant has been ap- pointed to the place from which MT, Ga leb Cushing has resigned, as United States ko hoforo fhn Gnopioh olai,,no oo,, mission. i
 The books of record of Wayne county. Mich. which were captured by the British with Detroit in 1912, have just been re- turned to the country from Canada, where they were kept for fifty nine years.
 h one county in California there is an apiary of two thousand bee hives The Californians have been very successful in importing Italian bees, which have thus farproved to b6 the best honey makers.
 Tue New York Citizen-as Democratic paper-says that since the defeat of Tam. many of its adherents. have gone to work at their old trades. and that the de- mand for "jemmies" and skeleton keys has gone.
 Complete returns of the vote for Cover. nor in Maryland, nearly all being official, give the following results 1: For Jacob Tome, Republican, 58.8 .824 Wm. Pinkney Whyte. Democrat, 73.959: Democratic majority, 15, 135.
 Sir Richard Wallace. on English mil honaife, IS building an extensive hospital in Paris for his conntrymen, at a cost of SAC, 0,OO0, and will defray the cost of main. taining it. estimated at $30, 900 annually.
 On the banks of the Little and Big Manistee river. in Michigan. there are trees enough to furnish 4, ,500, ,O00 feet of lumber. Efforts will be made this winter to cnt and draw 5O0O0O feet.
 Mrs. Ada Fitz. wife of Mr. John Fitz of East Salisbury, had tooth extracted short time since against the advice of her physician, and soon after she was taken with convnlsions. of which she died.
 The condition of the Sacred College at Rome is becoming more and more critical daily. Twelve of it's members-cardinals are invalided by ago or various com- plaints, and only thirty -four remain to form O conclave.
 The prospects are now very favorable for the selection of the San Francisco route as that for the Australian mail on it's way to England. The Point de Galles and Snez canal route is bidding against us in this matter.
 A man was caught in & cave in Nevada Gnlch by a sudden fall of earth some two weeks since. and laid there five and half days without food and with his legs, hips and ribs broken. He came ont alive, aud means to remain 80. 0 Y York, by an accident lost the use of his left eye. On Saturday night the police found Mir. Fallon in the street in per. fectly helpless condition, he having sud. denly, while walking, lost the use of his right eye, and become totally blind A movement is in progress in Texas having for it's object the erection of monument to the memory of Deaf Smith. the celebrated spy, who contributed so much py his endurance and bravery to se cure the independence ofTexas.
 The New Orleans Times (Democratic). speaking of the late elections, observes: National Democracy. as it has been for some time organized. receives it's coup de grace. Almost the only stay aud hope of tne party has been swept from under it. by tue general result in the State of New York"
 Tue Chicago base balPciub has formally disbanded. Last Saturday they met. and the treasurer gave up $750, after which the club gave up the ghost Their report shoss the disbursements of the year to be So0 0OO. and. the receipts $33, 900. The estimated loss by the fire Is S2O,OOO.
 The Chicago Tribune suggests that the