Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
anan has inst seen it's first baseball

MISCELLANEOUS IsEWSs
 Japan has just seen ifs first base-Dan match,
 A dog 22 years old has just died in BOs- ton. faa 4TsH
 Beer saloons in. Amherst, Mass, sell only cider now.
 Jonesboro, Illinois, shipped S,6OO,Sz4 pounds of fruit last year. a. 98bs59 Boston has just imported g $1O,OOO diamond, weighing 12f carats.
 The Governor of Pennsylvania granted ! sixty rardons last year. ss8 .E
 The Maine Methodist church owns .$1,- | COG, 900 worth of property.
 A man in Kingston, N. Y., sold his wife four years for four dollars. In northern Indiana there are thlrty-on churches without pastors. ghs The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise have gone to the continent.
 Chicago packed 919, ,197 hogs last yeRr and Cincinnati packed 5O6, ,O66.
 Horses are dying of an urezplainable epidemic in ArOostook, Maine A Massachusetts company sold over $5OO, 900 worth of suspenders last year In Dover and Foxcraft, Maine towns, the best beef sells for 5 cents pound.
 Emerson is staying. with Sumner in Washington.
 Boston had forty-two bank meetings 1 on the 2d.
 Hay sells for $1OO a ton in Virginia City, | Nevada.
 earth to him is Niagara.
 A herd of nineteen elk was seen ill Glencoe, Wisconsin, last week.
 There were 3O5 murders in New York city last year, but nobody was hung.
 Ten thousand men are employed in Michigan lumber camps this season.
 Licensed dogs in Boston brought $1O,- O47 to the treasury in Boston during 1871.
 Utahists think that the probabilities are strong that B. Young will not B. hung.
 The ice on the upper thousand miles of the Mississippi Riveris fifteen inches thick.
 Minister Washburne has gone from Paris to the Nile in search of better health. An isolated Illinois town is called Ophir because it is a lodge in vast wilderness.
 Cleveland, O., has twelve men whose combined wealth is estimated at $32, ,0O0,- GOO.
 Four or five more outrages upon chil- dren were committed Thursday and Fri day.
 L been unusually brisk for the past three months.
 The week of quiet in Mexico has ex- pired. It was due to an interruption of dispatches. The Great Republic, that sailed from San Francisco Saturday, took $1,O76, GOO . , to China. Two counties of Pennsylvania have no 2 churches in them of any denomination whatever.
 A New York bank messenger was robbed of $11 ,O0O while in the Central National bank last week.
 I Miss Nilsson will carry away profit of about $200, 900 as the result of her soiourn in America.
 The Boston police last year restored $71, 151 worth of stolen property to it's owners.
 The radicals have just carried seventeen elections made in France to fill vacancies in the assembly.
 l The New York grand jury has indicted twelve election inspectors of the sixth ward for fraudulent practices. sf-
 The Harpers are said to be strong Methodists, while the Appletons, their great rivals. are sturdy Episcopalians. l Duke Alexis gave Lydia Thompson, the blonde actress, an amethyst and diamond bracelet worth 5000, while in St. Louis. MT. G. B. Lockett of Georgia is describ- ed as the largest planter of the south. His size IS not stated. Nine thousand suckers (fish) were talk en at one haul in the Delaware river near Frenchtown last week.
 The hay crop of Maine has heretofore averaged 1,O00. GOO tons of hay This year the supply is only 487, 900 tons. f..s
 A New York company is discussing breaking the freight monopoly by line to travel on the ice of the Hudson river.
 The records of New York city show that no persons were found drowned in the East and North rivers last year. 'J sf-
 Iron sectional light drafts barges have been tried by St. Louis firms this year and found very serviceable for Mississip- pi navigation.
 Spotted Tail, |" the eminent savage. has been requested to accompany Alexis in the joys of the coming buffalo sacrifice on the plains.
 Those who buy tombstones of us look with pride and satisfaction on the Qravea of their friends, is the advertisement of western stone cutter. G 7
 The Journal of Paris praises the Amer can people for their liberal donations of food, clothing and money to the war suf- ferers of France.
 The commissioner of public works in New York, last week, discharged eioht enn- ployes, making a saving to the city of $163, 700 per year in salaries. A sentimental youth out walking. whore marked to his fair companion that ssCows. looked so motherly," was tempted to change the subject when she said they would naturally look so to calf. A dedication has been discovered in ) the Fourth National Bank of Proyidence ] which may sweep away its surplus of $50. 900. The Cashier and Teller are alleced to be the guilty persons. -S From an article in the Hartford Times on the democatic State convention, we learn that in spite of having ''positively declined" ex-Governor English is to be the candidate this spring, and will be run in the character of distinguished victim, suffering from the ''monstrous wrorp'' of