Litchfield enquirer., 1872-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Bazine's trial is progressing at Paris.
 Deer and foxes are quite pl--l,---. 1.r- Cod.
 Free schools are to be established in Melbourne, Australia.
 Mark Twain will contribute to Tom Hoods Comic Almanac for 1873.
 Barnum has bought stocking breeding farm of 30, 900 acres in Colorado.
 In October San Francisco shipped to England $1 ,633, 900 worth of wheat
 General Banks's Salt River expedition IS said to be greater success than his trip up the Red river was.
 The chief of a private detective organi-. zation at Chicago has sued the Times of that city for $2O, ,0OO damages.
 If Washington wealthy member of the New York avenue church has given $4, 900 for the purchase of. an organ.
 Rheims and Vitry le Franeais, the last two towns in Marne that the Germans held, have just been evacuated by them.
 The white inhabitants of the Fiji islands are in quarrel with the natives, which is thought likely to lead to serious complica- tions. A Chinese editor in San Francisco is named Sum Punk, His relatives, though not of the aristocracy, can justly call themselves Sum Punk-kins. An exchange alluding to the peculiar changes wrought by the horse disease, says :-"The milkmen now depend entire ly upon oxen.
 Some genius has been heard to say that pillows, though not belonging to the hu- man species, come under the head of ra- | tianol beings. A hard-shsn democrat of Oxford, in this state. who couldn't go Greeley and wanted Give issues," deposited his ballot for Andrew Jackson. The consumption of postage stamps in this country IS enormous. During the present year 520, ,O0O, 900 have been made to satisfy the regular demand A liquor seller in Oseo, H., has paid | $1, ,0O0 rather than risk suit for the death of one of his customers, who fell out of a wagon while drunk and was killed.
 A terrible hurricane on Tuesday des- troyed half the town of Palazzolo, in Brescia. Thirty-two persons were killed by falling walls, and one thousand fami- lies have no homes.
 The $3O0, ,OOO in gold and silver that went down in the burning China at Hong Kong has been recovered. The heat of the fire was so intense that the two metals were run into one great mixed and melted mass.
 At Mason City, West Virginia, last week, pair of horses attached to a wag- on, taking fright, rushed of the bows of 8 ferry boat into the river. The driver manfully sat at his post and steered them ashore.
 1 The population of the earth is about l 1,377, ,OO0, 900, the number of square miles l amounting to 2, ,426, ,50O. Europe has 3O1. 60O,0 inhabitants with IFS, 13O square miles; Asia, 704, ,000, 900 to 796. .OO4 square miles; Australia and Polynesia, 4,365, 900 to 161 ,1O5 square miles; Africa, 192, ,52O,- O09 to 543, ,570 square miles; and America, 84, ,524, 900 to TAT, ,6SO.
 A woman tried to get out of Cincin- natl horse car some time ago, before the Epizootic began to rage, but the driver started before she had made good her departure. Her dress caught on the step and she was thrown down. The company have been ordered to pay g, 800 and after an appeal the judgment was sustained.
 A San Francisco despatch says:-'"Tht
 Brotherton brothers, under sentence fo
 forgery; man named Riley, and anothe } prisoner, 'bucked' and gagged the jailor l put pistol at his head, and threatened t' : kill him if he gave any alarm. They thel [ scaled the walls and escaped. Officer were soon in pursuit. Sheriff Adam l offers $4 800 reward for the recapture O
 the Brotherton brothers.