Litchfield enquirer., 1872-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

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 Girls in Sing Sing smoke on the streets.
 Thurlowwe is very sick in New York, Parisians are tanning zebras by electric ity.. G@ 'A'''i>A A.- - 2 1.'1 Sleighing is excellent in Franklin county, Maine. S. .-... srrcH bg8 q Stokes will be tried again on the second of December. =
 The dropsy is declining among the New York horses. .aa
 Two thousand Roumanian Jews are com ing to New York. .'-@5E1 New York had a report Tuesday that St. Louis had taken fire. e risssY
 Worcester, Mass, owes about two and half million dollars.
 Counterfeit coupons on the Pacific rail road bonds have been circulated in New York. ..--. ......- ......s.., Amadeus the king, is improving in health, and will be well soon unless signs fail, s- Gregori Peri, the Chicago murderer, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. -..s The Havana steamer Columbia has been seized in New York for smuggling cigars. San Francisco has sent one hundred and thirty cargoes of wheat to England since July.
 One hundred thousand cabbages and twenty-five tons of horse-radish were rais- dd this year in Cape Elizabeth, Me.
 In New York, Mondays registered letter seized on suspicion of smuggling. The recent excitement about woman dentist in Berlin, is nothing really new. There were seventeen in England as far back as 1859. -..... Lake Cochituate of Boston has gained three inches and the Bradlee basin has lost fourteen inches in height since the beginning of the fire. In and about Prague the Jews have been so personally abused by the Czechs that the police have had to interfere to preserve order and life. Ten thousand dollars worth of lace shawls were seized in New York, Monday. They belonged to Henry Decker who is suspected of smuggling. A five hundred acre reservoir in Putnam county, New York, is to be made to in- crease the facilities of New York city in case of need.
 Cuban shareholders feel certain of the perpetuation of their right to continue the practice. They have spent $500, 900 at Madrid in the cause.
 Tuesday verdict was granted for $114,- 246 damages, with interest, against the Camden and Amboy railroad company of New Jersey. The suit has been in court for four years.
 It has been discovered that an Iowa boy who had a mania for glass breaking has father whose business is setting glass panes. There seems to be amethod in the madness.
 The efforts of the New Haven, Bridge port and Norwich firemen at the Boston I fire are warmly commended by the Bos- | ton press.
 Two COWS in Chesterfield have, during five months, furnished an average of thir- teen pounds of butter week on pasture feeding.
 Agrocery wagon in New Britain is drawn by patient, docile looking COW, harness ed into the shafts precisely as horse is harnessed, bit in her mouth and driven by reins. MT. s. H. Scranton, late superintendent of the Shore Line railroad, has accepted similar position on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad, at 8 salary of $1O,O ,OOO year.
 A friepdless girl who was given shelter l ill house in Providence, Sunday night, robbed the lady who took care of her, of ten dollars. The judge fined her twenty dollars, and send her to the reform school.
 There is scarcely a manufacturing town in theState that does not suffer more or less from the Boston fire, by the destruc- tion of goods stored in that city or the | failure of firms indebted to Connecticut manufacturers.
 Last year at Chicago there were receiv- ed 1,2O0, ,O00,0OO feet of lumber, besides lath'and shingles, worth altogether about l $20, ,OO0, 900. The whole would have filled 8 train of cars six hundred miles long. This helps answer the question how our forests disapperar.
 The coroner's inquest into the death of Abiiah Ellis, of Boston, whose body was found dismembered and floating in two barrels in the Charles river, has resulted in charging the murder upon Leavitt AL ley, and he has been fully committed for | trial.
 The great London fire consumed 13, 900 houses. After it was over the opportuni- ty was improved to straighten the streets which had been very crooked and so mar | TOW that actually ill some places parties stories in the upper could shake hands across the street.
 The Chicago grain elevator men during l the recent examination of stock on hand, are said to have had false bottoms put in 8 number of their bins, only few feet from the top, and covered them with grain, and they were then measured as full making difference of many thous- | aud bushels.
 From the Salisbury News ,-
 bio Dewis having successfully demon strated that he can live at an average cost of 54 cents week, has started a newspa- per.
 Some one wondering why so many cir GUS steeds were wintered at New Milford. Danbury man kindly explained that it was near the Hoss tonic.
 It seems odd enough to see Democrat who voted for Greeley particular about the the quality of eggs, but that phenom- enon was witnessed in a Danbury store, Friday.
 They tell of western boy who was fool ing on stump, and fell off, cutting his throat with knife ne held in his hahd. Mir. Greeley had no knife in his hand, however. s. .. The reason Mir. Greeley is called the
 ''Later Franklin" is not because he ex- isted subsequent to Benjamin, but be- cause electricity is ahead of it's report. You see Benjamin caught lightning, but