Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Strauss is said to be the richest musical composer living. California Englishmen pay $40 per dog. for pheasants' eggs.
 The damage by late floods in Alabama will reach $5. 100000.
 The notorious ''Dutch Heinrichs" has gone crazy at Sing Sing.
 There are counts and lords enough at Newport to set Saratoga crazy.
 A California girl is worth $500, 900, saved mostly from gambling ventures. Cbief Justice Chase has been visiting the Hon. Wm. B. Lawrence at Newport. Three thousand passengers left New York for Europe by Saturdays steamers. Lager beer is the fashionable drink at Long Branch, this season, for both sexes. Gen. Roger A. Pryor is added to the notable arrivals at tWhite Sulphur Springs.
 The late heavy rains have damaged the wheat crop in Illinois, but not seriously. A sixteen thousand dollar residence is being built for Rev. Robert Collyer, in Chicago.
 A physician of standing, one Dr. Taft, has been arrested in Newark for case of alleged malpractice.
 Jay Cooke is credited with having set up financially no Less than thirteen cler- gymen.
 One young lady at Saratoga has four new dresses sent her every week from town.
 Mrs. Moulton, the well known vocalist. arrived from Europe, Wednesday, in the China.
 Bishop Whittingham has been invited to attend the Liberal Catholic Conven- tion shortly to be held at Munich.
 The Hon. o. M. Ingerson and family of New Haven sailed for New York from Liverpool, last week. One hundred persons, mostly children. were buried in the Hartford cemetry with in the week ending July 18th.
 Horace Greeley is a Universalist; h9 goes for universal amnesty in the next world as well as in this. a@ The Erie directors have chosen General A. 5. Diven general manager of the Erie railroad, new office. l Madame Peschka Leutner was the daughter of a cigar vender, and was in childhood street singer. John G. Saxe continues to manufacture verses for ladies on the balcony of Con- gress Hall, Saratoga.
 A snob at Saratoga has his room fur nished at one of the leading hotels with furniture imported from Paris.
 The sweet corn canning factory at South Paris, Me, will put up 25O,0OO cans against SC, 900 last year. Some Vermont farmers are cutting hay from their pastures, the growth of grass has been so fine this season. The son of the Mayor of Salt Lake City was killed, on Wednesday, by the pre- mature discharge of pistol.
 The graduates of Amherst College in Boston and vicinity gave dinner to the winning Amherst crew in Boston, Friday. No more buildings are to be erected in Yeddo, Japan, till the government has de- cided on animproved style of architecture. The house of Ralph Waldo Emerson. at Concord, Mass, was burned, Wednes- day forenoon. Loss $5,OOO;. insured $3,OOO.
 The government of Japan forbids the sale of land to foreigners or the borrow ing ot money from foreigners on landed security. x-Postmaster-G General A. w. Randall ! died, Thursday last, at his residence in Elmira, N. r., after protracted illness. He was ffty-three years of age. The wife of Henry Hyman died at AL bany, Thursday, from the effects of a SUD- posed beating by her husband. She was sixty years of age. s Mrs. Mckinney, young married wo- man who shot William Cummings dead recently at Petaluma, Gal, for slandering her, has been admitted to bailin $2O, 900. Miss Annie News, the young lady who graduated at Michigan University, at the head of class of eighty-six students, IS going to practice medicine in Newport. The surface near the Baltimore Shaft of the Wilkesbarre mine, Scranton, Penn., caved in, Monday morning, swallowing up a house occupied by two families, and burying two little girls alive. The mine was idle.
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