Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

There are 66, UOU tefmanS 1n Iowa. Joaquin Miller goes to. South America.
 Eugenie is wrinkling and turning gray. A Creole lady edits New Orleans pa- per. Nilsson will return to Europe in the spring. Washington society is divided on eun- I durango. Spanish endorsements are on their way to Cuba.
 The tobacco factories of this country number 1,032.
 Peat at $S.5o ton is the popular fuel I in Minnesota No one has been lynched in Indiana for over week.
 It is New York fashion to intone the marriage service.
 The press is to be put under further re- striction in France.
 A Mormon fold of 90 has sprung up in New Providence, Ind. ] Three hours and a half are the average for Nebraska courtships. A hackman in California found $40 and 1 returned it to it's ownerl
 Sunday evening receptions are the fash ion now in New York city.
 Five immigrant swindlers are where Tweed ought to be in New York.
 Three hundred inhabitants of Iowa City have signed the temperance pledge.
 The Bank of England bullion has de- creased $20, 1000 during the week just past.
 Miss Cousins has become a asister-in-law. by being admitted to the Arkansas bar. Two hundred pounds of pure honey was taken from one tree in Australia re- gently. s l.GE. :s.,
 Chicago has had four mad dogs within two days. The result of the recent cold snap. a-..--~ The latest reports from the west an- nounce renewed snow blockades on the Pacific road
 John O. Calhoun's plantation in South Carolina has been bought by wealthy colored man. 0
 Alexis has presented Madame Parepa- Rosa with a bracelet studded with fT1r- quoise and diamonds. b.
 The number of students in all the da- partments at Harvard college is 2lO below that of last year.
 A New Jersey burglar was killed bv A spring gun, last week.
 Three car loads of Japanese and Chinese silks valued at $2, ,OOO, 900 were sent east ard %Hn0 a rNrs and Japanese teas on the 27th ult. lsse
 Kate Kearney, Mississippi steamboat. sank at Island No. 82, last week. e
 The Airline railroad has already cost 6, ,5O0, 900, and $1 300, 900 more is said to be necessary for it's completion.
 There were five suicides reported bv telegraph as occurring the day after Christmas. The reaction was too great.
 United Ethiopians at Kentucky Christ- mas festival killed an unwelcome white man who insulted one of their party.
 James H. Hackett, the great comedian and impersonator of the character of Fal- staff. died at Jamaica, l.. l., Thursday.
 A Liverpool banker burning waste, pa- pers turned $7,O00 of Bank of Encland notes into ashes in fit of absentminded- ness.
 Last week Philadelphia exported o61, 643 gallons of petroleum. The total ex. port for the year is 54,545, ,1O4 Qallons. a gain of, 4, ,OO0, 900 gallons over last years supply.
 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad has so many locomotives and cara that if placed in Q continuous line khev would reach distance of twenty miles.
 TIE RED-coATs IN CoNcoRp. They stood, accordingly, a little in front of the door by the well-curb, and soon they saw heavy cloud of dust, from amidst which shone bayonets; and anon, e military band, which had hitherto been silent. struck up, with drum and fife to which the tramp of thousand feet fell in re0u- lar order; then came the column, moving massively, and the red-coats who seemed somewhat wearied by long night-march, dusty, with bedraggled gaiters, covered with sweat which had run down from their powdered locks. Nevertheless, these rud- dy, lusty EngEshmen, marched st0utly, as men that needed only ahalf- f-hour's1est good breakfast, and a pot of beerapiece, to make them ready to face the world. ] Nor did their faces look anywise rancor- ous; but at most, only heavy, cloddish, l good d-natured, and humane. asB b '
 70 heavens, Mir. FeltonY whispered Rose, why should We shoot these men, or they usq they look kind, if homely.
 Each Of them has q mother and sisters,
 suppose, just like our mem | ss1t is the strangest thing in the world that we can think of killing them, said lSeptinains. sHuman life is so precious. :. 1l --Frops Hascsh0ggsess ( Septfnatss kstton, iss tss s1anasayv Atfantic.