Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

/. The fuctuation of gold in 1871 was 2 per cent.
 The champion cat of the London show is 5000 luxury.
 Helena, Arkansas, is reported as nearly destroyed. 4T
 The trains on the Pacific railroad are sixteen days over-snow.
 Ex-SenatoR Grimes, of Iowa, died Thursday at Burlington.
 The Auburn shoe factories make over LOGO pairs of shoes per hour.
 One in every twenty-four of Cincinnati's population cannot read nor write.
 Yale has decided to enter the rowing association of American colleges.
 The ship British Admiral has been lost Tn the Pacific. Crew saved.
 The Rhode Island state prison cleared profit of q, 794 last year.
 An Oakum factory has just been started in Joshuatown district, Lyme.
 The Chicago Post says that the Missis- sippi river is "unpracticable" below Cairo.
 A woman supports herself in luxury in Marysville, Ohio. by driving dray.
 Seven million eight hundred thousand cigars were manufactured in Troy last year.
 A serious boiler explosion took place at Lancaster, Mass.
 A destructive fire has occurred in Scran- ton.
 Several persons were injured by an ac- c1dent on the Erie Railroad, last week.
 An Episcopal church has been burned in Covington, Ky.
 Henry Hepner murdered his son in Grand St., New York, last week.
 The temperance bill in the Missouri legislature has been defeated.
 A motion to quash the indictment against Stokes was denied on Thursday.
 A notorious sneak thief was caught in New Yosk. Friday.
 Another raid was made, last week, on the illicit whisky distilleries in Brooklyn.
 An Orphan Asylum was burned at James. vile, Ky, last week.
 Alexis explored the Mammoth Cave, last week.
 The Mariposa (Cal.) estate was sold last week for half a million.
 Cassius M. Clay opposes the renomi- nation of Grant.
 Arizona people are much troubled with raids from Sonora.
 A lady was killed in Providence. Satur- day, by fall on the ice.
 The case of Tweed has been postponed in Albany, and he will probably take his seat in the Senate.
 The Japanese party, numbering 1O6 persons, left San Francisco for the East on Thursday of last week.
 The weather has been intensely cold in the North West, many persons being fro zen to death. Christian Lean shot and killed himself, Friday, at his wife's grave in a cemetry at San Francisco.
 Gov. Campbell of Wyoming Territory was married in Washington, Friday even ing
 There were seven hundred deaths from the smallpox in the city of Mexico, in January.
 The general tone of the Canada press is very mild on the Alabama claim question.
 Many mechanics in Waterbury are out of work, and business is said to be un- usually dull.
 There were nineteen deaths from small pox in Chicago last week, and the disease is spreading.
 A Woman Suffrage Convention was held in Boston, last week, at which Wm. Lloyd Garrison denounced free love and Mrs. Woodruff.
 Charles P. Kelly, cashier in the freight department of the Hartford and Erie Rail road in Boston, hanged himself on Tues day of last week.
 There is rumor that the suits against Tweed, Connolly, and others, will be set tied by their payment of several millions into the city treasury.
 A Nevada lover tried iinsuccessfully to shoot his reluctant inamorata, recently. He then did decidedly better thing by killing himself.
 Two ladies were drowned while trying to cross the Ohio river on the ice to Gin cinnati, Sunday evening. < The Iowa republican papers are nearly unanimous in pressing the claims of Hon. James F. Wilson for Vice President of the republican ticket.
 Eight persons were frozen to death last Saturday within fifteen miles of Sionx City, Iowa. About six hundred cattle perished at the same time.
 Members of the ways and means com mittee express hope of being able to re- port small bill in the course of fort night. It will cover the items of whiskey and tobacco, and perhaps still others.
 San Francisco gambling houses are un- der cloud. The keepers of the few that are still in operation blind the uninitiated by hanging out the sign of ''To Let"
 ABoston post office clerk named Mar shal 8. P. Lows, has confessed. to mail robbery and letter opening to the amount of about $30, 900, all done in three years.
 There is large amount of indignation at Charleston, s. O., against a colored hangman. He has been shot at by would be executioners three times, and has been expelled from a fire company.
 The Kansas legislature is pushing the of the alleged corruption in the senatorial elections with vigor. The testimony shows that the charges are not without foundation.
 The Naugatuck railroad company have offered to build branch road from Sey- mour to Woodbury in case $50, 900 can be raised from the towns through which it passes. The estimated cost of the road is $200, ,000.
 e A veteran tobacco chewer, of Walling- ford recently sold twenty-one pounds of tin foil to an artisan. His friends are anxious to learn what the tobacco cost that was in the twentv-one ano,,nds of