Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

@xR&& and sorrows seem
 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
 Tkanew jail at Bridgeport has saved the eoGnAy $S00 since it was occupied.
 They were cutting ice nineteen inches thick oa the river at Hartford, Tuesday. The owl train ran over and killed an unkn0wn man near Stamford the other night
 The Brookfeld road will soon erect at D&nhury, passenger, freight and engine houses.
 The receipts at the oratorio in Hartford oa Thursday night, were between 5000 and S4O00
 Over 7,O00,O 600 bushels of coal have been shipped South during the present rise of the river. from Pittsburg.
 A eOlored baby was born on a train on the Connecticut Western between Bloom feld and Sim<bury on the 26th ult
 A raid was made on the liquor sellers of UneasvIlle, Thursday. 18th, the liquors seE,cd. and the offenders held for trial. Judging from the admission of new vo- tsrx. New Haven claims she has increased in pOpal@tiOn 1, $40 the past two years. Joseph whittle was badly torn bylions, yesterday, while performing at a circus in Rr@nkf0rd, Pa He is not expected to live.
 Gen. B F. Butler appears as counsel for the New Haven woman who has sued ReSck POnerOy for breach of promise of @&xxsagG. An old lady Tn MoOdus, whose son got e@gea for evil doing, said they were ssgo- l1g to ge4 him clear on a writ of cholera SseFSW&"
 Mn> Jasper TalcOtt, of Norwich, was h@1ly scalaed, Thursday night, by theex- PAo@na of a bottle of water which she was Asaf1ngoa stove.
 Ch4r1ss Bell, deaf young man, while eRo@1lg the railroAd bridge at New Lon- 11A. Friday night, was struck by the sA1rs Ene train and fatally injured.
 A1ecA&nic in WIIlimantic, sixty-nine years of age. during his sixty-seventh yeMr, w0Eked over SO0 days, and walked n gC<ng to and from his work over 900 wSle&A
 The fall sSaOO6. the share due from Sp<ing6e1 tOw1rd the completion of the kAxZ1ngeOa Valley railroad from Tariff vile to SpringGelI has now been sub scnbed
 TAese clear, balmy, moonlight nights azH cHktng down our young people like sAsep Twenty eight couples went under s4 cae sitting. Sunday evening. Dan- ery New&
 WE. Greeley writes to 8 gentleman in NoEwlcA: ssI hear you raise a small fruit called qaAhA1g& I wish you would send nc so@e seed or few slips, as I would hke t0 try them in the spring"
 If iz announced that Lord LisQar. Gov eE1or-G General of Canada, will shortly be sHeceeded by the Earl of Dufferin, now CAAnesllOr of the Duchy of Lancaster.
 There were about three hundred thou eaMd pounds of tobacco grown in .Eas haadnm m 1871, which sold for about $s4vu0s an average of twenty-four cent. per pound through for the entire crop.
 A New Haven villain hired two respec table German girls in New York, last wSek and brought them to q New Haven n@ase of lIi fame. They refused to yield t0 either threats or bribes and informed sgAinst him.
 la reference to the statement that Sen. tar McCure. of Pennsylvania, would at tend the Cincinnati Convention, he said yesterday to several Senators that he had never authorized the statement that he would attend the Convention. Herman F. Jones, a shoemaker, aged twenty-five, entered a store in Lynn MeaA-, yesterday, and bargained for a re volvers requesting the proprietor to loaG tnree chambers that he might try it. H, tnea took the pistol, said ssgood-bye. and instantly shot himself through tht
 411IoRtunes never come singly. Ed ward Rodney of Monroe, lost his barn b, nrs last tal- Two months later his horse vas injured so that it had to be killed soon after he lost several hundred poundi od tobacco by storm unroofng the shei 1n which it was stored, and now his wife, mother has come to stay. with him. .-Dan bGvy Nesrs.
 PUxxLRD.-An ignorant, conceited fel low got aboard 6 steamer on Lake Hu Fon. Alter standing on deck awhile among the crowd, and seeing the captail approach, he inquired:
 sWhAt is the name of this lake?"
 The Lake Huron, answered the cap tnin.
 'I want to know what lake I'm on Whats it's name?'
 ssWel1, sir, ]" said the captain. ssthe lak yQnire on is Lake Huron Docs that sai isty youg"
 Inc crowd were now smiling quit amdlhly, and the man walked on mutter ing low to himself:
 The lake I'm on is the lake I'm on That's . polite captain, that is. D
 OnCuzsrAxCEs ALTER CAsEs-Maio, - (we are not at liberty to give hi namel belonged tOa Confederate regiment and considered himself crack shot. Ir the coarse of one of the iiercest battles ot fhe var, Major suddenly found him ssn within about fifteen paces of Fed. sH.A 0eneral, who was fighting hard and -1nan@ e0nzidarable mischief. ssI fired S4se s..nse at that General" says Enc and each time took deiiberate - - = ny .asonishment, not one o DeEne a charmed lie. N. io,ss. naav' as'n
 1" happened to be in Gt F .o,s;s so an4 was introduced to d d;stsr..;oIn: n;or.. =: poMnmnn of Missouri, and sE ones -. M1zed the man whom he had thrica fa;iss. " hEng down on the batfIe-f -feld. I'll Tb
 n9.mned politician vas General Fran 1n!E H is hardly necessary to say. .tha the 4s5or did not attempt to remind Ger ennl 1aAix of the Httle incident of thei 1za9 nsssting. 7 ''