Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
 Yankee runs steamboat on the Gan. ges-
 Smoking is reported to be on the de cline in England.
 There are ten million crows in the United States.
 The Missouri state prision contains 91o inmates.
 Sixseen railways of England own 8,4OO locomotives. Boston arrests last year amounted to nearly 13.OOO
 The Tweed Benevolent Association med itates c change of name.
 Baltimore received to its arms Il, ,O55 immigrants last year.
 Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is suffer- ing from dropsy of the heart.
 4 Western New York restaurant provides cooked vitals" cheap.
 Fifty one persons were convicted last year of violating the postal laws.
 Four ladies are studying in the Bussey Institution of Harvard University.
 The latest ballad is "Bury your dog in the garden; it will make your grapevine grow"
 The town of Norwalk glories in the possession of twenty-two regular practis- ing lawyers.
 York, England, is to have the largest railway station in that kingdom, it cost S1, ,OOO, ,0O0
 The bell worn by Mrs. O'Leary's COW is exhibited in eighty-one different places in Chicago.
 Human hair occupies the third place in the list of largest importations into this country.
 The total amount contributed in Phila- delphia for Chicago is S263, 733, and for the Northwest. sS2, ,69s.
 Mrs. Burlington says she does wish they would hurry up and pass the silver ser vice bill in Washington.
 Forty wholesale grocery firms of Chica- go have petitioned Congress for uniform rate of duty on sugars.
 Water fit to drink is a rarity in Madrid Spain, and ice is almost impossible to ob- tain in the summer months. Mount Pleasant, Iowa, bred and educat- ed the first woman lawyer ever admitted to the bar in the United States.
 I'm police made New Years calls on four of the principal faro banks of Boston, snd did not leave any cards.
 The ChicOpee manufacturing company saf Mm=na~.hrneak4e hom sx,rk Aaa1oaol o s,,,os sannal dividend of 9 per cent The Unitarian church at Montreal raised by subscription, one Sunday recently, S500 for the Chicago Unitarian churches. \ Missouri gentleman trying the bene- Gts Of moonlight walk, last week, was sAOt for buck by an amateur sportsman. | young Indianian proposed" to six TOzng ladies just for fun, and was consid- sEahey annoyed by being accepted by all of them
 A stylish Boston rOwdy, who insulted 8 ks4y and knocked down her escort, has hegun the new year with a sentence of two @Oaths in jail AIh&zy Is crowded with politicians and H& nDw centre of interest Horace Gree 1<y ls theEe and occupies the room Tweed kad l&zt winter.
 And BOW the recently married Olive To- E12 p1hlizhes letter abandoning the wo- m@a s1arage party because unclean hands lave been laid upon it.
 Mr~> Burlington tells of minister who eAd served the Lord for thirty years, srss @s clrcHs-rider, then as a locust preacher, and Last Ss an exhauster.
 Hartford has furnished eleven bishops to the Episcopal Church from clergymen wk0 have been rectors of Hartford church. sSs and Boston has furnished nine.
 AyOung lady who had many admirers $@Oag the limbs of the law, on being ask sd how she escaped heart-whole, suppos- p4 It w2s Owing t0 the fact thatin 'sa null tEt1de of c0anselors there is safety" General Lees birthday is January 19, sa3 the occasion will be celebrated al Lexington, Va, by his family and friends, Ills old Lle1teaant-G General Jubal Early wln deliver memorial address as part oi the scae@nitieS
 The records of the Freedman's bank in Washington indicate pretty well what the Eegg0 ss capable of with fair chance. Five years ago this bank started with Q deTAcsst of $27s but the gradual increase eaZpsiled an increase in the facilities oi the bank, and the number of depositors soS raages from 1sO to 200 daily, and S1khlA a month recently the deposits were S@AUs0 an excess of the drafts.
 STATE ITEMS.
 The Rev. D. Marble, Episcopal clergy . E1n a1 NeUtOwn, while in his yard. fell 2EA AR.aEA ah.. >u...ll l.-... :.. |. l-', -