Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-06

hsnnkion is not entirely confded to the Chinese. A Brookfield lady has had goose pleasantly engaged on several eEgA. Ik h a we'll established tradition thf q goose will not remain contented on q nast unless there is gander in sight 1f IS beautiful illustration of the con6d- 1ng and loSable dependence of the sex. About the time the setting was half over, the gander in this case died. Here was a dilemma. The eggs were not far enough gone to make good goslings, and yet ratL- eE too far to make palatable omelettes She vas not able to borrow gander, and 70 she resorted to artifice. She took looking glass and placed it in front of the nest So that the goose was able to see its own reflection, and being nothing but a goose, the setting continued, and in course oftime eight fatherless goslings mournful- ly entered Brookfeld. This is not subtle argument in favor of woman's rights, but . simple statement of an honest fact D. N
 The story is told of 6 New Orleans Jus tice of the Peace who fraudulently ob- tained . large sum of money and disap- peMred- This was during the early part Of last year, and he was not heard of un- al one day last week, and then on anoth- CT charge by the same officers who were wuxking against him for the old crime. He went Co Cincinnati, and having been discovered in a forgery enlisted under a false name in the U. s. army, hoping to be quickly transferred to 8 distant neigh burh0od where detection would be unlike. y. He was transferred to New Orleans, and there, with printed description and photograph and lingering remembrance fhiB former transactions, the police had 10 trouble in effecting his arrest.
 The work of organizing the Farmers GEsnges in Missouri is being actively car Eied on. The St. Louis Democrat says thak Mr. T. R. Allen, Grand Master oi the Patrons of Husbandry, has recently completed a tour of the northern part oi the State during which he organized 6 large number of Rranges. After the com paeaicn of the work of instituting lodges in Pike and St Charles Counties which hes already been begun. every county il North Missouri wall contain at least ons regularly authorized grange, and many of them score or more. There are only twenty counties on the south side of the Miss0an River that remain to be canvass. ed, and these viii be visited by Mir. Allen III 4k& GG&EG33G HUUK0eTU ana BOuB9-c6SEeTu tour. H iM expected that before the next neeting o9tAe State Grange. which occurs ln Febuxnxy, every county in the State wl1 have the night of representation, and that there will De l, 800 granges in Miss Curi. with membership of about 75, ,OOC fMxmmRM
 A horrible accident occurred, last week, in New York. whereby Charles Board. man. Adams express messenger on the New York and Boston line, lost his life. AS is well known, the express car is de. tnehed ak the Grand Central depot, and drawn down to Center street This car started on it's wny back to the Grand Gen. krnl depot, abOuk seven o'clock, Tuesday miRhk with 1fEs Boardman standing in the dnur on the aide which WIS partly open. As the car vas passing the horse railroad erunzinz. corner of Grand and Center sAnnm a horse car came rapidly by, and Ahe ectnef Of it caught on the side of the 4xREs GIT do0x, shutting it suddenly and wiAh Eremk force. MF. B0ardman was lezminR slightly out of the car at the tine. and ths door caught him, cutting hia hand 0E no that if hung only by lit kzn akin. The unfurtunake man was about suty-nve years of age, and lived in Hart f9xd. He leaves 8 wife and two children. HA was through messenger, and was veEy popular ell along the line.