Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Pope is much better.
 Yellow fever is raging in Yucatan.
 Russia proposes to lay q railroad across Asia
 The trial of William M. Tweed is again postponed.
 Georgia has not single Republican newspaper.
 The epizOOtic has again made its ap- Pearanee in Brooklyn
 A valuable silver mine has been discov- near Milwaukee.
 The mailing of honey-bees has been forbidden by the Assistant Postmaster General
 General Farnsworth's s'back pay has been s~iSSt~a Ly tho ~isiHonH of Eano county. HI
 i disastrous confagratiOn in which 300 houses were destroyed, is reported from COnstantirople.
 The Massachusetts, house has passed the HOOsac tunnel bill, giving the man. agement to the State
 The New Jersey annual Episcopal con- ventiOn. at Burlington. has finally resolv- cd tO divide the diocese.
 Three persons killed and 2 large num- beT wounded were the casualties at the Derby day races III England.
 The reduction in the public debt for the present month will be small, owing to the large expenditures.
 Dartmouth College is said to receive Sl0,O0O, and Wilberforce University, O., S6,OOO. by the will of the late Chief Jus tiee Chase.
 It is now definitely settled that the long contemplated project of canal between the North Sea and the Baltic is to be car. ried out.
 The Rev. Dr. Paddock has accepted the bishOpric of the diocese of Massachu- sets, to which he was elected.
 Orders for postal cards received at the Post Office Department, aggregate 24, ,OOO,- oO0. About 5000. 900 have thus far been to pOstmasters.
 Gov. HaTtranft, of Pennsylvania, vetoed eighty six bills, and at his request over 1OO were recalled and put in less objec- G1uaaASac sa-ax,o.
 The number of persons killed in the streets of London during the past five years by vehicles and horses has been 5sS; maimed or injured, 7,494
 At Clinton, Iowa, lately, Mrs. Scott Sid dons was not allowed to give a.reading in the church, because the lady was for ner1y an actress on the stage"
 Judge Origen s. Seymour has sent to Gov. LngersOn the announcement of the approaching legal end of his judicial of flee by reason of his age, his roth birth day occurring next winter.
 LAST ILLNESS OF MR. MrLL-Dr. Cur ncy writes from Nice to London paper: MT. John Stuart Mill was in fair health and good spirits up to the time of his at- tack of erysipelas, which rapidly ran its fatal course m the short space of four days This disease IS endemic in the low lying clay ground about Avignon. He knew the situation was not healthy. but purchased the house and grounds only be- canSe they were close to the cemetery where his wife was buried fifteen years agu. and m order that he might spend as much of his time as possible near her tomb. The house, moreover, was densely surrounded by trees, which he would not allow to be touched, lest the nightingales aboundlng in that neighborhood should quit the spot The avenue under the shade of which he composed and studied was filled with these birds. and SO tame %sre they that, when I paced up and down between my visits to his bedside. tbev followed me from tree to tree. MT. Milf suffered but little, except in swallowino and from the heat and weight of the enor. nous swelling, which by the time I ar rived from Nice had already spread over his face and neck; and yet he learnt from me on my arrival the fatal nature of the attack with calmness and resignation. His expressed desire that he might not 0utlive his mental faculties, or suffer fr0Ia long. wasting disease, was gratifed, for his great intellect remained clear to the last moment His wish that his funer- al might be quite quiet and simple, as, indeed. his every wish, was attended to by has loving step daughter with devoted solicltnde. The funeral took place in the simplest fashion, the French doctor, the Protestant pastor and myself alone being present with the family. Prayer was of. iered mp at the grave, and most touch 1ng address was given by the pastor. Then the eeAutiful tomb of his wife was opened and he was placed by the side of her he loved so we'll.