Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
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1 INSTANTANEOUS.
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 There are at present 400 students oi sVassar College.
 Photography is to be taught in the Girls High School in Boston.
 Last year the amount of the Peabody fund appropriated to Tennessee was $25-60O. = .ss
 At Canton, Maine, one factory works 5O0 cord of poplar wood into tooth picks ina year. =.
 All sorts of people go to Beecher's church. In Plymouth church. last Sun- day, lady had her pocket picked of six teen dOllars.esd sa9n4arss.E s. os ad hsaa a9
 The Christian of Work answers ., . f,nerv ,s as to the true posture for prayer in this wise: Fhe only posture to be avoided is tmposHtnre H a . $ IG
 The big book, jointly produced by Marx Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. entitled ''The Golden Age" is nearly
 Jane Nixon fell from one of the suspend- ing irons during the spectacular play at aNiblo's heatre, last week, and was fatally injured by the fall. l.1-o1z . " ' - ' = 7. 7. , The nominations of several ladies for membership on the Boston School Com m1ttee has been received, if not with en- thusiasm, yet with great deal of favor.
 Miss Rosa Sands, one of the bellies of Washington, and daughter of Admiral Sands, has entered a convent, whereat society at the capitol is greatly shocked.
 The freight business of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad has increased largely during the last month, and especially since the close of the Erie canal. It is now as heavy as at this time q year ago. - =, ..I ...--.
 Fernando Wood continues the acknowl- edged leader of the democrats of the house. He has had the honor of giving the first reception of the season for the purpose of introducing new members to the old. aya s3s' -s a.4 '5 s-
 A Hendricks Go. husband went for his wifesa boiled cider while was at church, and got keg of lye by mistake. Then he had to eat five pounds of lard as an antidote, and now he feels like soap mine.
 A New Haven prophet gives the Spring field Republican the, probable result of the next election in this state as ''the re- election of Governor Ingersoll, and the choice of Wm. H. Barnuna for Senator Buckingham's successor. -..
 A colored preacher, in translating to his hearers the sentence, 'The harvest is over, the season is ended, and thy soul is not sayed," put it: ."De corn has been cribbed, dare aint any more work, and de debbil is foolin' wid dis community"
 6The exciting news of the past few weeks has had marked effect upon the foreign mails. Last week there were sent to Flu rope from New York one hundred and twenty-four sacks of letters and two hun dred and ffty-one sacks of newspapers. The letters to England alone were 67,- 92O.
 Ayoung man in Indiana sues his father for loaned money, which his father claims was his own property. The fathers coun- sel, in st1naming up the case of his client, remarked: 'Twice has this prodigal re- turned to the fathers house; twice has he been received with open arms; twice for him has the fatted calf been killed, and now he comes back and wants the old cow." ot n
 Some of the country papers in Vermont make heroic attempts to be independent, but they do it at their peril, and few there be that can survive the effort. -The Pim- pleville Post Phebus, what a name! but it is real, lately announced boldly that s"Those who have lately been engaged in sheep stealing had better stand from un- der. We know whom we are talking about" Thereupon The Pimpleville Post lost sixty subscribers and was forced into bankruptcy.
 An inebriate some little while back go- ing into 0 tramway car in Glasgow, and became very troublesome and annoying to the other passengers, so much so that it was proposed to eject him; but kind hearted and reverend doctor, who was also 6 passenger, interposed for him, and soothed him into good behavior for the remainder of the journey. | Before 1eav- ing, however, he scowled upon the other occupants and muttered some words of contempt, but shook hands warmly with the doctor and said, Good day, my frind see you ken what it to be drunk.
 MT. W. W. Moves, a Mystic pedagogue, spent his Thanksgiving vacation in blast ing logs. One log baffled two efforts, and he put in a heavier charge of powder and touched the fuse, which proved to be i'm perfect, communicating immediately with the powder MT. Moves, with quick de- liberation leaped into the air and by the time he descended the log was split and the danger over. Had he attempted 10 run, no doubt he would have been hit by portions of the log, which flew in all di- rections except upward.6j.I f2H.
 The Liberal party in the national house of representatives will makeu no nomina- tions for the various offices to be filled to- day. There is only one of him General Henry Bonaparte Banning of the lid dis trict of Ohio. He has six organs-the New York Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Louisville o Oourier4J Journal, Cincinnati Commercial, Springfield Republican, and the Indianapolis Sentenel. By their com bined efforts during the last campaign they succeeded in electing this one repre- sentative out of 2O2. This is what the Sem tinel alluded to Saturday, when speaking of the necessity of the most constant to come together, and build up from modest beginnings the framework of final re- damption. But, then, Banning is far from modest. t.-India,aapolis Journal.
 The Troy Whig says concerning Gerrit Smiths declaration that the Roman Cath olics are rising against State education |: '.Mr. Smith has made an egregious mis- take in matter of fact. The great body of Roman Catholics have not risen up against common schools. They do not complain of oppression. They do not de- sire to have separate and sectarian or de- nominational schools. Mir. Smith has heard no comp plnint from the Roman Cath olics.3 He heard complaints from some bishops aud priests, who are desirous of bringing their congregations all under their own instruction. But the bishops and priests are not all agreed on this sub
 iect. Some of the most learned and most
 influential of them are in favor of the common schools. and declare their halief