Litchfield enquirer., 1873-09-04
muscELLAMKous.

The tobacco crop in Massachusetts is likely to be large.
 Julia Hawthorn is busily at work at Dresden on 8 new novel.
 The Rev. W. H. H. Murray will lecture this year on Civilized Heather.
 The postmaster at Long Branch, last
 week, dispatched over twelve thousand
 letters.
 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is ad-
 dressing woman suffrage associations in
 New Hampshire.
 A Rochester girl of uncommon loveli- ness and folly, has had 5000 photographs of herself taken for sale.
 The ex-Empress Eugenie has reached that period of aged vanity she re- fuses to sit for her photograph. Two Italian padrones, having six boys with them, were arrested in New Haven last week, on suspicion of enslaving the boys.
 The Supreme Court of Georgia decided that the law forbidding the validity of judgment for notes whose consideration l was slaves is unconstitutional.
 It is announced that, irrespective of the amount of the dedication, the Albany Exchange Bank has an unimpaired capi- tai of $500, 900, and a surplus of $100, QUO. | A ballon that ascended at Philadelphia, recently, came down in Randolph Town ship, Burlington County, N. J., seven miles east of Egg Harbor, having travel ed 52 miles in 50 minutes. l The London papers report the latest trial and conviction of dog-thief, one John Grey, who had previously been con- v1cted nine times of the same ofense. The inevitable Sergeant Bates, wants to go up in the Graphic balloon. The ex- pertinent looks doubtful enough for one to hope he may have his wish.
 A recent regatta at Oakland; Cal, was enlivened by 8 crew of young ladies in blue uniforms whose performance in man. ! aging their boat elicited immense admira- tion.
 A gallant youth at Bridgeport has sued | an old flame for @ gold chain which he gave her, and now says he only lent. What 8 termination for Cloves young dream"
 George Francis Train says he will not come to America again until his body is brought back for burial. The news is ter rible but it is 8 relief to know the worst.
 Mir. J. F. Bird, member of Congress from New Jersey, has returned his back pay, together with the interest in part, to the United States Treasurer. The amount returned is $4, ,870.
 George William Curtis will probably resume his editorial duties on Harper's | publications next month, as he will feel sufficiently invigorated to go to work again after his summer recreation. 1 A new steam canal-boat is being built in New Haven, which is to compete for the reward of $1OO, 900 offered for the best boat invented for the purpose of canal navigation.
 One of the impostors who gull the 1 faithful out of contributions to funds for Catholic enterprises was arrested in Wa terbury, recently, and $50 winch he had | collected was recovered.
 Eighteen car loads of "spooneys," or employees in the Meriden brittania works, went to Light House point, New Haven | harbor, recently, on an excursion. A monster clam-bake was the great feature of the occasion.
 Jubal Early, who through some over sight wasn't lost with the "cause," ap- peared recently at ball at White Sul- phur Springs in his uniform of confeder- | ate gray. Davis should have been there | in his petticoats.
 It is estimated on good grounds, that there are 1000 or 6, 900 Italian children in New York city, the majority of whom are | to be found in the vicinity of Baxter, Mott and Mulberry streets, under the pa- droni, who practically own them. They come here generally from southern Italy. ald writes that Geo. G. Goodrich, a mer- chant of Westport, and constable and col lector, has been absent nearly month. and it is found that he took with him l $3 ,OO0 of the towns money. Just about this time the sportsmen in the vicinity of'Fair Haven are getting ready for wild pigeon shooting. By Sep tember the birds arrive in great numbers. The vicinity of the lighthouse grove is 8 favorite spot for sportsmen, and many hundreds of these birds are sometimes bagged there in one day.
 Professor Cressey, state veterinary sur geon, was called to pronunce upon 6 strange disease which proved fatal to the COWS in Bethlehem. He has enlightened the natives with the following: He pro- nounced the disease charbon, which is one of the anthrax levers, partaking of an cry | sipelas nature, similar to malignant pus- | jules in nan. ..,s -....-..4 l A Madison gentleman received an anon- ymous letter one recent evening, stating that surprise party" would visit his home on 8 certain evening. He was grate- 1 ful for the information and arrangements were elaborate made to receive the sur- prisers. The surprise of the family was I complete, as no one came to partake of their hospitality.
 The American restaurant at Vienna has ! closed it's doors. Messrs. Jewett & Ira l cy. who fought the battle bravely, were ] obliged to snccumb to the force of circm- stance which bad trade had brought about Every English and American ex- hibitor in Vienna deplored the loss, from the fact that it was the best place to ob- tain really good English dinner.
 Andy Johnson, having intimated that the recommendation for mercy in the case of Mrs. Surrat was never presented to him for consideration. Judge Advocate Gen. eral Holt publishes eounter-statement asserting that the President had the full | proceedings id the case and acted entirely upon his own responsibility. A Kansas paper tells the touching sto- " of an Atchison boy who saved the life of little girl with rich father from Bos- ton, and was educated and sent to 1aie and in the winning boat at the recent race. and has a tremendous future before him. Unfortunately the rich mans name does not appear in the Boston directory, nor the poor boys in the list of Yale oars | men s-.s-.aa aat. ffN~4HE Er