Litchfield enquirer., 1873-09-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
 The apple crop of Vermont is almost a failure.
 Barnum gathered in almost $7O,OOO while at Chicago.
 Money is worth 33 per cent at the bank in Dallas, Texas. ...
 One LafEerty has fatally stabbed West Haven saloon keeper. The Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting closed on the 1st. A Meriden negro is in jail for outraging young white girl Hon. Greene Kendrick, of Waterbury, died at that place, recently.
 It is stated that the rinderpest has again appeared at Shanghai, China.
 Theodore Hilton is to assume the edit orship of the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Ex-senator Revels, of Mississippi, has become President of Alcorn University is that State.
 Big Hill Joe, Chief of the Osages, re- ceived a ten years education in a Catho- lie college.
 The Duke of Manchester and party of English tourists have arrived in Salt Lake.
 A single firm in Boston has imported nearly 1000 cases of wine within six 1 weeks.
 Whittier is entertaining Senator Sum- ner and Longfellow at his house in Ames- bury, Mass.
 The best time made at the New Haven canoe race, was two miles in 21 :65. Henry o. Pardee of New Haven, had. his fine team stolen from Chapel street, last week.
 The Italian boys recently cared for in New Haven will be returned to their pa- rents in New York. Benjamin Silliman, IT,, of New Haven. who has been abroad three years, returned last week.
 l Walt Whitman is recovering from his paralytic stroke, and expects soon to be entirely well again. South Chicago has just found out that
 
 nor write English.
 Burlington, Vt, has five steam saw mills with capacity of saving 5000, 900 to 10, 900, 900 feet of lumber monthly.
 The Mormon emissaries in Europe are making most headway at present in the Scandinavian countries. There was very severe hail storm in f6o ck ookp kn- bacco, breaking windows, &c.
 Connecticut takes fourteen medals at the Vienna Exposition. The Seth Thom- as Clock Go. has honorable mention. Immediate action will be taken on the report of District Attorney Wharton on the Kuklux outrages in central Ken, lucky.
 A Bridgeport town meeting, last week, voted to refund to liquor sellers the amounts the town has received from them for licenses.
 The Courant estimates the tobacco crop of the Connecticut Valley as decid- edly below average. Considerable dam age has been done by recent storms.
 The French citizens of Louisville, cele- ebrated Wednesday night, the anniversa- ry of the establishment of the French Re- public under President Thiers.
 The Rev. Newman Hall, the famous pastor of Surry chapel, London, arrived ;n New York on Wednesday by the steam ship Java. -+. ne-r A great-great- -great-granddaughtef of King Phillip the Indian chief of early New-England fame, died recently at Lan- caster, New Hampshire. The women of Wetzel county, West Vir- ginia, have formed 8 grange to prevent their husbands visiting the grass widows in that section.
 Miss Emily Faithful contemplates es- tablishing an Industrial Bureau in Lon don to provide employment for women, in connection with institutions of similar character in New York and Chicago.
 The great social event of the season at Newport occurred, last week, in the mar riage of Charles D. Gregory, the million aire of Jersey City, to Miss Fannie, daugh- ter of J. Marion Sims of New York.
 The Pope has written a letter to the Comte de Chambord, congratulating him on the fusion of the Bourbons, in which he says that God has listened to the pray CTS of the Catholic world, and that the hydra of revolution is on the eve of de- struction. .~..5 ..- It is said that Secretary Richardson will, in his first report to congress, recom- mend the repeal of the law allowing the secretary of the treasury to reissue ct his discretion any part of the forty-four mil lions legal tender reserve.
 
 George Fill met with Q serious scci- dent while out gunning on Sunday last. While in the act of loading his gun, and after one barrel was loaded, he care1essly rammed down thechaEge of theo eotheRbaareI and by some means the loaded one went of, tearing of the thumb and two fingers of his right hand and the thumb of his 1net ho01 EEvJ1o TSf7rrso nc.~-,a TEa~s6RST