Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-20
m,scELlANEous.


 Cincinnati has debt of about 4,OOO,
 The latest wedding cards are very long and narrow.
 Bethel, Me, expects soon to have 3O,- OoO sugar-maple trees on tap.
 Iowa is skipping dressed poultry, pre- served Tn ice, direct to England.
 The salary of the Governor of Indiana has been raised from &, 900 to $S,0OO. American ladies are said to be among the most conspicuous gamblers at Mona
 A bill providing for state constitution al convention has passed the New Jersey senate.
 Ut is proposed to add the nice sum of $l5O, 900 to the annual allowance of the Prince of Wales.
 During the pork-packing season, now closing, Chicago has killed and packed over 300. 900 hogs.
 The increase of miners wages in Scot land has resulted in a marked increase in the number of marriages.
 Doctor Alfred E. Walker killed himself at the New Haven house, on the 9th. He was young physician of uncommon promise.
 The University of Zurich has no female students this session-81 in medicine, l in jurisprudence, and 28 in philoso- phy.
 A woman servant has served family m TeTe Haute, Ind, for thirty three con- secutive years, and has $1 100 in the bank to show for it.
 M. De Rosenthal, the celebrated chess player, played 28 games of chess .simulta- neOusly with as many of the best players in Paris and won all but two.
 The Houston CTexas) "Union" says that more cattle have perished in that state this season by cold and starvation than in any former season of cold weather.
 Col. J. W. Knowlton, late of the Bridge port Standard, gave complimentary din- ner to his former associates and employees at the Atlantic House, on the 9th.
 The family of the late Dr. Lowell Ma son have presented to the theological de- partment of Yale valuable library, rela- ting principally to sacred music. General Sherman and Admiral Porter are quoted as admitting that Miss Winnie Ream's plaster cast of Admiral Farragut is the best likeness in the collection.
 Photographic rates are far cheaper in the old world than with us, yet the unthank- fnl Europeans are not satisfied with the privileges which they enjoy in this re- spect.
 The principal democratic paper of St. Louis renews the charges of bribery against Senator Bogy, and asserts that new evidence of great weight has been forwarded to the legislature.
 A beautiful engine, made by the Nor walk iron works, has been selected by the United States commissioner to run the American machinery at the Vienna expo sition.
 Among other nacessaries furnished to the residents of the aims house il Bridge port, during the past winter, are enumer- ated three barrels of whiskey and ten bar rels of cider.
 Charlotte l.. Ames, widow of the late Horatio Ames, has sued William H. Bar mum, of Salisbury, for $62 2500, and Oakes and. Oliver Ames, of North Easton, Mass, for S59, ,OOO, money which is claimed as due the estate of her late husband.
 A rumor IS current and credited ill in- fiusntial quarters, that our Gov. Jewell will be the New England cabinet repre- sentative in event of MT. Boutwell's de- parture. The navy or postoffice portfolios are specially designated for the Governor.
 The Michigan legislature has before it joint resolution for the submission to the people at the election of 1874 of con- stitutional amendment making the free vote part of the organic law of the state. The success of minority representation in Illinois has led to this.
 The following figures are from the Brit ish Foreign Secretary's report to Parlia- ment, being the average daily rate paid to mechanics, after being reduced to our money Austria, $1 Belgium, 60 cents; France, $1. 10; Denmark, 60 cents; Italy, 40 cents; Northerlands, 75 cents; Nofway, 60 cents; Sicily, 30 cents; Portugal, 40 cents; Prussia, 75 cents; Sweden, 20 cents; Switzerland, 60 cents.
 The Baltimore American says:-Some excitement was caused at Lyric Hall on several nights last week by the curious performances of a spiritual medium, who places her hand on piano that weighed eight hunded pounds and on which six stout men were seated, when the piano and those upon it were lifted from the floor. The miracle was, however, cooled by young man who was not a medium sitting down by the piano and putting his hand on it and at the same time raising it with his knee. The skeptics declared that he had done the trick just as the me- dium had done it, but the believers in the supernatural protested that this could not be the case.