Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-26
MlscELLARE ous.

Father Burke is expected to revisit AmGKiea next month.
 The secretary of War, General Belknap, has returned to Washington.
 Ch0leEa has advanced from Poland into two border villages of West Prussia.
 Ex-Prexidenk Johnson is announced as candidate for the GOvernorship of Ten nezsee.
 GeoEge L. Darlington of New Haven, has purchased Earl's hotel at Waterbury, for $2S.Oo0.
 Gov. Jewell has decided to take his large collection of rare and valuable paint IzgS Co Rassia with him.
 The average Delaware fruit-grower, as usual. talks hesitatingIy about the i'm Pedinens Tn his peach.
 Professors LoOmis and Norton. of Yale CoElege. have been elected members of the National Academy of Science.
 4 Philadelphia bar-keeper has contrib uted S9.O00 of prize won by him in the Havana Lottery to the funds of an inebri- ate asylum
 Professor Clark Seelye. of Amherst, has been invited to assume the presidency of the Smith College for women, to be estab- Ezhed at Northampton.
 Some miscreants have lately been ray aging the Collinsyiile cemetery, Overturn- ing and breaking monuments. tearing up the shrubs and flowers, and otherwise dis playing their vandalism
 An Atlanta, Ga. Court has declared that .'the authorities of the city are per sOazIly amenable to the law for the sani- taFy condition thereof"
 In 1S4S Frederick H. Camp and Han- nah ". Hunt of New Milford were united m matrimoay by the Rev. Johnson How and They lived happily together until little over a year ago, when the bride, after having been married twenty-three yeAr& obtained a divorce from her hus- hand on the ground of intolerable cruelty. They lived separately until Sunday, June 1ss. when they were again married. MT. Camp is hfty-two years of age and Mrs. Camp f9ty-three.-Register.
 A mysterious disease affiicts some of the COWS in certain portions of the state. Three animals have died in Griswold from it. the past week, while East Berlin has had several cases of the same kind. lately. The deaths in some instances have occurred after only 24 hours of sick Hess. and no clew to the cause has been obtained, although Dr. Cressy, the yeter- mary surgeon, thinks it is carbon or an- thFsx fever. A singular case was that of Durham COW, which, after running wild Y up and down the street, frothing at the mouth, suddenly fell into the fence and died. Several eases of fpleuro-pneumonia have occurred among the cattle at Middle town, and one diseased animal was killed. last week, m the presence of legislative committee.
 PORTRAIT OF CoNaoDoRE ALEXANDER GnL0S.-The Chapber of Commerce of Charleston, South Carolina, on the 31st of April last passed a resolution authoriz- lng their president ''to procure a copy of the portrait of Commodore Alexander Gilaon the founder and first President of the Chamber which portrait is now in possession of his granddaughter. Mrs. G. H. Hollister of Stratford, Conn
 The original portrait, painted by Gil eeEt Staarts about the year 17S1, repre- sentR the Commodore Tn full naval dress. end Ss said by artists to be one of the best of Stuaxfs pictures, especially in cos tame and flesh coloring, and the artistic wo<kmanship has been thought superior % 9hAS ut the Washington at Hartford. Certainly 1t is an excellent rendering of a gentleman of the Revolutionary days, and ss in perfect preservation. Y- a
 ur. Calvin Curtiss was commissioned te make the proposed copy, and it has n0w been on exhibition at his studio ir Bridgeport for . few days, where it has elicited much commendation not only as 6 work of art in iEself, but as asuccessful copy of tho style 0f Stuart The flesh col oEing and the minute details of the naval costume arc as closely rendered as could he done after the lapse of ninety years, and the original likenes Is preserved with a mdeller highly characteristic of Mr. Cur 1iA His many friends will find in the ex. senf.on of this difficult task new testi- snomlnl to the rare ability of our native artask = Bridgeport Sgandcrd.