Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
Eugenie is going to Vienna.

Eugenie IS going to Vienna.
 Corn sells for $15 ton in Buffalo, and hay at $30.
 They are experimenting with female horse-car conductors in Savannah.
 A sword fish weighing 600 pounds was caught, recently, off Block Island.
 The total debt of the the District of Columbia is reckoned at $17, ,0O0, 900,
 England raised 16,OOO,OOO bushels of wheat century ago-now 100, ,OOO, 900 a | year.
 Euchre players are the only parties al- lowed to ''pass" on the Union Pacific Rail- way now. A measure has been adopted by the Ohio constitutional convention making | 5000 the minimum salary of supreme court judges of the state. The Colonial Government of Queens land, Australia, offer free passage to l ,O00 skilled laborers from Great Britain. At the Boston conference Judge Hoar re- | ferred to Butler as the "Tichborne claim ant in Massachusetts politics.
 Rev. MT. McCune, Presbyterian clergy man of Cincinnati, thinks this exempting of church property from taxation is all nonsense, besides being unjust.
 lowing to the death of the editor there won't be any leader Tuesday," says a 1 Wisconsin paper, "but look out for an old ripper on Wednesday,"
 A. M. Bailey, who keeps meat market in that section of Waterbury known as Brooklyn, went away. last week and has not been seen or heard from since | that time.
 Thirty lady taxpayers and property | holders of San Francisco have formed a league, and resolved to pay no taxes un- til they shall be recognized as citizens.
 The barn and outbuildings of James M. Babcock, in Vernon, were consumed by fire resulting from stroke of hght- ming in severe storm Saturday evening.
 Mrs. Mary Barnard, 57 years old, moth CT of A. J. Barnard, of Barnard, Son & Co.,, of Waterbury, hung herself from a 1 beam in the hack kitchen of her residence.
 Several members of the New Haven lodges of OdI Fellows went to Rocky Point, recently as guests of the Provi dence brethren, and feasted on baked clans.
 The son of Deputy Sheriff William Dib- ble was drowned while bathing in Granby, last week. He was a good swim mer, but got caught in 8 lot of pond | lilies.
 The Rev. Mir. Hawes, the gentleman re- gently called from Philadelphia to take the pastorate of the North church in New Haven, has accepted the call and will be settled over the church next month. The ratio of republican members who have returned their back pay is one in | five; the ratio among the democrats is one in twelve The statements in local pa- pers, in many districts, that the back pay | of members has been returned, do not agree with the books of Treasurer Spin ner.
 Ida Lewis, the quondam Newport hero- inc, failing to find haven of rest in the ings, by the aid of a divorce, and will once more paddle her own canoe. We learn that Gen. Butler, who con- pines in himself number of lucrative av- ocations, has secured the contract for | furnishing granite for the new govern ment building at Hartford. It is under stood that he is indebted for it, not, as might be supposed, to Gen. Hawley's in' l fuence, but-to the lowness of his bid.
 The Charleston, s. O., News and Court CT (dem. ), in an editorial leader, has the grace to acknowledge that free common schools are blessings, and that South Car olina is indepted to the republican party for establishing these institutions, and even admits that they were founded with the bitterest opposition of democrats and conservatives. Now they have fresh grievance in Massachusetts. Butler emissaries, wolves in sheep's clohing, are prowling around among Good Templar lodges in quest of votes. Under guise of zealous devotion to the cause of temperance, these unprinci- pied men actually make Butler speeches and artfully exhort their guileless audi tors to go to thecaucuses and vote the But i Ter ticket. These proceedings indicate a depth of moral depravity at which the mind shudders.