Litchfield enquirer., 1873-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. Van Cott is reviving Omaha.
 St. Louis proposes to erect a monument to Daniel O Cornell
 Samuel c. Cobb has accepted the nom- nation for Mayor of Boston.
 It is stated that large gold discoveries have been made in Alaska.
 Mrs. Lenowens has been featuring with much success in Chicago. t eo Fourteen inches of snow fell in some parts of northern Michigan few days ago.
 Mir. Amasa Sprague, of the firm of A. < W. Sprague, was married last week to his cousin. -",It Vermont butter in the market last week brought, twenty five to thirty five cents & pound. 5.sr-ro9 Mir. Wendell Phillips has prepared new lecture on the past, present and fu- ture of the colored race. .
 In consequence of the Chinese troubles at North Adams, Mass, fourteen of the Celestials left for San Francisco last week. '. .5s 1 It is estimated that only about third of the members of the lower branch of the Massachusetts legislature are friendly to prohibition.
 Hapworth Is going to be allowed to lsc- ture at Princeton Vtce Gerald Massy, whose inidelity regarding the devil will not pass muster there. 1@af3 ntriT
 Archbishop Purcell has launched an official anathema maranatha on the pub l lio l if r. n6 ko tee is much exorclsed in spirit thereby.
 James B. Lucas, the wealthiest citizen of St. Louis, Mo-, died of paralysis on Sunday night. The property of the de- ceased is estimated to be worth eight or ten million of dollars. L. .i
 The Lebanon (Ky.) Standard" reports the birth of child in Taylor county. with a we'll developed chignon, of hard, feshy substance, on the back of it's head This is an early attempt at fashion. sdI
 If there's eer gentleman of the name McCallan in County Armagh, Ireland, who's in want of an ancestor he is inform ed that 8 person of that same name died lately in South Carolina leaving aEA un- claimed estate of $100,O00. a3 O
 The Aulick will case of Washington, l wherein an attempt was made to ot1st the widow of one of the Aulick sons from her share of the estate by charging $23, 900 'board and sundries" has been dismissed by the court. 'E r2l.-
 The Dr. Brindley who followed Charles Bradlaugh to this country, to eounteract and deny his arguments, and who died in hospital in New York, really died from disappointment and the suffering caused by the satire he received. '--s"-
 Twenty. three years ago, John McDon- ough left three million dollars for the maintenance of free schools in Baltimore and New Orleans, all but $25, 900 of which has been used up in litigation about his will. -"'
 A pleasant story is told of the escape of an insane man Monday from an Asylum in Taunton, Mass. He has registered VOWS to kill his brother and his former physician. Until he is recaptured they are not likely to feel thoroughly at sase.
 A young man of Franklin, Mass, re- gently set trap in the top of q. tall tree, and was rewarded by catching an eagle meaur1ng seven feet six and one-hak inches from tip to tip. This is the fourth eagle that has been caaght in the aame tree within the last two years. .1 5o
 Miss Maggie Unmack, of Lawrence, Mas, suddenly, and without sickness, ut terly lost her voice about six months ago. Last Sunday evening, while she was read ing by kerosene lamp 1t exploded. She screamed, and from that time on her voice has had it's old strength. r..-F1..
 : The chief signal officer is said in point of fact to be Colonel Myers and not Gen. ! I Hou hoo fn sign himself and to be called. z The secre- tary has lately notified him thnt he has no right to sign himself general. ', The taste for probabilities has to he restrain ed
 A Miss Gordon of Cleveland, Ohio, had a grand wedding, last week, Wednesday, in that city. The was married to the Count De William, of Belgium. The altar of the church bioomed on the occasion with six thousand dollars worth of How- CTS. The parents of the principal par ties made up joint purse of $50O, coo as wedding present. 4d La4H
 The miners at the west heading of the central shaft of the Hoosac tunnel came across vein of soft, decomposed mlca7 slate and soapstone, last week. They have worked about fifty feet of it, and as vet have not found its limit. The tunnel through this vein has to be timbeled as the work proceeds, and will afterward be arched with brick. aF 5Z8a sl
 The floating bar-room on Lake Cham plain having been burned by some tenn perance people, it is found that neither the laws of New York nor Vermont can touch them, any more than they Gould touch the owners of the bar-roof1 for sell l inO Iinnor Now the Ronhaakor. fExnreaa wants to know if somebody will tell whether it is necessarily poor rule that doesn't work both ways.