Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
Psrepa-Rosa is still in Ecxnt,

Parepa-R Rosa is still in Egypt. Jeff Davis is said to have plenty O money.
 Pea-picking time is at hand in Savan nah. Perry, democrat, has been elected may or of Oswego by 76 majority. The New York senate, by a vote of tc l5, has refused to declare Tweed's seat vacant.
 Snow to the depth of sixteen feet on the level is reported in vicinity of Bear Lake, Utah.
 England imports 658, ,OO0 GOO eggs year. ly from France, and pays about $6, ,250, OO0 for them.
 The price of coal in England recently advanced two dollars ton within twenty four hours.
 The Marquis of Butte is reported to con- template an American tour during the coming summer.
 A girl sixteen years of age has carried the mails over thirty-four miles of Iowa road three times week all winter. A young girl at Fortoille, New York, in Saratoga county, died last week from the effect of swallowing hair pin.
 The Rig Veda, Sanhita and Pada texts, as edited by Professor Max Muller. will shortly appear, in four octave volumes of 400 pages each.
 The enormous wealth of the Duke of Sutherland is likely to be.greatly increased by the discovery of valuable coal mines on his Scottish estates.
 Boston has been able to take care of her needy citizens without aid from without The donations from Detroit and Milwau- kee have been returned.
 The Pacific mail investigation was a failure, although the belief prevails that if more time and thoroughness had been used there would have been some start ling disclosures.
 Two large steamers, well provisioned, are drifting about Lake Michigan in the pack ice. It is feared they will go to pieces in the breaking up of the ice, and the early and severe spring storms.
 The Pennsylvania constitutional con- vention has adopted section making women of twenty-on years or over eligi- ble to any office of control or management under the school law of the State.
 An exchange says: ''That unfortunate set of men known as Washington's body servants is thinned out so rapidly by death of late, that it is feared not more En~ L 11e A1 ko1~ part in the centennial celebration
 The proprietor of the Montreal Witness is under commitment for libel for permit ting the publication of @ temperance dia- tribe against gentleman who had wine on his table at private entertainment given to the governor general.
 The Curate of St Giles's Church. Not tingham. is in dying condition. The unfortunate gentleman became insane and attempted to pluck out one of his eyes, and nearly severed his right hand from the wrist, in fancied obedience to the dic- tates of Scripture.
 MT. Colfax's explanation of his appeal in favor of Nesbitt's heirs was received with great surprise by his friends, and is held by them to be an admission of the only material point at issue, which is that he did appear at the postoffice department tO urge continuance of the contract with the Nesbitt firm.
 The revised returns of the census of 1871 show that the total population of the United Kingdom at that time amounted to 3l. .628, ,338 Of this number 21, ,495, ,I31 belonged to England, 1,217, ,135 to Wales, S.S60, ,018 to Scotland, 5,41, ,416 to Ire land, and IA, ,638 to the adjacent islands in the British seas.
 ':Local Option" has prevailed in nearly every county of Pennsylvania that has thus far voted on the question, the only exceptions being in Schuylkill and For est. All the rest, says the Philadelphia Press, numbering about dozen have decided that the sale of liquor in their limits must cease. If this style of voting continues, the traffic will soon be confin- cd to three or four counties in which there are large cites or heavy mining popula- ton.