Litchfield enquirer., 1874-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

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 What bIunder it was in the Creator to make dogs, any wny. fs-.
 Miss Anna Dickinson's sister Susan is to appear next fall on the lecture plat form. s7--@ y-5f 55F
 The late Henry A. Perkins of Hartford left an estate valued at half a million dol lars.
 Tho Italian government proposes to es- tablish monopoly of the tobacco raising business in Sicily. Wagner, who IS now in his sixty-first year, Is much gratifed to hear of the growing popularity of his music in Amer ica.
 Children who attend Boston schools l average half pint of of brains moro per head than children who attend school in other parts of the world. Hill Brothers, of Windsor, have a COW which IS claimed to bo the largest in the world. She is 2 years old and weighs A. 900 pounds.
 MT. William Bucknell of Philadelphia has given $1 ,OO0 to sustain scholarship in Worcester Academy 'for tho most courteous gentleman and student"
 Tho chief of police of Boston. says that the statistics of drunkenness keep along an even steady course regardless of the various efforts to legislato drinking out of mans habits.
 Victor Piatt, a son of j.. J. Piast. con gressional librarian, was killed by the ex- pioslon of bottle of powder at Cincin- natl. on the Fourth, a portion of the bot tie bolng driven into his neck, killing him instantly.
 The other day lady residing on Frank lin street, Waterbury. fell the entire length of flight of stairs, and forced her hoad through an inch plank, receiving on ly few slight injuries.
 William Sturtevant, who killed his two uncles and their housekeeper at Halifax, Mass, few months ago, has been con vlcted of murder Tn the first degree in the case of ono of the mon, and is vet to be tried for killing tho woman and the other man.
 Waterford was the scene of an elope- ment on the Fourth. A young lady, not tancylng tho man her parents had select ed for her, went off with one of her own selection. Tho happy pair were married by tho Rev. John Gray, of New London, and left for New York.
 There is another big stroak of light ill the South Carolina mirk. In spite of all the thleVlng and rowing and organized an archy, the number of schools ill tho state ran up within four years from 634 to 1919, and of school-children from 3O,OOO to nearly 77,OOO There is encouragement in these figures, and hope.
 A small boy approached the great show man at Montpelier the other day and ask ed him what he would give for cherry colored cat. '"Ten dollars" replied Bar mum, eff it IS really cherry y-colored. |" Soon tho boy returned to Barnum's hotel and unloaded black cat at Barnum's feet. The snowman saw the point and paid tho youngster $1O, with the remark, ssRny ynn have atnlon my trade"
 'I confess" says Sturgeon, 'I never had the ability to manage a small church. They are like those canoes on the Thames -yOn must not sit that way or tho other, or do this thing or that thing, lest you shonld be upset. I happen to have church like big steamboat, and whether l walk here or there my weight will not upset it. It big fellow thinks himself to be some body, his importance va1lishes when he joins big church like mine.''
 Tho old directors of the Poughkeepsie and Eastern road were reelected tho oth CT day, but the road is now in the hands ot the receiver. A dispute in which he was concerned has just been settled by the courts. When he was appointed and called for tho cOmDanV's money tbe sta tion agents in their remittances deducted tho amounts duo to them, sending only tho balance. He sued for the whole amount, but the court sustained the agents.
 Willard Clark, who has been in the state prison 19 years for killing q man who had seduced woman that he loved, IS to be transferred to the insane asylum. and he has published Q straight-forward and well-written letter protesting against tho step, and 1t ought to attract some at- tentiOn. One ground of tho theory of his insanity is that he thinks he did Q noble thing in putting his own life freely into the hands of tho law for another.
 John Altman and his wife of Waterbury have been arrested for course of the most outrageous brutality to their little daughter, F years old Tho mother has been known to drag her up stairs, and then. taking her head between her hands, strike 1t violently against the floor, while 1t has been her daily practice to beat the girl, and the father has treated her to kicks so many times that she is in very critical condition. The neighbors now have charge of the girl