Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


 Prayed out of town" are the word. painted on the doors of Xenia, Ohio, sa Icons.
 A company with 6 capital of s1OO. .OO( has been formed for the manufacture ot peat fuel near New Haven.
 From strictly agricultural standpoint the grangeEs have declared against horse racing at fairs in the West.
 One result of this high tide of temper ance in Indianapolis is that they have discovered their water supply to be in- adequate.
 The proposition to allow municipal au- thorit1es to tax railroad property has been rejected by the Michigan legisla- ture.
 President Grant and others, at Wash ington, have signed a paper, requesting Wendell Phillips to deliver an eulogy on Sumner, in that city.
 The lumber prospect in Minnesota and Wisconsin Is very encouraging. There has been plenty of snow, and the weather has generally been favorable for logging. No one can deny the truthfulness of the Washington Chronicle, which pathetical- ly. remarks that cit is hard that a news paper shoul have to pay bills like other folks and not collect any"
 Congressman Elliott, of South Carolina. has accepted an invitation from the color cd citizens of Boston to deliver a eulogy on Charles Sumner, on the 14th of April, the anniversary. of MT. Lincoln's assassi- nation.
 The Archbishop of Canterbury has ap- proved the course of his Dean at the meet ing of the Evangelical Alliance in New York, last autumn, and he has confirmed his approval by appointing him his repre- sentative at the next meeting of the Ali ance.
 The famous Ellls-Troup libel suit at New Haven has been decided by Judge Harrison in favor of the defendant, find ing that the alleged libel published in the Union, calling Ellis an t'old hallot-box stuffer. was true, and that its publication was iustiiable.
 Mics Winnie Ream has entered into a contract with the Brooklyn City authori-
 
 of ex-Mayor Powell. The Common Coun- ell has appropriated s1,OOO as compensa- tlon for the work.
 Robert Ward, formerly leader of the fa- nous New York Ninth regiment band has been engaged as leader of the Howe band, Bridgeport. He is one of the finest cornetlsts m the country, and was for a long time in the English army.
 
 The new Yale boat-house will cost s12,- OO0, and will be the best one III the coun- try. 1t IS to be built with a view to ele- gance, as well as convenience; 1t will be surmounted by spire, have a covered piazza on three sides and will have room for sixty boats.
 A rabid Newfoundland dog rushed into dwelling house, in Boston, the other day. and after tearing and breaking the furniture in thr parlor, ran up into the attic, where one of the lidies in the house had the presence of mind to shut him up until the arrival of an officer who shot him. The furniture was damaged about $50.
 William M. Evarts tells this good story: A few summers since, at the urgent re- quest of one of his younger daughters, he sent mp to his country place in Vermont donkey for her use. She had read about donkeys, but was not familiar with their peculiar vocalism. The animals strange noises inspired her with the profoundest pity for his evident distress So she wrote her father, ''Dear papa, do wish you would come mp here soon-my don key is so Lonesome"
 Dr. Lathrop, somewhat eccentric but always sensible clergyman of West Springfield, Mass, recently told young lady member of his church, who feared she had done wrong in dancing. that if she had good time he was glad of it, and hoped she would do the same again. He also informed an old lady who had made great uprOar about the girls danc- ing that if she wished to get to heaven she would do we'll to use her feet more and her tongue less.
 The influence of the women was clearly shown in New Albany, Indiana, few days ago. A man entered liquor sa- loon and shouted, ''The women are com ing.' Instantly cards were showed out of sight, drinking was suspended, and the crowd of hangers-on went out of back doors, windows and into the cellar in a hurry. The women were not coming, but
 
 lent as 6 graveyard.
 A meeting of the sewing machine nee- dle manufacturers has been held in New Haven for the purpose of adopting measures to advance their mutual inter- ests, and an. Organization was formed un- der the name of the American Needle Makersi Association" of which Charles Alvord, of the Excelsior needle company of Wolcottville, was chosen president, and George H. Blelock. of the National Nee de company of Springfield, secretary. The Princess of Wales is described as being a most beautiful woman-tall and perfectly formed, her every movement graceful, and her manners winsome and wholly unaffected. Her face is all sun- shine and sweetness, and one never to be forgotten Her popularity in England is very greak. all classes regarding her with peculiar affection, not more for her peer- less beauty than for her faultless charac- ter as e wife and mother.
 The total producing of coal in the Uuit. ed States m 1873, according to the Potts vile Miners Journal, was:
 Anthracite, 22,s2s, ,1Oe Bituminous. 2,582, ,222 Total production in 1873, 45.413 33C The increase in the supply of anthracite coal sent to market in 1873 over 1873 over 1872. was 652, ,913 tons, and the increase Tn the supply of bituminous coal moved towards the seabord in 1873 was l. .3O9. 23e tons, making the increase in 1873 ovel 1872, 1,962, 179 tons.
 The Boston Advertiser" relates an an. ecdote about youth who was making s collection of autographs, and wanted one of Senator Summers, but wanted better one than his blindly written frank So he wrote to Mir. Sumner, preferring his request. and iocularly mentioning the fact that he had ashurriedly written frank, which he only succeeded in making out