Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-02


 It is now said to be Q a settled and a fixed fact that Danbury is to have that new railroad communication with New York and White Plains The contracts are all signed, sealed and delivered, the work soon begins in earnest, and will probably be finished by the first of Octo- Der.
 The prime authorship of the Sanborn contract clause is now traced to Kelsey, ex-member, lobbyist, and subsequent con; tractor under it. Kelsey, when mem- Der of the house, first proposed it, and was beaten by MT. Dawes in the appro- prlations committee. At the next session, he was again beaten off by Garfield as the head of the same committee. Then Kel- sey got Cole and Sawyer to put it through the senate.
 A few days ago New Orleans horse railroad company sunk AT, 900 counterfeit hve-cent nickel coins in the Mississippi river, the receipts of one year. The count erfeiting of these coins is carried on so extensively in New Orleans that the Plea yune estimates that 1000 people daily pay the fares on the horse railroad with bogus coin.
 ''The Samana Bay Company" remarks the Boston Globe, Care beginning to ex- perlence the sweets of their extensive speculation in real estate. They failed to come to time on their notes. and now am attachment has been issued covering 91OO. 900 worth of the corporation property. It IS hard, but then, undoubtedly, it is | fair" An important case has just been decid- ed Tn the Supreme Court of Mississippi, involving the legality of marriage be- tween white man and negro woman. The children of the persons brought suit as helrs for large amount of property left by their father, and after years of litigation their right to the property has affirmed, the union thus declared legal. rms IS the first case of the kind ever de- cided in Mississippi. The estate is worth $100,000.
 This little illustration of Senator Sum- ners consclentiousness is reproduced by the Boston Journal: In the winter of lo6l-2 soldier in camp at Pittsfeld re- quested ot the senator some franked en- velopes, which were often given in those | days to the "boys in blue" by our nemb- CTS of Congress. The following answer was received:
 Dear Sir: It would be unlawful to com ply with your request. Yours truly, CHARLES SUMNER.
 Mir. Disraeli's cabinet does not contain the representative of a single town in the house of commons, and in the govern ment out of the cabinet there are fifteen county members against nine town mem bers and two university members. As there are five peers in the cabinet of great landed possessions the landed interest is therefore predominant.
 The servant girls of Hartford are indig- nant at Lieutenant-G Governor Sill, for his response to & bouquet given him at the close of his speech, St. Patrick's eve. On receiving the bouquet Mir. Sill said his wife would feel so flattered by the con- pliment, that she would change her name to Bridget, and this maddens the Brid- gets, for they they think he was sneering | at them.
 1 At NizderpIanite, near Zwickau, in Sax | ony, vast bed of coal has been burning for over three hundred years. The ground above this subterranean bed of fire has become thoroughly warmed by this time, and an ingenious gardener has utilized it by planting upon it large nursery gar den: Here he raises tropical plants of all kinds, with exotic fruits, which flourish With vlgor and luxur1ance in the open air that the best forcing houses could not ensure.
 A number of the tobacco growers in the southern part of South Windsor and the northern paat of East Hartford-one of l the most important tobacco districts of the Connecticut valley-met in conven- tlon at South Windsor, last week, and formed an association designed to concen- trate the business of selling tobacco, do- 1 ing away with middlemen. board of directors was chosen as follows: John P. Jones, Jr: O. M. Newbury, W. G. Burn ham, Elijah Ackley Fred. A. King was chosen as agent and will travel with sam- pies duly marked by government i'm spector, and sell for the association. It believed the association will gradually gain all the tobacco raisers of that terri | tory. The tobacco produced there annu- ally is of $25O, GOO value.
 The Washington correspondent of the Graphic says this of the habits of Mr. Sumner: It is a mistake to suppose that he was temperance man. He did not use tobacco, but was always lover of fine wine, and much of it. His Boston friends provided him with many cask basket, and never tasted an inferior glass of wine in his house. His palate took wide range-from Sicilian and Spanish light wines to port and Madeira and the best clarets of France and Hungary. He was very great eater, and liked sweet breads, game, large hot joints, and the mountain mutton of the Bull Run and Caloctin country. He breakfasted light, and, think, ate no lunch, but, when he returned from the senate, consumed two hours at the table, and then sat up by a drop light, opening his mail, reading and talking until midnight.
 The following letter, written some years since to Q personal friend, is now printed