Litchfield enquirer., 1874-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

They are rejoicing in new potatoes in Texas.
 Maine puts mp nearly 5, ,oOo. 900 cans of corn annually.
 The epizooty has been very fatal this winter ln some parts of Oregon
 Senator Schurz has been invited to re- peat in Worcester his eulogy of Charles Sumner.
 There are still three men living who have seen Washington; two in Galveston, and one in Maysville, Ky.
 At Uxbridge, Mass, on Monday, one GrosVener Aldrich fell across circular saw and was entirely cut in two.
 The farmers of Texas have nearly fin lshed planting corn. The area planted will be much greater than usual.
 An effort IS being made to restock Long Island more thoroughly with deer In some parts they are already quite plenty.
 The California Senate has sustained Governor Booths veto of the Harbor Commission bill. This is another victory for the independents
 The California legislature has passed a law making 1t misdemeanor for one per son to invite another to drink at public bar.
 The number of divorces in Ohio is rap- idly increasing, while the births last year were less than the year before, and the marriages are decreasinp
 When the sea gives up her dead Lake Erie will have no insignificant account to render. Its waters have engulphed 20, GOO persons since it's navigation began.
 At sonoma, Gal, planter has just up- rooted an orchard of n1ne thousand muI- berry trees which are no longer in demand in that state. They were of five years growth
 Frank l.. Taintor, the cashier of the ex- Atlantic national bank, was brought down to New York from the Albany penitentia- ry, last week, to testify in the Ocean bank investigation. He has seven years term at Albany. =
 The French legitimists are jolly over Abbe Rabaissons exponnding of Daniel to prove that de Chambord is the ''son of man" and will become the king of France and humble the eleventh horn (Prussial before October 21.
 The Cincinnati Commercial remarks: ''Mr. Fernando Wood asserts, successful ly, upon the whole, the leadership of the democratic party in the house. He is al- most as great and good a man as the re- publican leader, Ben. Butler"
 
 A Harvard correspondent to the New ark Advertiser writes:-For some unac- countable reasons the Scientific school has been in quite feeble condition for some time, and stands in painful contrast with it's flouyishing rival, the Sheffield at Yale.
 A valuable hound came to strange end recently, in Augusta, Maine. It had talk en the scent of fox track in the morning and was following 1t along the railroad, SO earnestly that it paid no heed to the approaching train which ran over and killed it. 's-
 The Rev. MT. Roberts, clergyman of the Church of England, having been dis missed from his curacy for the supposed ofense of taking prominent part in the agricultural laborers' movement, Mir. Gladstone generously appointed him to the living of Brindsley, much more de- sirable position than that he previ- ly held.
 The democrats of the first senatorial district yesterday nominated as a candi date for senator, the Hon. Charles M. Pond, on an anti-ra1lroad platform. The fact that MT. Pond, being acting viee-pre- sident and director of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad com pany, has been supposed to be somewhat in favor of railroad interests, makes the platform he stands on curiosity in poli- tics this year. We invite attention to the full report of the proceedings of the con vention which nominated him. .-H Hartford COatrant. & @51z