Litchfield enquirer., 1875-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
 Won Bulow, the pianist, will make his first bow in America at Boston.
 Leland Stanford, of California, is said to be worth twenty millions.
 Joaquin Miller and Walt Whitman arc communing together in Philadelphia. Last years wine crop in France is val ued at four hundred millions of dollars. l By the withdrawal of the Trinity crew, Yale and Harvard are again placed side by | side at Saratoga.
 There are no more slaves in Portugal or her Colonies now, the Cortes having set everybody free.
 Mir. Evarts has been indulging in some pretty long sentences. The New York Sun says one had 530 words and another 554
 Persons who give one guinea or more to the new Protestant Episcopal Church at Birmingham, England, arc thereafter prayed for once a month.
 Wagner. the Isle of Shoals murderer, whom Mrs. Thaxter has made famous by
 
 hanged on the 25th of this month.
 Bret Hartes novel, which is to be pnb. lished in the fall by the America Publish ing Company of New York, is finished, but will first appear as serial in Scrib- ner's Magazine.
 MT. Beecher. at the recent homeopathic fair in New York, received two silk um- brellas and the gold-headed cane that, at dollar a vote, were given to the most popular minister.
 "SimitiG sinilibus curaHt1tr''-''cuss- edness cures massachusetts, we believe the motto of that school of physicians. General r. P. Blair continues to im- prove in health. and goes out driving quite frequently. The transfusion of blood has been discontinued for the present, and will not be resumed so long as the im- provement is steady. f'aif A negro expounding the Beecher scan- dal said he believed MT. Beecher was in- nocent, but yet he was afraid that when Beecher wrote the ragged: edge letter he was himself under the de1usion that he was guilty.
 The Norwalk Gazette says, in speaking of a lady physician who has just located there, that she is the only one in the coun- ty, if not in the State. Not much. Dan- bury has had a lady physician for two or three years. Beat you there, Bro. Ga zette.-Nc,Cs.
 MT. Carlyle is up for discussion in re- gard to what he said and did when Bryan Hunt, the grandson of Leigh Hunt, shot ir flo r. lyle was in the library when the act was committed. Young Hunt fell near him, in front of some shelves from which Mir. Carlyle wanted book. "Was he mad?" said the sage of Chelsea to one of the li- brarians. "No. "Was he starved?" ''No." Something more was muttered about ''in- conveniences, and then Mr. Carlyle said he was in hurry and must have his book which had to be gwen him almost over the body of the suicide.
 The ''cheekiest" performance on the part of tramp yet heard of is reported from Hartford, where three of that frater- nlty called at house, the other day, ,arm- ed with a raw shad, which they said they had just caught, and begged leave to cook it over the kitchen fire. The lady of the house, glad to encourage their un- usual industry in catching the fish, let them use the fire, after which they made hearty meal and departed. When the lady was about to prepare her own dinner and went for shad which she had laid away in a cool place, she found it not the tramps had stolen it, and without suspicion she had let them cook it before her very eyes.
 A letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe toIV, 41,1f fo1l1 Al gin of celebrated character in fiction:
 The first conception of the character of Uncle Tom came to me while l was living in Cincinnati. I had free woman cook, whose husband was slave in Kentucky, and had the management of his masters place. l used to write her letters for her to him. She said he was such Christian she could not get him to run away from his trust, though his master constantly broke his word to him, having repeatedly promised to emancipate him at certain times, but never doing it. Whether he ever got free l never heard. This was the first suggestion of the character. Other incidents were added by reading the life of Father Henson in Canada.
 The Hanover correspondent of the Gin clnnati Commercial writes:
 My impressions on seeing Wagner were quite those of sprightly frau, who ex- claimed, "Goh, a0ie ktcinU (Heavens, how ittleD tIn this thoroughly evangeli. cal country it is very much the custom to indulge in mild sort of profanity which ces coquins on the other side of the Rhine have not yet learned to surpass. So Wagner and his wife. daughter of Franz Listz, and ex-wiie of Von Buelow, arrived. He is a lively little nan of the Thiers type. His head is decidedly intel- lectual looking; knowing that you see Wagner, you at once discover that his head is remarkably we'll developed Ex- tremes attract as we'll as meet. His boots struck me-as being decidedly odd. They n. --I aa