Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. Jeff. Davis is enjoying herself at Paris.
 Senator Don Cameron IS already organ izing his officers for the Gubernatorial fight Tn 1878.
 Ex-Speaker Blainie, accompanied by his wife and ''Gail Hamilton, were in AL bany Thursday.
 Mme. Rudersd orff, who is co ming to live and teach in New-York, has given a farewell concert in Boston.
 A fine salmon, weighing about nine pounds, was caught in the Delaware river, off Robbins wharf, opposi te Bordentown, on Saturday.
 Monsieur de Courcelles, great-great- grandson of Lafayette. has just been wis., iting the home of his great -great-grand- fathers friend, Gen. Washington.
 Senator Benj. H. Hill is by no means a guest of the Savannah Rifle Association, and made score of 13 out of possible 15.
 The Harvard oarsmen have done well in abandoning the exclusive policy. They have accepted a challenge from the Columbia crew to race in eight-oared shells at Springfield on June 26, three days before the contest between the Cam bridge and New Haven eights.
 A young lady in Husdon, Me-. is now teaching in the same school-room where her mother and grandmother have taught before her. She derives consolation from the thought that neither lady developed into an old maid, and that the family traditions forecast great-granddaughter at the head of the school.
 Whatever may be done in this direction 1 in the future. at present the greenbacks of small denominations are indispensable, and Mir. Sherman will probably soon per ceive that the contraction of redundant currency. $500, ,OO0. 900 strong in bills of $5 and upward. Is one thing, while the in- convenlencing of their daily buying and selling by destroying the only medium of small transactions is quite another. As the policy has only been entered upon in- directly and tentatively, it will probably be disavowed as the invention of Wash ington correspondents -Sorin !Qfeld Re- | publican.
 Wien Senator Blaine was told by a 1 1Fl0uO, Lu0 OIu0f udJ, LldU SE0dG uauy people attributed the inspiration of the Gail Hamilton letters in The TRIBUNE to him, he said that reminded of a little story. A woman in one of the back coun. ties of Pennsylvania went before notary public to acknowledge a deed and was asked the usual question if she signed the deed without compulsion or fear of her husband. Stepping back one or two paces she put her hands on her hips, set her head on one side, and, after Hooking at the man for moment, exclaimed: II guess, iedge, you don't know the family.
 When Gov Vance was canvassing the North Carolina mountain district for Con- gress in '59 he found at one of his ap- | pointments an immense audience, and one 1 ingenious mountaineer who had taken ad- vantage of the occasion 10 set up men, l agerie exhibition with one rattlesnake in glass case. The exhibitor stood at the door and drummed up his audience with a set speech, while lone fiddler added to the interest of the two-headed snake show within. After the speaking was over in the evening, the Governor ap. preached the snake shanty, put down his ten cents and walked in. His disgust was great when he heard the man on the out side cry out: .'Oh yes? ladies and gentle men, come this way and see the greatest curiosities in the world, the two headed snake and Feb. Vance. both for ten cents I-come this way" &c.