Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Greenback vote of Wisconsin is estimat- ed at 25,O00.
 William, the youngest of the notorious Dav- enport Brothers, died at Sydney, Australia, last month.
 Evidently, accuracy of statement and re- gard for truth must be chased among Mir. Phil ips's 'lost arts. "-- Hamilton Fish.
 The Richmond Waig believes that the advo- cates of read djustment have elected an over- whelming majority to the Legislature of Vir- ginia.
 The official canvass shows that the vote of Colorado on the woman suffrage question was For, 6,612; against, i4, O53; majority against, TAI. s'ee
 Verplanck Colvin the civil engineer of the AdirondacRs says the recent earthquake last ed for five minutes at Lake Saranac, and crea- ted general alarm. ...-r -- ! ''But for the press" suggests the Detroit Free Press, speaking of the late Episcopal con- vention, the people wouldn't know that there were 5;6S1 mortgaged churches ill this coun- try"
 California is full of excitement over the Ophif mining stock. Its price runs up and down between $57 and 1928 share on the va rying rumors regarding strike of new and rich lode. F w.
 A New England teacher of many years ex- perience recently issued in the annual catalogue of his seminary list of all the women who had graduated form his charge. It was a sig nificant fact that of the whole number about one-half still retained their maiden names.
 Gov. Vance, in recent address at fair in North Carolina, spoke of the larger number of fairs that used to be held in the State, as com pared with the present, and gave his opinion very decidedly that horse-racing, three-card monte, and prize candy were the three things that have killed them 2A1 " Methodism has firm foothold in Germany according to Dr. Mast, who says that there are now in that country more than 150 preachers, il, 900 members, 62 churches, 623 stations or preaching places, one theological school, and a book concern which publishes thousands of vol. unaes and millions of tracts every year.
 Japanese, of the Nishin sect, who are char acterized by MT. Griffls as kind of Protestant Buddhists are carrying on a mission in Shang- |shai, China, observing the Christian Sunday as their saDred day, and trying to convert the im- moral and illiterate Chinese bonzes to Bud- dhism.
 
 tant discovery for many years in tlle Gfeek at that of a statue by Praxitelea 1t is S eolos- sal marble of nude youth; and was found in the temple of Zeus at Olympia. The statue perfectly agrees with the description of mar ble Hermes carrying the boy Dionysius, by | Praxiteles, which was recorded by the histor- cal Pansanias as gift to thetemple in his day. uis generally known that there is an exten- loko of rhoY,i YnnYxY tain in California, about six miles southwest of the point where the Southern Pacific railroad crosses the mountains The lake is somewhat difficult of access, but salt is gathered from the bottom of the lake, where it lies in layers from one to six inches thick, and shipped to San Francisco
 t'I have seen multitude of preachers gath cred together to listen to one who expounded scientific theories upon the religious side, and l making the hall ring with vociferous applanse of statements which might be true or not, but certainly whose truth they had not examined, and in which it certainly was not the truth but the tendency to help their side ofthe argument that they applauded. I think that is not a pleasant sight for any one to see who really cares for the dignity and purity of his profes- sion. ."-P Phiahips BrOoks .ee aN m It is impossible to regard the agitation of the silver maniacs as anything but new phase of the imitation heresies we have become 90 pain fully used to. As we have often pointed out, the one attractive feature of silver remonetiza- tion to nine-tenths of it's advocates is the de- preciation in the value ofthe dollar it involves No'sane man believes that the west and south would be bowling for the old silver dollar to- day if 1t were worth per cent. more than our gold dollar, instead of 8 per cent. lest.-Bu1a- l0 Courier (dens)