Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS,

It is Admiral Devens now, until Secretary Thompson returns. Silver is rapidly accommodating in the treasu- ry at Washington. Philadelphia has one hundred more churches than free schools.
 Pierre Lorillard will spend $16,OOO in fires coing his Newport villa.
 S. Angler Chace will be seventy years ofage when his sentence expires.
 A Brooklyn woman has been sent to jail for ten days for killing a cat Senator Bruce is wealthy man. He has one-quarter white blood.
 Mir. Gladstone, London paper says, is no longer invited to state dinners
 The valuation of Boston, this year, is $62O.- 000 900, decrease of $177, COG, 900 in three years
 Through trains now make thetrip from New Orleans to Boston in siXty-sevcn hours and a half
 During the last six months the failures in New York aggregate liabilities of $40, 900, ,0OO with assets of $11 ,O0O,O0
 Dr. J. c. Aver the great patent medicine ~ ertp of nearly $2O,0O0,0O0.
 w. H. Vanderbilt is believed to control railroads and telegraph companies having an aggregate capital of $23S, 900, 900. Beer and music will not mix in Boston, where all attempts to establish such gardens as are fashionable in most other cities have failed.
 Talk about dividends. One Philadelphia fire insurance company announces a semi-an- nual dividend of twenty per cent. and another quarterly of eight per cent.
 An English clergyman, the Rev. J. G. Syd- enham of Collumpton, has been fined q for cruelty to game cock. Collumpton and Viv- erton were for many years notorious for cock fighting, and great number of persons in the vicinity still keep up the old strains.
 The English benevolent societies raised dur ing the last year $8, 436, 26O Of this amount $3, 592, 895 were for foreign missions $730,. 195 for colonial Jewish and other missions; $1, 785, 255 for home missions $396, ,070 for religious educational societies; $1 ,06l, ,5l5 for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and $S7O, ITO for miscellaneous purposes.
 Queen Victoria is getting into trouble with her Scotch subjects by Sabbath desecration," the particular case being her recent visit to an island in LOch Maree on Sunday. The usual boatmen refused to take the royal party, and the inn keeper on the island refused to let his horses be used for carrying the queens letters on that day. Moreover, the Sabbath Alliance has held a meeting and apodtcd report pro- testing against such proceeding on her majcs- tvs part
 The will of Eber Gridley, of Hartford late ly deceased, leaves to his wife the use of the estate, valued at $115 900, during life. At her death the entire property, with the exception of legacy of $500, is bequeathed in equal d- visions to the Mount Holyoke Female Scm- mary, at South Hadley, Mass, and Carleton College, at Northfield, Minn.
 A manufacturer of fifty years standing said to us yesterday: 'Forty years ago, American women, neat, tidy, and the flower and pride of their race, occupied places in the mills of tho land. Presently the Irish women came over, and took places at the loom and elsewhere, which caused the native women to retire, grad ually, with elevated noses; andsn the Cana dian French are driving the Irish women from the factories on every hand"
 Wendell Phillips :-''As matters stand to- day, with no keen interest in any question ex- cept finance, the South haanthe choice of the next President. Concillal the West by her concurrence on finanol Ne holds all the cards. Unless radical change is wrought in the coming year Western democrat on a soft money platform will be the next Pres ident, and some Southern Confederate leader, civil or military, will be Vice President"