Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

Bristow-S. T. 1S8O-X.
 Paris eats a thousand horsesever,yy month.
 There were 7,6OO assertions last year from the British army
 In India 10000 people were killed last year by the bites of serpents
 The Sherman Fox Hunting association has killed twelve foxes.
 g All of the three morning newspapers in Washington favor the silver bill.
 Texas Pacific subsidy only commands about 90 votes in, the House, they say. .zs egesv,A,
 Senator Gordon of Georgia was hit by bull. lets six times during the civil war.
 MT. Nichols the divorced man, is seriously i'll, in New York, with pneumonia. Tlreg
 Two ladies are the leading candidates for State Librarian before the Kentucky Legisla- 'ure' k9sI H-cs s9 .@s
 Connecticut has made twenty-two applica tions forspace at the Paris Exposition.
 A negro man, his wife and child, in Clark county, Ky; are all supplied wiih six fingers on each hand.
 Murphy says his reception at Springfield has surpassed anything ill his aohole public ca reer,
 Providence is now in the seventh week of it's revival meetings and there is no abatement of interest.
 President Hayes and his wife entertained ex-secretary Bristow with a private dinner party last week. 1S ELII E1Lls13 "A |
 Tohn Douglass, republican, was elected mayor of Middletown last week by A plurali- ty with four tickets in the field. ..
 Mrs. Lozier, presideut of the Woman Sui frage society; is a Chicago physician. and makes $25, 900 year, from her practice. There were s15.failures in YConnecticut last year, with liabilities of $5, ,S41 649 in 1876 the liabilities of 197 failing concerns were $4, 186- 54S
 The health of Elihu Burrit, the Learned Blacksmith, of New Britain, is much improv- ed and he expects to be out again in the Spring.
 The mayor of Des Moines, Ia, has resign ed He handed in his resignation conditional on his next drunkenness It has come and he has gone.
 The president of the Oxford boat club says that there is no foundation for the statement that the Oxford university has decided to chal- lenge the Columbia college four.
 A young Minnesota lawyer exclaimed: "I am not here, gentleman of the jury, to defend Mr. Mims In the language of the immortal Webster, he needs no defense" ts.ts.gsI
 The grandson of an English Baronet drives public hack in Buffalo, and can charge as exorbitantly as if the pursuit had been fol- lowedag fheIfamily for untold generatipns. II q James Gordon Bennett has sold his pleasure yacht Danntless to New Yorker for $10, 900, and bought the Arctic steam yacht Pandora for SEQ, 900, Is he going to send Stanley to find the North pole
 Mrs. Fremont writes from the French trials. for Gen. Fremont's complicity in putting swim ding American railrord honda on the market have resulted in giving him acompiete release from all obligations. !.
 Miss Susan B: Anthony has sent 1ssOet 1ssOet1 tor ' assist in defraying the expensesof the woman suffrage organization that recently met in Washington and it is said that she coAaftMtes every year as much money tOsaid the cause as all therestofits advucateA s4 < AluNU
 gY&d rFE TzRT sov TERRYyIILE illiam B. Mckee, formerly of this place, died at Rickland, sNeb., on the 9d inst, aged B years. He was the oldest son of Eli Mckee. When only fifteen years of age he went to Minnesota The war began immediately after and being too young to en- list he went as waiter of Captain Haftre of the Second Minnesota light battery, and remained with him until he learned of the enlistment of the Second Connecticut heavy artillery, when he hrfnn and Anaicfa in lEf,,ny,oyrxy m, ately detailed as orderly for Colonel Kellogg. and was with him until the battle of Cold Han bor where the Colonel was killed and Mckee was wounded He was discharged for disa- bility, June "A, 1865. He leaves widow end two children. IL COu9npt,