Litchfield enquirer., 1879-11-13

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 ..,.. MISCELLANEOUS. s
 There never was such drought as the pres ent one'in Texas since it became State. I Cetywayo says there were only ten of his men present when the Prince Imperial was killed. . E 8
 new edition of the works of Ivan Tour guenef, in ten volumes, has just appeared in
 Russia. S.- .ee..@r E..
 Many of the people of Afghan are as fair as Englshmen. The boys are noted as being particularly handsome.
 Ney Orleans is considering thorough sys- tenn of sewerage, which will cost, according to the plans, $1, ,50O,oOO
 From Oct 26, 1867, to Sept. 30, 1879, the church property sold by auction in Italy yield ed one hundred and three millions of dollars. [ A London physician lately advertised in the 1 Times for lady housekeeper offering liberal | terms, and received 1, 100 applications. <
 "A pew for sale, commanding beautiful view of nearly the whole congregation" is the wording of an advertisement in a Rochester paper. ..E .L
 Sir Evelyn Wood, the Zuuland hero, com pines two professions. He was called to the bar in 1874, and now the bar is going to give him banquet, at which the Lord Chancellor will preside. w ~
 Col. Williamson, noted Texan lawyer, stood up in church and called on young lady to come forward and marry him. The sud denness of the proposal threw her intoa swoon. Williamson had become Insane. @4The Sparfsh Ministry 4ias been Ieffieia fly no- | tifed that four million dollars have .been de- | posted by Francis Joseph in he Bank of Vi- ehna as the dowry of Archduchess Christine, Alfonso betrothed.-ey- z.~~,
 An embarrassed actor bounded on the stage | of San Francisco theatre, in a scene depict | ing robbery in hotel office, and shouted, clerk. - - '' .' - '--1-- l A canal has just been completed in Hawaii for the irrigation of the sugar plantations III the centre of the island which crosses twenty eight gorges in the mountains, and is thirty miles in length. .-t ~''..-
 Six hundred Bulgarian orphans, who lost their parents during the last Turko- Russian | war, were taken to Russia, where they were instructed gratuitously at the expense of the Government. . r- -Ff -.'at
 The Rev. E. E. Bayliss, who eloped from 1 Maple RfveE gMich., swtha neighbor's wife, has returned without her, madea public speech confessing his error, and asked to be reinstated as pastor of the Baptist Church. Adam Hammond complains that the bed clothes in the Scottsburg GIL ) penitentary are rotten He tore a sheetri into strips and hanged himself but the cloth broke and let him down. Then he tried quilt with no better success, and was badly bruised by the fall.
 I The old trick of getting up a sham fight in the gallery of a theatre, and then throwing the stuffed figure of a man over the railing, was successfully played at Leadville. The excite ment in the lover part of the house caused panic, and an Actress tainted on the stage. 1 Nearly all the negroes inSand near Darling l ton, s. O., now own horses and cows, and many of them own land, which they are able 1 to work with their own money. There is less stealing than formerly churches are numerous and well supported. and newspapers are in | demand. t'-5 --.
 Eighteen of the States have civil damage liquor laws. Their provisions are substantial ly the same, making dealers responsible pe- cunarily for all harm resulting from the sale of alcoholic beverages. New York, Maine, Massachusetts, and Illinois, have statutes pre-
 The employment of women in the telegraph ic service in France on a large scale has now | begun at Paris. where 240girls are undergoing an apprenticeship of three months on trial; They are cheaper than men, getting only $200 year. whereas men get $500 and $400. The glrls are not expected to do night work.
 Speaking at Plymouth, England, lately, the Earl of Morley, a very able young liberal peer. said he did not look upon the enormous im- pOrtations from the United States with regret, for prior to the abolition of the Corn laws the agricultural condition of thecountry was worse even than at the present time
 T. The Berlin correspond ant of the Paris Globe says that Prince Bisnarck, now intent on get ling all railroads into the hantlssof tile. State, contemplates that as soon as possible the State shall become grand insurer-life, fire, and ma rine. He has directed minute ipuuiries into tie business. f0.E .tt#.E t-
 | The disprOportion of women to men in crimi- nal records is strikingly exemplified in some st atistics publishedby the Itahan Government. During the past year the courts sentenced 41,- 1 553 persons, of. whom 37, 999s were men. and only g. 556 women, the public assizes condemn l
 4se sRsbert Goodpaasstrt; oshrincsville Kv wac a sensitive bankrupt. Being accuseu or urio,.-- kery, he said that he would live just long , henough to clear himself of suspicion and then
 kill himself. A trial at law vindicated him, and immediately after the ye rdict he swallow lsed fatal dose efapoison.s
 The liquor register, otherwise known as the Moffet bell punch, has gone into operation in Texas, much to the disgust of the dealers in alcoholic beverages. The dealers have resolv- ed to test the constitutonalty of the law in the courts, but they have, nevertheless taken advantage of it, both to raise the -prlce of drinks and to refuse credit for them The prohibitory sentiment, which is very strong Tn parts of Texas, favors the register as tending to lessen the consumption of Intoxicating li- - kauers--A~ V $pA4I--S @1@- Repugnance to military life has induced
 among the inhabitants of a certain village in the department of the Seine curious practice
 of atrophying one of the great toes by some secret method of muscular retraction which has sEe scrutiny of the most experience ed army surgeons -Yhe Reformation prevents
 the foot from being brought fully to the
 ground. With such success has this system of mutilation been carried on for the past forty p years in one particular village, and so discreet ly have the peaceful peasants kept their coun. , sels that in the whole period only three con. scripts were drawn who were found able tt . march. Il |snee tbeacecesshpup sf karaolsosnl 1 to the
 Imperial throne 3, 319 titles of hereditary no
 'illty have been conferred upon Frenchmen by the monarchs who haver reigned over France : under the alternating titles of Emperor and
 King: Napoleon the Great, during his brief reign, created nine princes, thirty-two dukes, | md 1
 and Charles X. rewarded their adherents loyalty with an equally copious shower ~oi : titles Seventeen princes. seventy dukes, l seventy marQuesses. sixty three counts sixty.