Litchfield enquirer., 1879-04-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
 Widow Divers lawyers are $3,OOO out for costs.
 Three seals were seen recently in the Con- necticut river.
 Common sense, in tight place, is better than the gift of elo4uence.
 Augustus Morse of Thomaston, refuses to kill dog that has bitten five persons.
 New Haven produces three million corsets annually, half of the whole quantity used in the country.
 The New Milford Musical Union is prepar- ing to present H. Nj. $. Pinafore to be given early in May.
 The Utica "Herald" intimates that MT. Scott Lord received $11O, 900 as counsel fees ID the Vanderbilt will case.
 The socialist ticket in Chicago for which ten thousand votes were boiled, did not have single native American on it.
 The Rev, Wm. B. Clark, formerly of North Cornwall and Litchfeld, has accepted call to the First Cong. church in Griswold.
 M Gambetta has saved $3, 900 year by re-
  when he takes his chair in the Chamber.
 It is said that of forty thousand Chinamen employed en public works in California only six have been discharged for misbehaVior. E. Justin Mccarthy, the well known magazine writer, holds seat in parliament from County Longford, elected by the home rulers.
 A Hartford young man thought he ought to ipht hnt aft week was taken to the Insane Retreat, when he commenced eating again.
 Work has been stopped on the Mexican exposition building, Treasurer Gracia having refused to furnish money in advance of apprs- priations.
 It is expected that at the Emperor Williams golden wedding in June next the menarchs of Russia, Austria, and Spain will be the guests of his Majesty.
 The laws of Germany are stern. For speak ing disrespectfully of the Crown Prince in public place of entertainment teacher of lan- guages has been sentenced to four months in- prisionment.
 ''Macaulay," Lord Carlisle writes, ''sald that not only was the admiration for scenery a new feeling, but it was entirely unknown to the ancients, and all sense of beauty was merely conventional. He owned up, however, to having shed tears at the beauty of the Lakes of Killarney"
 A recent report submitted to the House of Lords shows that in England the amount of drunkenness varies in almost exact proportion to the variations of climate, the vice being most prevalent in the north
 Mrs Mix the Wolcottville doctress, IS re- ported by the Amenia Union correspondent of the Ainenia Times as having wonderful success in treating the sick and ailing in that section among other obstinate cases of deafness.
 As showing the superior healthfulness of this country it might shown that while the last Canadian survivor of the war of 1872 has just died the number of pensioners ID this country for the same war is increased every year.
 The committee appointed to investigate the accounts of Charles A Bray, East Haven's ex- judge of probate, financial agent; tax collector and town clerk, reported at a special town meeting that he is defaulter to the town for $3, 522.
 Some liquor sellers at New London Conn.,, the other day had eighteen liquor barrels filled with water and stored away. The temperance men seized them, carted them off and were at considerable trouble before they found that practical joke had been been played
 The inscriptions on the Dighton Rock, believed by many Boston students to have been made by Northmen, are now pronounced the work of Indians by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquarians of Denmark. Yet the rock is to be moved to Boston, and set up as monument to the discovery of America by | Northmen.
 A continued increase in the travel on the | elevated railroads, in New I ork is reported During the months of January, February and | March the New York Elevated railroad carried 7,539, 476 passengers and the Metropolitan | Elevated railroad carried 3,935, 623, total of Il, 475, ,099 for both roads,
 | The oldest woman in New Hampshire who accepted the privilege of voting at the recent town elections was Mrs. Lovey Wentworth. aged ninety years, of Rollinsford, who walked to the ballot-box in that town with firm step and deposited the first vote of her life.
 Gen. Frank Walker has gone on to Washing ton to see about his census work. He will not vacate the failroad commssionership of Connecticut, unless he finds the duties of the | two posts incompatible. or deemed such by any competent authority. This is goed news for the state, as such of it's citizens as are not apx ious for Gen. Waker's position, for which there were 1900 candidates. more or less | The North Congregational church. of O Rev. Washington Gladden. pastor, has inaugu rated wise movement to influence the alder men to grant fewer licepses, and those, with better Judgment. It is practical platform on which all good people ought to unite. but of course the impracticable temperance people generally still insist upon biting off more than they can chew-prohibition or nothing!
 Much of the meat sold in London as prime English beef is American. American beef sent over in refrigerators is just as good as En- glsh-many think it better At one of the first clubs in London, recently, there were served an English and an American sirloin of beef, and no one could tell the difference Hungarian and Bohemian beef, too, is coming into the London market at 12 cents pound, and much game, especially pheasants frpm Bohemia.
 The mother of Wesley w. Bishop one of the Norwich prisoners, has just died of con- sumption, health having failed rapidly since her son confessed his crime. A strange fatal ity has followed her family. A sister was burned to death several years ago her hus- band, a Methodist minister, was stricken down in his pulpit by heart diseas her only daughter died of quick consumption !: and her son, Edson, accidentally shot and killed his little boy last fall. -r
 THE END OF SoHUMANN.-Before leaving Bonn, in the Summer of 1855, went with my friend, Otto von Konigslow, to Eidenach, to inquire for the health of my honored master, as had often done before. He was sitting at the piano, which had been given hlm at my request. playing extempore melodies We watched him long and unnoticed through the half-open door. It was heartrendering to see this great and noble man, with all his mental and physical powers gone the master to whom music owes so much that is beautiful, who de- voted his quiet but fertile life so zealously to the highest aims His playing was far from pleasant. It seemed as if the force whence il proceeded were injured, like machine whose springs are broken, but which still tries to work, jerking convulsively.