Litchfield enquirer., 1879-09-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

Newman Halls church and surrounding l buildings cost $500, 900.
 Queen Victoria has sent the Shah splendid barouche. f
 Ibrahim Pasha, aged 16, the Khedive's favor- ite boy, is exceedingly liked at Woolwich. A Scotch paper says that two gentlemen had narrow escape from being killed one night lately by the fall of the hour hand of the town clock of Ayr.
 The wife of Lew Benedict, the nesto min- strel, has obtained divorce in Milwaukee. She is the daughter of a Methodist mister, and lately inherited $4O,0OO.
 The Spanish bishops, making probably virtue of necessity, have agreed to give up for the present fourth of their salaries. Their pay has been enormous, the .primate getting over $250, 900 year. s&RsT 3s%ss .sae'a4 as.tsz Tennysons brother changed his name to Turner in order to inherit an income of $10.- 900 a year. He left no children, and Tenny- son can now get the estate on the same terms; put he will not accept the condition. As compared with 1877 there is an increase in English pauperIsm of 6 per cent. and as compared with 1878 of per cent The in- crease has been general all over the cor ltry, and is likely to be greater. A young elephant in d menagerie. attacked it's keeper, at Lancaster, N. H., and probably would have killed him had not the vicious brutes mother come to the mans rescue and inflicted terrible punishment upon her off spring.
 A neb 70 lay on his back asleep at Salem, Ga, !. with his bare feet uplfted on a log ssA hunter made wager with a companion that he could, at twenty paces,p'lt bull ulletthrough one Of the seeper's big toes. HG Shot, and won; but the negro has sued for damages. Victoria (Austra]ia) produced in the first quarter of 1879, 3, 123 ounces more gold than in the same quarter of last year. Of the mil ners in the first quarter this year over one | fourth were Chinese.
 | The Mongols ascertalned the number of the enemies slain by cutting off the right ear of each of the dead. In 1239 they cole ,ted 270, 900 of these from the plains of Russia, and after the battle of Leignitz, in 1241, filled with right ears nine enormous sacks.
 At the present moment England has in com mission twentv-four sea- going ironclads and three coast defence ironclads, besidess Eve ironclads and six coast defence ships reatlyfG sea now, and nine seagoing ironclads wlsch might be ready in 8 month or six weeks. s s9
 Ma shal St. Arnaud spoke highyof Prime, Napoleon's bravery at the battle of the Almae and Mir. Kinglake pays him the compliment of saying that he was not inferior to his uncle
 in personal courage yet French soldiers are firmly convinced that he is a coward ss.
 The coming Queen of Spain aged 90, al- though an Abbess of the noble Order of Prague with twelve canonesses under her, wearing on state occasions mitre-shaped cap, is devoted to dancing. and will probably infuse some wei
 
 will give gayety to the Escur ia has probably yet to be born. #fs S-s E The death sentence on Gerald Manwaring, sol of the Rev. c, Mainwaring, Vicar of Whit more, Statfordshire, for killing policeman, has r'en changed to penal scrvitude for life, as there was no malice prepense When wild youth of IF, Mainwaring was sent over here to earn livtng, and had lately returned after three years absence.
 Father R.iv' Tt. Roman Catholic pastor at | Westphall, lil., spoke in condemnatory manner in his church about a fellow priest and a young woman. islander suit was brought ! by the assailed pair and the villagers became greatly excited over the controversy The woman died suddenly and Father Reivert re- fused to conduct the funeral services or to per. init the use of the church by the other priest. That night mob took him out of his house, and carried him out of town on rail.
 MT. w. H. Thompson, who won easily the big prize at a recent archery tournament in Chicago and is supposed to be one of the best archers in the world, handles his bow and ar row thus He takes firm, square position. at full right angle to the target, gets good hold of his bow, stops and looks for a second or two at the target, raises his bow and draw ing as he does so, looses the string immediately with motion as quick as the arms car be sep arated, and the twang of his bowstring is as sharp and clear as the snapping of percussion cap. .s aEr Css-PsH aStj2 4 L.H7 F.tE "a @ #, isl4 %l Count Turenne, on his return to France | from tour in the United States, publishes his opinon that society exists here only toavery limited extent. By that much abused term he means ''those rapports, those sympethetic con- | n1Ilnicafinns that one has with nthnrS o Hn