Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

There is grave apprehension in Englannd 8s to the potato as well as the other crops failing. It is now regarded as certain that the, Ga thedral of Cologne will be completed in 1e80.s A cotton factory IS soon to be built in Sum- init, Miss, which will be the tenth in that State
 The silver vase presented tolHenry Clay by Wings is offered for sale by his grandson. q Samuel Emery, clever London actor, ex- cells in personating the devoted husband; but his wife is suing him for maintenance
 A pitiable old tramp was entertained at Ba:- tie Creek, Mich, by a negro whom he had once owned in the South. Times had chang ed for both.
 | Charles Gambetta, who claimed to be the uncle of M. Gambetta, has just died in an | almshouse at Milan aged S1 He has squan- dered considerable patrimony.
 The English assizes show extraordinarily light criminal calendars at some places only one prisoner, at others none, the fact being that hard times shut off the mother of crime drink. .-f. If-ti l.aW+t The French Chamber has been lately called upon to consider the question of the abolition of an old law passed more than sixty yea 8 ago, and now entirely unobserved, obliging all work to be suspended and all shops shut on Sunday To the mass the existence of such law was unknown.
 Nothing is lost in France. The orange | blossoms and grass in the public gardens of | Paris are sold to the highest bidder, and at l country railroad station a visitor lately saw sale of the grass on the embankmentS. The purchasers were ptasants' wives. r..,,.r,.u { Adam Helmer, of Port Huron, Mich, got out of bei armed himself with gun, and went Gown stairs to hunt 8 burglar His Wife arose immediately afterward, and stole on tiptoe down another stairway. They came together in d dim light, and Helmer, mistakiug his wife for burglar, killed her on the spot
 Highwaymen stopped Bernard Southwick on lonely Indiana road, and demanded his | money or his life. He fought with exceeding
 valor and vigor, bruising his assa lants serious
 ly with club, and was vanquished only after
 a quarter of an hour of desperate resistance
 On searching. his pockets. in the expectation of getting valuable booty, they found exactly | eleven cents. 2 facturer tsLec, Mass, has for srnany years been noted for violent outbreaks of temper. | fOrdinariy he was dignified in Experiment, but whenever he got angry he committed some breach of decorum. A short time ago an old man offended him. and he used a chance weapon so recklesslY that his victim was near Y killed. He now goes to prison for five years.
 3 Bishop lHerznog, the head Of the m Swiss Old Catholics, held confirmation onJuly 13, in | Paris, in. NJ Hyacmthe LoYsol1's Gallican Church. Three girls and two boys were the recipients of the rite, and the communion was tsadministered in both kinds, about twenty oth- CT persons. persons paftaking The congrega- ] ton numbered between 250 and 300, the ma jority of whom appeared to be regular attend ants A Republican Deputy, the Comte de Douville Maillefeu.i is member of the church. A Philadelphia newsboy, seeing locomo- | tive start off by itself on down grade of the | Pennsylvania Railroad, and knowing that un- l less switched off at certain point it would meet an express train, undertook to outrun it. He won the race, just in time to tell switch- I man and prevent disaster. Col Scott re- warded him with a monopoly of the newspaper trade on one of the conpany's lines and from 1ithe derived agood incomeuntilhe died, a few days ago. ~ ssssa. <sa.
 stPlon Plon" has long been 1thes dread of all parties in France. When this reproach once
 met his ears from the lips of the late Emperor,
 he smiled grimly, and stretched forth his arms
 to every corner of the compass, declared that I s'not France alone, but the whole universe
 would proclaim itself of his party when the
 proper time came. He believes in great so-
 cialistic republic, with more equitable dis
 tribution of worldly goods, a division of terri
 tory among the poor, and limitation to the
 property of the rich.
 In Russia, as well as in Germany, Austria,
 and one or two minor northern realms, mo- ] blemans title is inherited by all his sons, who I transmit it to their male soffspring and so on
 ad infinitum. Needy nobles necessarily
 abound. There are forty or fifty Count Zichys in Hungary, three or four of whom are wealthy l magnates, and the rest pass their lives in the
 army or Government offices on the smallest
 pay In Galicia there are entire villages where
 every peasant native has the right to preface
 his name with the title of Prince. rlrf
 The report of Mr. Forrest, British Consul at Hentsin, that the deaths from starvation
 in China during the late famine reached to-
 tai of nine and a half millions is confirmed by
 MT. Hitler. also of the consular service, who. within six months. has visited the desolated
 provinces. Whole districts, once densely pop
 ulated, are now almost uninhabited, The efforts of the Government to send aid were frustrated by the bad roads and the fact that ] the people en route seized the pack horses and mules to devour them. No fiction can surpass in horrortl,e scenes described by Mr. For ioS'' tfgEI3 y{daYt88