Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

Munkasy's picture of Milton and his daugh- ters, which figured at the Paris Exhibition, has been sold at Vienna for $40, 900.
 s Although women are now allowed to prac- tiee law in all the courts of Ohio, not one is permitted to act as notary public.
 Seventeen-twentieths of the indebtedness of Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati is owed to German Catholics.
 Mrs Carissa Cook of Davenport; Iowa. has bequeathed $100, 900 to the Protestant Episco- pal diocese of that state $50, 900 to found home for the friendless and other large sums to church societies.
 The Rev. F. F. Emerson last week resigned his pastorate of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, Hartford, Conn.,, because of change of opinion on his part on the question of bap- tism.
 George Hargreaves, eighty yeras of age, a Liverpool merchant of good standing, has just been sentenced to five years penal servitude for forging bill of exchange for $5, 900. .-
 The Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich have conferred the degree docter on Fraulein Draya Sjecie, young lady from Servia. and Countess Wilma Hugonai of Hun gary, both of whom passed successful exami- nations and delivered inaugural dissertations of exceptional merit.
 The restoration of some church paintings at Ecouche, France, has brought to light 8 mas terpiece by Mignard, nearly nine feet in length, which has been missing since the Revolution. Some house-painter apparently had daubed 6 picture over it, sz s~, F ev TT A The Rev. Henry W ertz of Madison. Wis.,. was thrown from wagon several months ago. He struck on his head, fracturing his skull, | and for weeks his life was in danger He has at last recovered perfect health, but his friends | are surprised to observe that his orthodoxy has l been unaccountably destroyed. He was a l Baptist before the accident !; now he is Uni | tarian, with touch of Spiritualism, and has lost all belief in the doctrines that he used to preach: Y 1EhI,,H r5ts r s Hamlin, the murderer of Warden Shipman l of the Connecticut State Prison, was recently | taken to the Hartford jail, where his cell was searched few days ago. In his pillow was discovered knife with blade and saw con- bined, which he must have had hidden on his person when he was removed from the State Prison, and $100 bank note was found in his clothing. The knife was strong enough for cutting and sawing through the grating of his cell, and but for the perpetual lsuryeillance l which he has been under at the jail there is nc doubt that he would have attempted to es- | cape. l ~F- E ~1 -E-lJ ! EI
 l According to M Godefroy, writing from a place in Loiret, France, rain fell continuously on the 22d, 23d, and 24th of January, and yet | the thermometer remained at several. degrees
 below the. freezing point When the.rain was
 scanty, each drop at once solidiied even on
 warm objects. 1t took the form of small,
 fattened, and irregular pastilles. When the | ra Vga fnl Cp thn ofh han of down on solid bodies, forming new layer of
 ice and producing stalactites, The ice,covered
 branches of trees broke under the weight, and
 the ground was soon strewed with branches, 1 whole trees lay prostrate and uprooted, and others were split in two from top to base. The majority were entirely cleared of their branches, apdpm some parts the forest looked fl like enc of masts.