Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mark Twain and his wife are now in Paris.
 Cetywaye has eleven thousand wives
 There were 800 muskrats caught last week at Saratoga lake,
 Ice is now manufactured in Tennessee ard Georgia at one cent per pound.
 Mr. H. w. Longfellow uses an inkstand which used to belonged to the poet Coeridge.
 General Joseph R. Hawley is proposed by the Tarrytown (N. Y.) Argus as the Repubi- can candidate for President in 1880.
 John Brown, jr., son of "Ossawattamle" Brown, is to assist the negroes who are Kan sas struck in finding homes.
 The Duke of Norfolk has subscribed $1OO,- GOO toward the erection of new church on the site ot the present Oratory at Brompton, England.
 Sixty-one graduates of Yale, thirty-fivc of Princeton, and thirty of Dartmouth hold clerk ships and other positions in the departments at Washington.
 According to Rev. L. T. Chamberlain of Norwich, drunkenness and crime have fallen off greatly in the city since no license was voted.
 The world averages an annual product of 9S1, ,000, 900 pounds of tea, China producing 500, 900, 900, Japan 40, 900, 900, India B, 000- 900, and Java 6000,000.
 The Rev. Christopher Harmon lectured at the West on "The Holy Land" One of his travelling habits was to marry woman here and there. He is now in jail in Greensburg, Ind, as bigamist
 Blondln, the rope walker who few years ago was rich, and lost his money through the failure of a European bank, and is now seen riding on the top of London omnibuses. Dr. George M Beard of New York has withdrawn his $50, 900 libel suit against the New Haven Palladium because it criticised his action in the investigation of Brown, the mind-reader, sometime ago.
 While hunting fox on March 29, the North umberland and Berwickshire foxhounds pur- sued it into the Post-O Office at Milfield. Thence | the fox escaped into cottage opposite, whith- CT several dogs followed. Furniture, china and glass were knocked about and broken and after great deal of confusion the fox was killed under bed.
 The woman suffrage advocates in Massachu- setts are carrying on their campaign by a sys- tenn of gradual approaches. Having secured the passage of bill allowing women to vote for school officers they now want to be allowed to vote on all matters relating to the sale of l intoxicating liquors, and bill giving them | this right received a favorable vote in the Massachusetts Senate yesterday.
 The Cure of Marpingen in Germany. ind ! ing church fees low,got up a miracle to aug ment them. Little girls attending his cate chism alleged thatthey had ascended to heaven on ladder seen God, the angels, and the saints, and had distant view of the devil. Much griss was brought to the cures mill by pilgrims. A prosecution for inpesture was in- stituted. The trial at Saarbruck lasted sever al days. The first news of the verdict was published in Paris by the clerical Universe in thefe terms: "All the Marpingen prisoners are acquitted Joy is universal" The Uni verse omitted a rather important clause of the judgment, thus worded: "The pretended visions are shameful man9uvres on the part of the parents of the children and of the other defendants who supported the imposture but in legal point of view they are not punish. able" E
 The women and children in the mills and factories of India are greatly oppressed Oi all the classes that toll for livelihood, said the Earl of Shaftesbury in Parliament, 'there is none so helpless, friendless and subdued as these wretched women. They are douby slaves-slaves to the mlllowners and slaves tc their husbands who, disregarding the suffer ings of their wives, revel at ease in their harc won earnings. They have no public opinior on their behalf-no press, no paid or voluntary agitators. In their distress they lift their eye to the Imperial Parliament and shall it be re piled, my lords. that, 'en the side of their op pressors there WIS power, but that the oppress ed had no comforter? Heaven forbid such al issue Forty six yeors ago I addressed th' House of Commons in kindred appeal ane they heard me now turn to your lordship and implore you in the same spirit. for God' sake and in His name, to have mercy on th' children. Hear, hear.