Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

1 i've uuHuIcu dNU lOTly-uFc VcSeGls udNC already been wrecked this year at less of 3D. 250, 900.
 Senator Gordon of Georgia owns a sheep l farm in that state containing forty thousand acres.
 An authority on whist declares that the fine edge of the whist memory is gone after an extra | glass of wine.
 The Delaware peach crop is estimated at twelve million baskets. The prospect for fine | fruit was never better Fg.-Zs. The hard times in England are reflected in l the Register Generals returns. In 1873 there were 205, 615 marriages, in 1878, 1S9,65 George Jackson, white teacher in the Cin- cinnati High School, has married a negro girl; but her father owns $1Oo, GOO. Prince Bismark has conferred with the Russian Ambassador on the expediency Of adopting common measures against the Social | ists.
 Brigadier-General Ord, although about six ty years of age, is said to be excelled in horse manship by no one except professional circus riders. ....- - s- r
 Grant proved good enough Moses for the Republican Israel, but he can't make suc- 
 A pauper in Gill; Mass, got $5 from the poorn1aste. ''to obtain the necessities of life" as he declared, and used the money in taking to himself wife.
 Paroles gross earnings in this country were $39, 708 and he has more than doubled that amount by his three victories Tn England.
 The Southern Pacific railroad is crawling fhro,, ,n1, Arfo of ff,n off tan an6 feet day.
 Lieut.. Zubovics, the heroic officer who saved over 100 persons from drowning during the inundation of Szegedin, is dying from illnesss brought on by over-exertion on that occasion.
 In the Russian Church there are no less than one hundred thousand persons in holy orders, and, as might be expected, very many of them are in condition of beggary
 The largest taxpayer of Hartford, Conn.,, is MT. Timothy M. Allyn, who pays taxes on $54, 219. Ex-Governor Jewell pays taxes on $85,806.
 In the opinion of the St. Louis Republican forty lngersols, in forty years could not pro- duce so much infdeity as the Talmage 'rack- ct" now going on in Brooklyn.
 The late managers of the New Orleans Dem ocrat, who have advocated the repudiation of the state debt, have been forced by the failure ef the state to pay them as state printers to give up the paper.
 The long waterproof cloak and shawl that Jeh Davis wore when he was captured are preserved from moths in a cedar chest in the War Department, and no one is allowed to see them. Mrs. Davis gave them to Col. Pritch- ard, who sent them to the Secretary of War.
 The new Constitution in California provides that no judge can draw his monthly salary be- fore he has taken oath that no cause remains in his court undecided which has been submitted for decision during period of ninety days.
 Mrs. Julia K. Porker, one of the Glaston- bury Smith sisters and her husband, both 96 years old, had notable wedding reception, Friday night, the brides neighbors turning out in masse and filling the house.
 The present state of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany is such that no surprise can be felt at the anxiety shown by the Pope, on one hand, and by the German Government, on the other, to put an end to it. Out of twelve German dioceses only three are occu- pied by their rightful Bishops.
 The Albany Journal" says of General Dix's activity when Governor of thls state While Governor at seventy five he outworked any of his subordinates. He personally examined every matter with care, and his work was as prompt and conscientious as it was thorough. |"
 Diamonds will shrink in value as we'll as real estate. Madame Bonaparte's jewels were worth $7O, 900 when new, but are now copsid- cred not worth more than $20, O00 They are to be preserved by the Patterson -Bonapartes as heir-Ooms.
 A northern lady, who lately visited the Capitol at Washington, says: With the ex- ception of Mir. Hoar of Massachusetts saw no Senator who pleased me so much as Mr. Bruce the colored representative of Mississippi. He was the first superior colored man ever saw"
 Pennsylvania follows Connecticut, Massa- chusetts, and Vermont in the enactment of strict law to punish tramps. The Legislature orders years imprisonment for begging and three years for entering dwelling against the will of the occupant, for lighting fires upon the highway, or for carrying firearms. A law fully as stringent is before the New York Leg isature.
 Horace Maynard, our Minister to Turkey, is gentleman of large stature, with long black locks falling on his shoulders When he was presented to the Sultan that potentate turned to Mir Eugene Schuyler, who stood beside him, and inquired ''Is this gentleman an American dervish?"
 An ancient burial crypt under New Haven's old Center church has been repaired and will soon be opened for inspection. In it there are ITO slabs and 13 tablets, one bearing the date 1887. while others have the names of Mrs Rebecca Hayes, President Hayes's great great-grand- mother and Marguerite, Benedict Arnold's first wife
 | It is reported that General Hawley, when alluding to the fact that his name had been spoken of in connection with the Republican nomination for Vice. President, said that he would rather be in the Senate six years as representative of Connecticut than to pass four years in the position of a woman waiting for a first husband to die.
 The conviction of Conductor Hartwell, whose neglect of duty caused the railroad dis aster at Wollaston Mass, was for manslaugh- ter, and the punishment may be anywhere from $1 fine to twenty years imprisonment. The evidence was that he switched his freight | train across the track on which fast excur- sion train was approaching, and did not send out danger signal, as the printed rule of the company directed. His only defence was that the excursion train wBs so far behind it's time that he supposed it had gone past. | It appears that majority of the jury in the Lothrop libel case against The Republican were l in favor of the merest nominal damages, six of them voting for one cent and one for ten cents Of the others one placed the amount at $4OO another at $508 and another $30OO For the purpose of swelling the average the remaining two on the test vote put their figures three or four times as high had previously been sug- gested by any one, and the majority found to their surprise and disgust that they were caught in trap It is reported that all of the jury were convinced of the truth of the charges ef brutality, but thought the other allegations were not sustained
 The college youth are now beginning to show in public the fruits of their severe scho- lastic training during the past winter On Sat- urday, Harvard defeated Dartmouth to 3; the Yale freshmen defeated the Harvard fresh men 19 to II; Princeton vanquished the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, 21 to 8; Stevens Insti- ute received its Thsrmopyle from New York University, to O; and the Polytechnic Insti