Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

A San Francisco man was killed by an East Indian whom he called "nigger."
 A leading hotel in Dundee, Scotland, is furnished throughout with furniture made in Grand Rapids Mich.
 The Island of Elba Napoleons first exile home, has been devastated this spring by an army of locusts from Africa.
 Helen E. Coolidge is partner with her father an ex-Judge, at Niles, Mich. The firm name is Coolidge & Daughter.
 Mr. Gladstone has for the first time made ''advanced age," in connection with pressing engagements, an excuse for pot attending meeting.
 Alexapder Dumas's fortune is estimated at $500, 900, outside of his art collection, worth nearly as much Every penny of it he has de- rived from his literary labors.
 The Rev. Joe Cook is not the only man who complains of the wines and liquors of the St. Botolph Club of Boston. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale has withdrawn his name from the list of members on that very account.
 MT. Gladstone at the Academy dinner ob- served to Lord Derby, who sat next to him. in tone which was perhaps intended to he, certainly was, overheard that he did not pro- pose to retain the Premiership longer than eighteen months.
 On the first of May new teegraphic rule went into operation in Switzerland At the request of the sender, the message must be de- livered open at the designated domicile, 8, that, in the absence of the person for whom it is intended, immediate attention may be given to the matter.
 The Rev. Webster Hazlewood of Roxbury, Mass, told his wife that he was tired of her, and wished she would get divorce, so that he could marry more congenial woman. She did as he requested, he providing the evidence of his own criminalty. He is now free, but was compelled to retire from the ministry. ness on small scale with bogus petrifed baby, which she wheeled from town to town in peramhnlater, telling story of it's sick ness death, and final transformation into stone. The figure had been we'll made as to it's head and arms, but plain marks of the chisel were found elsewhere.
 Andrew Aimers, the oldest compositor in Scotland, lately died in Edinburgh He help-
  lected the beacons which blazed through the country to announce Napoleons's invasion on false alarm, and his grandfather pointing out to him the place where he saw "Prnce Charlie entering Edinburgh after Preston pans.
 Three blind girls went out for a walk, in St. Louis They were familiar with the street. and made their way with ready confidence: hynff f1,.xtl .. ] lately made. and 90 walked into It. One was killed, and the others badly hurt
 Among the paid bills and other documents received by a St. Louis man from his fifteen. year-old daughter, who was away at school, was marriage certificate. That was the first news of her nuptials
 In the Russian village of Elizaroff, province Of Moscow, during the services on Easter day, a wolf ran into the chapel of the Old Believ- CTS and assailed the worshippers The latter in their fright, made so terrible noise that h. wolf beat nasty retreat, leaving four per- sons wounded
 The demand for holy images having lately decreased in Russia, some of the manufactur- CTS changed their business and resorted to forging Russian bank notes, which gave them handsome profit But this occupation hav- ing been broken up by the police. the forgers have taken up another business, that of dig ging in the Siberian mines
 Two Mormon emissaries recently appeared in the Palatinate and held meetings They were forbidden by the authorities to propa- gate their views, but. nevertheless succeeded in converting fourteen families of forty per sons They have now removed to Name heim where weekly meetings are held, attend ed by some sixty or seventy persons.
 Two pedestrian shows are travelling through the country, circus fashion. One is managed by OfLeary, and usually occupies large public buildings. The other is Harverly's enterprise, and the walking is done ID 8 big tent The races last six days each. at twelve hours day. The best figures thus far in such contesteare 44O for Hughes, the ''lepper." The first prize is usually $500. f Referring to the recent creation of peers, the London Truth observes that ''it is not likely that the absurdity of granting hereditary titles will long survive," and adds that while Eng fish people often sheer at the bought titles on the Continent, they are, in fact, just as much sold to those who purchase them by expendit- ure at elections for Parliament Samuel $. ScattergoOd was conservative I importer of Mediterranean fruits in Philadel phla, and had amassed about $250, 00O A year ago he invested nearly all of his money in Leadville mining projects, and they have fail. ed. Not only was his own fortune engulfed but friends were led by him into similar loss. He could not bear this adversity, and hanged himself -ls..,I21c ] The London Times says that the Russian Nlhiists carry about their persons the types with which they do their printing If it is necessary to publish a proclamation Or other document, the compositers meet in secret. and in the quickest possible way put in type the manuscript, and then print it from a hand press. When the necessary number of cop,es IS ready, the press is taken to pieces and put ln the pockets of the conspirators, who imme- diately return to their homes.
 The declaration of the suffrage women. made in National Convention at Indianapo lis, few days ago, under the direction of Susan E. Anthony is as follows: sIn this year of presidential nominations, of political campaigns, we announce our determination to support no party, by whatever name called, unless such party shall in it's platform first emphatically endorse and support our demand for recognition of the exact and permanent political equality of woman with man: and we hereby declare that we shall hold any party as an enemy that does not make woman | cuffraua O rormonanf oud ;.,,,ool:.a.