Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-15
\, MISCELLANEOUS.

Somebody has counted 104 hangings by sheriffs in this country during 1879, and 72 by mobs. .-
 At Konigsberg, in Prussia, there are 800 maid servants out of situations, having been dismissed by their masters for the sake of economy. Ea#
 Twenty kegs of gold were received in Chicago from this city few days age. Each weighed 300 pounds, and contained $75, 900, making $1, 800, 900, in all. This money was sent by Jim Keene in payment for wheat
 When the Rev. D. Jacobs Ide was ordained pastor of church at Medway,z Mass, sixty. three years ago, his health was 80 bad that it was supposed he would die within few months; but he survived until last Monday, attaining the age of 95. Of the 800 members funeral services of all except one
 Railroad companies usually carry travelling show companies at half or two-thirds the reg uar rate. This concession has been taken ad- vantage of in the West, it is said, by the agent of a small dramatic party in peculiar man. ner. He would go to the passenger agent and buy fifty tickets at the reduced price, claiming he had that number of persons in. his organi- zation, but there were really only fifteen, and he sold the other thirty-five tickets to ''scal- pers'' at a sufficient profit to get his own peo- pie carried free.
 E According to the reports ofpersons returned lately from the Spanish marriage fetes to Vi enna, the prevailing disposition at Madrid is such as to justify not only serious apprehen- sions with regard to the tranquility of. the cap- itab but also to the dynasty Of real affee ton for the monarch there is no trace to be found, and.the young Queen has in general also been received cooily It struck the vis- tors that Queen Isabella was eagerly saluted wherever she appeared ' ''S i<' '' ~
 Toby Hughes was not considered of much consequence m San Francisco, where he was a brokers clerk. He quietly bought 10, 900 shares of Challenge mining stock at $1 share, which was all that it was worth. Through a friend, he went through the form of daily sell ing some of the stock at an advance, being always himself the purchaser. In a month he got the quotation up to $3.5 though there had been no real sales. Then he left with several brokers bogus orders from Flood, the millions man, to buy it at $3. They there. upon purchased Tobys 10, 900 shares, and.he,
 with the $20000 profit, hastily quilted the city. Challenge has dropped back to $1.
 Cannon Liddons is regarded as the most bril- liant of living English preachers, lucid, forci- ble, impassloned, nor failing, when occasion serves, to appeal to the tenderest sentiments of the heart. To hear him and see him at his best-for he then wears the black garb which | becomes his dark features -one should go to St. Mary's, Oxford, and listen to him address | ing an audience sympathetic and culture l. He is shertsighted, and, failing to learn his sermons by heart, keeps bobbing up and dowI at his manuscript, which is undignihed, but al l faults of manner are forgotten in his silvei | tones and exquisitely modulated sentences i The wrong man was kissed again at a Koch I ester railroad statlon.I He was an old and un suspected traveller, and the girl was a fashion l able and respected resident of the city. Il
 was dark, and she mistook him for her father. What ensued is described by the Democrat
 stWith more than the usual demonstration. displayed on such occations, she threw bott arms about his neck and imprinted severa
 sounding kisses upon his face.i The startled 1 old gentleman pushed her gantly and said in s t smothered tone, Some mistakea some snis
 take.' She sprang back like a frightened l fawn. Oh, thought you were father. You'l
 excuse me, won't you?' Certainly said tho
 old boy, smiling, but you-yon nearly smoth cred -me.' She afterwafd found her papa, bu
 the previous effort had exhausted her. ane she merely gave him coldsor of aamestinl ho1ss kiss.