Litchfield enquirer., 1881-11-24

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 dbe Gltehhelo Gnquirer,
 .lrCAFsELD. CONN. Thursday, Nov. 24, 1881. saasss..-.A-sa~
 The full amount of the Howgate embezzle. ment i1 now stated to be &l60. GOO.
 An Italian statisticisn estimates the number of Jews in the world at (. 6.566. 900.
 The applications to the Irish Land Court ore above 5000.
 New York is now busy building 800 new houses. and fifteen millions more has been spent there than any season before.
 Imitation pearls are made in France so en- tirely like the genuine article that none but an expert can detect the difference
 A New York church was contesting, last week, by popular vote (10 cents eacl) who is the most popular undertaken in the city.
 A state paper announces that ''the barn and contents of Mr. Giles Potter of Essex was burned Thursday night"
 The town of Manzanillo. Mexico, was de- stroyed by hurricane in the latter part of October.
 Mecca has cholera and the faithful are dy- ing at the rate of 500 daily. Steamers refuse to embark returning pilgrims.
 Seven persons lost their lives by the upse. ting of a skin in the Hudson near Troy on the 18th inst.
 Fifteen passengers were hurt by falling through tres,le bridge on the Wabash rail- road, Friday. None were killed.
 A propeller and schooner c0ilided on Lake Erie, last week both sack and four people Inst their lives.
 The threatened c. ntest of the will of the late Henry J. Duraut has finally been avoid cd by e compromise.
 Under her new tariff, Canada imports quarter less American goOds than before ard . sixth more. British.
 Mr. George Riddle. the E iipus of the Har- ward Greek play, gives readings in Hartford, next week. The Russian Nihilisis denounce Guteaus crime. They say that in free cs,un.ry, where the voice of the people can be heard, nothing can excuse resort to force.
 There is i'd to be strong feeling in favor of prohibition ain0ug South Carolina De,n- ocrs,s. That party has not shown any such tendency here in Connecticut.
 John Brady, Jr., the Missouri, not the great Washington Brady, has been sentenced Co seven years in the State Prison for taking false acknowledgements of deeds.
 John Bright's 10th birthday was celebrated on Wednesday. A'iot,g other complimentr, letters was one from Karl Blind tue German writer on social subjects.
 The Wisconsin bountes on wolvcr, wild. cats and foxes, have set people breeding them, and the effect of the bounly is to in- crease the numbers of these vermin. Mayor Shelton has been bound over to the Superior Court on the charge of advising the procurement of an abortion on Mary Hartstein.
 Mr. Lawson. proprietor of the London Tel egraph has bought the Duke of Westmins. ter's Cliveden estate for about a million dol lars.
 The Pacific National Bank, of Boston, was eomDelled to suspend business on Friday. owing to advances made to Mr. T. c. Weeks, stock operator.
 The plumbers have a new seu,i-monthly devoted tO the interests of that trade We had supposed they understood their interests well enough already. Excellent veins of c,ai have been discovered 1t is said. in Ksnakea and Grundy counties. III. Transportation will be easy, anu several railroads will compete for it.
 Mr. Archibald Forbes, the celebrated En- giish war correspondent. lectured in Hartford, on Thursday night last. He was introduced by Mark Twain with characteristic address.
 We see that the Hartford and New Haven papers are complaining that there is little law business doing Tn either place compared with former years.
 The Mayor of Brooklyn has the appointing of all the heads of departments, and the cnm- mon council cannot interfere So Mir. Low. refornser, has clear Hed for reform.
 The managing editor of the Burlington Hawkeye is now xn Assistant P.'st,nasier-G Gen. eral. He presented Gen Grant with numbers of his paper printed ou white silk. it is said.
 An explosion, supposed to be of dynamite <but which proved to be of nsptha) occurred ou Glasgow steamer, last week, killing niue people and wounding 43 more, ulany ot whom are not expected tO live
 The Middiet0wp burglars. James Moore, and James Carpenter have been conv .cted and sentenced each D three snd one-half years tn state prison.
 Mr. Stsstham, the recently appointed Lynchburg postmaster, recently had an affray with young Rieasn,nd Bourbon in winch the latter was stabbed, severely but not dali- 9erously.
 Seven Bowdnin S,phomores have been sued