Litchfield enquirer., 1834-12-18
THE ENQUIRER.
LITCHFIELD, DEC. IS, 1884.

AA' AA/ASA@S DAS~S ACS 1Ce1&s VIginiG Legislaturs.-PubIic attention hasIOr some days past been directed with little socilOde towards the legislature of the ancient dOmiDiOR ascertain what she would do with regard to the election of Sem atOr in place of Me- Leigh- It was geUeraIIy believed shat majority of the members elect were decidedly iO favor Of returning Mir. Leigh; and to counteraci fhs, the JacksOn-Van-BuTen throughout the state have been very industrious in getting up what they cal instructions to the members against Mr. L.. 1O counties it believed they had been SO eE fectual to induce the members to contrary to lheir own feelings and thus support either Mr. Rives, or some other Van Buren man to the Senate. And in he election of Mir. Lynn Banks Speaker of the po- puIar branch Of the legislature, the Jackson party were encouraged that they had far succeeded Sintimida.e some of the Wings to vote for hr. Bu, when the election of printer for the on the wlgs rallied, and showed Mir. Richie that they were their faith, in displacng him and appointing Mr. Shepard by majority io joint ballot of II votes. As Mr. Richie had been public printer for upwards Of twenty years, and supposed he could hold inc office ] as long he pleased, this election upon him like thunder bolt. Since then the election for Se Maior has been postponed until February, when the strongest hopes entertained .ha, Mr. Leigh some other whig will be elected.
 MissoMri.-Lewis F. Linn has been reelected Se- i" Congress from this for six years from 3 oi March next. He is Jacksonian.
 John c. Calhoun has been reelected Senator in Congress from South Carolina.
 COld.-On Monday morning last, 18th, the mercury stood at degrees below zero in this village, and did .: a great degree of cold for the codest winter weather about am inch of snow the ground.
 anksgiping.-rhis good old fashioned New Eug- land custom, which under De Witt Clinton first brought into fashion in New York; was this year more than usually observed. In the city, remarks the Daily Adv. "the Exchange was deserted, the banks post office. aud custom house closed, aud the church. opened and well attended," that so grea, the demand for turkies and pumpkins, that the markets were literally cleared; that small sized o the former brought two dollars, aud the latter Atty cents a-piece"-preuy good evidence that the Yankee GUS tom s fas, extending. Let them keep up their Yan- kee .ha"ksgivngs a few years, and n hopes it will prove auxiliary in uproong Van Buren, ism. Nothing will have a saIuary effect upon that state than sound moral feeling.
 Anti- Masonic Conusatioa.-This Convention for the nomination of State Officers aud Members of Congress we learn assembled Ut MiddIetown Wednesday of last week. But very small proportion of the towns or the state represented at the meeting From what can gather, it not the most harmonious body which assembled; but that there were lots of family jars' aMd bcksrings-iha section of the party for putting up a clean Simon Pure anti-ma- sonic tic kei, unti"ctured with Whgism, Tory ism aay other ism hich pervades the land except genuine unaduierated anti-ism-;ha another section dis posed ,o be liberal add as they cooId dfsco that any such thing as the monster Masonry had survived the crusade which had been made) were dis posed give up their distinctly party, and let it mingle with whatever other parties exised-ihat those who Jackson anli-masons would turn themselves ihe buffetings of Jacksonism; and those who were Whig anti-masons to be Wings sim- ply. The Gna result, however, of all their deIibera- tions (wi,h how mucH una"imity we cannot say) was ,he folio wing ticket, some of which venture say will be elected spring. and some ,O nOt
 For GoUernor-Sau,uel A. Foot.
 H. Gopernor-John M. Holley.
 |" Trsasurer-lsaac Spencer.
 " Secretary-Thomas Day.
 Congress. Joseph TrumbWil, Hartford county.
 EbeOezer Jackson, Jr. Midd:esex.
 Charles J. bfCur,iy, New-London.
 Alanson Hamlin, Far6ela.
 Ebenezer Young, Wndham.
 Phinehas Miner, L,ch6eld.