Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-15
THE ENQUIRER. LITCHFIELD, JAN. IS, 1895.

various sections of the are becoming alive the importance of organising preparatory iO the spring campaign Ihatlhey cailag State and District and
 Town meelings for the purpose Of taking the inato- y steps in the eelecIion Of suitable candidates for the Senate well State Officers and Members of Con- gress This is the right way of doing business. Our opponents are indefaIigably active; they have their troops trained and ready for action at a mOmeU''s warning aHd in their zeal and ardOr nI least exhibit spirit which the whigs may with safety initiate. It is Wae cha, we dislike long campaign; but the en- emy take the field early, they must bs met Nt the OSt set. Whigs of LiIchReld County! the eyes of your
 friends in every part of the state iurDed towards SOw-are you prepared and ready to give good acc count of fyOurselves3
 The first of January s generally rife with newapH. per changes or improvements. |" New-Haven, we perceive there have been changes in both the Herald and Journal. Mr. Woodward, of the Herald, has as- sociated with himself Mr. John B. Darlington, an ex rerienced and industrious printer: there will be no change in the political character of the paper
 Messrs Peek & Newton have sold out their in,erea, im the Journal Mcssrp. Lambert & Leland, ny whom h will be hereafter published; and .rus i,s future
 political eeci the righ, side, will he a. least equal to wha, it has been under the management ot Mr. P. rWe hope too that we may get our New-E1aven
 apers in less ,an 4s or 72 hours after they pab lshed.1
 7Re sreather. during the whole Of the pnst week, wua probably unexampled in the "memory oflhe oId- est inhabants." In this village, the mercury every uight exccp, Saturday sunk below sero-then it was about 8 above-and during the day, from Sunday to Frday inclusive the mercury did not rise higher than 10 or I0 alove sero-aome dave not than or 3. And here, on the high grounds, tho cold was not 30 great by many degrees in places situated near riv. era or io valleys. Ir Hartford, Middletown, Norwich New.tiaven. Bridgeport Pennington, Bristol. Wa terlry, Scc. tue mercury sunk below 20-in some of the piaces 10 28 and 30 below O. In Utica, 3S@Troy 32-CiOsheM, N. Y. 32-New.Lebanon 3S, one ther. tnoneter 10 4O and the mercury appeared Co be con gealed Cor some time. In Washington city and Alex. andria IS below-in Baltimore or 8-in Philadelphia and ueighborhood about the samc-in New.YOrk 7- ln Boston l6--Concord 27-Lowell 24-in the towns up in Maine from % to 35-on Connecticut river from 20 ,o 3O-and wherever we have heard from, the cold has heeo intense. The New.Haven Herald states ,ha. n the fanous hard winter oi l779s0. according so no,e of Pres S,iles the mercury was as low as 9 below O-nosO, 9 and 24.
 In consequence of the great degree of cold a few days past, the s,eam boats which plyed from NewYork in various directions all stopped running. The har. hor was 6lled with floating or stationary ice. Multi. ,udes oC people have crossed the ice from New. York 10 Brooklyn.
 The New.lIaven Palladium, in alluding to the late severe cold weaihsr. says-" We should like to hear from Lach hfeldwhich s said to he ,he coldest spot iin Connecticut" Eie, fe. Mr. Bahcork, don't san. der our genial cline n this manner. In extreme cold wea,her the mercury here rarely sinks % Iow nc in the valley hns no ai any time 'bis exiraor. diuary seasoa been lower than IA below 0, which was on Sunday n0rning of last week. On Monday morn. ing, shed h was g below 0 in New.liaven, is was onIy here-a difference of eniy g degrees |" favor of our climate. Besides, lo"k ., your bills of moraIi. ty-con,ras tho loaks of the cherry damsels of our hll.,op towns with the sicky, cahaver"us hue of your city belles--aad cay which the sub fec, to thu, mos, sabe and insdious destroyer "s hU. man life, consumr,ioni Rarely indeed does person here fa victim that disease, while to your beau,i (ut city one.lonh or one.fhh of i,s fair population are swept oG with it.
 '5O, 900 copies of tho Oraon or Mir. John e. Adams upon the fife and charAc,es and memory of Lafayette have heea ordered by the House of Representatives Co he prinied for the Of the members; and O0O by che Senate. wilt at any rate make very comfort. able job fer the printers to Congress. We hope our Member of Congress will avail himself of his "hank. iag privilege" and forward some copies to his coHsni. uens n this quarter. No complaint certainy can rest aRa;ns, him yet for his abHse of his "prvege" unless because he has no, sufficiently used i.-"r iI is taci ,ha, scarcely single public document texcept news. papers for which we return him nSr ihank) has beeH received from him since the commencement Of the sessioa of Congress.
 The repor, of an earthquake having been felt at Hartford (which las, week rather dscrediIed ap- rears Co Le con6rmed-as we learn h was felt al Mid dletown Norwich, SGc and also ia some parts of ihs county d the came time.
 The Legislature Of Massachusetts assembled last week. On eoualing the members ascertain whether . quorum wns present, only 504 answered to their usmes! Wha, an army! Enough we shoaid thi"k to prevent any business being done. is surprising that ihs enlightened people ef the old Bay Sm,e do not a mead sheir laws esd prevent the assemh"g Of such uaassde. Wi,h less ihaa ose.ihird o sAe population ofNew-Yosk, she Massachssesis egislassse has more thaa four iimss aHay members. Connecticut tn all conscience s bad enough in this respect but Massa- chuscils bsaEs of the palm tar 0nwise number oi mw;maasmra Tn he ch0;~a s.f Q,,a~kar ynl;ua