Litchfield enquirer., 1836-05-19
THE ENQUTRER.
LlTCHFIELD, MAY I9. 1896.

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LlTCHFIELD, MAY 10, 1885.
| The city Of Nsw-York is in peck oflronhIes re-
speeding their city government. There being lie IL
the political aspect Of the Boards neither the Alder.
me" nor the Assistants elect presiding officer
The Aldermen have had two ,neeiiags Of six or eieh,
/ hours eachN a"d hAoted upwards Of one hundred
tines with the same result. g. - 8. The As.s,au,a
nearly a. many aad they also sand 20 g. El,e I'M,
ter were t"r'"n",e enough To choose n WING Clerk,
one Of the I"eafacos after baoiue spme lime ,s,;oo
his vote f"rt'iaD la preference 10 being voul ooe-
TIL" Wings have this advantage, that in each Board
the President pro tenn is Ofheir ar,y and must serve
until he regular one is appointed.
Tile Terrain THar.-Reaty, The accounts from The
theatre OF war ]" Texas Of strange and
'radirtory character that ,cp hardly know what 10
make Of them. The accounts pass through 30 many
sources, and there s such disposition by each Of the
parties engaged in The ron,rversg make The worse
appear the better, that very little he relied "ron
as correct. Far instance, within The last few days
there have been accOsnrs apparently authentic thar
considerable force under Major Fannin we've taken
and hn'chered ia cold blood, day two alter, this
accou" is contradcted and il i stated tina, they sur
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Mexican compaader only remarLing tba, shcy shou,f
be made to build up the Of Csoiiad which Kev
had destroyed before they fed from it, Mex, f,lIow.
a" account that the first story correc,-ilat the
whole force after their surrender, were marched our
in separate divisions and shot, and that only FIVE r.
six out ofupwards of30O troops. made iLer escape.
Now how I" reconcile all these different siasemen,a ia
more than We can do; and sometimes feel almost
disposed to publish nothing upon the subject Thn,
the Mexcans hive thus far been sacceasal in driving
the Texans before them, there can be no douL-apd
may be that niany Of these stories OF " horrd mas
sacres," have been got up by the Texians themselves
in order to excite the sympathy and s.imula,e 10 VEN
eeance the inhabitants Of the neighborinp States and
| territories
FIREs.-Mo"day nights mail hroagb, M accounts
o. no less cha" four destructive fires. MAJ e
P""ghkeepse, Grcenlush. and Troy. In Nantucket,
there were three large and valuable hudings On Main
andtwo Q" Union street, besides several barns and
o"'houses, destroyed. Loss estimated al $lOO, OOO-l
j" POughkeePsie the Ere bsoke on, 10 German & Mel.
sons cabinet shop Niaa street., and extended TO
three or four bulldogs each side which II desroy
ed The loss estimated at about $50, OOO In Green.
eash a''oai3O buildings destroyed. 10 Of whic
belonged - Mr.. I. Fly, on whose premises the fire
originated Many Of the buildings were small. Loss
about $25.000. 10 Troy the fire originated in ans de-
stroyed with Us contents the factory OF the Fuia Rs
her Company. corner Of Second and Madison streets
! No insurance in this last fire.
SILK CULTuRE--Now is the time tifil I've no. it,
tie too aie1 for transplan,ing ,he ulberry and pre-.
pairing the ground for the seed. In taking ramhle
through the lots one day last week back ri our resi-
dence, we were very agreeal'y surprsed 10 come a.
cross four acre lot prepared for setting out mulberry
trees. and 10 find three four workmen busiIy enpa
ged IN transplanNg them. About 500 trees had nj.
ready been set many Of them Of i've or eix wears
growth the irunks Of which two or three inches
in diameter, and down 10 mere TWICE And We
learnt that il designed on, from 1900 10 20OO
Go ahead" say we. We were glad 10 learn thai Dr.
WoLcorT was putting portion Of his fGa farm 10 no
good uae. The outlay a, first may be consider aie,
but we have little doubt that in five or six years these
four acres will yield much profit as the hest four
acres Of meadow on his farm. In the mean time The
land can he cultivated with corr, potatoes, &c. TO the
benefit Of tie trees q" 7'+ :@'
U We take this occasion 10 remart-what we in.
tended 10 do before now-,l,ai observed some time
since in the Silk CSliurist Hartford notice Of the
formation Of \ Silk Society in the sop,hwes par, Of
'h' county, the parish of Bridgewa,esl and called
the iifchfrid County SIX Society Now we presume
IL was pretty we'll known throughout the county that
one had previously lieen formed in this town by the
same NAME Al geReral notice gives in the papers
Tor two three weeks previous ,he time Of meet.
ing; people from AL parts Of the comfy we're invited
10 attend: the meeting daily held, constitution
formed, the officers chosen and their names pnbisI-
ed Subsequently they made application the State
Soeiety for thsir proportion Of mulberry seed and elk
worms eggs, and were sapplied. And we would now
take the liberty sugges to the goodpeople of Rridg.
water who have assumed the title Of LichEeld Couaiy
Society The propreiy Of either changing their title
aning with the society which has been ioraed at the
centre Of the county, and composed os persons from
different towas. 4.nsst3 TtGJa a8A t@ 1872
| tse79 e.5 sa5ff isf-, .-- 9;i ~ RsE
St,arbsries.-A notice having hees insersed ia our
paper few weeks since eon,aiaing seeommendason
by aswriler in South Carolina 60 spread sghi
eriug Of straw the bed and ere il, for the
purpose Of Fastening vegetation. Of osr iowns.
men, leare, were ndneett n try 1.-THE effect al
which wasiha, instead Of being baae6ied they were
nearly destroyed. II may DO in South -Caroina, ba,
sD moi answer 10 our writ. heavy sail where ,he roors
are rown almost Of The gron0d by the Frost, We
were about Try oarsef when we heard Of The ~
lack of neisisbor.
Ia the n. Y. Daily ADV. Of Saturday week !. rnhlis
ed the proceedings % Congress upon The laod i and
accompanying them is sl'is editorial paragraph.