Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-10
THE ENQUTRER.
LITCHFTELD, AUGUST 10, 1887.

be, we are pretty confident it will not be the case- Both of them elect by districts and believe in ev- cry case by single districts In Kentucky, there are one two districts bordering upon Tennessee which have uniformly been strongly for Van Buren, and we have no reason to think that they will not still be so So in Indiana though Gen. Harrison received the electoral of the state in November yet Mr. Van Buren received majores ofa thousand or more in some of the congressional districts We cannot there- fore expect any state having as many as six members to present an undivided ont' for either party ex- cept poor old dsgraced Connecticut, who will not have
 single whig Representative in either branch of Con- gTess at the approaching session.
 The Election Returns from the south and southwest come in very slowly.
 Of Mississippi, from which we had one county last week. we have only few additional returns far, however matters look favorable to the election of the whig members of congress A few days will bring full returns
 North Carolna is the next to hear from, whose cleo tons are held this week, except in district, which was the week before last In the district heard from, the whg candidate (Mr. Stanley in place of MT. Pet tgrew) is successful. Our friends calculate upon ven certain out of thirteen, and many they can get. Like Maryland, however, rather like her self last fall, Old Rip may deceive us.
 0r If any of our village readers wish to see most beautiful and luxuriant field of rye-the best in the town probably-et them walk out to the famous ~Plumb Hill'-famous for making whig freemen- now called Freemens Hilr'-and they will be abun- dantIy grati6ed. It is ready for the sickle and before this paragraph reaches many of its distant read CTS, it will be laid low.
 We have received two or threo numbers of a new paper published in Danbury by the title of Dabury 7Ses." It is much better printed than the mass of papers in this sate-the selections udicious-and the editorial department fairly managed. In po- ltics it is professedly and we know not but actually neutral It is position nevertheless which dislike to see any paper assume-for most commonly the po-
 cal selections will show on what side its publisher is ranged. No newspaper editor in these times, who has the least spark of independence, can long main tain such an unnatural position What say you, MT. Osborne, is not so7
 Dreadfl ConRdgrat;on !-New-FIaven has at last been visited with desolating fire! Several attempts had been previously made by ncendiaries to fire the city, but fortunately they were frustrated until We'd nesday evening last, when fire was kinded in the heart of the city, and consumed considerable num- Der of buildings. most of which however were rather small and od-of course the loss is not so great as would seem from the number of buildings destroyed in
 cty. The light from this conhagration was distinct ly seen by many people in this village between and 10 o'clock, though at the time supposed to be not fur ther than South Farms or Watertown. 2r See par ticulars in another part of the paper.
 The annual Commencement in Washington Col ledge, Hartford, was held on Thursday last. We see by the papers that it attended by goodly number of people, and that the exercises spirited and well sustained The number of students on which degrees conferred is not stated but we understand they were not numerous.
 We learn from the New York papers that MT. Abel Avery, IT, of Salisbury, in this county, late of Mlton was robbed the evening of the 26h ult on board the canal boat Three Sisters, few miles above Fon- da, of about $500, by an Englishman named James Harrison, passenger in the same boat Harrison was overtaken about miles east of Johnstown, and nearly $7OO found upon him, when he confessed the theft, and was committed to jail Ut Johnstown.'
 FOR THE ENQUIRER. From Lhc Ladies and Gentlemens Society of So Ears
 for Moral and Intellectual Improuennenf
 Qmestson. When survey our Saviour's earthly course, what trait of characer strikes us with the greatest torce and what do contemplate with the greatest personal satisfaction?
 When bring to my mind the life of Him who lived as perfect pattern for follow. and died to n- ish the great object for which he ved run over the different incidents which fill up that life behoding perfect uniformity of conduct in al-strking in a- simple in greatness, and great in simplicity. To se lect any particular trait of character as preeminent above the rest. is, if may he allowed the comparison like selecting the most beaueous tints of that cove nant bow set in the clouds by the hand of Jehovah- Some one ray penciled there may show less brilian cy, but yet it may be less lovely Thus with ev cry acton of our Saviour from the manager to the cross varied, yet uniform, different in degree yet perfect in equality. But the last finishing scene was acted on Calvary, the sanction it to all the rest so if any trait is to be considered pre-emnenL methinks it must be the feelings there exhibited-portrayed to us by the words there uered-words not to be mistaken never to be forgotten" Father, Jforgiee them."- This was the prayer of suffering humanity for the greatest of enemies Though the precept of forgive ness had never been stronger inculcaed in life than many other precepts it seems that he knowing the weakness of our nature designed instruct on this important point by adding most perfect example, Here was shown the greatest control over the human passaons which man can acquire; and we are taught that he Tn hs human nature suffered as man, with the same 'eellngs passions and emotions Then let us picture to ourselves this last scene in his earthly course See the assembled thousands on the he;chts of fCalvary-hear the demoniac cry of Cucifv him cruelty him." See the "Lord of Glory,'' burthened