Litchfield enquirer., 1868-09-10
News Of the Week
FOREIGN.

Grem Brilain.-On Saturday evening an anti-catholic meeting was broken up by Irishmen at Birmingham. The London Times thinks the time for the annexation of Mexico to the United States has not arrived. l Dr. Bellows, of New York, has within a letter strongly advising the disestablish- ment of the Irish church as means of con | teracting Fenian agitation in America Reverdy Johnson has made one or two speeches in Sheffield. Disturbances still continue in Ireland.
 The coroner's jury on the. late railroad disaster in Wales brought in verdict of manslaughter against two brakemen
 The scientific men sent to observe the eclipse of the sun nave had great success
 France.-The French minister to Rome has been recalled.
 Indications are more peaceful, this week. The soldiers absent on leave are more nu- merous than usual | Prince Napoleon has arrived in France.
 The holders of the Franco Mexican bonds have received an installment of 30 per cent.
 Ge1moany.-Recruiting for the Prussian army has been postponed three months. Naly.-The government is increasing it's l army on the Roman frontier. T~,key.-The French and English min isters are said to oppose Faraguts passing the Dardanelles. Japcn.-The government has made sat lsfactiOn to France for the late murder of boats crew of Frenchmen. Persio.-The heir of the crown died re- centty of cholera | Belgium. The heir 10 the crown is sick and not expected to live. Neac Zea2dnd-A new instruction of the natives has commenced DOMESTIC. General Sherman has returned from his trip to the Rocky Mountains. He reports that the Union Pacific Railroad is finished 790 miles West of Omaha. The recent heavy rains in Georgia have seriously injured the cotton crop. The news from Middle Georgia is gloomy. The worm, rust and rot are at work. 4 writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the ass''sSiiIaS;~-- , ~---srit"' at the Tortueas. has been denied by the United States Dis trict Court of Florida.
 Gen. Buchanan commanding in Louis lana 1nstructs his officers not to interfere With rlOtous demonstrations, merely.
 The Democrats of the Georgia Legisla- ture with the help of few white Republi- cans have expelled all the negroes from that body.
 The Republican majority in Vermont turns out to be 27,000 gain of 1000 on last year.
 Rev. Charles r. Robertson, of Melone N; n:, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of Missouri
 The cattle plague has appeared in Ken lucky.
 It is doubtful whether there will be a September session of Congress. Southern representatives favor it, but those from the North generally oppose 1t. l TWO men Were hung and others maltreat- ed by the Kentucky Ku-Klux, on Wednes- day night last.
 Senator Fowler comes out for Grant, which shows who he thinks suro to win. Indian outrages continue in the Western Territories
 The Georgia legislature have passed so called homestead exemption of &a,ooo ia. personal property.
 Further outrages are reported by the Kentucky Ku KluS.
 Senator Morton of Indiana, is greatly improved in health.
 Commissioners Rollins &y Harlan, and others, are being tried before court of the District Court, on charge of defrauding the Government.
 The New York Democracy have renomi- mated Hoffman, for Governor, and endors- ed the financial policy of the Tammany Convention.
 There was an exciting game between the Athletics of Philadelphia, and the Allan tics of Brooklyn, generally considered the two best base ball clubs in the country. The former won, 34 to B.