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Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
SALISBURY. !

A case which has recently occurred # this village is the apt illustration of wo mans credulity and mans deceit. young man who has been boarding at the hotel for few months past. engaged in nc particular business, became admonished by oft repeated presentation of board bills that he must devise some means Of speed. fly settling the same Having natural antipathy to manual labor, he hit upon th, following novel method, which would be creditable in worthier cause:
 Proceeding to the house of g German widow who is possessed of a fine daughter and few hundred dollars in cash, he made proposals to her that they jointly purchase the store owned by Mir. Wells and lately vacated by tailor, and convert. the same into a refreshmeht saloon, the profits aris- ing from, the business to be equally divid cd between them. Asian extra inducemeni he agreed to furnish one half of the pur- chase money and to marry the daughter as soon as the bargain should be consumated. The widow readily accepted this aproposi- tion and at once furnished the young man with sufficient means to secure her share of the stock in the future saloon, telling her daughter to make all haste in prepar- ing for the. .eventful day. After some stip. ulations with MT. Wells as to the method oi payment, a refusal of the property was ob- tained and the day had arrived for signing the deed; but as the young man failed to appear, inquiries elicited the fact that he had decamped few hours previously, talk ing with him both the widows share of the purchase. money and his own scanty supply of luggage. n9'a@a4 -.sto @.t .~ r The Hartford and Salisbury Mining Co.,, seem determined to remove all specu- lations concerning the quantity of ore con- tained in their land and for this purpose they have laid track. for some distance into the pit, and erected new engine of 75 horse power. which will enable them to draw mp the dirt by steam with greater rapidity than has heretofore been done by horses. .-.'| '~.'.--' s5" --e 4
 The homestead of the late John O. Cofing,:. Esq, in this village, ,sold at auction on the 10th inst, was purchased by J. H. Russell, Esq, for $4,50O. This is consil-. cred the cheapest sale of real estate that has taken place here for long time, the price realized being only about two thirds of the estimated value. S....-.~... --~. :.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
WASHINGTON,

It has been voted by the Lyoeum, and a committee of arrangements appointed, to hold debate in Farmers Hall, which has been kindly offered, by the owner, MT. Hurlburt. for that purpose. on Wednesday evening, Dec. 9th, commencing at seven o'clock, on the question l" Resoloed. That the elective franchise ought to be extended to woman" Invitations have been sent to several noted debaters in New Milford and other places, several of which have prom ised to be present. i. We. should be glad to see the Elitora of the ENQUIRER with as many friends as may choose to come from ILitchfield. Old .JudeaI has always been among the first towns in the county to take hold, with a will. of every reform. She does not wait till it becomes popular, but is willing to lead.1 As, she has done, so she expects to do.l A large crowd may
 be expected At the last session of the Lyceum, two ladies, Misses Belle Brins= made and Mary G Gum, were appointed
 as conductors of the paper for the ensuing winter. This ensures tho success of the
 enterprise No one can refuse a commno
 nication to lady.d -l.Uoa 3.-a 1s La -.T..yvr :. @. A. Hickox. Esq, . and James Hunt inston, Esq. were lin town last saturday.
 to attend to case of trespass. The suit was acknowledged and the case settled without coming to trial. It was to have been before E. w. Gum, " Esq The only good result that we have heard of is. that the Squire, with broom and water pail, made acleansing attack on the conference room to the great discomfturs of dust and d;r.t ~T"h s1I J..a Grad Dua Lto9 fI.w o4
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
LITCHFIELD.ti !

In the Superior Court, last week, Morris vs. Sharon and Daniel Deans Appeal from Probate were, tried to the jury. In the former case, which was regarding the sup port of a pauper, the town of Morris re covered $14S,5O damages. In the latter which involved the validity of the will o the late ElishaH. Dean, the jury disagreed The Appellants claimed that the testato1 was incompetent to make a will. Cour, was not in session, this week, but it comes ip, next, for trial of court cases.@ oA D4z i
 Attention is called to. the meeting oi the Stockholders of the Shepaug Valley Railroad, to be held at the First Nationa Bank, on Saturday, the 27th.l See adyer tisement @oL os o4 o3 a-Tl A.IoGa .,..,r. F - ]7aIl1ilC 4s;ua. .a3sl 5a 5sVs4Yk .1u"'A
 ll- The Howard Mission received $l92 in cash, and goods to the amount of not less than $50, from the people of this place last week. $96 of the cash came from the Sunday School of the Congregations Church. They received $75 in cash ani goods at Northfeld; about $75 in Wolcott' vile; and $2. 50 in Plymouth. aseol 5as1 :,
 -. The Sentinel don't take our joke about the biiousness of it's'copy" at all kindly. After criticising the mode sOf conducting affairs at the ENQUIRER ofice,it proceeds ai follows: ''In our office the compositors set the copy and the foreman has other business" May we be allowed to ask who reads the ''proof?" It strikes us, too, that our friend has had rather curious luck tc s'brag on" since he took the management of affairs. Once, his entire lot of printers ran away; and two foremen in succession have left his office for involuntary serYi- tude across the street. It is but just, how ever, to say that his office is now entirely we'll conducted. as far as we know, and that it's present foreman is clever, eff. cient young printer, of whose recovery from recent illness Ye are glad to hear gIo4l sSs5s aaod b8d vadI l.shl at
 8- A very pleasant little surprise and a presentation occurred at Mir. Jacob Morse's on Tuesday evening of last week! MT. Lyman Tharp. who has long led the choir of the Methodist church, had been invited to meet the choir at MT. Morse's. and; ion his arrival, found himself presented on behalf of the congregation, with a handsome Bible. 9a1 asl4ea iia 10 ad ssol , -7Att.ntiop is called to adyertisement of that poet, soldier. merchant. D. c. Kill bourn. Let him who wants to save freights call at Kilbonrn's store, near the Etchfeld Station.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
A Harsh La W.

A' We clip the following from among the state items of last Wednesdays Courans: On Monday, while & New Haven officer was talk ing woman to the almshouse to take care of her child which she had deserted her bonnet blew of and stepping out to get it, she rushed away around the corner and escaped. 3s.
 r4 Tn explanation of the above incident we make the following citation from our Re vised Statutes {: sss Jt.sg '+1- IL An Act Prouiding Jor the Support of Paupes..
 SEo 19. Whenever the parent of any minor child shall neglect or refuse to provide for his support, 4 and abandon him to be supported as 8 pauper by the town, where such parent belongs or resides, such person shdH thereupon be deemed pouper, ,and as such, shall be subject to all the provisions and regulations of this act.-Reu. Stats Page 621.
 7a We often hear it said in justification of our marriage law that if it deprives the wife of the control of all the property she possesses on marriage, and of the chance of acquiring any more property after marri- age, if it gives her no authority over her children. that, at least, it acquits her of all responsibility for their support. It will be seen by the above lstatnte and by the foregoing incident that such responsibility not only existsssb but 5thatit is enforced in the harshest possible manner. The law says in effect to the mar ried woman, ..tHos7 @@4a1a
 u. 's.sYou are plainly incompetentto to support and controla family. Consequently, you are deprived of the control of your own children and property, and made entirely subject to your husband. Nevertheless. should he fail of his duty, you must do what we have declared you neither can nor shall do. or suffer imprisonment in the poor-housel" ssbasE ss5Illss 1.-} !. u It is to be observed that the . law makes no provision to enable even a wife who possesses property on marriage, to meet such a contingency. Her husband may convey away her real estate for the term of his life, to a stranger; her personal estate, as we'll as his. is B liable for debts incurred in support of the family; her earnings, F un- less he deserts her, go into his possession, not hers. In nearly every one of these hard cases, the husband spends the wife's little capital, and then deserts her, leaving no alternative but the hardest, most i'll. paid of work. or the poor-house.
 i Isn't it little hard, also, that long after the imprisonment of those who come short of their duty, but who commit no crime, ] has been. discontinued in other cases, it
 
 should be perpetuated in this Can we not hope that the Law, having ceased to follow the absconding debtor and to chase the ahsconding slave, will soon call off its dogs from hunting down the absconding 7E E..otbe. , 4G4o hE4 ,ss.o aala 3t
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Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

sl Miss Anna F. Palmer has sold the I.aua-
 phier place. which belonged to her broth er at the time loi his death. to Johann Ja- cobitE. Price 5000. .o8 Si8oo bna .. J,=4 b3=- The Cong tional Church here,haye formally accepted from the Semi Centen, nial Committee of Arran gements, the beau- ttifal Sandwich Island Flag and have Ivol ted that it remain iq the care of J II the Clerk of the Church. It is thel intention thst # be preserved until 'the Cense1nial, Sept
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Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
Another Railroad Slaughter !
TEN PERSONS KILLED AND THIRTY OR FORTY
 WOUNDED ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC.

TEN PERSONS KILLED AND THIRTY OR FORT. WOUNDED ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC.
 At few minutes past nine o'clock on Sunday morning. an eastern bound train on the Western Pacific railroad, composed of eight cars, including one sleeping car, collided with the Alameda freight. train of four cars near San Leandro Both trains were going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. The engines are perfect wreck, and the cars smashed and driven through one another. The Western Pacific train left on prompt tune, but the morning was so foggy the engineer had difficulty to see any distance ahead. Upon arriving at the switch where the Western Pacific connects with the Alameda road the trains slowed and the switch tender being questioned whether the Alameda train had passed, an swered, "All right, go ahead P Soon the trains came together with a terrific crash. The first passenger car on the Western Pa- cifie was driven through. smashing the car. Other cars are badly damaged. The num- her killed and wounded is variously esti- mated at from ten to fifteen and from thir- ty to fifty. It is impossible to obtain the correct number at present.
 Among the killed was Alexander w.. Baldwin, judge of the U. s. District Court for Nevada. #
 The killed and wounded were mostly On the Western Pacific train. When the cars collided the passengers were driven togeth- CT and crushed among the ruins. There was great difficulty in getting the passen gers out of the ruins, and many could not be extricated. The legs of one man were amputated before being released from the cars. None of the passengers in the sleep. ing car were hurt. -r 7
 The badly wounded were sent to Alame. da. Great excitement prevailed during the day. The catastrophe has cast gloom over the entire city of San Francisco. The announcement of the accident was read from the pulpits of the churches during the morning service on Sunday.
 We copy most of the foregoing account from Mondays telegraphic despatches. Later accounts show eleven dead and about twenty wounded. ......., .a-l
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

: WILD CHERRY BAI.sAaI The memory of DF. Wistar is embalmed in the hearts of thousands whom his Balsam cf Wild Cher " has cured of coughs, colds. consump- Zion, or some other form of Pulmonary disease. It is now over forty years since this preparation was brought before the
 public, and yet the demand forit is con stantly increasing. xsqa s4s '
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

, n@-iA terrible boiler explosion occurred at CatskiL. N. r., Monday morning, de- stroying 2 paper mil, and ihjtring adjoin ing buildings. Three lives are known to have been lost and perhaps more people were injured.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

9l b@. 1.-The ceremony of unveiling the statue of the late Bishop Brownsll at Trin- ,ity, College, Hartford came of on Thursday last1lAddresses were made by Bishop
 Williams and Clark, tEx- Gov. Hawley. and others. It is highly spoken of as work of art,
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

= = Woo0paaUuaalY.4Phe W0 aaual Post 0alcs, yAioh has quietly stuck to one place for the last six months, begins to show, signs of uieasi- ness. Under the reign Of IA g., of bless ed memory.it swung round the circle three times year.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
9ittbdeIo Gnqnirer. Litchfleld, Thursday, Nov. IS, 1869

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
 Desirous of giving every encouragement so persons favoring us with local news. we make the following propositions to regular and occasional correspondents:
 1. On publication of any communication we will forward siz eztra copies of the EN- oU1RHR containing the same to the address of the person sending it to us. or to any persons residing within the county such person may designate. Correspondents must advise us, at the time of sending communications, of the number of copies desired, and to whom they are to be sent. | 2. Local items from reliable sources in any part of the county will be received with pleasure, but we are particularly de- sirous of increasing our list of regular cor respondents. To each of these, or to such person as he or she may designate, we will send copy of our paper regularly in ad- dition to the extra copies mentioned above.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
Another Divorce Fraud.

1 A fraud. similar in design though not in detail to that perpetrated on a New York court in the celebrated Nichols case. came to light in our Superior court. last week, The facts proved on trial were substantial ly these: Last winter, a man registering his name on the Mansion House book as Daniel J. Sprague, Of Cornwall. applied to Henry B. Graves, Esq, to bring peti-- tion for divorce for him against his wife, Aminda D. Sprague. He represented that he was resident of Cornwall in this State and that his wife had left him and was liv- ing with another man at Henderson, Jeff ferson Co.,, N. Y. A petition was brought by MT. Graves in accordance with this ap- plication, and on request of the petitioner an order was obtained for personal service on the respondent At the April term the man appeared with a witness, named Ro- land Martin, who swore to the truth of the facts alleged in the petition, and that he made personal service of the same on the respondent. Thereupon, Judge Granger passed decree of divorce. s.f n"
 .,To the present term of our Superior court came petition from the respondent in the former case praying that the decree be set aside, and on trial of which the fol lowing facts were proved
 1st. That Daniel J. Sprague has never been resident of Cornwall, Conn.,, but now lives, and was living at the time of bringing the petition, in Buffalo, New York. . .1..r
 2d. That the petition was never served on Mrs. Sprague, the witness Martin hav- committed perjury in swearing to that statement. . -
 Sd. Photographs were exhibited of MT. Sprague which were sworn by MT. Graves aud others who saw the man who procured the divorce here, to be those of an entirely different person, so that some one must have personated Sprague throughout the whole affair: s.I 5 4th That the story that Mrs. Sprague 1 had deserted her husband was entirely false. On the contrary, she was only sep arated from him temporarily, as she sup posed, until he could make arrangements for her coming to him at Buffalo. During the period when the petition was pending in this Court. he had visited her, and she had no suspicion that any thing was wrong In August last, she found that he was liv- ing openly with another woman. Calling on him for information. he then, for the first time, informed her of the decree oi divorce, and told her that since obtaining the same, he had married again.
 Upon this evidence the decree was, of course, annulled. The way the ftana was accomplished is apparent: Sprasue evi- dently employed some shyster to put through the job This fellow and some
 other rascal came here, one personating Sprague, and swore the case through. We trust the whole batch of scoundrels, Dan iel J. Sprague, included, will get their de- serts,in the shape of permanent situations in some penitentiary. l .
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Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

Ketchum's term of imprisonment hay ing expired, he was released on Saturday.
 Gen. Wool died at Troy on Wednesla, of last week.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

The Chicago tailors are on strike. < Alexander H. Stevens is sick again.
 MT. Disraeli will spend the winter in Italy.
 nhe Gold Exchange Bank has arranged its diff, MT. Cyrus w. Field has been buntino buf.Ioa, in Kansas. ' """''"5 O"''"'o'' ill few weeks 0- u" p'o'e" "'"
 Lopez has made a capture of Brazi6ans q. cu- ruguaty. A''""' ~' VI"
 Aseondemned criminal has escaroa s.0,,, ~. Sussex County Jail. '0'' WIG
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
p@- The .Winsted Herald is after us once


 more: ssada ziadt nsoal ,bna E. @ ~ te''-s3 s9siz9f NEW. M1IFoRD, Nov. s, 1869. < I had planned a visit to Winsted this fall to call 1on, my professional. and other friends, but I must postpone it. In fact,I don know the best route to go.s Canaan and the Norfolk Sierras | don't like; Litch-5 field is as bad, and-well. I never could go through Litchfeld; don't know as any one! ever did. People always stop there, they al- ways did and probably always will. With but any special reference to Ed. Peck's ho. tel, consider Litchfeld a bad place to get away from. Lastly, the NaugatuckI route is too dangerous. The floods might come. and the bridges all go, before Icopld get half way there. On the whole the journey from New Milford to Winsted- the antipodes of Litchield Goqnty-re- minds me of the Western mans idea of gor ing to Congress, "It takes good deal of time, money, lwyhliiskey lyli and --- good luck S3>SS E., t.ss ase ssFk
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18
RsuaOySa.


 There is, "a tremendous outpo,1ring of oyer column in the last weeks Sentinel on, "How the Soldiers are Remembered. It charges that the soldiers have been promis- ed much political ,preferment, and have re- ceived little. Inasmuch as the Sentinelis noth- ing if not personal,r terrific onslaughts are made on MT. Isaac Brooks, of Goshen (vhose brother is a postmaster), oa New Milford assistant assessor (who wears a watch seal), and on Senator Buckingham (who is a christian The moving cause of this sudden outburst is evident from the manner of it. It is pure Remorse. But we will let the Sentinel tell it's own story: In Bridgeport the other day we saw one arm- ed soldier with hand organ. He is good ac- Directly across @ the street, in billiard room con neeted with fashionable hotel, sat an old pohti- cal wire-puller drinking sherry vine; and he has got an office worth s2,0e0 or $3, 600 year Pres ently there comes along another government of1i- cial with head up and waistcoat the size of a briggs mainsail. He gets over $1 ,500 year. He didn't see inc organ grinder, for he was going up town to look after his real estate and then coming tie while later another officer passed in luxuriant carriage. The one-armed boy ground on and be- fore long the postmaster came by. That individ- ual has large grocery business and is large real estate owner. He employs several clerks in the post-ofice. They are all active, robust fellows, and probably none of them ever smelt powder
 No doubt the editor of the Sentinel post dates his incident g trife. It evidently occurred at time when he was residing at Bridgeport and holding irevenvue office there. To be sure none of the above per- sonal descriptions of government officials quite suit his case, yet strong points of re- semblance are not wanting. No doubt. too, our friend now regrets that he retain ed possession of an office whose income would have saved one-armed soldier from the degradation, and the citizens of Bridge port from the infiction, of that hand organ. It Would not then have been a,case of Re- morse, but of Repentance. We cannot but regret that our friend s brain and con- science lie so far apart and that inter-com- munication is so imperfect-often delayed for years We presume the one.armed soldier regrets that circumstance, also.
Litchfield enquirer., 1869-11-18

Ftice. Mir. HI. s. 'Mygatt has stepped off in a matrimonial view of view with a fair
 daughter of Sonthington. Weawish the twain . happy future, and if the article wasn't so expensive,' would revive an old custom and throw. shoe after them.
 s!A Lucjns Bennett lost 8, horse last
 week. .3iHaq tIo6 DIlh ,ooEc 4od-9m.3 10 y&b
 ii From the Winsted Hsrald:: 11 I'll lo earl la EadN NHw HAErFoRD. .---Dra Yermilye, of the Hartford theological Seminary, preached at the Congregational Church, last Sum
 day. I3D-I03 aId fsa L1EOIde 3uzg
 aa1 Rev. Apheus Winter has left, and has taken up his tesidencein Hartford. E Miss Nellie Hasen is going to Clifton Springs, N. Y.iwater eura t19ail
 HARw11tsrrroeaa.--Edmund Penry is recov- Iering from 4 severe bat short 'h illness, eq ba FoRRrNaroRp.- Mrs. Elias received se- we're injuries from a fall, when about to enter Church, last Sabbath ta2i. 'A4' mo am Over in Salisbury they have g way of sa- lating friends and i acquain ntances which may. very properly be called a :; ru m" way; and they use 1t on all kinds of occasions. Attairecent Episcopal Oonyocation at that place, e Winsted rector was about entering achurch in company lWitb B. solemn and Imposing body of clergy ymen, all in full car nonicals, wLen he EWas recognized by an iale oroMd of gazing esilaymen'. who had been with hima through a thousand heavy times during the rebellion, and who ac- costed him thus: ]. # HowIare you, Cap.?s What yesdoin ?z Won't you come and take a drinky- Winsted Herald.