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Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-27
&ittB6tlb Fnquirer. Litchfleld. Thursday. Oct. 27.1S7O
TO CORRESPONDENCE

Nearly year since, we made propositions fol regular and occasional correspondeRee, which met with ready response, adding much to the value of our paper, and laying us under persona obligation to the gentlemen rendering us such assistance. We are thereby encouraged to renew our propositions, hoping that the good example already set will be generally followed. and that the local news of all parts of the County will be fully reported in our paper.
 Our propositions to regular and occasional cor respondents from any part of Litchfeld County, are as follows:
 1. On publication of any communication we will forward sie ecsg0 copies Of the EN- ourRER containing the same, to the address of the person sending it to us, or to any residents of 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 correspondents. To each of these, or to such person as he or she may designate, we will send copy of our paper regularly in addition to the extra copies mentioned above.
 REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
 Anonymous communications cannot expect publication.
 The names of correspondents will be kept strictly secret, if desired.
 Communications of personal nature will not be published, unless the propriety of such pub lication is manifest.
 Manuscript should be written only on one side Of the paper.
 Regular correspondents can avoid all danger of having the contributions of others attributed to them by assuming some signiature, single let ter being sufficient.
 In case of two communications relating to the same event, the fullest will usually be published Hence communications never come amiss, even from places where we have regular correspon- dents, since they often give valuable additional information. A simple statement of facts is all that is neces- sary, and hastily written communications will be corrected before publication.
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For the Enquirer. PLYMOUTH SKETCHES. No. AT.

PLYMOUTH SKETCHES. No. AT. One of the late improvements in Terry vile is by B. S. Beach, who has built an addition to his house, and improved the looks of his premises. by painting.
 At the Centre, Joel Blakeslee has remod- deled his front fence, making it about foot lower than before. He has also by paint ing his house and shop improved their ap- pearance.
 Edward Dayton and Addison Bunne!l have lately shingled their houses.
 In Thomaston, Edwin Parker has re- built and painted the fence in front of his premises. making it considerably lower than before. Indeed, the general tenden- cy would seem to be to make fences less high than in former years. Instead of reaching up to place the hand on the top. and asking s.How is that for high? One can now more readily put his hand doUa on the top, and with smiling face enquire ''How is that for low ?''
 PLYMOTHEAN. Oct 05 1Q70
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B@- The Sentinel did a characteristic thing, last week. We had printed com munication from a Cornwall gentleman, who had never written us before, regard ing attacks on the Cornwall Comet Band, in previous issues of that paper. Not hav- ing the faintest notion to whom he was re- plying, the editor of the Sentinel selects the stalest egg (the only ammunition in the establishment from his pile. loads the editorial blunderbuss, trains it on his na- tive town, and blazes away. Poor Corn wall! it has produced a journalist, and verify it has it's reward.
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COUNTY ITEMS.

The abutments for the bridge of the Shepaug railroad. over the Housatonic riv. CT, are already commenced, and the con. tractors say they will have at least five hun. dred men employed on the line within a week. The Derby road, extended sixteen miles, would intersect the Shepang railroad where it crosses the Housatonic river PdlLddium.
 A youEg mems Christian association is to be organized in Kent.
 WEST CoRNwALL.-West Cornwall police court in sesslon every week: last week the the time of that honorable body was prin- cipally taken up trying one FranklinB Bierce of Cornwall Bridge,-said Bierce when on trial was just from under the club of one landlord Buckley of said place for abusing his family. Judge Brewster bound him over to theSuperior Court on three indict- ments.-Sandard.
 MARBLEDALE.-Mrs Toohwy, of Hart ford, who has been rusticating at her fath CTS this summer, lost a valuable carriage horse recently.
 John NJ Ford lost fine COW. Dis ease-too much Iurnip in the respiratory tube.-HeraM
 CoRNwAL-T. c. Baldwin has raised this year the biggest crop of tobacco in Litch- field County.
 Our new school house on Marsh Av- enue is nearly completed and makes very imposing appearance.
 -J, l.. Pease, photographer, who has been for some time sick with typhoid fever, is again in West Cornwall.
 -Dea. J. 0. Calhoun, our motive power, has left his summer residence in this Vil- lage to take up winter quarters in New York Herald.
 FALLS VILLAGE. -S. W. Abbott has sold his place to the Catholic Society, price $26OO. Mir. A. and family remove to Illi- nois. ~
 The Ames iron works show signs of activity, and the unfinished guns made for
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s@-Messrs. T. Steel & Son, the we'll known Hartford jewellers. have just received from'Ne York large assortment of ele- gant new goods that will repay inspection, and. still better, purchase. Among them is an assortment of beautiful coral jewelry, of exquisite design and delicate color. Fans, white and black, of lace and silk, are also exhibited. together with the. usual as. sortment of bronze statuettes, silver ware of various patterns for bridal presents, and iewelry of all descriptions and newest de signs.
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IT L,-E..,' .... MN the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut.
 In the matter of Amos Hallock, Bankrupt, in Bankruptcy.
 To sohons t nsGy Concern:
 The undersigned hereby gives notice of his Washington, in the County of Litchfeld and State of Connectic ut, within said District who has been adjudged bankrupt upon his own petition by William K. Seeley, Esq, Register in Bankruptcy within and for said district.
 ALBERT N. BALDWIN, Assignee. Dated at Bridgeport, Oct. 17th, 1870. 29-Sw
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A6r If our readers who take the cons

-06e If our readers who take the conser- vative side of the Woman Question, are not satisfied with the story we reprint on our first page. they are hard to please. To make the thing as complete as possible, we subioin the following Moral. in humble inn itation of approved conservative models. We are aware of falling off from the ex- alted strain of piety with which it com mences, but even in that we think we have, as printers say, :" followed copy.' 4-a MORAL.
 "To love, cherish, and to obey."
 These words, prescribed by the true Church, and repeated by every trusting bride, are no mere form. They mark the commencement of consecrated servitude as holy and complete as that of the Church tcs 1t Master. And where unhallowed con- ceit dares to interfere with that gentle, that blessed relation of dependence which comes direct from God and Nature, some such result as that depicted in the forego. ing instructive story, is sure to follow. Then the fond wife, with her light griev. auce, may be, finds that her rights are to be asserted wnder, not against her loving lord. Hapless Louise Garvay is com pletely crushed in conflict which Natur. soon teaches her is rebellion. The firm hus band wins that easy, may we hope, com plete victory to which he is of right enti tied. O, the untold suffering that the sep arate property. the separate ballot, would bring upon tender hearts now resting ir peaceful submission to manly control! Tht whole [" old story" is told in the conclu dingwords, Don't talk of my having an, means separate from yours,' she said, botl arms about his neck, and nestling in hi manly bosom. T don't want to be inde pendent of your" Strong-minded Salon, ' Garvay, never having experienced the nat ural, trnstful submissiveness of the mar riage relation, erred unwittingly. Cal we make the same excuse for all the man ish women or womanish men who are tn, incendiaries of new Treason, of ney Rebellion, throughout the land?
 The conservative thinker stands appalled, by the rapidly increasing demoralizatiol of the Family in our day. Children ar ceasing to honor their parents; wives t. obey their husbands. All the fidelity, al the loyalty, the head of family can nov expect, is from his dog; and as if to ensur the extermination of those virtues from tn face of the earth, this faithful animal, thel l1t representative among us. has been de cided to be nuisance by our courts, an, nearly taxed out of existence by our legis latures
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Book Notices, &o.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY contains:- Footpaths The return; Oldtown Preside Stories Highly Explosive; Experiments; Fechtel as Hamlet; Joseph and his friend; Foul Months with Charles Dickens; Murilloi Immaculate Conception" Travelling Com panions; The Intellectual Influence of Mu sic; A November Pastoral; Mir. Burlingamt as an Orator; Reviews and Literary Noti ces.
 Fields, Osgood, & Co.,, 124 Fremont St. Boston. Terms, $4 per year. OUR YoUNa FOLKS contains:-We Girls a Home Story; Just like Aunt Ranger A Boys Visit to Pompeii; Aunt Nutty'l Stories to the Children; Going to the Me nagerie; How to Draw, V; TheA William Henry Letters, Third New Packet; Oul young Contributors; The Evening Lamp Our Letter Box; Poems, etc.
 Fields Osgood & Co.,, Boston. Terms, 8 per year.
 THE GALAXY contains:-Lady Judith, g tale of Two Continents; A Brazilian Poem "Reminiscences and speculations; Dead and Born; Fort Sumpter; Overland; Nothing by Halves; The Reality of Medicine; Mon. signore Capel; Shekh Ahnafs Letter from Bagdad; Alexandre Dumas, Pere; Lost Houses; ;The Galaxy Miscellany; Drift wood Current Literature; Mark Twain's Map ol Paris; Memoranda; Nebul@.
 Sheldon & Co.,, N. Y., Terms, $4 a year.
 APP1EroN's JOURNAL for October 29, con- tains: Ithaca Water Falls (illustrated); The Poison of Asps; The End of Travis Hunt American Birds Gllustrated); Lake Superi- or and the Mississippi; Egyptian Civiliza. tion; On the Scientific Use of the Imagi- nation; Poetry, Short Articles, &c. Edu. cational Supplement.
 For Sale, with the other weeklies and monthlies. at J. w. Wheeler's News Office and Book Store, West Street.
 Coop HEALTH contains: Means of Pre-. serving Health; Leprosy of the Bible; Gymnastics; Dreams and their Causes Cataract; How to Bring up Babies; Wo. mems Dress; Chemical Transformation; Vinegar; The Spectroscope; Short Pieces, &c.
 Alexander Moore, II Bromfeld St., Bos ton; $2.0O year.
 EVERY SATURDAY for October 29, con- tains: German and French Thinkers; The Woman's Suffrage Question; The Wedding Question. from the Financial Stand Point. Among the illustrations are the following After the Attack (double page). The Globe Theatre, Boston, At White Sulphur Spa, The Song of the Shirt. Chestnutting,S ,Stras- bourg Cathedral, Pitching Pennies, Octo Der.
 THE LADY's FRIEND contains:-Solid Sil yer. or Chrisie Deans Bridal Gifts; The Rose. .Geranium; Compensation; The Gas cannon's Aunt; Mira; The Mysterious Chest; together with the usual Fashion Plates, Engravings, Music &c. Sc.
 Deacon & Peterson, 319 Walnut St. Phila. $2.5O per year.
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B@- Lieut.. Gov. Hotchkiss refuses to pay the Democratic assessment for last springs election expenses. He offered to give them his whole salary ($50O). but they stuck for the 5000, which he refuses to pay.
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The force for workIon the railroad is arriving, and construction commences to- day west of the village. Advantage has been taken of low water in the Housatonic to construct and fill the cribs on which the two bridge piers are tO rest.
 = The earthquake of Thursday last was felt in this village though not severe enough to be generally observed.
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WOODBURY.

The committee to locate our Soldiers Monument, came to Woodbury on the 21st inst, pursuant to appointment. Af ter viewing all the places suggested throughout the town, many of which were very eligible, the Committee set the stake on the "old Meeting House site, ," in Main Street, a little north of the Masonic Lodge. It is a most fit and beautiful place for monument, and a park besides. We have wide, beautiful and shaded street. A park should long ago have been laid out here. Before setting the stake, the Com mittee had hearing of preferences at the Town Hall, at which all were urgently in- vited to express their wishes. All, save one, spoke in favor of the place afterwArd selected by the committee. This unanim- ity Was gratifying to the committee, and the citizens as well. It is naturally beau tiful as wellas historical place. Col. Jo- seph Minors Clerk of the First Society, in making report to the General Court of
 
 ty, uses the following language, viz: ''These may inform your Hon rs, that the Prime Society in Woodbury have set up Meet ing House in the place where the Courts Committee set the stake. Have bored and inclosed it, and for Bigness, Strength and Architecture, it does appear TRANscEN- DENTLY MAaN1FIoENT!'' Hon. Messrs. Sey- stake" for the wise and patriotic purpose, in the identical place in which the "Court's Committee" set one for religious use 123 years ago. Every thing having gone on. thus harmoniousIy, it is hoped the work will now be pushed to succeful issue.
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NORTHFIELD.

The members of the Congregational Sunday School. and the parish generally had pleasant gathering, in this place, last Friday. Tables were set in the base ment of the church, and we'll furnished with eatables. Speech making was left out, for once and conversation held the chief place. Much attention was given to the flying horses" (kindly furnished by MT. Turner), and young and old 'swung round the circle" Two games of ball were played, one between the boys from down hill and the boys from up hill, which was won by the ''down hill boys by score of 38 to 36. In game between picked hines. the side chosen by J. P. Catlin claimed the victory by one run.
 TRAVELLER.
 Another correspondent, whose head is evidently swimming yet, sends us the fol- lowing account of Turner's famous cavalry charge.-ED. ENQ
 Gee mp gee ho How fast they go The boys and the girls. the young men and maidens. the old men and matrons, the squires, the deacons, the Parson, are chas ing each other round and round on the pe- riphery of 3. huge skeleton, top. And see Phere is old grandmother H. come back, ere she is lost among the nineties, to en- joy her teens once more. Mounted on her flying steed she is as supple and as joyous as child. What does it all mean Why, the Congregationalists are having par ish and sabbath school pic mic. and Turner has harnessed up his wonderful team to give them all ride.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-27

PoL1T1cA1-An the Massachusetts Re- publican Congressmen have been re-nomi- mated. Unofficial returns show the re.elec- tion of Scott, Republican, Governor of South Carolina, and of three Republican Congressman and one Democrat. Two of the Republican Congressmen are colored. New York Republicans are hard at work with the assistance of the federal law, to prevent repeating at the coming election.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-27

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WnssrED. On Fri day morning last the building occupied by the Gilman Carriage Co. and the Gilbert Manufacturing Go. was burned down. From want of water it was with difficulty that adjoining buildings were protected.
 The loss of the Carriage Co. was about $SO, 900, insurance $S. 900; that of the Man. ufacturing Go. about $10, 900. and no in
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The Census.

The census of Connecticut population was published last week. The total enu- meration is 537, ,99s, gain of 76,739 on the census of 1860. This is a fair gain, though not quite equal to that of the pre- vious decade. Litchfeld and Holland counties remain nearly stationary, while Hartford, New Haven and Fairfield gain from 21 to A per cent. The returns by nnnuf;os ara as fol1owa.
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DIED.

In Morris. Oct. 18th, Moses Judd, aged 28 years. At New Britain, Oct. 1O Lucy A., wife of B. A. Squire, aged 43, formerly of Win sted
 At Thomaston, Oct. 3, of typhoid fever, Henry Wenzel, aged 28.
 At Thomaston, Oct. 3, of typhoid fever, Isaac Somers, aged 43.
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not ignite. I picked up the wick, still burning, and extinguished it without caus. ing any damage. consider the Astral Oil perfectly safe.' So do we. The probability is, had Mrs. Judd been using any other oil, she would have been seriously. if not fatally burned. We burn the Astral Oil, and advise our readers to do the same. All dealers sell it. Ask for 1t and don't buy any other.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-27

OCTOBER ELECTIONS. We must correct our toble of Congressmen elect, last week. by replacing the names of Cessna Arm strong and Doley, Reps. ,who were defeat ed by small majorities. by Myers. Sher- wood and William McClelland. This leaves the Pennsylvania delegation 1s Republican to Il Democratic; loss of 5. The democratic State ticket and majori- ty of the legislature is probably elected in Indiana. Our nett loss in Congressman in the October elections is six.
 Mir. John Taffee is reelected Member of Congress by handsome majority in Me- braska. The Republican State ticket has 16. 7S0 plurality over the Democratic in Ono; gain of over 5000 on 1869.
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For Sale.
VALUABLE N

A VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY, kA located in Salisbury, Conn.,, one mile from . depot on the Connecticut Western R. R., together with 26 acres of land and 10 dwelling houses t to be occupied, 2 in first rate repair, . good ofice, store room, barns and other buildings thereon. The water-power is never failing and there is Q large reservoir of water connected herewith. one mile long and one-han mile wide Terms made easy. Inquire of 3h@a
 JONAS KNICKERBOCKER, Pine Plains, NY.
 D. J. WARNER, Salisbury, Conn. g7-sm
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4S732 473l9 45.25S

4S732 47319 5,25S 3228 1914
 It will be observed that almost the en- tire gain is in the towns of the Naugatuck Valley, while the centre and western towns nearly all lose. In short, all the towns in which manufacturing has sprung up, show handsome increase; otherwise, there is, in nearly all cases, a considerable loss.
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Auction Sale I
w ILL be sold at Public Auction (unless pre- viously disposed of at private sale)'
 Tuesday. Nov. 18th. 1870,

viously disposed of at private sale)
 Tuesday. Nov. 18th, 1870, The farm lying in the Northwest part of Goshen, on both sides of the Canaan and Ltchfeld turn pike, lately owned and occupied by EDWIN A. MER- WIN, deceased called the Roberts place, containing 214 acres, 9S rods On this Farm are three springs which have not failed this year wood lot of S7t acres, ready to be cut again, and so situated that the coal can be easily taken to the furnace; and 19a acres of sprouts about 23 years old. For infor nation, call on the subscriber at Goshen centre or on Erastus Merwin, near the farm, who have maps of the place. The title is perfect, and the heirs are all of age.
 Also, will be sold at the same time, all the Hay, Corn, Oats and Potatoes on the place, one pair Horses, one pair Oxen, 10 Cows, 2 yearlngs, 2 Calves, IS Sheep, fat Pigs, good Harnesses, 1.-two horse wagons Cart, two-horse Sleigh, Sleds, large lot Chains and Crow-bars Ploughs, Horso-rake, and all farming tools, household furniture, carpen- ters tools, and great variety of other articles.
 Sale to take place on the premises, commencing at 10, A. N: If quite stormy, sale to be postponed to next fair day.
 HENRY NORTON, Administrator
 Goshen, Oct. 18th, 1870. 2s-S
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Oct. 25, 1870.
PLYMOTHEAN.

A State Teachers Association was in ses- sion at New Haven, last week. Gov. Eng fish was present and spoke with great se- verity of the legislators who undertook to abolish the board of education last sum- mer.
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A LARGE VOLUME would not contain the mass of testimony which has accumulated in favor of Dr. Wtstor's Balsam of Wild Cherry as a safe, efficient. and reliable rem. edy in curing coughs. colds, and pulmona. ry disease. Many of the cures are truly wonderful.
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NORTHRUP'S CELEBRATED Berkshire Mittens & Gloves, An assortment just received at
 F. D. MCNEIL 6 cos.
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s6r One of Queen Victoria's daughters is to marry the Marquis of Lorne. This ''maiden all for-Lorne' brings the Marquis $15O, 900 in cash, and a pension of $3O, OOO Solid comfort for ''the man all tattered and tOrn"
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Col. Minol was a leading man in Woodbury He lived to the age of 1O2 years So vigorous was his old ago. that he rode on horseback through the Hollow," on his tooth birth day.
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SHIPwREoKs.-On Wednesday last the steamship Cambria, with about 200 souls on board was lost on the Irirh coast and only one person is reported saved. The Steamer Continental foundered on the west coast of Mexico on the 30th ult. los- ing $40. 900 in treasure and eight lives. several other vessels are reported lost.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-07-21

RED MEN-ELEcrIoN OF OFFICERS.
Following is list Of the officers elected
at the meeting of Red Men on Tuesday
night:
A. Garry, Sachem; N. J. SAVERS,
Senior Sycamore; H. J. Peters, Junior
Sycamore Geo. G. Lyon, Chief of Rec
ords John Rosser, Keeper of Wampum
4. D. Treadway, Prophet; F. ". Glyun,
lst B; s. T. Swift, End B.; Marshal
willard, Sd B Isaac Mcconnell, lst "
Geo. W. Chedic, 2nd " Israel Craw
ford, Cd " A. Waltz, All " G Bet
finger, LIST s Geo. L. Gibson, Fad S 8;
Andrew Wright. Guard Forest; James
2. Finney, Guard Wigwan. Chiefs
Raised last night and Hall dedicated.
Tribe instituted last night; Regular
meeting every fifth (5th) seven (7) sun
or Friday.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-07-21

PUBLIC MEErING.-Some fifteen OF
eighteen of our most influential citizens
me. last evening at the District Court
room 10 hear Mr. A. D. Bell on the mer-
IT'S of the pneumatic process Of making
Illuminating gas (Rand's patent) and
the proprie.y Of Incorporating local
company for the erection of gas works,
laying mains, etc. II. S. Mason, Esq ,
County Treasurer, was called to the
chair. Mr.. Bell made very Interesting
statement GA the general 50 biect, and
convinced those present that the pro-
posed scheme was worthy of the stten
ton of the community. Several gen
tlemeu spoke on the subject and
they all seemed to be in favor Of
forming company and accepting
Mr. Bells offer. On motion the meet
ing adjourned until Friday night when
Mr.. Bell will repeat his explanations.
The gentlemen present voluntarily
pledged themselves to talk the matter
up 10 the interval and use their best en-.
deas0rs 10 get a representation more
worthy Of the intelligence, enterprise,
End capital of Carson. on the next &C.
casion. The confederation Of the Legis.
lAture meeting next winter should aim
ulase ne to do something to show that
We are not sleeping 10 the gloomy dark
ness Of coal oil while our neighbors are
purchasisg shs most brilliant light
ksoWn 70 ocienee.