Litchfield enquirer., 1870-12-01
WHOLE NO 2a74
BOLD AFFAIR.

BOLD AFFAIR. gsol,5l ss -,s ya--- -r-iaaondEa nQ 2 | MIsCREANTss AND THRYEs AT, WoRK IN zoAR sRRIpGE. Towga OF OxFoaD. -Some time since. Marcus Hyde, living near Zoar Bridge, went to feed his cattle about nine o'clock in the evening, when he saw some men skulking around MT. Lums market. He at once notified Mir. l.. and a search was made, but no suspicious indi- vlduals could be found Mir. Hyde again heard 8 noise and notified Lum, and when they were about giving up the search they went to the barn and found that Hvde's best harness had been taken from it's place: just aa this time four men emerged from their cooncealment and one of them threw a large stone, which struck MT. Hyde on the face, cutting it in 8 shocking manner and knocking him down. Mir. Hyde re. gained his feet as soon as possible. and started for the mlscreants, firing a revolver at them, but probably without effect The thieves in their hurry dropped dirk knife, which was secured.
 On Saturday night, the 18th, Mir. Hyde I went out to feed his cattle, when he again heard asnoise in the barn, and on going cautiously to the door he met a man com- ing out, laden with chickens which he had stoen and killed. Hr. H. at once made grab for the thief, catching him by the throat, and hard fight ensued; in the struggle Hyde's clothing was much torn,
 but he succeeded by kicking the man in the stomach, in bringing hls man to the ground, and then with the heel of his boot
 he stamped the thief in the face until he cried murder at the top of his voice; his cries attracted the attention of his accom-
 plices. and three of them emerged from tho barn causing Mir. Hyde to beat a hasky re- treat towards the house. He at once pro- cured lantern, and accompanied by his
 wife, proceeded tn the spot and found that the accomplices of the thief had dragged their victim away, leaving blood marks in l their course, showing that one of the num-
 Der had been seriously injured. On going
 to the barn it was discovered that the horse had been harnessed, the wagon run out, and an evident intention of the thieves
 to take all movable property. The next
 morning Sunday Mir. Hyde went to the
 barn and found the thieves had been back again. On the barn floor lay large bar of iron, and on examining his horse he found
 that his leg had been broken in shocking manner the bones iprotruding through the there were also other wounds on the horse
 made by the bar of iron; there was no al- formative but to shoot the horse. fi ".
 i Mr. Hyde says that the man he knocked
 down was of medium height, long dark
 hair, and long whiskers, and that his face
 is badly marked by his boot heel He al- so says that so far as he knows he has not
 an enemy in the world The proper au-
 thorities have been notified of the villain ous transactions, are making vigorous eff
 forts to apprehend the cowardly marauders. E0t 4a ------~- . l-.
 THE HORSES OF METz-The suffering of
 the dumb animals of Metz are thus describ-
 ed by correspondent of the London Tel egrapA, who visited the city after its fall :. Wondering round the Qualifications, I came upon place that will give you some
 idea of the sufferings that the poor horses had to go through. Immediately in front
 of the Porte des Allemands is barrack which was occupied by the Garde Mobile, The square was on one side studded with
 trees, and to each of these were attached
 three, and sometimes four, of the most
 wretched horses you can well imagine. The living numbered one hundred and twenty, the dead fifty fonr-the latter had died during the night. So emaciated were
 the poor creatures, and so weak, that they
 could not eat; they we're past feeding, and
 only awaited the moment when they were to sink down and die where they were
 bound. Immediately in rear of these ani.. mals, as if in mockery of there dumb sui. [ ferings, was established line of baking
 ovens, for the employment of which these
 unfortunates had dragged in the four. The
 poor creatures had received only two hand
 fuls of oats per diem for the last ten days.
 As, I ,ascended the road which leads to
 the fort, stopped to gaze upon specta. cle too shocking to be passed by unnoticed. l,,&k DE ( -e an orchard, which had been turned into Q slaughter house. In little heaps every
 where lay the legs and heads of slaughtered
 horses; hanging to the branch of tree
 was the carcass of horse, evidently placed there for the purpose of being cut up into rations. The ground, trampled and gory, was strewed with entrails and offal; while, attached to several trees, and lying where I they had been tied, were the carcasses of seven dead horses. A French soldier pass. ing afforded tine opportunity of asking for an explanation. ''Ma foi that was our butchers shop, and pretty dear the meat was latterly, can assure you. !" ''i '-'' 1 Laalu 91, -------- -~---------l taIiJ nf THE RUSSIAN DEMAND.--The treaty of 1856, which Russia now asks to have set aside, was made at Paris after the close of the Crimean wsr The particular clause of Wnlcn the Czar cOMplalnS IS the eleventh article, against which the United States has always protested, and which is unfair to all the nations not in alliance with Fur. key, as England practically is. It readsas follows:- :---sgssasl4 9s, s.4t,s,ei, J.p. f. ,,.,t l The Black Sea is neutralized. While lopen to the mercantile marine of all nd. lions, it's waters and ports are formally. and in perpetuity interlicted to vessels of war, whether belonging to nations having territory bordering on it, or otherwise. | Russia is particularly aimed at iu @his restriction, forlthe navy of the, sCzar must get to sea, either through the Euxine, the Baltic, or the Frozen ocean, and tie south. ern passage is its more important outlet. For all practical purposes the treaty of Paris makes the Russian navy useless in half the countries where it would naturally be needed for war purposes. But France and England, who forced the treaty upon Russia, wished to secure Turkey from the Ozar. and kuew that this could not be done, without fsttering the naval arm of Russia. And if the treaty is now annulled, as GdrtJ schakoff demands, Constantinople is left ct the mercy of the Russians. It is this re-,