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Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

Mr. Jeferson Davis was serenaded at White Sulpher Springs, and made speech. Jonn Zeal was hanged in New York, Fri.
 Gold in paying quantities has been found
 The Central Bank of Brooklyn has sus. pended payment.
 A white Republican State Senator in Mississippi has been married to colored girl. .a-..
 A negro has been whipped to death in Tennessee.
 Col. Kirk still refuses to obey the pro. cesses of the Courts in North Carolina.
 One white man was killed and several wounded, and four colored men were killed and 20 wounded ill riot in Mercer Coun ty. Mo.
 Five hundred Chinese will arrive at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, in few days, to complete the Lewis Tunnel; the colored men there are considerably excited about the matter.
 During the last quarter, .138, ,926 letters from foreign countries were received at the Post Office in New York, and 112, ,3O1 for. warded.
 A member of Congress has had his ear bitten off in Memphis.
 The U. s. Attorney General has given q decision on the Omnibus Appropriation bill, and the provisions of the bill so se- riously clog the financial departments of Government that an extra session of Con- gress was talked of to devise measures of relief Gen. Grant, however, does not con- sider the difficulty of sufficient import tance to warrent such a step.
 Two horse thieves have been hung by @ Vigilance Committee in Colorado.
 One man was killed aud several were wounded by the falling of building in Bos- ton.
 A negro murder was hanged in Culpep. per, Va., on Saturday.
 A terrible railroad accident has occurred on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, in Virginia, 12 persons being killed and 20 wounded.
 A mile and half of the snow shel on the Central Pacific Railroad has been burned. ....tf r. A mail coach has been robbed in Mon. tana of several thousand dollars by high waymen.
 During disturbance in Boston. police man wounded four boys with pistol.
 A tugboat exploded near Oswego N. Y .On Saturday, four men being killed.
 Rich gold mines have been discovered near Santa Fe.
 The cattle in Los Angeles Co.,. Cal, are suffering from the murrain.
 New Haven propeller was burned on Falkner's Island, the crew being saved.
 At the Nathan inquest, Gen. Frank F. Blair gave testimony which disposes of every insinuation that any member of the family committed the murder. On Monday there was a yacht race for the cup won by the America, nineteen the English yacht Cambria, which won the ocean race. The race was won by the Mag ic, the Cambria coming in fifth. The result of the last weeks State elec- ton in North Carolina is favorable to the Conservatives: Five conservative Congress- m en are elected. out of seven, and the leg islature is heavily conservative.
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LITCHFIELD.

The Supreme Court of Errors is in ses- sion, this week. Twelve cases are on the docket. a@
 MT. Boughton, lecturer of the Sons of Temperance. delivered an address at the Congregational Chapel, Monday evening, a handsome delegation from the lodge in Wolcottville being in attendance. The meet ing was adjourned two weeks to take into consideration the practicability of starting a lodge. of that order in this place. There IS 8 strong desire to do something in that cause on the part of many of our best eiti, zens, but what practical form the effort shall take.i is the question. All persons who feel an interest in this most important re- form should attend the adjourned meeting. -el- Professor Simonson of Hartford will deliver his lecture on "The Gid, on Sat- urday night, at 11s5 past seven o'clock, at the Court Room. The Lecture has been delivered in various places, and received with great satisfaction. The subject is the great Hero of Spain, celebrated for his exploits against the Moors in the 11th century. Admission 25 cents.
 - We notice that the Sentinel continues it's excited opposition to woman's suffrage. It is great pity its editor could not have gone to New Haven and been converted with the rest of the Democrats who heard the matter discussed during the late ses- sion of the Legislature. We are not quite sure, however, that the "prophets" want quite such Saul among them.
 - We are not quite near enough to feel the force of that torrent of eloquence which is deluging the Supreme Court, next door; but its mere reverberation soothes and refreshes us, as if it was real water, and not that dryest of all lawsuits, a "water case" whose splashings we hear.
 = Why these repeated pleas of poverty on the part of the Sentinel? |? It is prosper ous paper, and the statement made by it's editor, last week, that it's income would not support a s'canary bird," is a most transparent dodge to deceive that dear lit tie fowl. So, the sooner the cage is bought, and the s'loye and obey" said. the sooner will all this incoherent islander of the fe- male sex, and all this absurd pretence Of poverty, come to an end.
 .y- The editor, and others, of the EN- oU1REa office. are indebted to MT. Wm. E. Buel for present of an excellent lot of ap- ples. sss ies4 ----
 Prof. Simonson, of Trinity College, preached at St. Michaels, Sunday evening. = Fanny Fern having once "breathed the pure air of Litchfeld. the papers won't let her stop.
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THE RATLOTT.-No 2.

I have said that the real opposition to Woman's s Suffrage lies in the estimate of woman. Dr. Bushnell in his work on the subject, holds that it is '' reform against nature." because. of woman's mental and physical inferiority, and that Revelation coincides with nature. And. secondly, that mans choice as to what government we shall have, is of but little consequence so that he be only governed. Does the Dr. dare to say that. in regard to mans right of choice in religion ? If not, why not :?
 Now Ihold asat men, male and female, haoe an inalienable right to choice in religion and qouernment, aad are responsible to God for Me exercise of it And there can be no freedom in the former when fettered by the latter.
 In regard to the first point has God, in the order of his government, put the weak CT, inferior races and classes in subjection of choice, to the stronger and superior? Is it because of inferiority that women are classed with felons and traitors, in being denied the right of franchise |? To say that they are denied the right because they do not want it, and would not vote if they could, has nothing to do with the right of the question. Remove tue restriction, and womau's Intuition, ''of which we hear so much, will teach her what to do. s49
 Any one who has kept trace of Dr. Bush- nelps political ideas, could not expect any thing different from what he has written on woman suffrage. He has no conception of what Father Hyaclnthe calls the solidar- ity of races and nations. In discussing the slavery question in 1889, he asks, will emancipation "do them (slaves) any real service?" He refers to the Britons and Aborigines of this Continent as an exam pie of what will bsfall the Africans in free dom. Wonder if the Dr. expects the ex- tinction of the female race, in case they are enfranchised? What a horror for bachelors to contemplate! He says, 'They |" (negroes) need five hundred or thous- " and years of cultivation to give them a SC chance" Furthermore, I have facts to show the probable decline of our col "ored population in state of freedom. which leave us no need of a speculation. .s Take the case of the Irish: It is not true, as many suppose, that they become an integral part of our nation to any l" considerable extent. They become er- " tinct." Lo! the poor Irishman! And if woman gets the ballot, To, the poor wo- man! Extinct and fading away, is she? Women are an inferior race; therefore, let them remain in subjection, and they will be kept from decline in population, !" only by the interest their masters have " in them" And now we come back to our starting point, WHAT IS WOMAN? i EQUAL OR INFERIOR? That's the question. l B. W. WOODRUFF. Washington, Aug. 8th. ~
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WAR.

|a It is not creditabls fact, but it is an un deniable fact, thAtithe war between France and Germany is popular in both countries.
 The evident natural disposition of that car.
 niverous animal, man, is evidently towards
 bloodshed. The tendency of the savage, meeting another savage, is to kill and eat him. Mankind, starting with such na- tnre as that. did something towards it's nit igation when it gave up cannibalism; more when it replaced the slaughter of prisoners with their enslavement and more still when it confined the horrors of war to the actual collision of the battlefield, relieving the prisoner. and to some extent the non- combatant. from that suffering, enslave- ment or death, which was their lot in an- cient times. Has christianity now done its utmost ? Shall nations, having no real ground of offence against other nations, continue to fight them because of some leg acy of hatred derived from previous gen. eration The individual, under such cir cumstances, is not allowed to take life in any christian society. The community, however, can cause the death of few hun dred thousand men and still be called chris tian. Is not the relation between Euro pean comm unities at this day, very like what the relation was between individuals in Natchez-under-t -the.Hill, half a century since P Every community carries it's pis- tols and bowie knives ready to attack any other community from which it receives or even anticipates injury or insult. A large part of the productive force of each com munity is occupied in acquiring skill in the use of these weapons. Then come the periodical !" difficulties, much more de structive of life, we imagine, proportions ply, than any Natchez affair.
 Worse even than the loss of life is the loss of liberty that inevitably follows this system of national bullying. When the executive of European community has no use for the corporate bowie knives and AONOAfSAoS NoAooAb AAo SAA SAAPAoy oASAA "V home. So that what is called the Law of Nations is after all little more than Match ez "code," requiring an amount of mili- tary machinery which renders domestic liberty absolutely impossible.
 Greatly as Napoleon and Bismarck are to blame in this matter, are their respec- tive nations blameless? Tho remembrance of Auerstadt and Jena, of Leipsic and Waterloo, is the only real excuse that the former can offer for his present senseless attack Soon we shall have other bloody fields which will fire the Frenchmen and Germans of the Twentieth Century against each other, and make it possible for fu- ture despots to divert attention from flu ture tyranny by future war. Nor is the war spirit confined to Europe. Thousands who know what war means, would ~be pleased rather than otherwise with the chance to fight out our old feud of 1776 and 1872. Is man never to rise "above the brutes?"
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WEST TWISTED, Aug. 9th, 1877

The, Dexter Base ball club of this place now claim to be champions of the county, and hold themselves in readiness to meet any county club who desire to contest that claim. May we not soon hope for game between them and their old opponents, the Duttons of your place ?
 The Dexters have now beaten the Etnas of Wolcottville, twice. The following is the score of the last game played at Vol c0ttvilla SaEnrdan
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

THE VENERABLE ARoHDEAcoN SooTT, of Durham, Canada East, says, that he sui fered from Dyspepsia more than twenty five years, but that three weeks use of the Peruvian Syrup tan Iron Tonic). has ben efitted him so wonderfully that he can hardly persuade himself of the reality, and the people who know him are aston ished at the change
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THE DROUGHT. The intense heat and dry weather of the past and present month have brought drought upon us, the evil effects of which are increasing with fright ful rapidity. as day by day goes by without rain. The tobacco crop is likely to be the greatest sufferer by this state of things. It is estimated that even with speedy rain there will not be more than half the usual yield throughout the Connecticut valley. Pastures are drying up and decrease in dairy produce and rise in it's price is the inevitable result. Still our suffering by no means equals that of Europe. particularly in France where the drought is the worst of two centuries.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11
For the Ennnir,
For the Enquirer. PLYMOUTH SKETCHES.-No 37.

For the Enquirer. PLYMOUTH SKETCHES 37. On Thursday afternoon, the 4th inst a game of base ball was played between the Waterbury and Thomaston clubs. at the latter place. The game was an exceed ingly close one. At the end of the 9th in- ming, each side had A tallies. The 10th inning resulted in a victory of for Thom. aston-30 to 26.
 On Saturday afternoon, the 6th,:. the Thomaston and Wolcottville clubs played on. the ground of the former. Result-2O to 1S-a majority of 2 for Thomaston. On Monday afternoon, the 4th, tie last mentioned clubs played in Wolcottville. Resnlt-1O majority for Thomaston .i
 PLYMOTHEAN. Aug 9th. 1870 .--E ta
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11
STATE ITEMS.

Cholera infantum almost amounts to au epidemic in Waterbury.
 The Waterbury brass mill has closed for want of water.
 A German woman had her pocket picked of $1OO, in the New Haven depot, last week. ss....
 The Rev. Mrs. Hanaford has completed life of Dickens.
 A grandson of Lord Talbot is said to be working as a mechanic at Wallingford.
 The new wing of the State Reform School at Meriden will be finished by Dec. l. .. A young lady was drowned at WestyiIle, last week.
 Ten children died of ctolera infantuna, at New Britain, in the last week of July.
 The Meriden rifle club took most of the prizes at the New Haven Schutzeniest.
 The Bridgeport soldiers monument fund amounts to $5.352, Fl.
 A Westport lady died, last week, of a wound made by needle in her foot.
 The Rev. Mrs. Hanaford was called up at midnight to marry couple, last week.
 A lad was killed by fall from hay loft in Colchester, last week. ...
 A crane, four feet by six, was shot in North Bridgeport, last week.
 The census shows an increase of about LOGO in the population of Middletown.
 A man was drowned while bathing in Bridgeport, lately: ,.....
 A barn was fired by lightning in West port, Thursday afternoon.
 A Norwich man has invented a mortis- ing machine.
 Henry Williams, now State Senator from the 9th District, was injured, it is feared fatally, by horse, on Wednesday last.
 The Waterbury buttoa factories are turning Bismarck and King William med als-no call for Napoleons
 The New Haven public baths are becom- ing extremely popular. About 5000 per- sons visited them in the last week of July.
 An enterprizing citizen ran the six miles from Durham to Middletown, in forty y-nine minutes. Thermometer at 92o.
 New Haven will be asked for another half million loan to complete the Air Line railroad. e3Es |
 The first passenger train passes over the Air Line road from New Haven to Middle town, on Monday.
 The body of murdered man was wash ed ashore at Madison, on Friday night last. .-E
 young scoundrel was caught in young girls room, in Bridgeport. and soundly by her father.
 The fare from New Haven to Middle town, over the Air Line railroad, is % cents. ,-..-
 The manufacturers of East Haddam are of hard times, and have some of them stopped work.
 John H. Broadway, Esq, of Ellington, long prominent politician, died on the 29th ut. t.-tr..
 So frequent have been the burglaries at Milford that the citizens have organized night patrol. @1
 The Air Line railroad expect to raise the funds to complete their enterprise Tn about B months. j North Stonington shows decrease of 400 in population. but an increase in it's wealth. gsa ,a9ot syi!an Y,sggo
 The pastures of Oollinsville and vicini- ;y are so dried up that farmers are feeding heir cattle on hay d---C .0F A physician who has been practising ortY -four years in East Hampton, calcu- ates that he he has travelled enough to ake him four times around the globe.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

D~ The Herald of last week, contains the plan for visit by the 2d c. V. H. A. to the scene of their labors in Virginia. They propose to make the round trip for SS5 apiece, faring considerably better than they did in 1S64-5. at that. The expedi. ton is to be semi-military in conduct and commissariat. We have no doubt that such of the old Regiment as can afford the time and money. will have one of the pleasant fortnights they will ever spend in their lives.
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n~ People who assume the intellectual

DS People who assume the intellectual superiority of the Caucasian to the Mon golian race, may be startled at the follow ing-one of many instances of their won derful tractability:-
 The three young Japanese Princes who have been studying in the Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mass, have made wonderful progress. Two were ill the recent examina ton placed at the head of the school in every department.
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 e~ The July Report of the Department of Agriculture gives the following facts and estimates The coming wheat crop is estimated at 210 million bushels, about AS millions less than last year. The amount of corn planted this year is about per cent greater than last, and it's condition is reported excellent. The increase of land planted tO cotton averages about 12 per cent. or nearly one million acres. with the prospect of an excellent crop the proba. ble crop is from 311s to million bales. To. baceo shows an increase of about 5 per cent. The prospect for apples is unusually good from Maine to Georgia. Peaches are not % abundant. but New Jersey reports 9 per cent above the average.I Hog cholera is reported prevalent in Kentucky. n
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

RAILRoADs.-The receivers of the Boston and Erie railroad, are favor able. we understand, to an imme- diate completion of that part of the Boston and Erie railroad west of Water bury. Work has been resumed on the railroad from the Harlem R. R. at White Plains. to Brookfield on the Housatonic. The BroOkield and Portchester road is to bs completed to Danbury. The Derby is also to form a junction with the Boston and Erie. Under such circumstances, i, is pretty evident that the Shepaug Valley railroad cannot fail to make favorable con nections.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

BA. The Hartford Times asserts that the French Mitrailleur" is only the Gatling Gun with slight changes; that French off, cers examined it a few years since, copied it, and are now firing it off as original. Probably Dr. Gatling feels little as a coun- try editor does when he finds his editori- als copied and fired off as original in city dailies. E#E H- fg
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

The New Haven Register complains that the Free-Trade Republicans do not pro pose. as general thing, to bolt their par ty ticket and vote for Democratic Candid ates. What does it advise the Democracy of the Fourth Congressional District to do in case of MT. Barnum's renomination?
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

HANGINGs.-if any one desires to be convinced of he utter inutility of hang ing. as a moe of discouraging vice. he has only to red the account of the funeral of the New Y,rk murderer, Real, who was hung on Frid.y last. Regiments of troops and various lnblic Societies paraded at the funeral ou Saturday. The coffin was ornamen,ed with wreaths, and thou
 sands of npurners" were in attendance. As worthy conclusion of this affair,a mis- erable wretcl leaped into the grave as it was being filed, and tried to blow his brains out with pistol, hoping probably to become a humble participant in the fame of the deceased. Few of the great soldiers of tle last war were so loudly la- mented or attained such notoriety as this abandoned wretch. From that ancient criminal who burnt the temple of Ephesus, down to our time, there have always been numbers in every community burning for just such notoriety as foolish law has awarded to this murderer. Is it not time that Q punishment so brutal, so unchris- tian, so absurdly calculated to make mur- der honorable, should be abolished?
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11
~ We clip the following from the cor of tha Naw Haven Gonaiea. .-

It is reported that young man lately brought to deaths door and remorse, has revealed that he was Wolcottville Savings Bank the Naugatuck depot, a number of highway robberies, &c. Among others.h he implicated Joe Culver of Naugatuck, a somewhat notorious character in this region and that indi- vidual has taken ssleg bail"
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

B@- We are indebted to Wm. Cothren, historian of Ancient Woodbury, for copy of the Report of the Bi- Cen tennial Jubilee of the First Congregational Church in that town. .44a
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

BG- An English paper speaks of the mi trailleuse as a bullet pump"
 A very appropriate name considering the way in which the inventor was pumped'' by the French government. .s-'tf :.
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s9" It appears that the great Bronson Library at Waterbury is finally started. It now contains 1,5Oo, volumes and is soon to have reference library of 10000. It will be open to people of the town only, we judge from the notice in the ln- des. That will be a mistake, as it seems to us. Such library should be open to consultation at least by the general public, and we see no reason why people of other towns than Waterbury should not have some advantage from what will probably the best public library in. the State. 1898 persons have been registered to draw books. The kind of books drawn were as follows :: fiction; S2 per cent. history. 4; biography, 3; travel, 211a; science, 2; religious, l; mis- cellaneous. 5A. The preponderating pop ularity of works of fiction as compared with those of more 'fsolid" character is very significant.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

JULY HEATs.-Mr. Case of Canton, states in card of August l. that the warmest day of last month was the 17th, the mer- cury standing at 94o nearly half the day,
 but that the highest point was reached on the 18th, when the thermometer rose to 97e. That month was the. hottest, not only of this year, but of many years past.
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sar The Danbury Neaes came out in new and taking guise, last week; new type, new press, and an excellent local paper altogether.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

HaP Attention is called to the advertise ment of the Yale Law School
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RUNS MADE IN EACH INNING.

Passed Balls, Jeffreys, 35, Perkins, 6. Flys Caught, Etnas, Il, Dexters, F. Double Plays, Dexters, 3, Etnas, O.. Umpire-J. Alldis of Wolcottville.
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1ok Notices. &o.

Aprnryoss ,suRsAL for August 1s. cons tains: Glimpa of Indian Life.I lllus- trated) It waskhe Time of Roses; Apollo and Marsyas; Furnished Apartments in Paris; Three News from Whitestone; The Three Brother, by Mrs. Oliphant; Short Articles. nluarations. Poetry. &c., Sup. plement-" Rlph the Heir," by Anthony Trollope, at40TII4.4@A sf , For sale witt all the principal weeklies. magazines, &c. at J. W. Wheeler's West Street.
Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-11

The church bells did not ring on Sun day last because of sick persons in the i'm meaiate vicinity.
 MT G. H. Welch of New Haven is to take MT. Il. $. Barbour's law office. MT. |sMelch IS graduate of Yale College and Law School and comes to us well recon. mended. Mr. Barbour leaves us this week with his family,-he has our best wishes for his success. Herald. se
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,.- Prof. Simonson, of Trinity College, preached at St. Michaels, Sunday evening. z Fanny Fern having once "breathed
 the pure air of Litchfeld, :" the papers won't let her stop.