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Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-01-26

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which 10 oquil TO $3.50; the latter
lignre was refused for round lots. 1000 bbls
sold here, S o iha year Mt $500.
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and unsettled. No demand fer exports
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contracts. Crude in Lulk l2l5. SOC bbls
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bhls for Sept. Oct. and Nov. at 25$I.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-23

COED IN WIN TnEsE.
NEW York, July 23.
Gold l.925.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-23

ANTWERP, July. IS -3p. m.
Crude-Opens at 70.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-23

LIVERPOOL. July 20 i p. N.
Refined 10. Spirits II.
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pany, as it is supposed he carried with him $3. 900 which was in the safe. over which it seems, he had control, as he has tbe kev of the safe with him. Where he may tnrn up, remains to be seen. The young ladies of Thomaston played match game of croquet with the ladies of ierryville last Saturday Herald.
 We condense the following from the Ssn. inel:
 CORNWALL BRIDaE.-The liquor seller, Bulkley, has been fined $8O and costs for sales on Sunday. He appealed. - All convenient boarding places are being filled with boarders from the city.
 CoRNwALL.-The Grand Jurors have been Ill session. investigating the matter of liquor selling. "The citizens there are In earnest, and will in the end surely suc ceed in stopping the sale of the vile stuff"
 GOSHEN. The house of Mir. Stocking in Goshen Centre Originally the residence of Erastus Lyman) was struck by lightning on Tuesday last about six o'clock, F. M., and some damage sustainedS Several per sons were in the house at the time, but no one was severely injured.
 B. B. Pratt, Esq, is adding to the improvements upon his place by building very large and commodious barn a few rods from his dwelling house.
 NORFOLK. Our new Hotel rapidly ap breaches completion. Rumor says it is 10 be conducted by one of our townsmen, noted as quite an operator in finance and stocks generally.
 Work on the R. R. is being pushed rapidly, and the prospect now is that the entire line will be graded and ready for the rails by Fall.
 MT. s. s. Camp has lately sold house and lot owned and occupied by him, to S. $. BlackmaA Esq, Mir. 0. having purchased 2 place at Canaan Depot, to which place he proposes to move this October. Mir Jos. B. Eldridge acts as clerk in the Nor folk Savings Bank during the temporary absence of Cashier Cowles, who represents the town in the Legislature this year.-Her- aLd
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July 26th. 1870.
CORNWALL.
PLYMOTHEAN.

The unprecedented hot weather Is Me great subject of conversation at the pres ent time, the thermometer standing at nearly one hundred degrees in the shade.
 - The hay crop Is much smaller than usual, and with the dry weather, together with the aid of horse power, the farmers have been able to get their hay much ear Her than usual, and in better order Corn is much above the average, and oats are good.
 - Some of the milk producers, who stopped sending milk to New York. have again been induced to commence sending by the advance in price, and the very low price of butter aud cheese
 - The people of West Cornwall. as we'll as Cornwall Bridge, seem determined to stop tile unlimited sale of intoxicating drinks, and all the dealers have again promised to discontinue the s lI..
 At present there ara about one hnnd- red boarders from the cities soionrnine here, and more want to come, but cannot find rooms.
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SALISRURY

The labor on this section of the railroad which was suspended last winter, by rea- son of the sudden disappearance of one of the contractors, has been resumed under the direction of contractor Wallace, who promises to have this and the section above, graded ;. within the next two months.
 Two town meetings have been held recently to take some action in regard to the proposition made the town by Messrs. George and John Coffing. These gentle men offer to donate to the town the build ing now used as town hall, together with the ground and $1, ,OO0, on condition that the town enlarge the old cemetery and erect on the site of the old town hall new building to contain town hall, probate and town clerks office, &c. This generous proposition, as is usually the case with all projected improvements in this village. meets with some opposition on account of the expense to be incurred by the town. The last meeting, after indulging in con- siderable talk to no purpose, voted to ad- Journ until September. at which time it is hoped the project may come to vote.
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the catcher failed to take more than half the balls delivered, making frequent complaint to Capt. Wessells. calling upon him to put in some person to catch who could stop such balls. Now permit me to indulge in few remarks con- corning ''promscuous striking" There was one ball pitched by Cummings, struck by Addis, (foul) taken by Hine, which comprised about. all the
 promlscuous srmking," unless your correspon- dent refers to the batting of Capt. Vessels, who was put out on three strikes tmice and struck SO. far short the third time that he failed to make his first base before the visitation of the bah at that particular place.
 lthnk that instead of by unfair judgments o the umpire, the Duttons were defe ated by the in glorious example set them by their captain, and further if he IS not discouraged by the display he made here ou the 18th, he may by few years ol constant practice lsay five or ten years) answer to play with very raw muffin nine.
 Iwould say in conclusion Rthat the Etnas are readyto play with the same nine of the Duttons, on their (the Duttons) own grounds, and if the Litchfeld boys are 80 confident of success, with 8 fai' umpire as they intimate, they may estimate their chance of taking Five Hundred Dollars out of tn is town dead certainty.
 Respectfully yours, &c.,
 ss..f -..E JAMES ALLDIs. ''Umpire."
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GOSHEN.

After sunset. last week Tuesday, when a small shower had passed over to the South east, and the rain was oyer, our village was startled by vivid flash of lightning and heavy clap of thunder. The light ming struck the house of Anson G. Stock ing Esq. which he had recently purchased of MT. Freak Lyman. It appears to have left the rod at the north end of the house as the heads of two nails be- hind it are blackened as if burnt with gum powder. It made hole in the ground, passed along south on tue cellar floor, split post and threw it down, injured a tin which covered plate of butter and broke the plate, passed up to the east end of the hall, in the centre of the house, tore up the floor, took out piece of oilcloth 8 foot square, and threw it over the head of Mrs. Henry Stocking who was standing near the south door in the sitting-room, tore the floor in a closet, throwing open the door and leaving things mixed up It then passed off into the rooms where were one man and nine ladies and children, who were not injured, but of course very much frightened, for it was fearful shock. The lightning rod is in perfect order, but the ground is very, dry, which perhaps &C., counts for the fluid leaving the rod.
 H. N.
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ion. This house will be the best hotel in

tion. This house will be the best hotel in Winsted. @
 Saturday afternoon the scholars o1 schools No. l & 2 held an open air exhibi. ton in Gilbert's grove, back of Beach St., After the exercises on the stage the chil- dren sat down to do justice to the assort. ment of cake, confectionery, etc.. to be found on the tables.
 Excursions and rides to the Falls on the Robertsvills road, are frequent during the present season.
 The store that is being fitted mp on Norton's corner is about ready for the oc cupant, Mir. F. M. Preston formerly of New Hartford. Drugs. confectionery, and news office will constitute the ''biz. "Pep' will then have to give his fingers an extra lick or he'll sell no ''putty."
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For the Enquirer.
PLYMOUTH SKETCHES-No R

HOT Lno EuQulref. PLYMOUTH SKETCHES. No. 35. The principal event of the last week was the death, by drowning, of Perry, son of George Baldwin. of Thomaston. On Sat urday evening. the 23l. the young man in company with one or two younger broth CTS, went to bathe ip the Naugatuck, just below the Thomas dam. Getting in.where the water was very deep, and being almost wholly unacquainted with swimming, he probably became frightened. and was una- ble to extricate himself. His body was soon afterward recovered and unavailiug efforts used to restore it to life again. The deceased was in the 21st year of his age. The funeral was attended Sunday after noon by Rev. MT. Hilliard, who delivered a sermon or address on the solemn occa- sion. The remains were brought to the hill for interment.
 PLYMOTHEAN.
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Book Notices, &c.

THE ATLANTIC contains: Joseph and his Friend, by Bayard Taylor; The English Governess at the Siamese Court, "; The Burden of the Day; Oldtown Preside Sto- ries, by Mrs. Stowe; A Virginian in New England; Thirty-five Years Ago, I, by Jas. Russell Lowell; The French Claims; Dor othy in the Garret; The Grand Traverse Region of Michigan; Mir. Hardback on the Sensational in Literature and Life; Color Blindness; Halfway; A Kentuckian s Share in the Coup dEtat; A Days Pleas ure; Ode; Some Memories of Charles Dickens; Reviews and Literary Notices.
 Fields, Osgood X sCo., Boston, $4.OO a year. -s+-..
 THE GALAXY contains: Overland, I-V; American Timidity; Bread and its Adulte- rations; Once; Diplomatic Incidents, by Thurlow Weed; Diana; Sister Diana; Ed ward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. by Justice Nc Carthy; The Story of Mutiny; How Ma poleon I. managed Theatre; The Dumb Poet; The Vaccination Question; Lenox; The Styles of Disraeli and of Dickens, by Richard Grant White; Galaxy Miscellany; Drift Wood; Literature and Art; Memo randa, by Mark Twain; Nebul@.
 Sheldon < Co.,, 504 Broadway, New York, $4 year.
 THE CH1LDREN's HOME contains: Nina, the Little Mountain Maid; Beach Nut Farm. and other Stories. Illustrations The Flying-Fish. Just Three Years Old. &c.; Music, Poetry, and other matter suit ed to Young Children. T. s. Arthur & Sons, Philadelphia, $1. 25 year. I ARTHUR's HOME MAGAZINE contains:- Emilia; Worthies; Kenneth; Marvels of the Insect World; Afraid of It; Jacque- line; Engraving, "The Face in the Glass; Music, Poetry, Short Articles, Fashions, Receipts, and Editors Notices, &c.
 T. s. Arthur & Sons, Philadelphia, $2.OO year.
 EVERY SATURDAY for July 30, has sketch es by Hoppin-On the Cliff at Newport and the Morning Call-and a good picture of Little Nell and her Grandfather, with other striking wood-cuts. The publishers announce anew novel, simultaneously with it's appearance in England, by Edmund Yates, the author of ''Black Sbeep." enti. tied ''Nobody's Fortune. l THE LITTLE CORPORAL, now a magazine in covers, furnishes lively number fol August, with stories, natural history, games puzzles, and gossip, and is successful as il deserves to be. @ Sewell & Miller, Chicago. $1, year.
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LITCHFIELD.

The secoId sale of books of the new Library, to1 place Thursday evening. The following are the books added to those already announced: ~.
 JAMES PARToS. Life of Jackson, vols.; Life of Burr, vols.
 RUsKIN. se,en Lamps of Architecture; Stones of Venice, vols.
 MAX MULLER Chips from a German Work Shop, 2 vols.
 Miss MULocH. Woman's Kingdom; Brave Lady.
 THOMAS HUGHES. Tom Brown at Rugby; Tom Brown at Oxftrd, 2 vols. THACKERAYs Miscellanies, vols.
 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON. The Improvisa- tore; The Tw, Baronesses; Wonder Stories; In Spain and Potugal; o. T.
 TRENCH. Study of Words; Lessons in Pro- verbs; Realities of Irish Life.
 CooPER's Leather Stocking Tales; Deer-slayer; Last of the Mohicans; Pathfinder; Pioneers; Prairie.
 DICKENS. Pickwick Papers; Martin Chuzzle- leby; David Copperfeld; Barnaby Rudge, &c.; Tale of Two Cities, &c.; Little Donit; Old Curios- lty Shop, &c. Bleak House; Christmas Carol ,&c. {; Our Mutual Friend; Master Humphreys Clock. MISCELLANEOUS. Rob Roy on the Jordan; Plan etary and Stellar Worlds, (Mitchell); Rab and his Friends; Andes and the Amazon; Hans Brett mans Ballads; The Villa on the Rhine, 2 vols.; Miss Mltford's Recollections; Kane's Arctic Ex- ploratons; The Woman in White; Society and Solitude (Emerson); Natural History of Selbourne; Hans Brinker; Story of Bad Boy; Essays in Criticism (MaHhew Arnold); Vambery's Travels in Central Asia; Old Mamselle's Secret; Homes without Hands; Gold Elsie.
 The next sale of books takes place al the Congregational Conference Roam, on Thursday of next week. There is a fine of 9 cents for every volume not returned by that time, and 10 cents per day fol books detained thereafter.
 - The Engineer Corps of the Shepaue va,1ey Railroad Company returned on Saturday, from their survey of the route along the Shepaug River. We hear that they will soon examine the route via New Preston and New Milford, in order to make comparison of their respective merits
 Mir. George Richards, Jr., formerly oi this place, took the second prize for Soph- omore Reclamation, at Yale, last week
 e. Sanford X Son have at their Store a Kerosene Stove that is worthy of atten tion. It boils tea-kettle, bakes two pies and steams six quarts of vegetables, all e tbe same time, at cost not to exceed one cent. It will heat flats, broil beef-steak cook griddle cakes, &c., &c., making nc smoke or unpleasant odor in the house.
 - Our readers will notice in our adver Using columns the warning for a specia town meeting, on Monday next, to take action on the Railway subscription. As the passage of the vote to be proposed appears essential to the success of the un dertaking, every voter should make an eff fort to be present. a.
 = John D. Champlin, Esq, late of tho Sentinel is in town. It is pleasing to mo- tice the fraternal interest he still takes il Litchfield matters.
 Attention is called to tue adv of c. M Hooker.
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ing her ballot. Does any man in his sen- ses deny that she can afford that? Fifty two days in the year she is required to at- tend religious services, for about three hours each day. Does the .wife and moth CT" fail of her duty, there, as often as the husband and father?" Very many "wives and mothers" may not have time to go to Congress, but if usages remain as they now are. they may be certain that if they are not successful lawyers, or successful sol diers, or very wealthy, no such service will be required of them. Is the minor ity really afraid that women will not only be compelled to vote, but to hold office ? They should be aware, that with fe- male ofice-holding is to come the correc- tive of female voting. and that even if the male element votes for some foolish wo- man, she cannot be elected unless women also vote for her, who are subject to no such glamour.
 3. The minority undertake to say, that the present indirect influence which wo- man is fattered with the belief that she exercises, is greater than, and far prefera- ble to, any power which direct particlpa- ton in public affairs, and direct responsi- bility for their conduct, would give her. They close with the following very eau tiously worded intimation:-
 No one could foretell what part would be play ed ip politics by the introduction of the sexual overturned empires and changed the fate of na- tions. It secret and stealthy exercise has been fatal and deadly. Who can tell what might be it's open influence when intriguing female politicians might wish to accomplish their purposes?
 It is precisely the exchange of this "se- cret, stealthy, fatal" influence, for open re- sponsibility, that the advocates of female suffrage desire. They point to the direct power of tue Elizabeths of England and Isabellas of Spain, as contrasted with the indirect influence of the Pompadours of France The gentlemen of the minority have read the history of past times, and the signs of our own times, very careless ly, if they do not see that it is precisely this indirect influence of woman which is most dangerous because most irresponsi- ble. A woman can be lobbyist as we'll before as after she becomes voter; but it requires no prophet to foresee that she can never ask popular support, especially from Q female constituency, without character completely above the reach of attack. We cannot close our continents on these inter esting state papers, more appropriately than by the following quotation from a shrewd Conservative who wrote about "Wives and Slaves" in the Democratic Re- viep, quarter of century since:--
 ssI cannot but reflect that mankind have shown themselves more willing to grant favOrs to the ductive influences of profigate, mattresses. than to the truth, the tenderness, the obedience and the matronly virtues of wives; and that they have yielded to the vices of woman what they have withheld from her urity."-DemOcratic Recieu, Oct., 1845.
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s~ The late fire at Constantinople was a more terrible affair than it is easy to re- alize as occurring in the Europe of the Nineteenth Century. About 2,0OO persons lost their lives, the loss of property is es- timated at $25, 900, 900. It is pleasing to notice that a considerable portion of the loss of life fell upon thieves and plunder- CTS. A cable dispatch says:
 When the ruins were dug out last week, the bodies of seven men were found almost unburned who were in the very act of forcing the vault when sudden current of heated gas killed them all. The malignant typhus has broken out among the sufferers by the fire, who are now living in tents furnished by the Government.
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WOLCoTTYILLE. July 26th. 1870,


 EDITOR L1rcHFrELD ENQU1RER:--In your issue oi last week, noticed communication under the heading of ssWolcottvie, referring to the game oi base ball which was played in this place between the Duttons of Litchfield, and the Etnas of Vol cottville on the 18th inst. That the author oi your report lives in Wolcottville. no person here is verdant enough to believe. That the sta tements in regard to the umpiring are false, every person who understands, and witnessed the game will readily perceive. Quite number of gentlemen were presenton the 16th who perfectly under stand the rules of the game, some of them hay ing umpired many times, among whom was Mr. Elisha Steele, who assured me that had he been judging the game, he could not in a single in- stance have given decision differing from mine. Now, sir, if the judgements given were so notori- ously partia, ,why did not Capt. Vessels call time, and make known his dissatisfaction herewith to the Captain of the Etnas, and demand that anoth- CT umpire should be chosen? Which he knows. if he understands the rules, he has perfect right to do. Hs7.Et 7.= Two years ago this summer the Duttons played 8 game with the Etnas, and at it's close the score stood 57 to in favor of the Duttons. do not re-
 
 followed No charges of incompetency or partial ity, then, although Capt. Vessels played at that time, and the undersigned was the umpire. But two years ago the Duttons had Deming and Will Hams, gentlemen who can play ball. and who un- derstand the rules that govern the players of the game. They directed the action of their club, re- suting in the defeat of the Wolcottville boys who acknowledged it gracefully and their Capt did not charge the the umpire with unfairness.
 The statement and charges of your reporter were so extravsgant that not single person in this place believes them, And presume to say that any impartial reader, knowing nothing about it whatever, will consider them palpably unca ndd and incorrect. 4
 That the umpire called balls on the pitcher with out warming, deny, although according to the rules of 1s7o he could rightly do so but the pitch ing of the Dutton man was so wild, that at times during the game the striker must needs dodge every ball pitched, for five or six times in success- ion, in order to escape personal injury. Such I should think would be termed p'onsiscaoas pitch ing. In fact the pitching was so inaccurate, that
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Litchfleld, Thursday, July S,1S7O
A New Phase of the War.

By cable on Tuesday comes news of ar arrangement formerly proposed by Napo leon to Bismark (probably in 1S66, fol giving France the Rhine boundary, 1T consideration of the latter's yielding tt the consolidation of Germany under Prus sian power. The proposed treaty was re- jecsed by Bismark, who in fact got all he wanted without permitting France to gob ble mp Belgium. That such a proposition was made, is rendered the more probable by the public demand made by Napoleon ] ct the time for an extension of his bounda. ry to the north. The evident object of the enemies of France. chief among whom seem to be Disraeli and the London Times, in bringing this document to light, is to en- list England actively in the war.
 There are many reasons for British 'sen- sitiveness regarding the annexation of Bel. gium to France. The immense naval and commercial importance of Antwerp, the centuries of war that England has waged to keep first Spain. and then France, from possession of the Netherlands. the memo ry of the great final defeat of Napoleon I. in the very country that France now coolly proposes to appropriate. all combine to ex- asperate the temper of John Bull against an old enemy and incline him to the sup port of an old friend. The inevitable re- suit of Napoleonic victory is made so plain to England by this opportune reve- lation, that MT Gladstone will evidently have hard work to keep his administration out of a French war.
 It may even be doubtful whether, if Great Britain is convinced that Prussia desires no further territorial acquisitions, the former will not strike at once for pres. ervation of the s'balance of power" If MT. Gladstone waits till France has beaten Prussia, it will be to late to save Belgium from Napoleon and, on the other hand, il Prussia can repeat the Sadowa campaign. what is to save Holland, or even Belgium from Bismark By an immediate alliance with Prussia both these Continental break waters may be preserved, but if England merely grumbles, the map of Europe will probably have to be changed again. The immediate interest, therefore, next to the expectation of great battle, is regarding the course of England. Italy and Spain can do little hurt or good to either side Russia and Austria seem to choose neutral ity; but much as MT. Gladstone dislikes war he may be called on to decide whethei the Netherlands shall suffer the fate oi Poland. 3a 7.