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Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
Book Notices,

BLAcKwooDs EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for January, contains: The Life of Lord Palmerston; New Books; Narrative of the Red River Expedition-Part IT.; Fair to see-PartI.; The Mornings 'Times" in Chambers; The Late George Moir; The Two Systems.
 Republished in New York, by the Leon. ard Scott Publishing Co. $4 year.
 Coop HEALTH contains: Means of Pre- serving Health; Cough; How to Rest the Mind; Singular Case of Resuscitation; An Artificial Pupil; The Science of Sleep; Rich; Artificial Teeth; Early History of Surgeons; Consumption; Skates, Skating and Skaters; Furs; the Origin of Soils; The Theory of Glacial Epoch at the Equator; Technical Education.
 Alexander Moore, Il Broomfield Street, Boston. g a year.
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emlah Dewire has been decided by Justice Calhoun in favor of the plaintiff, to recov CT %1OO and costs. The case of Jeremiah Dewlre Us. John Demithwick, was decided byJustice Whiting for the plaintiff
 - The Sewing Society of the Conereea. tional Church meets at Mir. Geo. Church. house, next Wednesday night.
 = The delegates to the Republican Con. gressional Convention of this District, from rorrington, are-o. R. Fyler, Elijah Wood ward, Gideon H. Welch, and Casimir H Bronson. Those to the Senatorial Conven. . tion are-B. R. Agafd. Elisha J. Steele. Alonzo Whiting and John M. Burr. 7.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02

THE RELIGIOUS AMENDMENT.-We are in receipt of circular favorable to the pro- posed Religious Amendment of the U. s. Constitution. The movement has been condemned with such unanimity by the press that it is hardly necessary to signify our assent to its general condemnation. If a nasty footing we made lately from the Observer Year Book" is correct, the num- Der of Protestant protesting Christians in the United States is less than six millions. The sex of these church members is not given except in the case of Congregational ists, of whom but one-third are males. Il the same proportion holds good in other denominations, the number of Protestant male church members cannot exceed two millions, or probably about one quarter oi the Protestants entitled to vote. Such be- ing the case, would calliny this Christian nation make it so?
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
Warning Ont.

We are asked by the Enquirer whether " any white voter" has been warned out of town We don't know. It would have saved many hundreds of dollars to the town if some "such thing" had
 True-there is an insane Irishman (prob. ably the one referred to above) now in the State Asylum, at a yearly expense to the town of over $150, we are told. Of the many foreigners who have come to this town. for the most part without any prop erty, few have become chargeable, the rest are earning more money in yeai than they could have got in lifetime abroad, and are becoming valuable citi' zens. Now. suppose Litchfield had played the game on them that our selectmen are trying on this Southern emigrant; it would now have been Republican town, o1 about twenty-four hundred inhabitants
 The Sentinel would seem to justify such g policy; and were our board of selectmen to act npon it, they would follow up this case by wholesale expulsion of foreign
 CTS. leaving the Shepaug railroad to be completed by native industry. sometime in the Twentieth Century.
 So much for the general principle. Nov for the special pretext for Carter's expul, sion. The facts are, that Deputy Sheriff Allen, searching in Torrington for other property, found some napkins he thought his, in the possession of Carter's aoys. He evidently had no sufficient evidence oi theft, or she would have been arrested. This is the pretext for warning out Carter; his wife, being native of the State, is subject to no such summary process. This process means, practically. the expulsion of Carter from Connecticut, leaving his family behind, for he has no means sui
 fcient to take them with him to his native State. Supposing, however, he had really been convicted of theft. Does that au- thorize board of Selectmen to pass sen- tence of perpetual exile? The law speaks of fine. and imprisonment only. A great many criminals graduate yearly from our county jail; is it customary to forth
 with warn then1 vut of tho es~so [ While they are in jail under sentence, our Sheriff allows any one to hire their labor, but our Selectmen threaten with prosecu- tion any man who employs the "ablc bodied, industrious, colored man" they have warned out of town We consider it our duty to say here that our present board of selectmen have hitherto proved unusu- ally free from partisanship, unusually fair in their dealings with political opponents. We cannot believe that they have fully considered the great principle involved in Carter's case. -1
 Book NOtiCea
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COUNTY ITEMS.
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 KENr.-Mr. Joseph E. Dwy has sold his farm to Clark Page.
 Banqwet. ft' ... SHARoN.-At the republican caucns held January 21, the following persons were ap- pointed delegates to the different conVen- tions:
 State, ESee Convention report.l Congressional A. Bieroe, John s. Jewett, R. B. Hopkins, Chas. T. Lowell. ,SesatortaL --Albert Rowley, H " Rob erts, Samuel B. Everett, Chas. P. St. John, Herald.
 CANAAN.-A correspondent corrects the statement we made short time ago in re. gard to the Rev. MT. Swallows donation. The amount was $154 instead of SPA, as we before had it. ..
 Mir. Osman Green, an old and respect ed citizkn living between Falls Village and Lime Rock, while returning home from the depot after delivering milk, was met by an extra train near the residence of Stephen Brigner, and his horses taking fright threw him from his seat, and fractured three ribs. He fingered in inconsistencies until Mon- day morning and then died.-HerGld.
 SOUTH NoRFoLK.---Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith celebrated the fftieth anniversary of their marriage, on the 18th inst.
 The ':social hop'' at the Shepard Hotel, now kept by N. Demars, passed of very pleasantly to the satisfaction of all, last Friday. A similar gathering (minus the hop) is anticipated next Friday eve.
 The District school is in charge of Mir. Merrill Humphry. a thorough and efi- cient teacher, and is in fourishing con- dition.a The tanneries are obliged to run rather slowly on account of the scarcity of water which affects business here as in other places. Herald. ,l
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TO CoRREsPONDENTs.

Nearly year since, we made propositions fo, met with ready response, adding much to the value of our paper, and laying us under persona obligation to the gentlemen rendering us suct 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. e 1 Our propositions to regular and occasional cor respondents from any part of Ltchfeld County are as follows: sl eoa1s.I4' 17 a 4t l. On publication of any communication QUIRER 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.
 g. 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 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. ......... s..
 The names of correspondents will be kept strictly secret, if desired. isHe
 Communications of personal nature will no be published, unless the propriety of such pub ication is manifest. a8 .1az tat
 Manuscript should be written oply on one side of the paper. As 4F -
 Regular correspondents can avoid all danger of having the contributions of others attributed to them by assuming some .sisniature, a 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 aniss, even from places where we have regular correspon- dents, since they often give valuable additional information. s"4F &
 A simple statement of facts is all that is neces- sary. and hastily written communications will be corrected before publication. -ss g.e
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
NEW PRESTON, Jan. 3Oth, ls7

NEW PRESTON, Jan. 30th, 1871
 MR, EDITOR: Having been suspected of
 writing recent article from this locality
 for the ENQUIRER-an article to tbe truth
 of which we can avouch. we have been pub.
 lickly and tauntingly pronounced to be
 wholly destitute of common sense, and what is still more derogatory to our char. acter, accused of the enormous and fl ,eil. ious crime of having been nominated and elected by the republicans of this district as registrar of elections. As this alleRa- tion originates from source which arro. gates to itself Q rare and extraordinary endowment of common sense, we are very naturally led, in our deplorable destitution, to inquire, "In what does this boasted Common Sense consist? How does it nun ifest itself in those who assume to possess it in pre-eminent degree? Does it mau. fest itself in charging respectable citizeus with lying, who may have the temerity 10 express dissent from an accusation or state ment however false? Does it manifest it self in the use of profare and unbecoming language uttered indiscriminately in the presence of men, women and children? Does it manifest itself in knowledge and use of all the appr obrious epithets found in the vocabulary of low blackguardism? Does it manifest itself in ignoring all the courtesies and civilities of civilized lifeP"
 Of course, Ce, who are pronounced to be so destitute of the attribute or quality in question, would not presume to be too positive regarding what we had hitherto supposed to be the normal and legitimate uses of common sense; but frequent and recent displays of it's activity, in those who arrogate to themselves a special eudow ment of this faculty, and who with super cilious airs of superiority pronounce others destitute of it, have served to console us iu our destitution and to furnish us with some ground of confidence that our crime is ve. nial offsnse, for which we may humbly hope for pardon, ''' W.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
WOLCOTTVILLE.

The sleighing is being well improved here, and our fast teams and stylish teams are out and give Wolcottyille quite lively appearance. s'a ao sseai ess-3 = Although the weather was very in clement here, last Thursday eve, yet the .,hopp at the Allen House at that time was a success. Twenty two couples attended and danced with all the vigor and grace of experts.
 - The case of John Demithwick vs. Jer-
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THE LAST DAYs OF PoMpEu. -On Fri day night of this week, the great spectacu- lar drama of .The Last Days of Pompeii, 5 is to be performed at Farmers Hall, Wash. ington. Let every one who cares to see the best theatrical representation ever pre-. |sented in this county. be sure to attend.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
@ s-E For the Enqiurer. PLYMOUTH SKETCHES. No. 5e

O1 eAO
 PLYMOUTH SKETCHES. No. 59.
 The pastor (since Dec. 1st, 1s69). is the Rev. Elias B. Hilliard, on salary of $1, 15O, and the use of the parsonage and grounds. .
 The Deacons are Ferrand Dunbar, Joel Blekeslee, George Langdon, George A. Stoughton. With the exception of the first named, the Deacons are chosen every four years. e-3 - H Church Committee-The Deacons; Hor- ace Fenn, William W. Bull, Alfred Ren- free.
 Society's Committee -Enes Blakeslee. Edward 0. Root, Byron Futile. st Treasurer-Horac Fem. A14a a ssA4 a Clerk-Edward c. Root. \ 1
 Sabbath School superintendant-G George A. Stoughton. Y lsia sies ~
 Sabbath School Librarian Charles H. Paige.
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..congressional.

; The bill repeating the income tax has passed the Senate. '+~ -' '.-
 Winnie Ream's statue was unveiled, last week.. .~s. ..gg.8 4uVx+
 Frank Blair has taken his seat in the Senate. .ts8s.
 The Appropriation bills have been un. der consideration, and some of them have passed.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02

pA- Attention is called to the advertise ment of the great theatrical performances to-morrow Fridsy) night. The grand dis. play of native and naturalized Judean talent, the costumes. scenery, gladiatorial fights, eruption of Mount Vesuvius, &c., &c., will make the representation one that deserves an overfowing audience. a
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
UNION REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CON.

VN1ON hEFUBLlUAN NCUNGKkSS1UNAL JUN. .a s4g MENTION.
 THE Union Republican Electors of the Fourth J. Congressional District, are requested to send delegates equal to twice their number of Repre- sentatives in the Legislature, to meet in Oonven- ton at Franklin Hall, Bridgeport. on the 18th day of February. 1871, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of nominating . Candidate for Congress for said District, and doing any othel business proper to be done in said Convention. 5a GEORGE F. TRACY,e
 PHMo CLARK, 4ta
 D. l.. WILLARD, Congressional
 CHARLES B. STEPHENS. Committee.
 R. B. OANF1ELD,
 .si J. K. SHEPARD $EaA @ es
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
Congress ana woman Suffrage.

We have made careful classification of the vote on enfranchising the women of the District of Columbia, taken in the House of Representatives on the 20th ut. Forty-seven Democrats voted against the measure, and one (Milnes of Val in favor. The Republicans voted as fellows:
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02

Chorister-Aaron P. Fenn, k ! Melodeonist-Horace Fenn. f s sexton-Henry Bradley. \ Amount of Fund Not far from six dollars N esaa
 treasurer of said Fund Oliver Smith.
 sPLYMoTHEAN
 Jan. 31st, 1871. S-4rS
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WmUHEsTER.-Wm. IT. Rood has sold his farm to Geo. Hbbalds 2nd, for price which is not stated.
 A young lady at Winchester Center is having the measles for the third time.- Hrala
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02

WS8kE0 snow Gu8b 1uG6mpoEeUC6s VlCl6uC6 and crime are alarmingly on the increase, therefore
 8. Resolred, That it is the duty of the legislature, as the guardians of the public veal, seriously to inquire what further leg islation may be necessary to give efficacy to existing laws, so that the peace, security end health of the community may be pro. tected.
 g. Resolred, That general education is essential alike to the preservation and pros perity of the republic-the source of thrift in peace and power in war. the cheapest de fense of the nation, the wisest police agen cy, seeking the prevention rather than the punishment of crime; that the wealth oi the State consists in its men-in its men, in its measure of mind; that education tends to economy, thrift and virtue, while ignorance means waste and weakness, i. not pauperism and crime; that it is the du ty and interest of the State to secure ( good common school education free to tho children of all classes, the poor as well ai the rich; that we commend the growing harmony and cooperation between labor capital, and the recent iberality and tho interest of our manufacturers and capital isfs in promoting the education of tho children of the State, and congratulate tn, people on encouraging the progress of thi, great interest.
 10. ResOlced, That we pledge to the gen tlemen whom we have this day nominated our hearty support; and we cordially com mend them as worthy to receive the sui frages of the freemen of this State.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02

not 0o lt then. They Kept nfe at the house across the road, and kept some of the company watching through the night with pistol and orders to shoot M. if he attempted to escape, which, of course, he had no thought of doing, but did not care to be dragged away from his sick wife's bed, to gratify the malice of George Hitch cock. His wife did not sleep one moment through the night, on account of the noise and disturbance, and the Doctor says 1t IS a wonder that it did not kill her.
 ]" In the morning, they broke out pane of glass, reached in and unbolted the door and made the arrest. Sheriff B. took out his handcFs to put on Moore, who told him it was unnecessary; he would go along without any trouble, but B. replied that it was best to be on the safe side, and took him through the streets handcafed. with. out doubt by the order of G.. H. Hitch cock, that he might have it to taant hian .citb, as he has already done.in vile and pro- fane language), but they found McMahon there as Moore's counsel, which took them by surprise, as they had none. By McMa- hons advice, Moore confessed judgment and paid the fifty cents and costs to Gill lett, bonds were given in the criminal cas- es, and so the affair was settled for the present. : =.
 '.On Saturday Ithe .21stl he insnlted and abused Sherman Cogswell, by calling him a thief, a liar and murderer, when there is not a more quiet. peaceable man in our town. It wants more grace than many of
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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-30

THE FIRST Days COMMANDMENT OF
PARIS From a military point of view
the effect is zero. From picturesque or
dramactic point of view there was one of
the three thousand shells fred which pro-
duced a startling effect. In the midst of
the firing nine people sat down to break.
ct ia a email house upon the plateau OF
Is, There were the commandant OF
10 CIV tn battalion of mobiles of the Seine
INT r.; 1tzler), his wife, the adjutant OF
The batta, ZION, a captain, two leutenants,
an ensign. chaplain and doctor. nearly
all Of the g. ,me battalion. A Prussian
shell came an ,sshing upon the table and
killed six of the party. The command
ann and his wife were wounded. The only
one who escaped uahurt was the doctor.
OF the eight persons who were killed yes
day ak belonged to this little breakfast
party. What An incident for the future
novelist Nine persons, including lady,
are testing over their frugal breakfast,
which they are determined to enjoy In
spite of the cannon. "There wants but a
she'll to give us butter" says one of the
party. Instantly comes shell and blows
six of them out of existence, while wound
ing two more, the commandant and his
rgife.-Letter TO London Meas.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-30
~sa the President Rel.
A Message fT> IRIS Ina the South.
aLIVe TO affa

WOO vaaterdav
The following Messag. 80. - ho.I
transmitted by the Presto,
Houses of Congress ,,.to
To the Senate and House Of Reprt,
tiUeS:
A condition of affairs now exist In some
of the States of the Union, rendering LIE
and property insecure, and the carrying
of the mails and collection of the reve-
nues dangerous. Proof that such state
of affairs exists in some localities is now
before the Senate that the power to cor
rect these evils is beyond the control OF
the State authorities, / do not doubt;
that the power of the Executive of the
u. s. acting within the limits of the ex-
listing laws is sufficient for the present
emergencies is not clear. Therefore, l
urgently recommend such legislation as
in the Judgment of Congress shall effectu-
ally secure life, liberty and property in
all parts of the United States. 1t may be
expedient to provide that such law as
shall be passed in pursuance of this re-
commentator shall expire at the end of
the next session of Congress. There is
no other subject on which would recon-
mend legislation during the present SEES
sion. u. S. GRANT.
Washington, March %, 1871.
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Report of the Committee ON Music

To the Trustees Of the Rutland Graded
School: GENTLEMEN,-In conformity
with your request, the Committee on
Music herewith submit such remarks and
suggestions as occur to them, in regard to
progress made and results attained in the
department of music in our public schools.
Taking into consideration the fact, that
this branch of instruction was introduced
less than two years ago, and prosecuted
since that time with view to the great
est economy, in order to obviate any OBJ
iections which might be raised on the
score Of expense. the advancement made
in musical knowledge by the pupils OF all
the schools, and the improvement mani
fest in the ready obedience and orderly
conduct of the schools, more or less attri-
butable to the influence of musical exer.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-30

A VERMoNTER ABROAD. John o.
Sake, the witty Vermonter, has found his
true home in 'old Kentuck." The Blue
Grass planters and the Louisville Etera.
teurs take him right to their hearts and
demijohns, as ga sincere and unostenta
tious friend to the Southern people, with
out having been renegade to his section
or his country" So says the Courie,
Journal, and declares chat there is no,
the least essential difference between the
Yankee and the Southron and here il
SAKE to prove it"