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Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
WASHINGTON.

The farmers are getting Tn their.hay with sorrowful conferences. The drought of last year with the dry weather and grubs of this. make small stacks and lean barns. So lighta yield has never been known in this section. On upland, dry meadows, it takes two and sometimes three acres to get a load of hay. Many pieces will not pay for moving. How to restore grass to these lands is a serious question for the farmers in this county. To resort to the blow is slow and tedious process, involving 8 great deal of time and labor in clearing of stones and laying down again. What can be done Those who have tried barn-yard manure the past spring have received but little or no benefit. The question is open for debate. Can our scientific farmers throw light on the subject !? Tobacco was never known to be so small at this season since the raising of it commenced. Grain
 appears to be very good. Corn very back ward. Potatoes look finely where the in- sects have not stripped the stalks entirely barren of leaves. Grasshoppers abound.
 Bird & Ferriss, two subcontractors building the section of road between the Ferry bridge and the R. R. bridge at the Mitchell hole on the Shepaug river, de- camped last week, leaving their job unfin- ished and several creditors anxious about
 their bills. s... -s.,. g....- .g..... ..-.e,.a a
 - MT. F. W. Gums school, with several loving swains and sweethearts, have gone to Waramaug lake, and camped out on Point Beautiful for stay of two weeks, to catch fish, cook fapjacks, view the Pinnacle by moonlight. and sit with clasped hands un- der the dreamy stars, and ''te!l the story ever new, yet old as creations dawn" (it strikes us that novelists are hacking that phrase altogether too much). which makes lifes voyage seem like the pushing out of a boat on the placid rnoonlit water. After midnight comes sleep, and at dawn g storm comes down upon the lake and the boat is tossed among the pillows. Then list for the voice, ':It is I, be not afraidP' '5''. .. - We are happy to announce that 9 fin- isher of understandings and repairer of soles has taken the shop lately occupied by
 Joel Bishop. - .' '.~ '-@' W.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

D@ The New York Times seems to be valued at over 8 million. The 34 shares belonging to the heirs of Henry. J. Ray mond, its founder. sold for $375, 900, re- gently. Four.fifths of the stock are now owned by George Jones and B. B. Morgan, so that the report that Tammany is getting a controlling interest must be without foundation. From the present tone of the paper we doubt whether Tammany can have anything more than an affectionate interest, just now. .'''
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

RA11RoADINe. Under the foregoing head the DanburY News states that the ssroad from Litchfield to Hawleyville will be in running order by the 1st of January next!" That railroad will, we think. be running by if not before the first of October certain ly in time to do the fall business of this year. The Ne,cs goes on to speak ot the
 completion of the Ridgefeld and New York railroad and closes it's article as fol- lows :-" with the through line completed,
 the time of running between Litchfield and New York will be less than four hours. 2 This certainly conveys the impression that some arrangement has been made for run ming these roads in connection. Such is not the case. .i,,5. ,s,sa. .-'-+st sf sEt{ 4.t j
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

The income of the Yale college library is $1, 800 year i; that of the Bronson library, Waterbury, $12,O0O. ti.d A #a.4-<
 New Haven Center church pays it's pas. tor $5OOO; the highest salary paid any New Haven minister. tA .taaas Al 4a al
 The insurance swindler. Nash, was dis charged from the Philadelphia jail, where he had been imprisoned, before the Conn. officers could fasten on him. Ho A Hartford scoundrei insists on beating his wife he was sentenced to 3 months in fail for that offence, but appealed, and is at large on bail, repeating his assaults, every few days. e-..'-s 4a1ss .
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

RAILROAD FARES The bill reducing rail. road fares had about the fate we had anti. cipated. The committee did not have suf. ficient time to prepare a general bill suita-
 ble to the condition of all the railroads in the State, and special legislation against the consolidated roads without reference to any others was open to the objection oi partiality. What we need is commission, like that appointed in Massachusetts, to make thoroueh examination of the question and report to the next Assembly. I..
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

THE CAp1ro1.-New Haven seems in. clined to believe, about this time, that its victory over the amendment submitting the Capitol question to the people was a barren one. Hartford is to have its capitol, just as certainly as if the Amend. ment had been carried by the people, New Haven fails to get its capitol, and the more it stirs up the matter, the more thoroughly will people appreciate the ab- surdity of building two capitols in one of the very smallest States of the Union. The least possible expense to somebody at which second capitol can be built is million. The annual interest on that sum would just about pay the annual debenture bills oi our legislature. Is the so called conve' nience worth that cost? aa a.:a as.,s.5
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
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THE PURCHASE s srs4naM aiTh The reforms proposed by the Gladstone Ministry have been 10 tortured by amAndments in the in the House of Commons, and so steadily rejected in the House of Peers. that people had begun to imagine that, nothing sub- stantial would be accomplished during the present session. The minister has man. aged, however. to make a flank movement on his adversaries which has excited more Tory rage than the overthrowsof the Irish church establishment, even.s It seems that the system of buying commissions in the British army is authorized by no act of Parliament but simply by royal warrant. Ayailing himself of this fact, Mfr Gladstone procures revocation of this royal regula- tion and upsets the pet system of the En- glish aristocracy, the Lords to the contrary notwithstanding. The opposition in the Commons is not strong enough to carry a vote of want of confidence and they seem to feel very much az New Haven now feels regarding it's defeat of the Capitol Amend. ment and the Legislation which has follow. ed that proceeding. ~''+ '''..'i '' .',''..-
 How such an iniquity as the purchase of army commissions should have been al. lowed to exist as long as it has,is mystery to all Americans. a:.I.. ....e..-.... -,,'
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27


 CoNNEcT1oUT WESTERN NEws.-A new paper started under the above title in Sal isbury on the 14th inst, owned and edited
 by MT. J. l.. Pease. It is we'll printed, creditable paper, with which, though some. thing of rival of ours, we mean to culti, vate friendly relations. The statement of the Sentinel that it was to be Republican in politics is contradicted in the first number.
 "It will always pursue a strictly mental Imis- print for neutral. evidently course and is recommended by leading Salisbury dem. ocrats to their party friends in that vicin- ity. We devoutly hope the following item
 of State news may eventually come true;
 s'The Connecticut Legislature has passed bill to abolish the usury laws." l "idi
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
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ance of the money. together with her letter rom Johnny Jack was pleased with the way Jenny had played her hand, but was rather violent towards Johnny. Being a protessed expertin the use of nitro glyce- flne he wished that the pockets of his new coat contained each can, and that Johnny who>h had undertaken to create so terrible iatd'stafbanee- as-near enough te. re- celve at least one of them.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

{ TrPzRANcH AND POLITICS. From a classification of the vote on the Temper' ance bill. last week. by the Hartford Times,
 ve see shat the vote for aa indefinite post ponement stsed, lparty-wise, as follows:
 Yeas. 74Den., 15 Rep; Nays. 5 Dem. ss Rep. The ayes and noes were not called on the vote for continuance atol the next Assembly which carried by eight majority.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

sA- It seems that the Pope actually con- templates shaking the dust of Rome off his feet and retiring to some place where he can be monarch of all he surveys in a tenn poral as well as . spiritual sense. How would it do to set of New. York for that purpose2 There are Tweed, Sweeney and Hall for Cardinals; Fisk. to comnand his
 Zouaves and the World to be his 'torgan!"
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

bS- The subcommittee on Southern Outrages are having lively time in South Carolinia. A 'schivalry" flung pot of milk over one of them at the hotel table and when colored band serenaded them in the evening an unregenerated crowd as- sembled which shot one of the warblers. In the meantime they all testify under oath that there is no ill feeling against anybody, and that the Ku Klux organization is a joke. has been abandoned leng ago. &c.,, Sc.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
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Sometime since, we made propositions fo
 regular and occasional correspondence. whicl
 net Kith ready response, adding mach to tn,
 vaIue of our paper, and laying us under persona
 obligation to the gentlemen rendering us sucl
 assistance. We are thereby encouraged to rsnev
 our propositions, hoping that the good example
 already set will be generally followed, and tha
 tks local news Of all parts Of the County viii b' 9ell9xspckssain ohr paper.1 "
 sm0mR RRRapnaiEi0ns aragnlar and occasional cor
 rsspOndsnts from any part of Ltchheld County
 ars as follows : E.4A r'~-+1 '1@-lt
 .4 On publication of any communication kXAwin forward sig extrG copies of the EN -sgtk1 containing the same, to the address
 k fhe person sending it to us. or to any
 sEos nay dssighsss 5 oorresypondenta oSonnsy saSa s,w ,wnst advise ns, st the time of sending z eommnnicati lions, of the number of copies . desired, and to whom they are to be sent. "A Local items from reliable sources. in any part of the county, will be received E Gith pleasure, but we are particularly de- eirous of Increasing our list of regular correspondents. To each of these, or to auch person as he or she may designate, we VII send copy of our paper regularly ain addition to the extra copies mentioned ,.. REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
 oi Anonymous communications cannot expect zp@bhcar0psg ]. .Gssz. 48ll.4l4a t...-s .. -s1t The names of correspondents will be kept sstEicEy secret, if desired. l.i4.. 5,a .... = s19 Communications of . personal nature will not q be published, unless the propriety of such pub- iication is manifest. U "4|- '- f't
 = Manuscript should be written only on one side " tAePAPer' a4st5 ,f4Is..t f. aitI. -...
 Regular correspondents can avoid all danger of having the contributions of others attributed to 8 them by assuming some signature, 8 single let atsr being sufficient. ..al.[
 2 In case of two communications relating to the same event. the fullest will usually be published Hence communications never come anniss, even from places where we have regular correspon- dents, since they sften give valuable additional information. .s! l,4f.y4. M st .... 2 simple statement of facts is all that is neces- sary. and hastily written communications will be corrected before publication. -@
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

"a
 THE COLLEGE Boar RAoE.-It had been generally supposed that when the annual Yale Harvard boat raca had failed. the lat. ter club could out paddle all fresh water'' collegians without half trying. The pres- tigs of Harvard received pretty severe shock when her University crew. was beat en over minute by the Atalantas, an anna tsur New York crew but when the college races came of, Friday, and Amherst won by three-quarters of a minute while liar. yard barely sonquered Brown. people be- gan to consider whether the whole boating business is not humbug. That, however, would hardly be fair, inference. The fail: ure of the Yale match probably demoralized Harvard. The training of boats crew for race is very tedious process, requiring infinite patience and perseverance. Antic' ipating no very. severe. contest the late champions organized late in the season, trained more carelessly than ever before, and failed to present their usual strength Nevertheless the time made 6 miles in 17 minutes, AS seconds) shows that Amherst has crew that neither Harvard or Yale can easily beat. We look for an interest
 ing race, next year. I0 '-y.s =. '.'I ..'
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
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oys Yogsa Ford sonsszhs: .sack sEzss ard and his Fortuaes; A Joufaey tos Sar Francisco; Sewing The Girl wlio could no
 write Oompositon; HeM va hnnted tle Whippoorwill; A Humble-bee's Nest kin Hay Field; Two or Three Odd Fish On, Little Indian Boy, IT; A Short Catechism ALittie Guess Story; About Kites and Things; Tag; Our Young Contributors The Evening Lamp; Our Letter Box. ll
 J. R. Osgood & O., Boston.
 PRTERsoN's MAGAZINE contains Down in Cellar Reading his Poems At Mrs. Hathaway,s; How xa -spant- the Snmmer Just in Time A. Splinter from Paris Shell; The Reigning Belle !; also the usual Poetry, Fashion Plates. Music, &c. q ii t.
 0. J. Peterson, S06 Chestnut St., Phila. &o m . ...lo3b 10 949H <bG8n li6 a9aW
 PA'vV yeaf.f Tsaf9dw .Ro11H as6lo1) BLAoKwooD's MAaAmEl for July con- tains Fair to See, VII; Mir. Mill on Land; The Coming Race; New Books; Education. Endowments and Competition; The Minis ter. the House, and the Country; A History of the Commune of Paris s f', " - .-t.. -. Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,. 40 Full. ton St., New York. oa4 ,!ia5a4eq9s Qnol- 3a-L. ,4 eTSft0 4l3 .Ja <. Gi 1sG aLIhg .-l1E
 THE ATLANTIC contains:-r Were wolves and SwaA-Maidens;a My Fathers Ship. wreck; A Quiet Life; Their Wedding Jour- ney, IT.; Nicholas Ferrar; Gladioli; Kate Beaumont.by J. w. DeForest. VIII; Noun. taineering in the Sierra Nevada, "; En. cyclbsals of 9 Traveller, II; The Singer, by J. G. Whittier; Our Whispering Gallery, VIII; Watch and Ward, q; A Miller's Mad. rilgal; Recent Literature. 'n" /, ,',.,''L 1 n .'' .
 James R. Osgood & O.. Bostoa.. ~ l., .
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
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2sasl i.--A ~.i'i-i Too Hot I--- ..,
 The Tammany Ring has grown SO callous g. to newspaper attacks that nobody imagined 'anything human ingenuity could invent in
 the vay of denunciation could produce any
 efeck For some months past the New 8 York 1inses has been attacking these COT.
 ruptionists with unparalleled vigor and pertilaaity, but with no apparent result 8 n win be remembered by all who have talk
 en any interest in the style of government
 to which the first city in America has been subjected. that its yearly accounts for 1869 were never published, as the law requires.
 The Times now claims to have succeeded in 5a obtaining copies ofthose accounts, and re- sa lying thereon, denounces Mayor Hall and
 OomptroIler Connolly as ''two thieves" and "a offers figures which, if correct, seem abun. s4S 4Sdantly to prove the charge. This is toe s3 much for the patience of even Mayor SC 2 r. peaceable a Hall. and he comes out with {
 letter promising to publish the accounts ir qOfall and to sindicate the honesty of Tweed hi EReensy, Hall & O., in figures that can Q, lie. The hostility of the Times is attrib Al ated Co the withdrawal of the city printing and Comptroller Connolly, it seems, was s' e, Discouraged by being forced by suit to pa! b bathe just claim of this very persecutor. tha sShsaever after opposed any claim, just O
 unjust. The most amusing apology for th,
 Ring we have seen is that of Monday bsIWorid. Tweed. Hall & Sweeney were aw g. fal sceundrels, says that plausible sheet. uI ls to the lime of the passage of the new char
 ter. but if they have done anything wronl sagainoe. the World is'nt aware of it
 It is gratifying to observe that even
 u New York politician is sensitive when call ssl1ea thief daily, and especially when tn ein sxAct amount of his stealings. with partic i ii aIars of the time and place of theft annex
 cd, ars .paraded in leader that is likely ie first or last, to come under the eye of nsa, iO.oly every New Yorker who can read. zt in , dicates there is saeh thing as an in&ell vs 9ent public opinion in that place after al sE gaE9g .---- v-T>-se . >s--s~---------- ,;, ]
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS. An election is soon to be held in North Carolina which will probably afford some indication of the future political status of that State. The ''conservatives'' of the last legislature call ed constitutional convention with the avowed design of upsetting the present judicial system and repudiating part oi the State debt. The act calling this con. vention is in plain contravention of the terms of the existing constitution, and should the Conservatives succeed and frame new one, its validity would be open to grave question. The Republicans are making vigorous effort to carry major ity of its members. and if they succeed will adjourn without doing any business. The Ku Klux have in the meantime subsided temporarily and there seems a better chance of fair play than the Republicans have ex- perienced of late. "'"' l-,''s,. A '''" =
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27
Carpet Baggers.

Q @ ME. Greeley and the Tribune are doing a
 just and g manly thing in denouncing that pest of Republicanism, the Thieving Gar pstbagger. Republican government at the South only exists, today, by Northern support. There is not Republican official 3 lsoaih of Mason and Dixon's line that would a0t be put outof place and probably out Qf existsnce, within a month. were it not that the reconstructed governments are known to be backed by a, Republican Na-
 tional administration. Such being the case - have we no right to demand that those . governments shall be administered honest
 ly y?3ars s,a-. .a..'. .... -. .... .--s -..'s.-e-
 It is impossible to over-estimate the dan.
 ger to Republican ascendency arising from
 the evil reputation of the Republican gov
 ernments of the reconstructed States. Ku s~ Kluxism may be kept under by vigorous - exercise of national authority; it can nev-
 CT be destroyed except by vigorous and
 honest exercise of State authority. So
 soon as Soathern property owners are con-
 vinced that they are not to be plundered
 hy their local governments. and no sooner. a. win these hwless prosecutions of solored
 voters and office holders be discountenanced % by the better class of whites. Should the seisnm of Southern Republican admins. | .sz.sions bs delayed till 1872. there will be
 such marrying and coercion of negro
 voters as will make the election of that sgyeeF a farce or a tragedy in every Southern 3 BlAte. It is evident, too, that the South D srn vcss must decide that election against
 nA if cast solid for the Democracy. Wheth- CT it shall be 90 cast. or whether we are to
 hnse our fair share, depends. upon the good =, or bad conduct of our Republican friends a In 0face there in the meantime. It is our s- light and our duty to insist on thorough I- Reformation. -.'~-i. f. -s4>- a A- fs-.- -. s4-r
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27


 FRANCE AND THE PoPE.--It.is very reas- suring to find that the President of the French Republic has no design of renew ing that protectorate of the Papacy which originated with the old Republic of AS. It is natural that every Catholic power should wish to see the pope independent, but few Catholics can really consider the establishment of that monstrous anomo- ly called the Temporal Power worth an- other European war; The continued oc- cupancy of Rome by the French, under the lesser Napoleon. was owing to jealousy of tbe rising power of Italy on the part of the Emperor rather than to the bigotry of the Empress and the priesthood. isa a-5
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

| A little girl of ten removed some obstrnc- lions placed on the railroad track in Mil
 ford recently. just in. time to save an ap- preaching train.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

M Tho printers diseharged from the Jo,1nal isima COnsser ofiice have started Sunday
 morning paper in New Haven. l
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-27

A bigamist has turned up in Danielson- vile.
 A Stamford concern sold 2509 Holsters in 8 single day. 3@ 3IO$SS.-54s 41
 Middlefeld is being ravaged by . wild cat. ''
 A COW has been killed by lightning in MiddletoWn. ...s s
 Prattsville is to have new $15, 900 school house. ..a s..s... sb s.5 sg <. <, A tannery, was burnt in Norwalk, last week. #ls.s.4 o -s.s, Lse
 A prostitute committed suicide at Wind sor Locks, last week.
 John Kendrick, Sen., has gone to Eu- rope. .4-4
 Hay is selling at s25 ton in Danielson- vile. r
 The Shore line railroad is to have steel rails. 4'a Y -',..'. s .i'a .t..4 s5
 New Haven enjoys Sunday horse cars and talks of Park. N ..s5 .5 ..'. .s.s5 x : Rogers, the sculptor, is laummering at NeW NhAaaMs- l4.Is1A.I4 U u aa4ahA
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-08
State Fair.
Programme for the Week,
NuyEs n n, er rcDAv
WEON EEDAY.

& Gates opon at O'Clock A. N.
From 10 till IL. q brilliant musical contest
between tho Brass Bands of tho State.
the supervision OF Col. A. q. Haskell. Of 90.
1umbia, to whom letters should be addressed
for information as to details. Knights from
all sections Of the Union respectfully invited.
THURSDAY. "
Gates open at O'Clock A.. III.
The forenoon will be devoted to the exami.
nation, in tho arena, by the committee, OF all
cattle; succeeded by display Of the halter
led horass and mules, as directed by the Su-
sions will be made. and the ribbons tied.
At 3rthe oputeht xor tho speed premium Of
$50 for The fastest trotfing. mile dash; to be
followed by race for tho speed premium Of
Gates open at 0 O'CLOCK a. III.
From 10 till III, a contest in tho aroma be-
tween the saddle horses.
From IL til, 2, the samo between siugle and
double harness horscs. At this contest, the
committees will tie the ribbons.
Ats tho contest for tho speed premium OF
$50 for the fastest trotting, half mile heats.
best three iu five; to be followed by q race for
tho speed premium Of $75, mile dash.
SATURDAY.
Gates open at o'clock A. II.
at 10 O'Clock, auction sales OF live stock.
At IL M the premiums will be awarded
from the Executive stand. at tho conclusion Of
which. the Fair will close.
Each morning OF the week, from till 10
o'clock will be devoted by the, respective CON-
nlttoes to ploughing nj atches, and tests of all
kinds Of implements. Sufficient motive
p"wer. grain, sced cot on and logs will be-
furnished by tho Society to prove tho mills.
gins and other machines. Piuw-mon are OK
pcctcd to furnish their own teams.
A Bazaar will be open on the grounds dur
ipg the week, by the ladies OF the Memorial
Association, and it's proceeds devoted to pro-
tcctlng the Confederate dead.
The several committees will be published
in the Columbia papers OF Tuesday, 7th No
vomber, and all the members are carnestl,
requested to call at the Secrttary's Office. at Q
o'clock OF same day. Noy15
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-08


The Washington Patriot says: South
ern Radical Senators now in Washington
boast of the continuance OF the martial
law programme of the administration
far beyond the limits OF the nine Coun
ties in South Carolina. One of these Of
ficials, who has consulted with the Pre-
sident, declares that the Ku Klux law
will be enforced and the writ Of Ad6sas
corpus suspended in every portion OF the
South where the evidence of the Ku
Klux Committee alleges that outrages
have been committed. The Wholesale
arrests in South Carolina but preoede
those that will shortly be inaugurated in
Northern Alabama aud Georgia. and
Mississippi, aud probably Texas. The
President is urged daily to take these
violent steps by tue advice of Southern
Republicans, who also threaten him that
the ground is slipping rapidly under
their feet. in the face of an impending
Presidential campaign. fio