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Litchfield enquirer., 1871-05-25
Y. News of the Week.
FOREIGN.
FALL OF PARIS.


 The Versaillists have at last forced their way into Paris. capturing large number of prisoners and holding most of the oitr. The Communists still hold Montmartre.
 Greot Britain. .-Objectio is made in the House of Lords to the Treaty of Wash ington.
 Gladstone's Irish policy has been sus- tained by the Commons A bill regulating the sale of liquors has been defeated in the Commons.
 DOMESTIC.
 Another Indian delegation is expected at Washington in a day or two
 A Woman Suffrage bill has been intro. duced in the. Columbia Legislature.
 A fire in Homemade, Penn., destroyed $10O. .OOO worth. of property.
 A Malay has been lynched in California for an outrage on girl
 A party of Ku-Klux has been driven out of town in Mississippi by the citizens, one of the Ku-Klux being killed.
 A tornado has caused great damage in. Illinois. ...
 The cable between Key West and Punta Rosa has been successfully laid.
 A war party of Apactes has been routed by band of friendly Indians.
 Another steamer has been sunk in the Mississippi River, no lives being lost.
 A sea seal has been killed in the Delaware River.
 The Senate has ordered the Tribune cor respondents into close confinement until next November.
 Dr. Evans, the New York abortionist, has been convicted and sentenced to State Pris- on for three years and six months.
 A violent hail storm has done immense damage in Virginia.
 Three men have been carried over Mag ara Falls.
 The ratification of the Treaty of Wash lngton by the Senate is considered certain The Post Office revenue has increased VI .OOO. 900 during the present fiscal year. The South Carolina Ku. Klux attemped to kill the Republican county officers of Newberry County.
 A family quarrel in Kentucky has result ed in double murder.
 Gen. Butler has been speaking against the Treaty with England before Commit tee of the Massachusetts Legislature. The cornerstone of a free bridge across the James River was laid at Richmond Va, Monday.
 An extensive fire has occurred at Balti- more. one man being killed by the explo- sion of a fire engine.
 The coal strike seems to be ended at lest. The result Is in favor of the niue owners and against the miners.
 Mir. Greeley is making quite ''progress' through the South. He is we'll received everywhere. ,U
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rfTCHFIELD

gss ELdICHF1ELDsA On Wedns ssday evening of next week,
 May slst, tie Rev Francis T Russell oi Waterbury. will give sMiscellaneous Head ings and Recitations.' from various au- thors, at the Court Room. One half the net proceeds will go into the treasury of oar circulating library, and the other half to charity on behalf of which MT. Rus sell has been laboring for some time past. The people of. this vicinity ought to. be as much obliged to him for the entertaiam ent as is the circulating library for his gener- ous assistance. MT. Russell is too we'll known as one of the finest readers and ell. ocutionists in the State to need. any com- mendation of ours.
 The reading will commence at 711s P. M. punctually. ia 4.s..
 .-- The most villainous hand organ we ever heard made this village hideous on Tuesday. We commend the owner thereof to some Ku Klux District for the close of his musical career. ...l.s. f4s
 i f .- The seats of St. Michael's were sold on Monday. Those sold brought $l, ,432 with enough unsold to bring the amount up to $1 ,50O This is an increase of about $l75 on last years sale. @3
 8a The house of Mrs. Deming in North Street was struck in the thunder storm of Monday night. The chimney was badley shattered but no other injury done. MT. o. P. Peck takes charge of the jail; whether as jailor we have not heard.
 - Circulating library books must be re- turned on or before Thursday of -his week.
 = The new U. s. Hotel barn is framing by the Centre Park.
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DIED.

At BurrviIle. May 14, Charlie H., young. est son of Jesse and Isabella Broadbent. aged 5 years and 8 months.
 In New Haven, May 13, Mir. D. D. Lam- bert, aged 50. X At Northfeld, May 5, Captain Noah B {. Smith. aged 01. 9iloa 4'24- 14 1'a@
 At Winsted, May 12, Orator Pinnsy, aged 47. 5h.lJd 9 QIYEO
 In New Milford, May 10th, Almira Coyes, aged 21 years.
 J In Watertown, 14tb, Anna, aged II years mos, and on the 18th, Sarah E., aged . years mos, daughters of William H. and Fanny Anderson-both Of scarlet fever. Died in Milton, May 23d, 1871, Mrs. Lois Birge, widow of Albert H. Birge. aged 60.
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Legislative.

Among the petitions &c. referred, w notice several additional petitions for ( general railroad law; for railroad charter from Norwalk to Saugatuck; for the en. couragement of fisheries; for woman sui frage; for new town out of part of Sey. mour, Bethany and Naugatuck, to be called " Howe;;" for railroad from Humphrey vile to .Hazardville; for a railroad from Portland to State Line least side of the Conn. river); for re-establishment of the State Board of Agriculture; for 'incorpora. tion of the St. Patrick's Benevolent Socie. ty at Wolcottville; of the Housatonic and Northern railroad for extension of time for the completion of their road; of the Conn. Western R. R. for amendment of their charter; of Green Kendrick ct al. of Water bury for new county; incorporating The Nangatuck Valley Ins Co.,; for commuta- tion of the sentence of Frederick Hall, the colored murderer, now under sentence oi death in our jail, to imprisonment for life; empowering the borough of Winsted to increase their supply of water. A joint SC. lect committee has been raised to consider the question of a new apportionment o1 senators. ~ Y s-t' a5a .>..
 Resolutions giving each member of the judiciary committee copy of the revised statutes, making H. Lynde Harrison judge of the New Haven City Court. and appointing Mir. Bishop, of Bridgeport, a committee on Androscoggin specked tront, passed the House, Wednesday.
 Both Houses have voted to raise special oommitte on divorce.
 Gen. Pratt offered resolution empower. ing the governor to offer reward for the discovery of the Democrat or Democrats who stole. the ballots out of the Fourth Ward box. MT. Eaton objected to giving Mr. Jewell so much power. 9
 During the debate on Bishops speckled trout resolution, MT. Turrill, of New Mil ford, stated that the shad fisheries of the Housatonic had been ruined by the great dam lately completed at Derby.
 The Senate after some grave debate passed the Bishop speckled trout resolu. ton.
 We notice another petition for the re lease of F. N. Chamberlain, the Goshen murderer, from State Prison, and remons, trance against his enlargement. The Rev. Mr. Doubledsy's name appears on the former. s1s
 The woman's suffrage petitions were, after considerable debate. referred in the House to the committee on constitutions amendments. A resolution raising spe.
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Cornwall. May p. 1871. ..
GOSHEN.

During the thunder shower one eve ming this Spring, basswood tree on the farm of MT. Elisha Baldwin was struck by lightning. the fluid passing down through a swarm of bees scattered the honey comb and bees in all directions. The tree was torn all to pieces, and Mrs. Baldwin picked up pail full of white honey comb, but no honey. I saw the Charter Oak the day after it was blown down, and noticed a swarm of bees going out and in at one of the large branches. H. N.
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D9~ The U. s. Senate has been dealing pretty severely with two Tribune corres- pondents who obtained a copy of the Treaty of Washington" and published the same without saying "by your leave. !" These correspondents averred that they did not procure their copy of any Senator or of any officer of the Senate. When asked of whom they did procure it, they refused to answer and were thereupon committed for contempt. The Tribune doubles their salaries and they get an amount of gratui-
 tous advertisement for cleverness in their line which will be worth thousands to them. If our Senators cannot keep their own counsel do they imagine they can hagellate newspaper reporters into keeping it for them? e.y 1. s.ls.... . a.sa.
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WASHINGTON
INo.

There have been two conundrums agitat- ing the public and private mind of our town for some weeks past. The first: "Who is governor?p has been answered : but the second, s Where will the new depot be located?" is not so apparent to the men, tai vision of the public, as it is to the pri. vate opinion of interested persons in par tlcular, who can assure that the depot will, without doubt, be located in the place they are most interested in The right of petition being a sacred and satisfactory right, it's power has been invoked, and Q petition for depot between the two grist mills has been circulated, signed, and sent sent to headquarters. A petition for the depot near Turnpike Bridge is being cir culated, signed, and soon to be sent in. A petition to the town to build bridge at Bee Brook, and graded highway from there to mouth of Waramaug Lake, is being cir culated. signed, and sent, or soon to be sent in. A petition 10 call town meeting is being circulated, signed, and soon to be sent in. Other petitions have been started, ran a short race, and collapsed. Petitions are upon us. It is a,day of petitions.
 There is great competition of petitions. And compositions of petitions. By and by they will be composed and settled, and in due time we shall report progress.
 MT. William Brinsmade, who took Q sea voyage round the Cape to San Fran cisco, last winter, arrived in town week be- fore last, looking quite hale and hearty. He came across the continent on the Union Pacific R. R., in company with MT. Treat Beach and family. = .. @ Preparations are being made to enter tain greater influx of boarders than ever before. 1 The St Nicholas had barn raising on
 Saturday, and to save travel to "the meet
 ing house," it is proposed to have smok- ting-foom done off in it. Boarders will not look so haggard then. ast5t W.
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Malodoroua.

The Sentinel. as at present conducted. is a journalof so little honesty or consistency, and teens with such gross charges against all opponents pf whatever Echaracter or standing-charges conceived in the spirit of meanness and couched in the language of blackgardism-that we have gradually come to the conclusion that nothing it can say IS deserving of notice or reply. We cannot deny the use of our columns, how ever, to others who are attacked, and last week we printed statement sent us by a friend of Messrs. Miner and Sperry, with such further explanation of our own as the case seemed to demand. Whereupon the Sentinel returns to,the attack in hall. col umn editorial commencing as follows: a
 "The Enquirer, true to it's instincts of defend ing every skunk that is kicked by political oppo- nent, comes to the defense of Messrs. Miner and spery." IF
 We are now in receipt of another Wood bury letter suggesting various points in reply to this article. As the matter stands, however. it is mainly personal attack on ourselves. and we feel at liberty to treat it in our own way-by letting it alone. If, as the Sentinel has repeatedly charged, we have not at first known how to deal with the animal so often referred to in that pa per. experience has at last taught us. A dog usually kills at least one specimen of that species of game. Victory is easy. but the odor of such victory is not popu. lar. He sleeps in the barn for week or two, and learns wisdom. So have we in the matter of dealing with the Litch. field Sentinel ss ...9 a,.,, .-..
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The proposed constitutional amendment increasing the number of Senators to thir- ty-one, cannot be made effective without a special session of the legislature, which, we imagine, no one will consider expedient. The number under the present consti- tuition cannot well be increased be- yond twenty-three. The odd number has always been preferred, to prevent the possibility of throwing the control of the Senate into the hands of the Lieut.. Gov ernor. The average population required on the basis on a Senate of g, would be 23, ,386 to each Senator. Will Waterbury have the face to demand second Senator on population of 4,175? We, are aware that the population of Holland and Middle sex runs even below that proposed by the new county. They. are old counties and the inequality cannot be easily remedied; but does any one advocate the creation of new counties with only one-half the popu- lation the constitution in effect requires?
 Moreover. we have conceded the new county more towns than they can even get. The withdrawal of Oxford from their scheme almost necessitates the withdrawal of southbury, and it will soon be found that Bethlehem has better com munication opened to them by the She paug railroad, than anything Waterbury can offer. This would reduce the population of the proposed county to 25, ,492, or barely two thousand over the number required for @ single Senator. Gan Waterbury really expect to succeed on such plan?
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For The Enquirer
PLYMOUTH sKETCHEs-No. 65.

PLYMOUTH SKETCHES-No. 65.
 Quitting several deaths which l had thought to notice, I will make brief men. ton of some of the more prominent ones lhumanly speaking) that have occurred within the last six weeks.
 Aaron Dutton Wells. Esq, died rather suddenly on the 11th of April, aged 63 years. He was native of this town, and. I believe. always resided here. with the ex- ception of year and half in Wisconsin previous to last to November. He was many years a Justice of the Peace, and was once appointed Judge of Probate. He was esteemed as peaceable. quiet citizen. He was first cousin to the late Governor Dut- ton.l His funeral was attended on the afternoon of the 18th inst, at the Congre- gational church, of which he had been many years Q member. sHe2 was son oi Capt. Allyn Wells; who. sat lineage of 67, died very suddenly. more than thirty years ago. sr+s fF..4 ssasf. ] .sesi:a sas
 On the 18th of April occurred the death
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CoRNs.--In vain you scrape, cut and dig at them; at every change in the atmosphere they send their sharp, piercing and unrelenting pain. They tor ment person to greater degree than other af fictions. Dr. J. Briggs, the we'll known Chiro- podist has produced safe and reliable Remedies called Alleviator and Curative. Soldby Druggists
 PILES !-Thousands of persons have suffered and groaned with internal bleeding, external and itch- ing piles in every country on the globe. There are instances on record where death has resulted from piles. Briggs Pile Remedies are reliable; if used according to directions never fall. Sold by Vessels Gates, druggists.
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EoiaI eommittee being voted down, 98 to 79. A special committee on temperance was voted in the House, and a stringent bill
 hassbee introduced holding EquoF sellers liable for the damages done by their liquors in rem. i. e., while inside the drink. Fer thereof. .3@
 RA MT. Bishop offered his bill for a consoIi.
 dation of the Hartford and New Haven,
 and New York and New HaveIs railroads in
 the House, on Saturday. and had the same referred to the judiciary .committee.
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THE NEW COUNTY. The Waterbury American and Inder are calling loudly for a new county with Waterbury for it's center. Will either of those papers be good enough to explain how they expect to figure up the the requisite population for the t,co Sena- tors the Constitution requires from every county? The last census shows the follow. ing population in the only towns they can possibly enlist in their movement:
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neA- One of the oldest subscribers to the

na One of the oldest subscribers to the ENQUIRER is MT. R. G. Willard, of New York, who has taken paper nearly Mirty- fve years. MT. Willard was native of Cornwall, from which place he removed at
 the age of l5, lived in Ellsworth about three years. and then took up his permanent res- idence in New York city. For thirty six years from that time, till his retirement on the 1st of May last. he was engaged in active business in that city. He will still continue to reside there, although propos- irg trips 'across the continent" and to Europe, at no very remote period. I
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Book Notices.

D.
 HOME AND HEAITH.-The May number of this new Health Magazine contains: The Health of Women-Women's work; Or. igin and Distribution of Epidemics; Tight Lacing and other Diseases; The Bermuda Islands; and numerous short articles on the subject of health. .1 ..
 W. R. DePuy & Bro., 8O5 Broadway N. Y. 2 "3 El aso4 s
 GoDEY's LADY's Book contains: Fetch. ing and Carrying; Gray Fishing; Godey's Course of Lessons iu Drawing; Brother Nat's Ring, Soliloquy of Humphrey Grey Bachelor; Allen Holmes House keeper Acting Charade; A Masquerade; Brother and Sister; Pondrous Papers; Receipts Engraving-''T Towing the Prize," Music Fashion Plate. Patterns. Poetry. Short Ar ticles, &c. s14 aW 93.z 55s&s&5
 Louis A. Godey, Philadelphia. AL TIE WEsTlnNsTER REVIEW for April con tains: Aristophanes; The American Repub lie, Its Strength and Weakness; Thomai Hood; Battles in the Church; Public Schoo Teaching; France, the Jesuits and tn, Tientsin Massacre; St. Beuve; Army Or ganization; Contemporary Literature. The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,, IA Fulton St., New York. a
 TIE GALAXY contains: Lady Judith, Tale of Two Continents; .'Words and thei Uses," by Richard Grant White; Overlan, (continued), by J. w. DeForest; O. Sta of France. by Walter Whitman; The Cam paigns of Robert B. Lee; To Zuleika; Th Neither Side of New York; Sepulture, it Ideas and Practices; Ought we to visi Her, by Mrs. Edwards; The Old Story Gascon Stories; Fetters and Lures; Drif, Wood; Guizot; Scientific Miscellany; Gu, rent Literature; The Galaxy Club Room | Nebul@.
 Sheldon & O., 677 Broadway, N. Y. :! sOuR YoUNa FOLKS contains:-Jack Hay i ard and his Fortunes, by J. T. Trowbridgs A Drop of Water; By Stage to Boston Isabella; A June Journey; A Strange Bird Two Friends; Ny Grandfatheris Panthe Story, Philemon and Baucis; The Relate Butterfly; Our Young Contributors; Tn Evening Lamp; Our Letter Box.ea E l J. R. Osgood & Co., Boston. %
 I PErER's MusroAL sMoEsHtz scontains:- GeneYieve, by Hays; Little Voices Hear no More. by Persley: Must I leave thee Mother deara. by Halevy; Dawn of Loyt
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MARRIED.

P In this town, at the residence of the brides parents, May 20, by Rev. Dr. Hen ", Frederick DeForest and Elizabeth Fish CT.
 At New Hartford, May II, by the Rev. MT. Martin. Allen Roberts Jr. of Winches- ter, and Florence M. Benharn, of New Hart. ford. .,.,~ ,,., ,..,s, sss,.s ....-.
 At West Granville Mass, April 12, by Rev. Mr. Lyman, Dwight A. Merriam and Helen M Clart. zl..1I S7 t-ai s-A-"
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n@- The Hon. c. 0. Vallandigham has come at last to see that there is no use in kicking further against Reconstruction and the Fifteenth Amendment. :. Exactly who is left on the old Democratic platform with MT. W. W. Eaton it is impossible to de. termine until the Dry Bones quiet down a little, 5'..ts a.a-~ U ea.
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a German Song sbz HolseI I'm my Dad dy's only Son; Lily Bell; Iris the Firsi Rose of simmer; Forget me Not; Ohl Ho ly. Holy Lord; Savior who,thy Flccks are tending; Soldiers of Christ arise; My Faith looks up to Thee; Red Bird Waltz; Chica go Qoickstep; Rippling Brook Polka; The Chase; Hunting Rondo. by Tonel.
 4J,~ Peters. 599 Broadway \. Y: 30 cts, for each number, containing music which in sheets would cost over s$5.. 4ys
 THE ATLANTIC contains: Botanizing; The Shifting of Power; Mehetabel; A Virginian in New England Thirty Five Years Ago, V: The Capture of Fort Fisher, IT; From Gen eration to Generation, I; The Robin, by J. G. Whittier; Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, II; American Life in France, W; Kate Beaumont, by J. W. De Forest, VI; Bubbles from an Ancient Pipe; The New English Edition of Lambs Works; A sum- mer Mood; Encyclicalss of Traveller, I; Our Whispering Gallery, VI; Recent Liter ature.
 James R. Osgood & Go. Boston.
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B@~ Mr. Reverdy Johnson's letter to Senator Bayard on the new Treaty does him great credit. He frankly confesses that it is much better one than he nego. ciated, and hopes Democratic Senators will not make any partisan opposition but vote for its ratification.
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ROXBuRY.

The Rev Collins I. Potter, formerly of this place, has resigned the charge of Grace church, Yantic, and become assistant min- ister of St. James church, Westvi!le.
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A disturbance was created at St. Angus. tines church. Bridgeport. Sunday, by the attempt to collect fee from a pew owner before allowing him to enter his pew. High words ensued, followed by blows, the parties adjourned to the open air, women screamed, the crowd interfered and the pew holder drew pistol and said he should de- fend himself with it if he was troubled fur ther, making altogether most disgraceful scene.
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MILTON.

The Rev. Wm. F. B. Jackson, formerly
 rector of Trinity Parish. has become as-
 sistant minister of.St. Luke's church, Utica, New York *tls.3 -'5
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s9 There were no pick-pockets at the Election parade last week. It is supposed that their respect for. the Constitution would not allow them to .s.assist.
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VI. Chamberlain, Hartford Chief of Police, isl proved to have made improper advances to Norwich woman, and the question of his removal is not yet decided,
 A little girl four years old, met with n singular accident at Hartford, few days ago. She was sent into the house to get matches by man saving wood, and in coming out fell. a match ignited. setting her clothes on ire, and she was badly burn- ed on her arms and breast, but will proba- blv recover a--.@4-. e.
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BA- The Thomaston Band (nineteen per. formers) have been engaged to9play in Waterbury. May 3oth.i ssaa hiaoos =. = ,'.' =
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D@ We are under obligation to the Hon. P. W. Mills for the Thirteenth An nual Statement of the Trade and Com- merce of the city of Milwaukee. It is a record of growth of which evena Vest ern city may be proud. haa SEQ saue,
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a9 Senator Garret Davis of Kentucky made one of his most successful speeches, Monday. against the new treaty. He didn't inuire the chances of it's ratification, but Vice Pres. Colfax, who is very polite man and really tried to hear MT. Davis through, was taken out senseless and has not yet en- tirely recovered. ars ....9.-..5s e'
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AN IRREcoNCILABLE.-Itis is great mis- take that MT. W. w. Eaton was not born a Bourbon or Stuart. He would have been credit to either family. Only last week he referred in the House to Mr. Jewell ('Gocsrnor Jewell you call him; / don't'). Since it has come to pass, in spite of MT. Eaton's theories, that My. Grant did cap ture General Lee. that Mr. Lincoln did get possession of President Davis Confederacy, and that M'. Jewell did get more votes than Governor English last April, wouldn't it be as we'll to recognize the fact that some things can happen in this State and nation without the permission of Mir. W. W. Ea- ton? f.-. .,
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B@ The Derby railroad is again enioin- ed, for crossing or for not crossing a swamp. An injunction always issues as a matter of course against that company, and unless special act is passed making all such suits returnable before a justice of the peace, that road will not get running be- fore the twentieth century. ee a >'9