Litchfield enquirer., 1872-12-12
185-638


 form of representative government. Towns with population of 185, ,0OO, over one third the entire population of the State, are balanced in representation by towns with a population of less than 1900, or not a seventieth of our total popula- tiOn- Eighty-one residents of New Ha- ven count for just one inhabitant of Un- ion towards representation; twenty-five in each of the ten towns of the last list, for one in each of the towns in the first list. For several years politics have run so close as to render Reform dificult. Now that Republication is clearly in the ascendent must it not remedy so fragrant a wrong?
 The New Milford Journal enlarged, last week, to seven colums. It is spicy sheet full of local items as local paper should be. It is a trife given to exagger- ation, sometimes, like everything young and enthusiastic. For instance it says of their District Court room, ''the furniture and carpeting is equal to that in the court house at Litchfeld." Why not have said Sits furnishing is magnificent, palatial, !" or something else within reason?
 But where is your architectatre, my friend? Our noble edifce is in the Ren- naisance style, truly beautiful work of art, with steeple that, if it hadn't been driven in 50 or 60 feet, would have piled grandure on grandeur, and put the mod en ''secular gothic" to shame: By the way could not the gentleman who moves churches Beecher Houses, &c., hitch to the top of that most remarkable of cupo- las and draw out the spire that must be in there somewhere?
 The funeral of the late Horace Greeley was attended at Dr. Chapin's Church on Wednesday. The body lay in State at the City Hall the day before, as many as forty thousand persons giving it a last look Among the pall-bearers were Chief Justice Chase, Wm. M Evarts, Sena- tors Trumbull and Fenton, and Thurlow Weed. President Grant, Vice President Colfax, Senator Wilson, Secretary Bel knap, Senator Schurz, and Gov. Hoffman were present. A Catholic choir chanted the "De Profundis," Handel's 'I Know that my Redsemer Liveth'' was sung by Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, and addresses made by Henry Ward Beeoher. and Dr. Chapin After the services at the church were ended the procession went through crowded streets to Greenwood, where the remains were deposited in the family vault.
 We are indebted to G. K. Logan, Esq, of Washington, for specimens of Cobra do papers, Our Vest is well printed and edited weekly, published at Cobra do Springs. It is not an old paper, hay 1 ing started since the list of January last. In it we read of new railways stretching in every, direction and of profitable agri- culture starting in various parts of ''The Great American Desert" of our old school aliases. Farm labor is not as high there as we had supposed, ranging we see at from s25 to $40, per month. The mining produce of the principal mining district of Colorado is estimated at $12,OOO, 900, for the present year.
 The Greeley Tribune, instead of the usual head letter has it's name in the handwriting of the late H. o., electro typed, and very novel look it gives it. This paper is just two years old and a very lively sheet. It stirs up the Golden E9gle for attacking Mrs. Richardson in a style worthy of its name, and abounds ! in local news. Fresh arrivals of Salt Lake Peaches are noted. Coal sells at l S6 50; the hest four at $5; but butter is as high as 45 cents which won't quite do for 'fthe best stock country in the world. ''
 The abominable taste of Mayor Halls invitation to ths President to attend Mir. Greeley's funeral has been severely com mented on by the press throughout the country, Considering how MT. Hall came to be Mayor of New York, what he has done since he has been Mayor, and where he is like to go at the end of ais term, one might naturally expect some lack of taste in connection with such plentiful lack of honesty.
 A Frenchman named Andre having kill ed his wife in New York, her infdelity was shown in defence, and the jury disa- greed. One of their number is now out in card in which he says that large part of them held that husband under such circumstances, had right to kill either the wife or her paramour Things must go a little further: not only must adultery excuse two murders, but twelve periuries