Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-15
Iitch6eld,

The Episcopal Fair of Wednesday last was great success. The gross receipts were $596, and the expenses about $40. Of course some of the higher pried syki- cles were disposed of'' contra 55aesn1an, stat''ti. A good man ssR't die, pow, in embarrassed circumstances, but his house is sold in that way for the benefit of dis family. In that way the great Gilmore IS to ''dispose of" his Coliseum! And ought an editor, who may now and then puff charitable drawing" himself for consideration cast tks first stone9
 -The death of Lowell Mason, at his residence in Orange, N. J., on Sunday last, takes away one of the oldest and most prominent of our native musicians. Most of our popular collections of church music are filled with tunes composed in his style which is not difficult of imitation. Dr. William Deming and others of our local musicians will learn with, peculiar regret that the composer whose music they have played, sung, and adniired from childhood, will compose no more.
 On Thursday, an excursion train of officers, directors and stockholders of the Danbury & Norwalk railroad, with their families, and with friends from Bridgeport, New York, Brooklyn and elsewhere, to the number of nearly three hundred, came up the Shepaug to this place, dined, and returned in the 4:45 train Among others were the Hon. Roger Averill, Hon. D. P. Nichols, MT. Hoyt, president of the Dan- bury Bank, and MT. Seeley, cashier of the Pahquioque Bank, MT. Donovan of the News, Messrs. Booth, Fanton, Tweedy, Ives and other prominent business men of Dan- bury; Messrs. Orrin H. Benedict, John H. Hubbell, W. c. Corning and Wm. Shep- ard, of Bethel; MT. Hill, president of the Norwalk Bank, Mayor Ely, Rev. s. B. s. Bissell, Messrs. Els of the Gazette, and Nash of the Sentinel, Messrs. Trubee, Raymond of Raymond Bros., and l.. War ner, of Norwalk; MT Higby, president of the Connecticut Bank, MT. Hotchkiss. president of the Pequonnock Bank, MT. Trubee of the firm of Morford X Trubee, of Bridgeport; Messrs. Gookin, of Brook l lyn and Henry T. Morgan of New York
 A number of the visitors were enter tained by hospitable citizens of this place, and the remainder fonnd ample accommo- dation at the hotels. At Roxbury, on !, %1o ofc prised by the distribution of ice cream and other refreshments provided by Mrs. Le Grand Lockwood. r.
 HI. W. Vessels has been notified of his appointment as mail agent on the Shepaug railroad. Mails commence on Thursday (to-morrow). ,
 = Mr. Stacks ice cart distributed ice through North and West streets in the space of about six seconds, one day last week. Nobody hurt.
 A full attendance is desired at the next meeting of the Sons of Temperance, as important business is to come before the Division at that time. .s --# .5 But why have all these calamities and sufferings come on this beautiful city Calamities are Gods messengers for good or for penalty. He bears with crimes, na- tional as we'll as individual; but he does not forget crimes. Is it one reason, be- cause the blood of hundred thousand Huguenots have cried from the ground for three centuries What rivers of blood have been uniustly shed in Paris and in France! Is 1t because Paris and France are national Sabbath-breakers Has any nation ever prospered long by such violation? The Jews violated se- venty Sabbatical years and God sent the whole nation into captivity seventy years. France may learn lesson, if she will. There are many good people in France l who are interceding with God. But a na- tion of Sabbath breakers will go down in l to the same grave with the Sabbath, soOn- CT or later, as the word of God IS true. Prince Bismarck has put his mighty foot | on the neck of France and will not take it off till France gives up it's feelings of re- venge or till she repents of her national sins.-Paris Correspondence ef ~. F. Ob- serUer. ,s-f --s4 erIH
 The foregoing is very perfect speci- men of its kind and suggests the follow ing queries Is there not 8 spice of vim. dictveness in the suggestion that God allows some thousands of Parisians to be massacred, every few years, to rsvense the slaughter of the Huguenots killed In that city in 1572a When Sabbath-breaking 1 Germany beats Sabbath breaking France can any reasonable person consider. it g triumph of the Fourth Commandment 1 Would pious Bismarck take his mighty foot of the neck of France even if she real ly repented of her national sins, unless she paid the indemnity also?, Is the virtue that is so quick to see in the afiictions of others evidence of special wickedness and I of Gods yindicative wrath, the christi an virtue, Charity? as..aa sisss1 .s. Both the Gourant and Palladium seem not to be aware towhat an extent they have drawn their information regarding the Colvocoresses case from sources biased if not wholly controlled by the insurance interest. If the matter ever comes. before the courts we imagine they will be convinced of the unfairness of the state ments they have published. ss A letter published in Tuesdays Courant seems to, us to convey an entirely false impression of the results of the micro scopic examination of the flores attached to the knife found in Capt. Colvocoresses' pocket after his death. Specimens of those flores, and other specimens cut from the carpet bag of the deceased by the au- of Yale College, for examination. The former he pronounced vegetable; the lat l ter, animal fibre. This letter represents 1 the two kinds of specimens as having both been found attached to the edge of the kaite.