Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-04
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 On our first page will be found a reply from Woodbury gentleman to our ar ticle on the proposed Woodbnry railroad few weeks since. We call attention to an important rnis-quotation therein:-
 You say again, that the assumption that 1 the Woodbury farmer cannot compete with the western farmer in raising grain, &c., is false. ' '''1 :, s'.i s' Now, what we said was something very different, as will be seen by refersnce to our exact language:--t ss1R +1f9s =.>A The false assumption, clearly set forth, is this: "The Woodbury farmer cannot compete with the West in raising grain ana many other farm products. There fore, impede transportation so that grain will cost half as much again in Woodbury as in New York, and you are doing the Woodbury farmer favor; for you enable him to compete with the West.' Sc.
 Our theory is simply this: that the New England farmer cannot expect to make money by old fashioned crop raising, rail road or no railroad. The expense of transportation between Woodbury and the West is not great enough even now to enable the Woodbury farmer to make any money in thatway, as Mr. Minor, in effect, admits. To be successful he must get into the world, and not keep out of it. Then, by devoting his attention to the few branches of agriculture he can make pay, he may still earn living. Other wise the decay which Mr.. Minor laments in his native place will surely increase, year by year. '--'i saa s.
 The Housatonic road: is finally waking up to the fact that the way to avoid com petition is to stop charging exorbitant rates. We fear the reform is strictly con- fined to the localities where competing roads are threatened. We clip the fol- following from the Berkshire Courier: ..
 The Housatosaic Railro0d and the Lee and H4dson. President Barnum, Vice President Draper and Superintendent Franklin met the prominent merchants and Lee at the railroad station, Saturday rates o7 sS maks h t5 fH ]da
 ing of the Lee and Hudson railroad. Af ter friendly hearing of both sides for an hour, MT. Barnum proposed to join the Lee people in building the five miles of road from Glendale (Stockbridge) to West Stockbridge, cost $200, ,000, the road to be run by the Housatonic company with freight and passenger tariffs at Pittsfeld prices, providing the remaining seven miles of.the Lee and Hudson, which run parallel to the Housatonic, be abandoned. No final arrangement was made, but the decision. of Lee is to be given soon. A meeting of the Housatonic directors will at once be called on the subject. In any event, the freight rates of the road will be reduced, and new fast passenger trains run.
 Another terrible warning has been given against playing with fire arms. At Cold Spring, Mass, man named Philo Clark snapped gun he supposed unloaded at his sister who was sitting with her little daughter in her lap. The gun was loaded and its discharge killed the motlfer in- stantly, and shattered the girls arm so that it had to be anputated t.a'. s.. -, ' : | MT. Horace Landon,a of Chap;nville, complains that the Conn. Western rail- road favor Barnum Richardson 2. Co.,, in the matter of freight. He says he has three mill sites on Riga stream which he could dispose of readily if purchasers could be sure of fair freights; but he says the course the railroad company is pur- suing would ''take the life blood'' out of any such enterprise. 3rrss+.. vg.s.,~ssa ?
 Col. Mcclure has obtained his seat in the Pennsylvania Senate. The frauds practiced by the supporters of the sad ministration' candidate were as brazen to the full as any that have ever disgraced Tammany. > .aol5lgo vas s'tI'. | Advices from the Hassler deep sea sounding expedition show that Professor Agasiz has realized his expectation of find. ing crustacean animals hitherto known only as fossils. .'.sftasf
 Ex-Go7. English and James F. Babcocl are the Democratic nominees, for repre- sentatives from New Haven, this year. A voting Irish lawyer named Fox was nominated at first. but this started bolt was persuaded to resign and MT. English fills the breach. 4 fsaqa. fsss1sJ E. sq l 4-- ts
 Mrs. Hooker and young law student named Newton debated Woman Suffrage at Brewster's Hall, New Haven, Friday night. Mrs. Hooker evidently had the best of the argument, but the right to tn, ballot is of course denied her by the su perior sex. I9..... Lsgeozp ,sstl4 a.st
 The action of the Senate on. the Tariff last week was of great importance al though rather uncertain in principle. Propositions to relieve coal and salt werl voted down, as also all amendments look ing to reduction of theiron and steel du ties. A general reduction of ten per cen of duties on most articles was voted. al amendment passed, removing the incom. tax and all internal taxes except those on banks, liquors, and tobacco; and tn duties on tea and coffee were removed It is not thought that the House will con cur with this action. a9kg sAd ,st191 a31
 John B. Cough lectured in aLakeEine Thursday evening, to acrowded house. g
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