Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-22

lieV1ng that the Suuclu0 theory HIS uO supporters in Litchfeld, it is certainly not the theory prevalent here.
 Capt. coIvocoresses.
 To the Editor of the Nsao York Times.
 The letter signed l. W. S., published in the Times last Sunday, greatly misrep- resents the feelings of our people in re- gard to the murder of their late fellow cit izen, Capt. Colvoccresses, of the United States Navy. At the close of the war, af- ter more than thirty years of faithful ser- vice in all parts of the world, Capt. Col vocoresses obtained an extended leave of absence and came to live in this village, where his family was already settled. Dur ing the many years of his residence here, he maintained reputation for spotless integrity, chivalrous honor and high mor- al virtue, and but echo the sentiment of all classes of the community when say that no one has been more respected while living, or honored when dead. Your correspondent, therefore, when he asserts that ssthe opinion is at length re- luctantly entertained that the Captain in- sured his life in order to defraud the com panies for the benefit of his family" not only defames the dead, but islanders an
 
 heves that the theory of sucide is any, thing but a shallow 'sdevice of the insur- ance companies to save their money" It is well understood in this town, that the companies through their agents, are re- sponsible for the many newspaper articles which, by means of false evidence plaus- ibly set forth, are intended to create an impression that Capt. Colvocoresses was not only enilty of self murder but also of 1 agigantic fraud. The manner in which de- tectives and newspaper correspondents have been manipulated, may suggest it. self to your readers. when they are inform ed that official reports show that seventy one life insurance companies in the state of New York paid out in single year more than eIeve'a millions of dollars for runners, agents, advertising, and the like. 1t IS not our purpose here to inquire into the soundness of system which requires an annual expenditure of so large a sum in the manufacture of public opinion. but simply to point out way in which the character and reputation of honest but deluded victims of the fallacies of life insurance can be crushed out and de- stoyed. It may not be amiss to state that the most conspicuous person now engag- ed in working up" the suicide theory, is the very man who, according to his own account, was the most active in inducing ing the Captain to invest so largely in life policies. It was with this man that the Captain had his last business interview in New York, or elsewhere; it was this man who knew what were the Captains inten- tions in going to Litchfeld, and the time of his proposed return. What explana- tion is offered for this sudden change of front?
 1 Tn %1 &11 forth in the letter under consideration, it may be stated that most of them are with out any basis in truth the rest are so far removed from their proper context as to make them little better than fulse tes- tinlS7ly.
 LrrcHFIELD, Thursday, Aug. 15, 1872.
 The heat and storms of the week past have almost equaled the heat and storms of July. The papers are full of accounts ofterrifc thunder and destruction by light ming. In this vicinity the roads were badly washed and the streams consider ably raised, but we hear of none of the tornadoes that were the peculiar feature of the weather demonstrations of the ear Her summer.
 The following are the State elections that occur before the presidential elec-. tion:
 Sept. 2-california Oct. s-Nebraska. Sept. 4Vermont. Oct. 8-Ohio. | Sept. 9-Maine. Oct. S-Pennsylyania, Oct. 8-Indiana. Oct. 16-South Carolina. | Oct. 8-Iowa.
 
 ia, this week, upon new Constitution, and, in case of it's adoption, for State Officers and members of Congress.
 On Saturday the apothecary of the re- ceiving ship Vermont at the Brooklyn Navy Yard took, as he supposed, small dose of tincture of ginger for stomach ache. It happened to be tincture of aco- nite, and the unfortunate apothecary liv- ed but an hour and a-haf Druggists homicides are nothing novel, but this is the first case we have ever known in which an apothecary was the victim of his own negligence.
 On Monday, the New York High Court of Impeachment found Judge George G. Barnard guilty on most of the articles preferred against him by the Assembly, His removal from office was unanimously voted, and his disqualification from hold ing any office of trust in the future was voted with only two dissenting voices. The puriication of the New York judiciary is grand work, presistently and coura- geously carried through, against one of the worst, boldest, most powerful crimi- nals ever brought to the bar of justice.
 Mir. Greeley has been making speeches in New Hampshire and Maine, but none of political character except one at Port land, Me, on Wednesday night In this speech he denies that he has promised offices to any one, but declares his inten- tion of appointing Democrats if he is elected. He denies intending to give pensions to Rebel soldiers; and asserts that while Tammany stole only thirty millions from N. '. city, the Carpet-B Bag gers have stolen three times that amount from the South
 THE CRcUs.-Those who enjoy the. re- creations of the circus, and who does not, should bear in mind the appearance in Litchfeld on Saturday afternoon and eve ming, August 24th, of the Great Stone & Murray Circus company of established reputation who have travelled successfully through New England for the past eight years Ambitious to more than sustain the reputation thus secured Manager Mur- ray the past winter despatched an agent to London and there secured four of. the greatest artists, then performing in the English metropolis. We shall therefore have the pleasure of seeing for the first l &.ran nG;rn r .sur;o Ko.ros o .ror.x..- aaa