Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-18
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PROPOSED CONVENTION, or PRODUCER

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 PROPOSED CONVENTION OF PRODUCERS.
 The suggestion made in the article which appeared in the T1bune some tune since in reference to the sale Of aduitefat- ed milk i1 this city attracted the attent.on of farmers, and they are now p0nasnng questions like theses How can e oAAn8e be accomplishea q Can laEmera Eqana4e the business themselves, and keep M m kl1sirt own hands? Gan they insure hon. est dealings with consumers How much capital will be required? ? These associa. tions of farmers, already formed, some of which are now practically demo Onstratlng, in a small way, the feasibility of the plan, are entitled to great credit for their en- terprise, and, it is to be hoped, will be literally patronized by long abused public. Some of them are organized on @ safe business basis; others are more or less defective; all are necessarily. restrict ed from g lack of capital and facilities which combination would insure. If ap- proximate figures are taken as basis ot estimate, it may be stated the quantity oi milk sold daily in New York is about 52O- 900 quarts, 200, 900 of which are sold at retail and 120. 900 at wholesale to hotels, grocers, and families. The number of 8luQ10 uOES0 WttkU1t01 WSCA III t4AC ACSes~@ trade is about 625, and of two-horse carts in the wholesale trade, 300. It is stated that proper division of the territory trayersed by these wagons, would reduce the number of wagons one-third, and all other expenses in proportion reduction which one can see at 8 glance would pay g handsome dividend on the capital re- quired.
 A careful estimate of the cost of wag- ons, horses, and necessary equipments, including surplus for working capital, places the amount at little over $350, 600. This sum would be divided proportion ately among all the farmers who send milk to New York market To secure this amount, certificates, drawing seven per cent interest, could be issued, each of which would constitute the owner mem Der, and entities him to sell milk through the agency of the Association. It is pro- posed to have the Association pay it's members a stipulated price for milk; after which the profits arising from the busi- ness, interest and expenses having first been paid, are to be shared by the mem bers in dividends declared annually or semi-annually, The books will always show how many quarts any member has furnished during given period. By this plan, it is claimed that the entire profits of the business will pass directly to the producers pockets; and as all will be equally interested in the distribution of pure milk, any departure from honest dealing will be punished by forfeiture of the right to sell through the agency of the Association. It is also proposed to make tion will have it's own repair shops, and conduct the whole business with economy that cannot be attained by individuals or firms. The farmers say that there is no good reason why they should not receive fifty per cent more for their products than they do now.-IribWaae. t l GENIUS AND MADNESS. s.--Dr. Moreau (de Tours) has written 8 work in which he contends that genius arises from the same organic conditions as insanity, and is, in fact, synonymous with it. His theory substantially amounts to this That gen jus, like insanity, is Q symptom of dis ease of the brain. Without conceding all that is claimed by Dr. Moreau, it can not | be denied that a large number of the ge- niuses of the world have been either mel ancholic or very eccentric, and, in some instances, have been the victims of violent and repeated attacks of insanity. Dr. | OOAUSO1 Wte6 ny 0uu III Nd- rious ways gave evidence of morbid con- 1 dition of the brain. At the early age of twenty he became the victim of melan- cholic delusions, and from that time for ward was never happy. On one occasion he exclaimed, disparingly, ''I would con- sent to have an arm amputated to recov- l CT my spirits" Wretchedness like this, l when it is persistent and life long, must be regarded as the symtoms of cerebral disease that may, and often does, advance to absolute madness The violent impet- uosity of Dr. Johnson, his unreasonable prejudices, may be accounted for on the | same theory. Some of the brightest ge- ninses in literature have been at intervals subject to attacks of madness. Southey lived for years in perpetual dread of in- sanity, and when at last he kneeled in the furrow, worn out through mental excite ment and fatigue, he composed that most instructive and useful of his works, 'sThe Life of Cowper." That Rousseau was a lunatic will be admitted without question by those who have studied his life and writings, however ardently they may ad- mire his genius. Pascal was one of the most original thinkers of France, but no inmate of any asylum ever presented more indisputable proofs of mental dis ease than those which characterized his whole career. All his life he walked in l darkness, knowing not at what he stum- bled, in constant fear both of the present and future. He was the victim of absurd delusions, was harrassed by excessive nerv- ousness, and was the slave of uncontrol- lable eccentrics. On examination after death, his brain was found to be very se- riotSiy uiSeSSe"' .sass
 l The Greeley tide sweeps everything be- fore 1t at Baltimore, as all intelligent men
 foresaw it would as soon as the delegates
 were chosen. He might as well have been nominated by exclamation immediately on the assembling of the Convention, as for this body to have delayed and have gone through the decorus forms which give it's proceedings deceitful air of deliberation. Real deliberation there has been none. and will be none; the party organizations Tn most of the States having surrendered themselves to the Cincinnati nominations long before the Convention met. MT. Greeley will be nominated to-day, as he might quite as easily have been yesterday, without respectable show of opposition. The Baltimore convention is not Q delib- erative body, but only recording body; and as this has been evident from the be. ginning, it's proceedings have none of the interest of uncertainty, but only the in- terest of strangeness. leaving nothing to reporters but the exercise of their narra- tive and descriptive talents.- World.
 There was an accident at Bond's 8 saloon.
 Waterbury, on Saturday afternoon about five o'clock, which came very near being shockingly serious. While Mir. Bond was charging his soda generator, the unkind thing exploded and knocked the proprie- tor into ar, undignifed lump. He was picked up bereft of reason, but calling Justify for coffee. The force of the dis. | ehar0A together with khn ,ri+r.oI on I. a