Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-12
MAIl.NE!
Republican Ticket elected by over
 16,00O Majority!

| l 4 CAIN OF 5000 ON 18TH
 EVERY COUNTY REpUB11oAN!.. Au ns Repabtican Congressman elected.
 Portland Republican
 Notwithstanding the tremendous efforts of the Liberal Republicans, the Cider Law split, and disafeetion in some of the Con- gressional districts, the Republicans of Maine have elected their Governor by about 16, 900 majority. They have elected all their Congressmen by increased ma jorities. They have carried the State Senate unanimously, and beaten the op- position at Portland and other sharply contested points. The coalition vote throughout the State is less than the dem- ocratic vote of 1868. The result is hand somely summed up by Speaker Blaine in the following telegram to the President: To the President of the United States.
 LOng Branch, " J:
 We have carried the state for Gov Per ham by moro than 15, 900 majority-a net gain of 5000 on last years vote We have carried all tho congressional districts, the closest by, well, 1000 majority. We have carried every county in the state-some- thing we never achieved but once before and have elected every senator and chosen more than four -fifths of the house of rep- resentatiyes. Our victory is complete and overwhelming at all points, and insures you more tban 9, 900 majority in Novem- | Der.
 A correspondent of the N. Y. Eve. Post gives information regarding the facilities for reaching Litchfeld furnished by the Shepaug railroad. "Until this summer, Litchfeld has been accessible to travellers ride of four miles intervened between the by the Naugatuck railroad only. As stage railroad station and the village, and as the difference of grade between the two ter mini is about 600 feet, the ride was any thing but agreeable in hot day. Indeed, so broken is the intervening country, that disgusted and inconsiderate travellers have been known to swear that the road was up hill both ways"
 After giving the time of trains on the Shepaug, the correspondent gives des- cription of the scenery of the Shepaug valley which closes as follows:
 Leaving Hawleyville the new road cross es the Housatonic river on high truss bridge with massive granite piers, and enters the valley of the Shepaug, one of the most picturesque streams to be seen in this or any other land. The track winds along the banks of the river, now on one side and now on the other; some water; sometimes striking across & level reioin it @ further on % The c country @ s is com, n paratively wild, being but sparsely set tied, and in many places the face of Ma ture lies almost as undisturbed as in the primal days, save where the railway has cut it's sinuons track. The whole valley is panorama of beauty. The eye is greeted continually by charming bits of landscape glimpses of the river through l overhanging treNs, miniature cascades, | gray rocks and headlands capped with verdure, and many another form of still l life not to be found elsewhere near the metropolis.
 Messrs. F. W. Beers < Co.,, of New York, are engaged in getting out new map of Litchfeld county, to be issusd next winter
 WASHINGTON, Sept. g, 1872.
 MIR. EDITOR We have some of us heard of the pavements in the cities and our select men are trying to introduce them in the country. Their plan is to hammer, and hammer, and hammer the stone down solid and fast in their places, and work at it, and work at it, until it is finished. Can there be any thing plainer and is not the discovery worth publishing? It is evidently the plan to have the dirt wash and wear away, and leave the stone in the road and let the horses feet and the wagon wheels hammer and pack them in- to place instead of the steam roller which is sometimes used. We are trying this plan thoroughly and extensively (witness, especially, the road leading from the Sta tion to Centre.) Some people think it is rather expensive of horses feet, wagons, time, human nerves, human and brute patience. But, MT. Enquirer, you know there are always some grumblers who ob- ject to the cost of great improvements. I do not know what length of time is neces- sary to perfect the roads; perhaps the of ficials will report on the first Monday of October? COUNTRY BUMPKIN.
 Plymouth Sketches-No. tiA.
 The Center base ball club, organized the present season, called themselves the ''Dolly Vardens." For 8 number of weeks their efforts were attended with little suc- cess but they kept up the exercise of patience and perseverance, the latter at events, until at length they have in num- of instances conquered On Saturday, Aug. 3l, they were set back little in a game with the Bristol boys but they had previously beaten that club, and possibly will do so again when the decisive game takes place. On Saturday, the 7th, an exceedingly close game was played be- tween the Dolly Vardens and the knife shop club, on the ground of the latter, the former being victorious the score stand ing 34 to g.. I learn that on Saturday the 14th, the D. V.'s will engage the Bris- ] tol club at Waterbury, for the champion ship of Litchfeld county. s..s--
 A quarter of century ago, Eli Pick