Litchfield enquirer., 1872-08-29

two weeks before election. As at present advised, the whole vote, which has been variously estimated above as 135, 900 and 125, 900, does not seem to me likely to ex- ceed the smaller amount; of this the re- pubEcans claim 70, 900, and allow the op- position 55, 900, and it is not improbable that, with perfect management on Mir. Blaines part, and series of blunders on the other side, these may be the figures three weeks hence. But to-day, believe the vote sure for Kimball is full 5S, ,O0O, while the sure vote for Perham is not more than 65 GOO. There is still considerable neutral and doubtful element, which the rest of the campaign will bring out on one side or the other. The aggressive charac- ter of the Grant campaign brings back some hesitating men, but it also closes the lips of many who in their hearts mean to vote for Greeley and against Perham.
 The Greeley papers have been copying letter from one Charles Wheeler Den nison, Editor and Proprietor of the Ma tional Harbinger," Washington, to some inquirer in Pennsylvania in which he as- serts that President Grant is common drunkard. Among other statements Den nison ayers that, sIn a conversation last winter with Senator Wilson that gentle man said to me, President Grant drinks too muck and concluded with the re- mark, T have told him SOL Senator Wilson will not deny this fact" Senator Wilson replies that he never said anything of the kind, and that nothing of the kind is true. MT. Hoar, late Atty Gen., also denies these islanders most emphatically. Furthermore 1t happens that the Rev. Charles Wheeler Derrickson has g reputa- tion of his own that ''pans out" richly.
 He was in Hartford year ago last spring, soliciting aid for the paper Fred. Douglas sons were starting in Washing ton Many contributed, yet the Douglass boys have since informed some of the subscribers that they never received 1 cont of Che naoncy. Dennison was kicked out of the army for embedding funds en- trusted to him as chaplain by the soldiers The Palladium says he has victims in New Haven, also, and that he is one of those itinerant clerical swindlers that occasion ally rob the charitable. The Tribune re-
 marked, when Dennison's letter appeared,
 that She had either betrayed confidence
 or borne false witness" So the case against Grant breaks down even more
 conclusively than that against Gratz
 Brown. That both these gentlemen have,
 in former years, been incorporate, can
 not, we fear, be denied; but that either of ! them IS incorporate n0tO there is no suf- ficient evidence:
 After much trouble, and the employ
 ment of detective, recent incendiary
 fires in New Britain have been traced to
 certain members of fire company. The
 detective joined this company and be-
 came cognizant of their designs, while
 one of incendiaries turned States evidence.
 Four members of this company have been committed for trial before the Superior 1 court. aG
 The down train on the .Housatonic
 railroad, passed over skunk be
 tween Brookield and the junction, one day last week. From there to Bridgeport
 the engineer was not obliged to blow his
 whistle. At every highway crossing horses
 ran that never ran before; and on their
 arrival at Bridgeport the most inveterate
 smell of kerosene peryaded the City . U
 A gentleman who came up on the three
 o'clock train from New York, Tuesday af-
 ternoon, informs us that MT. Greeley was
 on board in charge of MT. P. T. Barnum
 to whom he was about to pay visit at
 his residence in Bridgeport. The presi-
 dential candidate was presented to the
 people at the stopping places by the vet
 eran snowman. The popular excitement was mot intense and vote taken on the train stood, Grant ninety sevea; Greeley, JOrty three.
 The Rev. H. E. Wing, late of the South
 Norwalk Sentinel, gives an account in
 that paper of trip he has recently taken
 Cup the Shepaug" from which we clip the N | following: Nssa fe-e To South Norwalk, especially, the She paug Valley Railroad has the additional
 importance of opening up new channels of trade and new fields of commercial activ- iyity, and was glad to see that some of
 your most enterprismg merchants hayeal- ready gone up to possess the goodly land. Twill suggest that one of the very best investments that South Norwalk whole
 salers (and retailers, too, can make would
 be in advertising in the papers circulating ! in that section. The Litchield Enuuirer. one of the oldest and most respectable
 newspapers in the State, has, I know, a
 large circulation among thrifty and en-
 terprlsing people, and presume the
 Litchfield Sentinel is good advertising
 medium. ..se. Tes.si5e1 2
 MmEs's AnARm CAsH DRAWER. nt- tention was recently callled to this Draw CT, and after an investigation of its man ner of working, we have introduced it in- to our business office, with a good deal of confidence that it is an effectual bar to s-till-tapping. The drawer is made of black walnut, the lock of annealed iron having thirty changes, and double-lock-. ing attachment. and every mart of drawer and lock can be duplicated. Tt ;s mann. tactured by the Niles Alarm T;lls NTSn,,. facturing Go, of Providence. R - who ere tne largest manrfacturers infhis coun- MesES kairbanks & O., the celebrated scale manufacturer. IN F. ZsS6ssne.