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Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

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Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
Goshen.
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The N. Consolation of Litchfeld Go. is expected to meet here, Wednesday, Feb. 7th, to attend the examination, and. if thought best, the Installation of Rev. Mir. Hagen. 4ls#. =. H. N .sss
 The inhabitants of Westport can hear the fog whistle on Long Island shore, twenty miles away, in foggy weather.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
Litchneid.

The Kent will case referred to. in our last resulted in a verdict sustaining the will of Mir, Seger. There was consider able evidence to show the occasional in- competency of the testator, from inten- perate habits, but the proof regarding his competency at the time the will, was ex- ecuted was so strong that the jury had no difficulty in agreeing on verdict. An drews & Graves for Appellant; Woodruff & Seymour for Appellees. srs#
 The Morris petition for a new road south and west of the village, to the depot, was withdrawn on account of an informality in it's service. ,e. .,.s. E..s.-4. .
 The case of Baldwin vs Greenwoods Turnpike Go. was argued Tuesday on the defendants motion for a nonsuit. :- ..-
 Moses ps. Roberts, a Salisbury case, is now on trial. l..zA.I 5s5Hale aat& 9ar a51-- The plans, specifications and details for the new Congregational church in this place have been received from the archi- tect, MT. s. s. Woodstock, of Boston, and can be examined by builders at the office of Geo. M. Woodruff. .8 .fns5ga.saasa
 = The Registrars annual report shows 43 births, IT marriages, and D.ddeaths, for the year 1871. There was one 1legitimate birth, and one, of twins. Fifteen of the seventeen marriages were of native par ties ta. ... ....l.- l.=r5,fsF ..-.-fI - Attention is called to the notices of the Board of Health, in regard to yaecina- tion. ...f..ts .ls..-r.Err . ;Eilf F-s.ifHl a
 The Circulating Library holds it's monthly sale at the Episcopal Chapel, to- morrow (Thursday) night. The removal of the books was made necessary by the conversion of the Congregational chapel into an armory. The printing of the cat alogue has been completed. z vi sss.easfs-
 At the last meeting of the board of Shepaug Valley R. R. directors, the res- ignation of G. A. Hickox was presented and accepted, and Mir. F. R. Starr chosen in his place. MT. Starr is a Philadelphia gentleman who purchased the Law place, on Chestnut Hill, few years since, and has made it it into the finest country place in this town, if not in this county. He is man of large means, an excellent and | very successful business man, and will be 9 valuable accession to the board. '4ag. - Mir. J, B. Capron, of New Milford, has leased the. rooms lately occupied by MT. Dunn, and opened 8 Jewellers store 1 tharaa;n nl bssts1BZHd # ss ylGo 5s>d ,g5 | ae taG sts syst 3dt al bit 1 Harvey F. and Andrew Smith have 1 sold their interest in the Hadsell farm, east of Chestnut Hill, to Hugh Blackburn and William McNalley for $5, 900. aa The friends of Philip Wells, Cashier of the Amenia Bank, and formerly of this place, were shocked by the news of his sud- den death at that place on Monday, from brain fever He is to be buried in Goshen this Wednesday, afternoon. a5a
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
EmQa1RRR cLu8BlMc RATES.

Orr EksAEzA1 oszzsr s9Asczibszs may not of- ssu hs sAsR sa szka nRyzz11gs Of ths low rates a94r~f h-xe SszA& hE 1ssA .agazznes and peri s.arnzs. Far tAsr eszys16e1cs snd as sn extra suasxauunue ta z@< cu@sy slAssz5hsrs Es win ssz.E sAe sazis<ias psrsss-aAa sO county slbscri- ssus. n ezznerss1n wTS the ESoURER at the
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

The Whnxsaa trSal closed, last week, as A,sl been 1zsS-spzAea. with verdict of ssrgzSsS41 The ranked feature of the tri- al wzx sAA 6rsak-aUwn Cf the medical wit ssS=.s z a-sAz1f OE sAs prosecution.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

4z5zaxsusszzxsz1a x@s tired in Hartford, szzt ~s%k. @g1znz2 a pAyzscsan for setting z bru&zz lag h~1x- All Os the iurymen hzt szRwxzs z<zse1 SA verdict for the de- Sr@A1zk EE cs@EEOzalse the plaintiff VAS fzz,ztv gwen SS S2z2ges and s costs
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

Aszxukssz 1s called sO the advertisement ss sAs Nzzrz<@ck tlwse-t2bae which came s~a hAse sux insertion Ua our first page.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

The Rzax @11 2asi-Ring Grand Jury 1z@-zlsv h4z 6nAlly been settled by send 5zs sh< Txzzn&zy ses about their busi-
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

TA< Ekx- ICAa $ Watson, translator of several wurks fOr Bchnis Classical Library A.as k.rSz S,SzxSrke1 Of murdeEing his wife.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

ESxas u.alsou< of our population use s.ah~rre-as the raHe of If Ihs-, each, per
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
Ian. 29th. 1872. a

A Parallel railroad meeting was held at Norvalk on Thursday. The people of that place win subscribe 500 900 towards subscribed is s294, ,0O0,, enough to warrant an organization under the new Railroad ect.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

Th& Trzhzaa OE Saturday prints com ulzzs-asss1 sAswing thzt Spain could cas- 1y hRas us st sea Tn the present condition af ear navy, TAzs cheerful authority eanzS3@Ex eur whOls irO1-clad navy a
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
PIymoutn sketohes--pso. ca.


 Having for Q number of weeks failed to send any items for the Enquirer, some in cidents, more or less Interesting, have as 8 matter of course failed to receive proper attention. However, your correspondent will endeaFor to make amends, so far as possible, for his former neglect. u. Christmas and New Years festivities transpired in about the usual manner. Though rather late to mention it, I will state that 2 Sunday school festival, with Christmas tree, &c., was held on Thursday evening, Dec. 2stl, at St. Peter church. As usual on such occasions, there was much enjoyment by young and old Par ties, mostly of the tssurprise" kind, have been quite common about the Centre the present winter; the number attending them varying from q dozen or so to seven- $. .s,-L ...E l8asx A1f@ fs9fsss@f ty hve or more. s s sssjrsxfe U alsss E ] Within the last few weeks two balls or dances have taken place at Robbins Hall, at the tehead of the street. e4 se a < - @se ss s,4esss PLYuouTHEAN.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

Aes@Razx wz< CEgznIzsd Tn this State sss,ezE1y ss try and recOver the treasure in A SRazszA shzP wrecked in the bay of C1uazm 5n Ssukh America They sent a vssssl whs<A sszn3 the wreck but not
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

An mPsEtAnE investigation was ordered ia the Hszse. weaHesday. The Commit ses Ou Co@m&res gre to inquire, among ether thEzeA wh=kher our present rail- r0a1ks are uss inadequate for the needs of the eouuHrys and whether through combi- nation sr no1opOly inequitable rates are Eot charged fog fares and freights.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

Mark fWsin Ieetured Co an audience of sooo in S<einUxy Hall. New York, last "Wednesday night It vas the largest au- disace ever gathered to hear lecture in that city and was delighted and uprOrious throagh01t the whole entertainment. No body esn equal Mark in his line unless it ls Joaquin Miller. .7.r ..r .... f,..,
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

Chaxaes H. Johnson. of Southbury, was shot dead by his wife. on Sunday night Of last week He x1s in the habit of beatiaS her severely, and on that. night she Ned to her fathers house near by to escape his abuse, He followed her there and sssznltea her again; whereupon she sAok him dead with her brothers pistol. If the tastz aDe correctly reported she served him right" . I.ssa,.ss.a
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

The Hartford correspondent of the Palladium represents that the number of delegates at our State Convention who were willing to champion Grant at Phila- delphia was very great.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01

The State Temperance convention met At AiddletOwn. last week No action was taken wikA reference to the temperance tie&eA Resolutions were passed calling oH the legi<lztare. sn view of the success fal working of the cOnstabulary system in 1&Ss.ehnsstts. to pass constabulary law: rel0ieing la the wonderful success of the Geod Samaritan movement; and ap- prOving the Truman Smith bill.'' ar .f
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-01
New Milford.

.% D. D. TOGPKINs MCLAUGHLIN. Morris, Conn. Jan. 27, 1872.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29
A Nation in Decay.

The accounts of the famine in Persia
which continue TO arrive in greater de-
tail, bid fair TO treat the world to the
spectacle OF calamity the like of whcih
has not been witnessed in historic times
at least the sudden extinction of liza
tion for the want of food. This has
really been the fate of the great states
which once filed the Valley of the Eu-
pirates, and it is a fate which has for
centuries been threatening some modern
slates-Spain for instance. Man has
stripped the soil of trees the absence of
trees has brought drouths, has slowly
diminished the productive power of the
ground, and finally destroyed them
the population in the meantime, dwin-
ding in numbers and vitality. Spain
had forty millionsof people in the time
OF the Romans, and flowed with milk
and honey 1t is now an arid region, only
half OF IL under cultivation, with ouly
sixteen millions of inhabitants, and, il
modern sicence had not come to its aid,
would probably go the way of Babylon.
Persia was one of the most powerful
states OF antiquity, and even in the
fourteenth century was able to support
the army of Tamersne, who marched
without commissariat or baggage, during
a bloody contest. 1t is now almost a
wilderness, with a population of two
millions-about halt OF them nomads,
which are rapidly perishing from famine
brought on by three years OF drouth.
The worst of il is, that owing to the
absence of either common roads or
railroads, it seems to be impossible for
the charity of the world to reach the
suheres, so that there is really strong
prospect of the total depopulation of
the country. The moral OF this horrible
story is-look. after your Nation.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29
SELECT POETRY.
A Dangerous Man.
BY CORPORAL BUMP.

BY CORPORAL BUMP.
man. Ne,cspdpeT. ' N-
"a bold, bad man is Gen. Grant"
Said Floyd one gloomy night,
AS out of Donaldson he crept
And took his .hasty flight
From Pillows trembling lips Il ere came
An echo sounding much the same.
AND Bucknrr thought his chief was right,
Nor longer burst maintain the fight;
And then came down the rebel "bnrs,"
And from the fort hung stripes and stars,
" That Grants II dangerous man !" said they ;
And doubtless think the same to-day.
"a bold, bad man is Gen. Grant"
Said Beauregard one morn.
As from the naughty traitors brow
The victors wreath was torn;
And from The field his legions went,
BY orders Gen Grant had sent
Thea Shil"h's field was ours again,
Despite the host of rebel men,
Who came an army boasting loud,
But went pancstriken crowd;
For Beauregard and all his men,
Perhaps, thought Grant was dangerous then.
bold, bad man is Gen. Grant"
Said PembertOn one day;
"Entrcaties are OF no avail.
He will not go away.
A stubborn, mulish, dangerous mani
lie wants our rebel hides to tan"
Aud still Grants canuon raked the town,
Until III" rebel fl. IS came down;
And then our banners rent and torn
Were through the streets OF Vicksburg borne
Tie" bold, bad man" that glorious Fourth
5 ni eladsome tidings To the North.
"a bold bad man is Gen. Grant,"
And poor BraSg's eyes were dim
With tar, saiu he, know
1is usc.css fighting him.
And soon tue cheers from Grants brave men
On L0okouts crest, ,Jold where and when
The rebel General had to run,
Aa6 what that "bOld, bad man "had done.
And what that bold, bad nan y" had done;
" That Grants dangerous mani" he said.
AS from the field his army fled.
d A bold, bad man is Gen. Grant"
Said Lee, that's plain To sc;
He must lie very bold, indeed,
To think OF whipping me-"
Then Petersburg ana Richmond fell;
Then AppomatoX-may be-wcll,
At last our heroes work was done;
the final victory was won.
Perhaps the people may forget
These things. but then, they haven't yet.
They need then, such dangerous men,
And think, perhaps, they may again.
"A bold, bad, dangerous man is Grant,"
JEFF Davis thought the same,
When running off IN crinoine,
He TO the :" last ditch came.
A KukluX's gentle voice was heard,
Aud" Grant is dangerous ayerred
Ii needs must be that this is so.
Then Hall and Tweed-good honest men
Say Grant is bold, and bad, and when
Such men declare it, then, iorsooth,
Folks know that Sumner tells the truth
Elk Grove, Wis, May, 1872.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

Ihe GORGE OF THE YELLOWSTONE Rtv-
ER-Away in the far western country is
great river called the Yellowstone.
l often feel curiosity about names, and
wonder how they come TO be given, but
can tell yo1 something else very curl
GUS abont 1t. presume it began at first
a common stream running along where
it found crevice in the rocks, and ma
king its bed every year wider and deeper
Little by little the rocks yielded and
crumbled, and rs the river has quite a
slope, its waters came with great force.
especially at times when it was swollen
by heavy rains and thaws. There is
terrable power in water when it comes
dashing against the shore, tearing down
even rocks, and breaking in pieces of
the stoutest ships. In the course of ages,
the Yellowstone River has worn for its
self a channel most frigbttnl to see. For
fifty miles it flows through a gorge
which varies from one thousand to five
thousand feet in depth. At one point in
the river the guides say it is mile in
depth, and the great river, on looking
down, seems only like silver ribbon.
and the falls and cascades which it makes.
seem only like ripples on it's surface.
Even the stoutest-nerved, when be comes
to the brink of this awful chasm. shrinks
back appalled,.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

Gentle overtures toward friendship.
First stranger" declare, sir, that wo-
men are getting more outrageously de-
collay every day. just look over there
at that prodigioqs old porpoise with eye
glass " Second stranger" Hum, la
Yes ! l can't help thinking she's q more
testiye-looking object than that funereal
old trump with the fan" First stranger
The .funereal old trump is my wife,
sir Second stranger" The 'pro-
diglous old porpoiSe' is mine !"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

Two neighbors living in Westchester
county, had long and envenomed liti-
CATION about small spring which they
both claimed. The Judge, wearied ont
with the case, at last said: "What is the
use of making so much fuss about lit
tie water?" "Your honor will see the
use Of it," replied one of the lawyers,
"when inform you that the parties are
both milkmen I" The roar of laughter
which followed proved that the entire
audience saw the point.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

IHE LOCAL NEwsPAPER.-Doe it ever
for an instant occur to the man of busi-
ness that it is a solemn duty to suppor,
the local press of his neighborhood E?
What Is 1t but the well conducted news
papar that makes city or town? That
constantly and gratuitously advertises it
to the world as place of interest and iu,-
portauce That daily or weekly makes
known to the whole earth the simple
fact that such place as where he strives
to gain livelihood has existence on the
atlas? 1t is the local paper. Now we
venture to say that not one tenth part
OF the business people of any city in the
country spend any money in the way of
jndicious advertising. True, they take
the paper, but it is not because they feel
any duty devolving upon them to award
1T support. Their subscriptions are
measurably of no account. Ii advertise
ments were not given by others, the pa
per would cease to live despite the pay
ment OF subscribers. Show us local
paper well filled with living advertise
ments and we will at once take stock in
the enterprise and business tact OF the
people who live where the journal is
published. The outside world Judges
more of the place by the newspaper it
publishes than from any other sign. 1t
is, therefore, matter of great moment
that the local journal of the city, town
or village should be well supported, for
it, above all other things contributes to
the general prosperity.
Pttsbur0h Gazette.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

The result OF Mr.. Greeley's sojourn at
Chappaqua is that yesterday mornings
Tribune has an article on The adultera-
tion of milk. He thinks that if the COW
was better underdrained, and the control
OF its internal reveneue regulated by the
congressional districts, it would lay coca
nuts of better quality, with fifty per
cent, more cream to the acre.-Ransas
City bulletin,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

Greeley's brother's-in-law are said to
be all cousins, but Browns family re-
lations are more than the hairs of lis
head and he is not baldheaded man,
either. He is said to be the most exten-
sively connected man in the United
States and his relatives are all respecta-
BILE enough to hold oftice-if they can
get hold OF any. If Greeley should die,
there would hardly be positions enough
to Ego round" among Browns people,
including the Blairs, and Breckinridges,
and Bentons, and Prestons, and Halnp-
tons and Ingersolls, and Crittendens--to
say nothing Of the Brown family in gener-
al, all of whom would claim fer their
own and demand ofiices'by virtue OF the
name. We might as well elect a man
named Smith, aud put none but Smiths
in office. Why don't the Cincinnati
Commercial, TO which we are chiefly in
debted tor our information, have some
abuse for Browns relatives as well as
Grants?
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

The Chattanooga Herald thus puts
the case of the colored people OF its
locality: "The colored people of the
South will not vote TOR Greeley. We
will go further, and cay that they will
no more vote for Mr.. Greeley than four
years ago they voted for Horatio Sey-
mour, whose shoes Mr.. Greeley now fills.
General Grant will receive the undivided
support in 1872 as he did in 1868. Some
OF the papers which support Mr.. Gree
ley arc beginning TO see that they have
reckoned without their host, and so they
fall back upon the shallow snbterfuge of
stigmatizing the colored man with ig-
norance. The truth is, the colored peo-
pie can never be caught by any traps Of
"party reunion and reform" and always
steer clear OF Democratic support, either
directly or indirectly, with precision
nothing short OF instinct. Their unde-
WAITING rule is "neyer to be found trav-
cling ia the same path with Demo
crat," and this they carry out to the let
ter"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

A widow who has married and lost
FIVE husbands, remarks: "Widowers new
or die of grief; although crushed to the
earth by their sorrow, like truth, they
rise again and revive"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

tits said that "two of Darwin's sons
have been on visit to the land of the
monkeys. The monkeys were half tick
led to death at seeing them, and asked
kindly after their father"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

"rm so thirsty, said a boy at work
in the cornfeld. "Well, work away"
said his father, "you know the prophet
says, 'Hoe every one that thir,teth."
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

Rehearsals OF fashionable wedding GER
emonies have for some time past been in
vogue, and now il is said that the leading
sexton and undertaken of the ton is try
ing to devise some means by which
fashionable funerals may be rehearsed
also.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29
"Forty,"

a correspondent Of the Winona Re.
publican thus pleasantly moralizes over
his fortieth birthday:
When one has numbered his wav
| along the course OF life to the Iortieth
milestone, he feels like asking the old
| gentleman who has charge of the human
caravan to let us set down and take n
rest But he knows that time won't do
any such n thing, and that already tho
milestone is passed by me and reached
by Others Of the 'innumerablc caravan,
with its hopes and fears, its JOYS and
sorrows, its pleasures and pains, reach
ing from the cradle TO the grayc-an
endless procession.
lie has reached the top of.the moun.
tain, that in the morning Of lite plistened
lar up in the sunshine, apparently above
The clouds and fogs that gathered round
him at its base, and now that the pros.
pect Is no longer upward, but downward
on The other side, ending in the inevita-
Die gull OF oblivion, what wonder if he
glances backward to the base from
which he started, and in the far-of. mis-
ty past, draws, in Imagination. CHARMING
views that be went by without at the
time approaching, and, in the clouds.
through which he struggled upward
sees now only showers that gave beauty
to spring and fruit to autumn.
To be sure, he is rot an old man. bu,
he is not young. In midsImmer.the sun
Is warmer, the days are longer, and the
verdnre deeper than in spring. But the
leaves have had their growth, the flow
ers have somehow lost their tenderness
aud finest odor, and, though there is re.
pose, 1t Is the repose that precedes tie
decline OF summer. Insensibly the davs
Will grow shorter, and, while the early
autumn crowns them with beauty of the
gorgeous sunset that fades in darkness
and night.
Just think what one has gone throuob
with at forty. First, in being safely
born, and then the pains and perils of
terrible caresses and pinching dresses.
OF teething and learning to walk and
talk, OF measles and mumpi, of fearful
and bumps, ana, as these are
outlived, comes in later, the eyes of /
girls, rosy lips and golden curls, pre-
saying matrimony and milliner shops. |
small trocks and soothing syrup. These |
and more. For the slings and arrows
OF outrageous fortune" pursue us. and
sometimes crush us before we reach the |
shore of forty.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

A sewing society at Milwaukee can
use up neigebor's character in exactly
seven minutes.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29
Beautiful Woman!
HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM gives TO the
Complexion the Freshness of Youth.

HAGAN's MAGNOLIA BALM overcomes the flushed an.
pearance caused by heat, fatigue aud excitement Ii
makes me iady OF forty appear but twenty and nat
TON ny rs use the toughest skin is made ryal the
pure rauiant texture Of youthful beauty 1t
redness, bOtches, and pimples 1t contains nothing
that VIII injure the skin in the least.
MAGNoLA BALM is used by all fashionable ladies' In
New YORK, London and Paris. Ii costs only 75 cen
per Bottle and is sold by all Druggists and Perfumcrs
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-29

A mammoth century plant, forty feet
in height and weighing three end "a half
tons, has been shipped from near Jack
sonville, Fla, to parties in New York.
The plant is on the eve Of blooming the
second time, and is, therefore, nearly
two hundred years old. 1t may well be
doubted whether in beauty and grand
eur OF appearance this plant has its equal
Oh the continent. Its leaves extend over
an area the diameter OF which is not
less than eighteen feet, while the central
shaft or column on which the blooms
are to appear, though only few weeks
old has already attained an altitude of
fifteen feet. 1t is still growing at the
rate OF about six inches a day, and will
continue to do so for about three weeks
longer, when all its upper portion will
become clothed with mass of lnagniii-
cent bell-shaped blossoms Of the purest
white, hanging in dense clusters, and ex-
tending for 4 space of not less than four
feet from the apex downward. A large
p'ice was paid by the purchaser for this
magnificent specimen, which can hardly
fail of attracting great attention during
the period Of its iorescence.