Litchfield enquirer., 1872-03-14
senatOrIaI Nominations.

14th Diat.-The Republicans have nom- mated s. Storrs Cotton, of Pomfret.
 10h Dist.-Chas. B. Wheeler, of Mon- roe, has been nominated by the Repub- icahs.
 21st Dist.-George Maxwell, of Vernon, has been nominated by the Republicans.
 18th Dist. Charles A. Buell., of Chat ham, has been nominated blythe demo- crats.
 20th Dist.-Marcus Woodward, of Son. CTS has been nominated by the Republi- cans.
 For young men who think it perfectly safe amusement to bestow complimentary attentions" upon young ladies, there is another solemn warning to record It comes from the conservative state of Ken lucky, whose court of appeals says that in order to maintain a breach of promise case 1t is not necessary that there should be an express promise on either side" This is another way of saying that prom ise can be proved even when none is made! The full text of this strange de- cision IS not before us, but eff this court understands herself" the decision applies to both male and female hirts: in other words it knows mo distinction of sex" and will, therefore, be accepted bvfemaie suffragists art-breakin0 coquetts can be made liable in damages under this de- cision as well as others; still this view of the case ia not 50 comforting after all. The masculines, as & rule, are the parties affected by this strange decision, and the cautious young man who thinks it import ant to study Susan Snowdrop's character as well as her face,. should take this decis- ion as danger signal.
 Here is the note Mir. Greely wrote de- clining to sign the call for the republican national convention fN
 FRIEND CHANDLER Please not to at tach my name to the call for the National Convention. I staid away from your meeting on purpose to keep position of independence. If we have trustworthy assurances of reform from the White House, all right but I am not inclined to he!p our Leets and Stockings to another half million of plunder.
 Yours, HORACE GREEIY.
 New York, January 15, 1872.
 The Indianapolis Journal thus anotes Scripture on Judge David Davis nomina- ton for the presidency :-'David there fore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam and when his hrethren and all his fathers house heard it, they went down thither to him. And every one that was in debt, and every one that was dis contented, gathered themselves unto him: and he became captain over them :. and there were with him about four hundred men"
 The Southport Chronicle says The junction of the Shepaug Valley R. R. with the Danbury and Norwalk. road. at Beth. el, has rather knocked in the head tbs scheme of railroad from Southport to Litchfeld. There is still more talk of building short road to Newtown. but the enthusiasm which recently prevailed over the former project has received a death blow from the cause above stated The proposed road from Seymour to Woodbury will also, probably, misoarry.
 Secretary BeIknap estimates that the total ascertained loss by the rebellion in property, assets, and debts, State and Confederate, is $5,262, ,3O8, ,654. There were debts due merchants of the North from those of the South for goods pur- chase and consumed and money loaned. amounting when the war began to $6O0,- OO0, ,O00 The State debts, with the Con- fedeYate debt and commercial debts mako an aggregate of @, ,976, ,145, ,366.90. Here was burden which must have crushed the people of the South and reduced them to general bankruptcy.
 In the fearful cold of the 9th, a milk man was frozen to death on his distribu-