Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-03
TIE DISTRICT COURT.

THE DISTRICT COURT.
 The Winsted Herald and the New Mil ford Journal reply to our article on Dis trict courts, taking in-substance the fol- lowing ground:
 1. That it is of little account whether the proposed court costs the. taxpayer more than it is worth or not, since the ex- pense is to come on the people of the whole State and not on the people of the proposed District.
 2. That our estimate of the. saving in the expenses of the Superior Court by the withdrawal of business is altogether too low, and that the expense of iuries and at tendance in the new court will be no great CT than the saving in the Superior court expenses resulting from shortening it's terms. ~
 As regards the first point, we cannot believe that the people of the proposed district will vote to establish new court that will cost vastly more than it is worth, merely because it is the people of the State that are to bear its expense. That would be specimen of Reform which neither Greeley nor Grant men would care to father.
 On the second point, the advocates of the new court do well to talk generally, rather than commit themselves to figures. In short jury terms like those of the pro- posed court, it is the expense of summons, of travel, and of time consumed in tray el, that costs, rather than the time con- sumed in actual trial of causes Often the case or cases the jury is summoned to try are settled before jury leaves home, and their attendance becomes entirely fruitless. Anyone who knows anything about the transaction of law business need not be told how preposterous is the claim that thirteen terms of court can be held in Litchfeld county in place of four, with no increase of present expenses, ex- cept in judges salary!
 On Tuesday of last week the convention of milk producers called by the gentle men associated with Mir. Bedell, whose remarks at the New Milford meeting we reported few weeks since, met at New York. About hundred persons inter- nstnd were present amnno whnm mo- tice several from the Housatonic Valley. On motion of Mir: Hart of Cornwall committee of conference was appointed to arrange consolidation with theF Farmers Milk Company. The two companies fail ed to unite and Reform Milk. Associa- tion was organized with a capital stock of $4O0,OOO, stockholders being en- titled to send one can of milk for each share owned. The conduct of the man. agers of the new organization was severe ly criticised by MT. Harry Sedgwick. of Cornwall Hollow who had no confluence in their scheme. Another Milk Conven- eion is talked of. There is an earnest de- sire on the part of both producers and consumers to effect a reform, but there must be more harmony of action or little will be accomplished.
 A new edition of Dr. Henry's work, 'sDr. Oldham's Talk at Greystones," has been issued by E. P. Dutton X Co.,, 713 Broadway. The work can be procured at Wessells & Gates.
 Dr. Henry prefaces the new edition with dedication to Wm. Cullen Bryant, Esq.,, editor of the N. Y. Evening Post, who remarked of the former edition, "With regard to religious speculations, if we did not know the author to be an or thodox Churchman and learned in theolo- gy, we might perhaps think some of them rather enterprising." Quoting this sen tence, Dr. Henry says:
 The quaint expression made me laugh.
 But it was true. Doctor Oldham's mo- tons about good God and common sense in religion, were enterprising-n as new in themselves (which they were not), but as likely to damage the author in the estimation of his fellow Church men. In this view they were perhaps a hazardous venture. But the book as a whole was kindly received, and even those enterprising" speculations were some of them heartily approved, and none of them called forth any public reproduction that I am aware of Meanwhile, as Time has been making changes in everything so it has made orthodoxy among us Churchmen less harsh than it was. The Rev. Calvin Grim does not now so often do what I used to hear him do-doom the heather, at the rate of {" fifty thousnd day, to an eternity of hell torments for not believing in Saviour they had never heard of. The Rev. Evangelicus Finephrase does does not so much insist npon |" clear view of vital truth" as the indispensab able condi- tion of salvation. Nor is it so easy as it was to find that good woman who used to say " if she gave up her eternal punish ment she should feel she had no religion left; "nor her pious sister who thought eff she should lose her total depravity she should lose all her comfort" t
 In short, the benevolent hope of the final restoration of all men to goodness, and of the conversion even of the Evil One, is not as shocking to the minds Of good Churchmen as 1t once was; and the avowal of it does not put man out of the pale of their charitable thoughts, in the way it used to do.
 Connecticut Woman Suffragists held their State convention, last week. ]. The old officers were selected, and resolutions passed. One of the reports read declares that, "the indications are that Maine will gallantly outstrip all her sister States and cordially invite her women citizens to the use of their national and God-giv rights by a simple act of her legislature during