Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-17

l It IS somebody's fault that so much of the taacher's time, paid for by your money, is permitted to be lost. 1 Let me give you some of the best schools as to average attendance:
 Harris Plains, 83 per cent. Northfeld Centre, 82 @ l Milton, 80 f South Plains, 79 $ East Chestnut Hill, 76 '' Guernsey Hill, TAI 1 These are all for the winter school.
 This absentism goes into every school ill town.
 Would you like to hear the names of all the scholars in the whole town who are re- ported as present every day of the term. There are only nineteen of them all, out of five hundred and forty-four differ ent scholars registered.
 GUERNSEY HILL.-Burdett H. Morse. Frank Blakeslee, Emet Wakeman, Amelia | G. Morse
 FLUTEvMLE.-CalebM Morse. l MARsH-Lelia Morse.
 1 NoRTHFIELD.--Albert Barlow, J josephine Barlow, Willie Decker.
 l GILBERT DIsrBICT.-Asahel Griswold, Willie Bachman, Charles Bachman.
 MILTON. Booth, John Drisseoll, Jennie Hutchinson.
 l HARRIS PLAINs.-Eddie Plumb.
 DEPoT.-Nettie Clark.
 CHESTNUT HILL.-Jane Doyle, John Doyle.
 And of these who are reported as being neither absent nor tardy, are Amelia G. Morse and Jennie Hutchinson.
 I ask you to remember these two schol- ars with honorable distinctness.
 In the brief space allotted to the report of the school visitors there is no opportu- nity for any essay on the subject of schools or education. Such report can only point out in Q hurried manner, some de- fects. and make some suggestions in the hope that thereby our schools will be made better
 Our country seems to be entering on a l ''New departure" of peace and material prosperity. The turmoil of war has ceas- ed calls to special and heroic acts of patriotism no longer are made. The I
 wounds of long and bitter conflict are healed. The exultation of victory and the lamentation of defeat are alike silent. Except for the purpose of selfish and de. signing men, there would no longer be q Bloody chasm ;" but every where through the land would be quietness, in- dustry and peace, We are, indeed, al- most coming to realize what John Bright said of us. in his magnificent speech at Birmingham in 1862. ''I haye," sail he, ''another and far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be vision, but will cherish it. I see one vast confederation, stretching from the frozen North in un- broken line to the glowing South and from the wild pillows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pa ciic main and I see one people, and one language. and one law and one faith and over all that wide continent, the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.'' Such period, when wealth accumulat- es and when possibly men decay, has it's dangers, no less threatening than times of great public excitement dangers even more insidious and more to be dreaded, because stealthy and noiseless dangers which can only be averted by thoroughly ! implanting the seeds of intelligence and virtue in the minds of those who must confront them. The only agency for this work is your common schools How vital | it is then that your schools should be maintained and carried up to their highest condition of usefulness.
 See to it, then, my fellow citizens that the republic takes no detriment through your remissness.
 Rome, like Berlin, has greatly increased | in population since it became the new seat of Government, and the demand for house accommodation necessitates the erection of numerous blocks of houses and entire new streets. Comparatively little has in deed been yet accomplished, though very | much has been planned, and every day for some months past the newspapers of the Italian capital announce that the obstacles in the way of such and such buildings, or such streets, have been overcome and the works will be proceeded with at once Such statements are made with a view to satisfy the impatience of the public, but l large tracts of ground have been broken up, dwellings made, and new streets traced out. This great disturbance of the soil has brought unexpected results. Under the upper crust, which is often pierced to a great depth to lay the foudation of solid erections, interesting discoveries are made daily. The inspectors of excavations are at their wits ends to respond to the de- mands made upon them to iew the new treasure trove. Not sewer is dug nor a foundation laid without the workmen's s pick coming upon objects of art or the debris of monuments.