Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-04
The New York lecislature maeta to-dar.

\ AAAs@SAA %nA< 4k21 Ast4&E #ulcu w 8DOuJ HM 0 Tammany that yet aquirms; sit must pas effective registry and election laws; an, ! # nust electAa successor to U. 8. Senate Roscoe Conklin, whom we heartily hop may not be Roscoe Conklin himself. No because he is dishonest, but because he i as uncomfortable an honest man, Horac dfssley always excepted; as can be founi in that whole State. Now an editor ma, make himself very disagreeable to every body and still be success; but an Unit cd States Senator who is habitually 'smed ding and ddling,, is ( doNnright hui sance. With one Senator who is none tot honest; with another who is about as wis, sober. as Andrew Johnson, drunk; with it chief Republican journals fighting eacl other all the time, New York was onl, saved from going over irretrieyably to tn. Democracy by last falls political earth quake. Unless her incoming legislature develops more practical sense than he, Fentons and Conklins, her Tribunes and ner1lmes, we may expect al hundred day4 wrangle instead of a hun. dred days session. 't9A ss 's-4 .ssa .. |
 The following item is going the rounds of the State papers ...s, -.
 The English coach dog of the late Dan. lel Seymour, of Hartford, had been very devoted to his master, and manifest ed deep gEef at his death. He watched tne cofnn until it was taken away. and shen lay down m a corner, where he re- manned. refusing food for the space of ten days, when he died. i7 ssss1.s aas.4
 We have heard that old story so often. and with such variety of sentimental circumstances. that we can't believe it. Perhaps some of our readers can do so. and for their benefit we republish it.
 DRAWING IT MID. --1The Hartford Times commenced recent editorial in the fol- lowing style:2a sge8a s zaaSa' s
 awhen the disreputable peron who now degrades the office of President of the United States, and disgraces the Ameri- can people, was inaugurated, he took the following oath:'' -s-
 Is it at all surprising, when respectable papers allow themselves to descend to snch personalitias from mere po11utcal d1s- like. and without any foundation in fact that newspaper denunciation goes for so little? s 5aA se7s
 Among the twenty-one American schol- ars who are to assist in the revision of the translation of the Bible are the following from this State: e-s. asss5 gfesy ss 7za5sA 'aas
 Rev. Professor George E. Day, D. D., of New Haven. on the Old Testament: and on the New. Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, D. ID. LL. D., Professor James Hadley. IL. D., of New Haven, and Professor Matthew B. Riddle, D. D., of Hartford.
 It is expected that the revision will be completed in about seven years. The proof-sheets of the English revision will be sent to this country for examination as fast as completed. ..4 -
 New England criminal statistics show the following facts: About 80 per cent of our criminals have no education; from 30 to % per cent are without trades or capa- ble of any kind of skilled labor; about 75 per cent are of foreign birth or extraction, 80 to 90 per cent are of incorporate habits; and 95 per cent of juvenile offenders are the children of idle, ignorant, vicious and drunken parents. a
 
 It has come to light that the New York Ring thieves expect to escape punishment on the following technical ground For some time two Grand Juries have been in session in that city. One of them is Ring property and the other anti Ring. The latter cannot present" for offences, ex- cept in binding over cases, while the for mer is in session. Consequently the Ring set continue their sessions for the single purpose of preventing indictments against Tweed, & Go.
 The Tribune never tires of charging we'll meaning people with lying. It slashes tho pet of the Sunday School, just now enrolling her little best, in the following cold-blooded style:
 No matter how loudly little woman may sing sI want to be an angel" we may take 1t for granted that she really wants to be nothing of the kind @ s4
 Riggs whipping post is none to good for such an offender.
 A terrible accident occurred in Danbu- " last week. A little boy was sent to a carpenters shop for sawdust, which he got from under circular saw then ill mo. tion. Raising his head he brought it ir contact with the saw, which cut a terrible gash through the skull, causing almost in. stant death. @ak
 Dr. Robert J. Breckenridge, one of tho most noted iiyines and best thinkers of oul generation, died at his residence in Dan vile, Kentucky, last week. His patriotic course on the breaking out of the rebel lion went far towards keeping his native State from the folly of Secession.
 Connolly is out on bail at last Bar nard did the business for him, accepting Sl 900 bail in each of the 15 indictments pending against him. He figured as ( sort of Penitent Thief for time; ther came to be looked on as rather bogus Penitent; but, at any rate, he deserves his liberty as much as any of the Ring.
 Riggs, M. C., from Delaware. sustaini the waning regime of the pillory. .tht stocks, and the whipping-post, now con fined to that seven-by nine locality. It ii we'll Biggs speaks for no bigger State. The committee of the South Carolini legislature which has been examining in to the State debt, report it to be $22, 900, 900; awful figures for State not half a' able to pay such sum as Connecticut !