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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN,

CuJa.-The treaty about the Virginius has been confirmed, and that vessel has been taken to Bahia Honda where vessel and crew were to be delivered to the U. s. steamer Dispatch, on Tuesday of this week. There was some excitement and rioting in Havana, but all Is now quiet.
 France. Bazaine was con- demned to death by the court martial, and President McMahon has commuted the sentence to twenty years 'seclusion. D The Republicans carried all the cleo tions that took place, Sunday.
 Spdin.-The bombardment of Carriage na has been renewed, and the recognition of the republic by foreign powers will probably follow the fall of the city.
 DOMESTIC.
 Profs Agassiz died at Cambridge, Mass, on Monday night, of paralysis.
 A centennial tea party was held at Fan euil Hall, Boston, Monday night.
 Rev. Mir. Cheney has been consecrated a bishop.
 Over 20 persons have been killed by re- cent Indian raids in Texas.
 The N. '. Cheap Transportation Con- pany favor the construction of a National Freight railroad
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Senator Matt Carpenter has been re- elected President pro tenn, of the Senate. The Tribune still insists that he was turned out out Long Branch hotel for bringing there woman of bad character. On the other hand, it is stated that the wo- man in question was lady, put in MT. Carpenters charge by her husband. The room clerk of the hotel states that they were sent away merely because the hotel was full. The Tribune replies by show ing from the hotel books that a large number of guests were given rooms after Mir. Carpenter was sent away and before any other train arrived. The Times re- plies that the people so accommodated had engaged their rooms in. advance. D,. Bliss and another resident of Washing ton, publish statements to the effect that the Tribune reporter who started the sto- " confessed to them that he did it to pay of Senator Carpenter for having him im- prisoned by the Senate for contempt. some time since. We cannot but consider, therefore, that the Tribune's case has broken down. Nevertheless we judge. from the tone of the discussion, that NTr. Carpenters character is such that people who knew him were at first inclined to believe the charge.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

The House has passed & resolution of adjournment from December 19 to Janua- " 6.
 The Senate committee on elections ia equally divided on the Pinchbeck case and the question will have to be settled in open Senate.
 biu has been reported in the House for the repeal of the Bankrupt law.
 4 resolution passed the House request ing a rigid revision of the estimates on the part of the departments.
 The Western and Southern members held a caucus Saturday night about cheap transportation
 The Secretary of War charges Gen. Howard with large dedication in the Freedmen's Bureau accounts.
 The s 900, 900 naval appropriation bill passed the House, Friday.
 Sec. Richardson recommends the resto- ration of the tea aud coffee and other taxes.
 Over 800 bills have been presented in the House.
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Ti,e waes,lngton lectures

E X Anything that concerns the moral and intellectual culture of the community. must be of interest to the readers of the
 Enquirer. No apology is needed, there fore, for again calling attention 10 this
 subject. onr beginning was unfortunate.
 Gen. Banks stopped in New York to take
 Cuba, and forgot us entirely. His heart
 was not here. Ne are so small n people
 that he does not even take the trouble to
 express his regret for our disappoint- ment.
 Mrs. Foss came at eight o'clock, when the audience had waited an hour; but she
 was heardFwith very great, if not unmixed satisfaction. She is powerful and versa tile reader, and very effective actor.
 NIT. Whipple also came late; but hehad a good audience. He gave us a lecture full of sound views. acute criticiss ae- 1 cassional flashes of wit. and abounding iu those felicities of expression which are familiar to all who read his books. On the 18th inst Rev. ". H. Milburn will deliver his lecture, 'sWhat a Blind Man Saw in England" We expect him OF the early train.
 Jan 2d, 1874, Dr. J. G. Holland will lecture on Elements of Personal Power. " Last winter, Dr. Hollands lecture was the event of the coarse. The house was full, and all were delighted. We antici- pate fuller house and higher delight at his next lecture. Dr. H. will certainly come on the noon train, and can easily begin at o'clock. We hope the railroad officials will take some special notics~of this occasion, and that our friends at a distance will remember the daie.
 The fifth lecture of the Course will be delivered (time not yet fxed) by Prof. Vim. D. Whitney, of Yale College. We take special pleasure in thus announcing lecture by the most learned Linguist and Philologist in America. The subject (to be soon announced) will be connected with those profound studies that have won him great name among the learned of both hemispheres. Perhaps I ought to add for those who wish to be amused, that his wit is as keen and brilliant as his learning is deep and wide.
 The last lecture of the Course will be delivered (time not fixed) by Col, ~E&TS Boudinot of the Cherokee Nation. Col. Boudinot is the youngest son of Elias Boudinot. whose marriage in Cornwall, Conn.,, where he was educated, made such an excitement through the country, some forty-eight years ago. Col. B. is natur- al orator, a gentleman of culture and re- finement, a delightful singer, statesman of enlarged views, and high ambition. He will speak upon the new aspects of the Indian Question.
 And now, Mir. Editor. I submit that this Course of Lectures is worthy the -at- tention Of your readers, worthy the atten- dance of our friends in adjoining towns, and honorable to the little community of Judea. That they may be we'll attended, and especially by those living in towns not yet able to sustain such course. IS the hope of Yours,
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 GOSHEN enjoyed the first hop of the sea- son at Beach's Hall on the evening of Thanksgiving day. Mr T. s. GoId's lee- ture upons his Western trip was given in the church on Wednesday evening last. His audience was greatly interested. It is to be regretted that the evening was so unpleasant. Many were disappointed who expected to attend -ATr. Edward Norton's two lectures upon ''A trip to Vi enna, ,' were very fne Last week he re- peated them in West Cornwall. MT. Enos Pratt has returned from his long trip West, and has been invited by the Sunday school to give an account of his travels at no distant day.-The winter term of the Academy commenced Monday with a fair attendance .-Rumor was quite correct; MT. Chester Riley and Miss Lizzie Hurl- burt were married on Thursday last. They are still absent on their wedding trip-Neers.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
Earm and stock Items.

Messrs. P P. Cowles and Sons of Nor fork, bought four years ago Holstein or Dutch bull of the Chenery stock, with view of testing for themselves the milk ing and other qualities of a cross between this and other breeds of Cattle. The = suit is thus far satisfactory. The half
 blood heifers are Of good size, of good constitution handsome, in form and ap- pearance and promising as milkers, though not yet sufficiently mature determine their comparative value in this last respect.
 They are late in coming into milk, but few having calves before three years old
 That the breed is an old and we'll estab- Iished one is proved by the transmission of it's peculiar colors (black and white) to the crosses with other breeds. It is no- ticeable result of the cross, that though the Dutch cattle are large (the COWS while in milk often weighing 1,200 pounds or more) the half-bloods are of medium size. and not coarse as IS apt to be true of the short-horn cross. This enterprise of the Messrs. Cowley introducing into our coun- ty for trial the most esteemed dairy stock on the continent of Europe, is of a very useful character and entities them to great credit, which in such cases is too rarely given and the benefit derived too ] rarely acknowledged.
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patton of people who have little else to do whether male or femaIe-only the idle male usual addirts himself to few down right vices by way of variety. Give wo- man plenty of real work .and thorough culture and shewaI never have leisure or inclination to become gossip.
 When the editor of the Sentinel under takes. in conclusion, to tell woman what the Creator intended her life to be, we venture tosuggsst that he is . triae out side the limits of Ais sphere.
 Congress and tho Salary ..Appro- priation."
 The House of Representatives spent several days last week in discussion of the bills for repeal of the Salary law of the last Congress. and finally recommitted the bill with instructions for making it as complete reversal of former action as the constitution will allow. The Presi- dents salary cannot be touched and the increased paysof the U. s. judges was really just, but the pay of Congressman will fall back to the old figure, there to re- main, we imagine, for one generation at least. The debase had it's serious feature of interest and it's comic feature of inter- est. The former was the first speech of Alexander H. Stephens, late vice presi- dent of the Confederacy, who made pow erful argument ;n favor of retention of the present rate of salary, speaking with all the force and largeness of view that have long made him to be regarded as the greatest thinker the South has produced since the death of John c. Calhoun.
 The comic feature of the debate was the badgering of Mir. Lawrence of Ohio, who made ferocious onslaught on the Grab, in the usual high toned style of the Congressman when he feels sure he is de- nouncing something it is perfectly safe to denounce. Mir. Lawrence made a slight blunder, however in forgetting that though he was not member of the last House he had, when a member ill 1866, taken his back pay with the rest upon the increase of salaries, that year. His record was brought up against him, and portrait of him in public document, and portrait of ram named after him in another pub- lie document, were displayed Tn the course of the debate. He was leased with ques- tions and badgered by subsequent speak CTS, till he became really pitiable object. In fact the House treated him very much as school boys treat one of their number who peaches" on the rest, and Mir. Law renee learned to his sorrow that though the Salary repeal was a popular measure out of the House it was very bitter pill for those within it. The Palladium adapts the last stanza of John Gilpin to his case as follows:
 Now let us pray, long live Back-pav,
 And Lawrence, long live he;
 And when he next doth spout speech.
 May we be there to see
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
JULIA A. TREAT
ORDER OF NOTICE

STILES F. TREAT.
 State of Connecticut County of Litchfeld, sa I4itchfeld, December Sd, 1873
 Upon the petition of the said Julia A. Trsa; praying forreasons therein set forth, for 2 Gi rorce from the said Stiles E. Treat, as by her petition brought to the Superior Court to be holden at Litchfield, within and for Litchfeld County, on the 4th Tuesday of January, A. D 1874.
 It appearing to, and being found by the sub scrhng authority, that the said respondent is re- siding in parts unknown to the petitioner, and Is absent from the State.
 Therefore, Ordered, That notice of the pen. dency of said petition be given the said respon- dent, by the petitioner causing this order of no tice to be published in the Litehfield Enquirer newspaper published in Litchfeld, in said Coun- ty, three weeks successively commencing on or before the 18th day of December, A. D. 1873
 36 St VIM. L. RANSOM, C2e,k Of tue Superior Court for Llchfeld Cola!ty
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ALFRED ELLIOT
ORDER OF NOTICE
~AA-E hA@D AAA-Ao4,
 CS. POLLY A. ELLIOTT.

State of Connecticut, County of Litehaeld. a.. Litchtield, December Sd, 1873
 Upon the petition of the said Alfred Elliott praying for reasons therein set forth for a di vorce from the said Polly A. Elliot, as by his petition brought to the Superior Court to bs holden at Litchfeld, within and for Litchfsld County, on the 4th Tuesday of January A. It appearing to, and being found by the sub scribiag authority, that the said respondent is residing ill parts unknown to the petitioner and is absent from this State
 Therefore, Ordered, That notice of the pen dency of said petition be given the said respon- dent, by the petitioner causing this order of no tice to published in the Litchfield Enquire, q newspaper dublished in Litchield, in said COuD- ty, three times successively, commencing on or before the 18th day of December, A. D. 1873
 36 St VIM. l.. RANSOM, Clerl Of the Satterior Court for Litchteld Counfy
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coshen--Mo f2a.

Mr. Frederick C. Crandal1, son of Mr. Geo G. Crandall. member of the firm of Daley & Crandall, has been in the mer- camille business in Terryyille several years. He was taken sick last Sept, and brought to Goshen, and is now in the last stages of consumption HN
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
Use. asenne's Pain-IxiIIing
 Magic oi.
ssH Work8 Like .. (aa...,

Every person will find il for their interest a. wall well as for their comfort to use RAnnas sJaai c for Sore Throat Catarrh Ear Ache, Neuralgia Col i the Head, Stoppage or Strlcture in the Nasal Mem the joints, Sprains, Freezes Burns, Colc and a sim liar complaints It Does not lose its virtues hy ace m exposure. 1t is the best and ssfest the surest and cheapest cure for pain in market Every family should keep it in the house to in of accident or sud quest. Be sure and buy Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil. 'iIt works like charm"
 VIM. RENNE X SONS, Pittsfield, Mass
 Sold by all Druggists in Litchfield County; Buell. & Wheeler, wholesale agents. Geo C. Goodwin < Co. Boston. Agents. 20tf.
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MInsted.

The Winsted Plating Shop took fire Sunday morning, and was burnt down. The fire is said to have caught from the engine. The loss is about SIS, 900; insu- rance s6, 900.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
January Monthlies &c

PETERsoN's s contains: 4 Lost Love: The Trailing Arbutus; Mammals Old Beau; Felicia; Kate's Wedding Gift; The Mar riage Certificate; A Rough Remedy; En- gravings-" Morning. Mamma and Trailing Arbutus;" Fashion Plate, Mu- sic. Poetry, Short Articles. &c.
 Charles J. Peterson. Philadelphia; g year. See Enq. clubbing rates. E.
 GoDEY's LADY's Book conta IS: The Brown Opal; Marking and Marring; Eli ott's Knob, by Sunrise; Noah's New Year; His Reward; The Clothes We Wear; Aunt Mehitable's Winter in Washington; Col ored Engraving Arctic Winter Fash ion Plate. Patterns. Music, Short Articles, Poetry, &c. :"
 Louis A. Godey. Philadelphia; g a year. See Enq. clubbing rates.
 ST. NICHOLAS AND OUR YoUNa FoLKs, combined and beautifully illustrated, con tains: Christmas Angels; The Elves Gift; What Might have been Expected; Pete; How Meg Changed her Mind; Acting Cha rade; A Garret Adventure; Is the World Round; The Jolly Harper Man; What the Christ-Child Brought; The Boy who Worked; Fast Friends; Nimpo's Trouble. Engraving -'eThe Princes in the Tower.' ; Short Articles, Poetry, Refuses, &c. Scribner $ Co.,, New York; s3 year. See Enq. clubbing rates
 B1AcKwooD's for November contains The Parisians; Temper; The Missing Bills. An Unsolved Mystery; New Books; De Mortuis; Poems by ". ". s. The Liberal Party and National Education. Leonard Scott Publishing Go. New York; $4 a year. a.9 @ AvILUDE, or The Game of Birds is play ed with pack of 64 cards containing pie lures and descriptions of four prominent specimens each of eight different groups of birds. designed to interest children and l instruct them at the same time. s.sAviary' is another game played with the same cards The game is one of considerable interest aside from the benefit to be de. rived from it. We do not undertake to say that achild will become both good euchre player and thorough ornithologist from learning this game, but he will at least geI some useful ideas about one branch of nat. ural history, while he is having good deal of fun with the game. ea l The cards with instructions can be pro. cured of West & Lee, Worcester, Mass, price, 75 cts. 9s7sg @
 l Attention is called to the column adyer. tisement of J. B. Hopkins. of Thomaston --sPanic Sale." Eiffass I sses @
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EnouuRER cLusslnc RATES.

o- LazAazal Cssnty subscribers may not of- tea hs ah1s ts saks advantage of the low rates sGxa1 large elaha hv most magazines and peri e&ezAA F0< tksEr eszrsnisncs and as an extra G31esz@aG to nsw e01nty subscribers we win sal4 sAe fsauwing periodicals to county subscrib- era h eoz@sczzsa viEh the ExoUrRxR at the Fxsssa zMmea>
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

Business is reported picking up" throughout the state. 4 contributor of the N. Y. Times says that the manufacturers have been taking advantage of the panic to scare their workmen into accepting re- duced wages.
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wnhFnouirer.

Der.
 Subscribers who are in arrears must make up arrsArges before taking advantage of the forego- jag propositions; and subscribers who are in aavanse may deduct the amount their subscrip- ttona are in advance.
 Money should be sen. by post-ofice order, cheek or registered letter, if possible. If remit taEcss are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loaa before the letter reaches us, but will take all Tisks of remittance to the clubbing peri Odieal. Receipt will be returned in the next paper.
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Ex-Judge Nelson, late of the U. s. Su- Prems Court, died at his residence in COCperstOwn. N. r., on Saturday last. He was an old Democrat and was appoint cd to the Supreme bench in 1S45, He was one of the abiest iurists the country has eyer produced.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

TEe corner stone of the great bridge over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, is to he laid to-day Wednesday,. Various governors and inferior officials are to be present.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

The Berkshire Courier speaks as follows of the woman suffrage movement in Mas- saehusetts:
 The women are going to petition the next legislature for the right of suffrage and the privilege of holding State, coun- ty, town and municipal offices. The wo- men of Massachusetts, are going to perse- vere in the request till it is granted.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

The Winsted Herald hears that Julius Cesar is dead. Correct; but not so its hattering announcement of the concert of the Litchfield Musical Club in Wash in0toD
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

It is understood that the bondsmen of A. H. Hine, Esq, late cashier of the An- sonia National Bank, have made settle ment with the bank authorities which is satisfactory to both parties, their bonds men agreeing to pay 75 cents on the dol. lar of the full amount of the bond.-Der- by Transcript.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

Mfr. Turrill has resigned the position of Treasurer of the New Milford Savings Bank, and is succeeded by Mir. Charles Randall
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Warren.

Mrs. Cynthia Gilman died at an ad- vanced age, on Friday last, while on a visit at her daughters in Wolcottyille. Her remains were brought to this place for interment on Monday.
 ---Matters are progressing regarding the new road. Messrs. Strong and Bee man. selectman. have issued proposals to contractors for its construction. They meet to receive these proposals at the residence If Mfr Beeman on Monday of next week.
 The LAKEyILLR Lyeeum Association had q musical entertainment from the Tremaine Opera Troupe.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

ME. L. F. Scott writes to the American regnding Mr. N. P. Whipple's lecture on 'IOafing and Laboring." recently deliv- sd at Washington in the following enthu- siazaic terms:
 Imnss say that is one of the very best lectures that have heard. would hard sy expect the great orator, Wendell Phil lips. have been to Waterbury to hear Mr. Cough twice, MT. Phillips twice, and NE. Beeeher once, and would gladly go again to Waterbury. 15 miles, to hear the same lecture from Mr. Whipple. It was one of the finest, most truthful and logi- cal of lectures-not speaking with low wit bat xaeh that all good, sensible people could not help but admire.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

By the death of Professor Agassiz the country loses its most distinguished man 0G science. and Harvard one of its best instructors. He was born in Switzerland in ls9T and came to the United States in 1sls. He was strenuous opponent of shs DevelOPenent theory and was intend ng to publish series of articles in the Atlantic on that subject. He held, if we are not mistaken, that the different races of nan were distinct creations.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18
Deaths

In this village, Dec. 18th, Miss Sarah Lewis Mclaughlin. Funeral service at 2 P. M on Thursday.
 At South Norfolk, Dec 1, Seth G. Brown, aged 67 years.
 In Cornwall, Dec. ,, Benj r. Gold, aged 81.
 In Litchfeld, Dec 9th, Ethan O.. Bar Der, aged 64.
 in Woodbury, Nov. 2s, Capt. David c, Bacon, aged 84 yeares.
 At Warren, Dec. 8th, Miss Lucinda Strong, aged 79.
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NEW ADVERTIsEME:NTS.
NOTICE.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,

E LIICHFiELD. CONN. lS Dec. 1oI3. T NHE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders Of
 j. this Bank, wall te held at their Banking House, on Tuesday, 18th January 1874 at II 0 clock A. NJ. for the election of Directors. and transaction of any other business proper to La done at said meeting.
 37 H. R. corr, Cashier
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

The passage by the House, last week, of . General Amnesty bills is a statesman like measure. Experience has proved the wisdom of the liberal course pursued by the government of the United States to- wards the defeated Confelerates. Scarce ly an instance will be found in history of a rebellion put down so thoroughly as that of the South, and one reason we believe to be that there have been no exiled Southern leaders around whom those whO desired renewal of rebellion could center. Had foreign precedent been followed, a portion of the Southern leaders would have been executed; the rest. banished. Those executed would have been regarded as the martyrs of the old struggle; those exiled, as the natural leaders of renewed struggle Lee, on Ais parole of honor, president of Virgin ia eollegss was harmless. Lee. an exile. voala have been a constant source oi danger b the republic. Jefferson Davis. while ia Fortress Monroe, was the sub. lecs cf msch general interest. No soone, w1s hs released than he dropped into ob Exion- Had there been a war with Spain slmnst a many old Confederates as olt FsaeE.ls woald have taken hand in it WhO ssars anything from the return oi Alaxanaer H Stephens to the House Q Rapaessntaaivsze He is simply regarded wikh curiosity as relic of the past. ", hsliare thnk ks designs no harm; and. i hs aSd dszign it he could accomplish naaAisg- The humanity and liberality o tho Anezican treatment of fallen insur. salsz ia one of the brightest features oi e1r hlz1ssy. ana one that proves th. afralgA nf demosrntic institutions nor. sSHelaaxslE svan han our sucos-. !, azuaA &o Enrqpaan g1rsrnnaent haa eve, tslA aeRung ansaah to show the lsnie6c, ozn hns d0ne with perfect safety.