Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-31
August MonthIies, &c.

The Devil was sick, the Devil saint would be The Devil got we'll the Devil saint was he. August MonthIies, &c. OLD AND NEW contains Old and New; My Time and What I've Done with It. Skilled Labor, and the Distaste of Amer ican Boys for Trades; From Working. mans Standpoint; Low Tides; A Hope less Attachment; Republics in the Old World; On Duty; An August Sunrise Country Sights and Sounds; Philip Gil bert Hamerton; Scrope, or The Lost Lii brary, by Frederic B. Perkins; The Exam finer; Record of Progress; Fine Art; Music al Review.
 Roberts Brothers, Boston; $4 year.
 PETERS MUSICAL MONTHLY contains the following: Lost and Cast Away, Song and Chorus, by Hays; My Love Sleeps under the Daisies; Will he come Home tonight, Song; My Dear Old Mother, Song and Chorus; Hear the Postilien, Duet, by Apt; Bertie's Schotische, by Kinkel; An Instru- mental Piece; The Reapers' Dance; Col den Hours, Morceau de Salon.
 BLAcKwooDs for July contains The Parisians, VIII.; French Home Life; The Cure Santa Cruz and the Carlist War Newfoundland: The Four Ages; The Rate of Discount; Alexandre Dumas.
 Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,, N. Y.; $4 year.
 The late Charles Dickens is continuing Edwin Brood in Springfield paper per ''medium." The Courant gives an ex- tract which is really quite Droodish though not by any means like Dickens best vein. This performance suggests awful possibilities: MT. Grote might take it in- to his head to go right along with Greece; and Macaulay might cover a dozen years more of England with dozen volumes of history; Hannah More might infict "Coe- lebs in search of Another Wife" on anoth- CT generation of patient Sunday Scholars; Edwards and Hopkins might stiffen up modern Calvinism with few cheerful volumes of theology; and Horace Gree ley might think of more that he Knew about Farming. Spiritualism would go down rapidly if it came to that.
 Persons absent temporarily from home can have letters forwarded under the new law without payment further postage. But, in order to take advantage of this provision, notice must be given at the of flee. Letters once taken out by friends of the person to whom they are addressed cannot be remailed without payment of the usual postage.
 The swindler, Gordon Gordon, has been the occasion of more trouble. Persons in the employ of his New York bail under took to capture him in Canada, just north of Minnesota but instead of catching Gordon they were themselves captured and four of them have been committed with out bail on charge of kidnapping. This miserable pretender has certainly victim ized an uncommon number of very smart Yankees, first and last.
 A remarkable case of car robbery occur red on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., about slxty-ive miles west of Des Moins, Iowa. Bushwhackers attacked a train, on Tuesday of last week, throwing it from the track, killing the engineer, firing at the passengers. and robbing the Express Go. of about $20OO. They detain- ed the train but about ten minutes, riding away on horseback Some traces of the robbers has been found but they have not been arrested.
 THEORY AND PRAcr1cE.-Bailey of the Danbury News, who is theorist, ventur- ed the following guess:
 s'New apples are one dollar and ten cents a quart. Ten cents for the apples and dollar for @ doctor"
 Whereupon Ells of the Norwalk Gazette who is practical man. puts in the follow ing correction:
 ssThat price will do very we'll for the country, but here we call the apples eight cents and the doctor from g ,OO up."
 Sometime since son of the Rev. Chas. J. Peabody, minister in North Stam- ford, fired their church. He was ar rested and released on bail. His father died soon after, it is supposed of grief, and young Peabody, showing signs of in- sanity, was committed to the care of friends in Massachusetts. Last week, he escaped from custody, arrived in Stam. ford on q Wednesday evenings train, walked up to North Stamford, and pro ceeded to fire the ou-tbuildings of Dea Davenport and barn belonging to Wm. B Weed. The alarm was given and Pea body was caught by Alvin Weed in tho barnyard a mile southwest of Dea. Day exports. On the young incendiary's per. son were found matches and paper in dicating that he fired the buildings in re- venge for his fathers murder. as he con- sidered it. He was brought before jus tice and committed for trial before the Superior Court. The church he burnt was insured in the Mutual Ins. Co.,. ot this place, and the amount due on the pol icy has, we believe, been paid over to the North Stamford Society.