Litchfield enquirer., 1873-05-22

Fremont once, and voted for him for President of the United States, We gTieve to be compelled at last to the con- viotion that he is humbug and scoun- drel. A remarkable trial has just been concluded before the French courts, which duplicates him in swindle before whose infinite meanness Boss" Tweed's worst doings actually take on murky kind of responsibility. A corporation of which he was President, called the ''Trans-con tinental, Memphis and Pacific Railway" bought, whe1pthe rebellion was over, the franchise (and debts) of small railroad in Texas, and proceeded upon this little root to grow tremendous crop of bonds ia the French market; succeeding at last in doing so by aid of series of false pre- lenses, and by the bold forgery of Ger tifcate (signed by one ficticious person and one dead man) that the bonds were negotiable in the New York stock market. The French people were thus robbed of money to the amount of more than twen- ty and half millions of francs-almost i've millions of dollars; the credit of the concern be1ng kept up by taking Q part Of the proceeds of the bonds to pay the interest of the whole issue, until the bub- bEe burst. Fremont in person assisted in this imposition upon French capitalists, but took care to get away before the de- 9sO@e0eent, as did also some of his fellow rsscals. His brother r-in-law, the Baron Roilleau, Crampon, writer for the press who had used all the arts known to that trade i'll perfeeting the swindle, and Pou- Piael, another conspirator, were arrested, tE1sd and convicted-Boilleau to three years imprisonment; Fremont himself to Eys years imprisonment, and 5000 francs feSAA Okl 4los- ska1 see whether the General will keep oEss of the way of his punishment; or will agsaty of extradition reach this case? It Esaton,'' that he is dead before this dis ggss2.- Congregotionalist.
 %sae present unpromising season has csEssd an old settler down East to give aa account of the weather during the year fSI3, which was known as ''eighteen hun GfSa and starved to death." The season e} ssaat year was quite different from the grs5ant one thus far. January was so eassa even in New England that fires were sc2zDsly needed. February, though not es&e. was comparatively colder than the EESgzaus month. March is scarcely ever ;o vSgy pleasant month, and that i'll 1916 wsr iso exception to the rule. April be- gar warm, but ''for that time of year." LLa5 %S2ttcE piib OI Iuo HOnGn WAS less h. vc-co4s than tho earlier. In the latteR Past 9f May, flowers froze ill tho gardens, end corn fields had to be replanted. June wes the coldest ever known. Frost, ice and snow were common. Snow fell over q considerable part of New England to the depth of ten inches during single storm. Fires were needed on the Fourth of July, and on the fifth, ice formed to the thickness of window glass. Occasion aIIy a field of Indian corn in a favorable location was not killed, but generally it was all destroyed. In August snow fell in most of the Northern States, and in the Middle States ice formed an inch in thick ness. Most of the corn that escaped thus far, was cut up for fodder. The first two weeks in September furnished the warm. est weather of the season, but the last half of the month was cold. October was as cold as November usually is, s,while win ter set in early in the last named month. hSuch was the season known as the "Year without Summer"
 GAN OLD ESTABLISHED FIRM The firm of $. M. Pettengill & O. commenced their Advertising Agency,in the old Jour- nal building, No. 10 State Street, Boston, nearly quarter of a century ago( Februa- ry 1849), where their Agency is still To- cated, carrying on large and successful business. They established branch in New York City, May 1852, which has grown to be larger than the parent house, increasing steadily, year by year, until now 1t has the agency of nearly every newspaper in the United States and Brit ish Provinces, and does yearly business of hundreds of thousands of dollars. s. M. Pettengill & Go. have recently opened on of off ot OhncnVVt Philadelphia, where they are d oing sue. cessful, increasing business. They have done advertising exceeding ten millions of dollars since commencing business. The firm is favorably known not only throug- out this country, but in all parts of the world. They have established reputa- tion for honorable and fair dealings which any firm might envy, and but few have attained to. We congratulate them upon their success. We would recommend all who want advertising done in any part of the country to call upon them. They can point to hundreds of business men who have followed then advice, and trusted to their sagacity and availed themselves of their facilities, who have made fortunes for themselves, and they are daily assist ing others in the same path. "-BOston Journal, May 8th.
 Balmforth-avenue nan borrowed a dog, Thursday, to take with him on hunting trip. It was partridge dog, and partridges were what he contemplated. He led the dog home by string. It was windy day, and the dust must have got into the dogs eyes and made his vision uncertain, for he nistook eleven of neighbours hens for flock of partridges, and breaking away from the Balmforth- avenue man, he stepped over into the group, and for about five minutes there was sort of complication of dog, hens, feathers, sticks, stones, coat-tails, hoops, and profanity. At the end of i've min utes, five dead hens, sore dog, an amaz- ed man, two mad women, and pleasing assortment of sympathising children, held exclusive control of the battle-ground. The Balmforth- avenue man did not go hunting for partridges the next day. He attended 8 session of the neighbors con- vened to set price on five dead hens, and having found that It was S6, 30, he paid it like a man, and held the dog in the gate, and kicked him to his entire sat isfaction, and then let him go.-DGnbu- ry Nc1cs
 4 very extraordinary child has died re- gently i'll Memphis. She was only two months old, and yet we are told that she ''rose as Q star and beamed lucently with meteoric resplcndency along the horizon of her parents, lighting their pathway with the sheen of hope" She was also ca lovely gem of beauty gleaming bright ly in their casket of jewels, land has had her earthly luster eelipsed to corruscate the renewed effulgence in the spirit world" Moreover, she was gentle rosebud, whose vernal freshness impreg- hated her parental hearts with it's fra grance of love blooming sweetly in the
 hoquet of flowers that garlanded their happiness" but has ''by the blighting
 upas of disease faded away to bloom with
 more brilliant hnes in that land of per
 ennial bliss to which little children by di-
 vine behest are welcomed For an in-
 fant of it's age, this is hard to beat.