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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-17

MT. Almarine Masters, who is in his Ninetieth year, climbed into his cherry tree, last week, and picked his cherries.
 Rev. MT. Hoyt, of Sherman, preach ed on the Sabbath in the Congregational house of worship, and the pastor Rev. D. B. Jones, officiated for him in Sherman.
 Repairs are in progress on the Con- gregational church in this place, and un til finished they hold but one preaching service on the Sabbath.
 - Sitting at our dinner table, while our Host was serving up the roast beef, some one related the following for fact Sher- man Hartwell, of Washington, had the misfortune, on Thursday last, to cut a leg off from one of pair of oxen with which he was moving. He then butchered it and supplied the meat markets of both Washington and Roxbury. Result: the question of the cook, "What ails this beef ?" was solved.
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*This name may be Halsey.

The dead lock on judges continued to the end, so that three vacancies on the Superior Court bench will occur during the coming year. We regret to believe that the responsibility for this result rests with the Republicans of the House. Find ing that the adherence by the House to Messrs. Hitchcock and Bradley would make an election impossible, those gentle men very creditably sent in letters with drawing their names, and the Democrats proceeded in caucus to nominate Messrs. Martin and Warner in their places. Mir. Treat, the Republican caucus nominee, also sent in letter withdrawing his name, but the Republicans refused to make another nomination. This of course made it i'm possible for the bolting Republican Sena- toIs to accept the names substituted by the Democrats without breaking faith with Messrs. Wheeler, Stoddard, and the rest of the DenOcratic Senators who had joined them in opposing the original eau GUS nominations. It seems to us that MT. Treat should hayeresigned positively, that the Republicans should have nomi- mated good man in his place, and then the business in our courts would not have suffered as it mast now do after the re- tirement of Judges Minor and Seymour.
 WARREN reports mad dog lnow dead) to the Herald.
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Waterbury.-A. P. Bradstreet is now in law office in Waterbury The rest of the college bred men work at hay as usual this season for MT. J. Bradstreet.
 SALISBURY Episcopalians have got q new bell weighing about 2OO0 1bs.-Mr. Wm. Miles had a horse,killed by light ming in the storm of the sd.-A little ne gro boy broke into the depot to steal pea nuts on the morning of the 9th. He was caught and taken to the Town House.
 At CANAAN, Tuesday morning of last week, thief stole some valuables from the vest pocket of Mr. John Robinson. MT. Adams gardener. Robinson follow ed the fellow to East Canaan where he caught him. He was sentenced to thirty days in jail.
 The FALLS VILLAGE Catholic church and the residence of Dr. Maltbie were struck by lightning on the 3d. The church was fired but reasonable exertion saved it. -The Fourth was celebrated at the re- pair shops by a clam bake and festival. Eleven bushels of clans and other eata- bles in proportion were disposed of. A dance was enjoyed by seventy couples in the machine shop. It was voted the most successful entertainment ever given in that locality, and repetition was demand ed, next year.
 The NEW MILFORD Journal reports a large fire on Mount Schagaticoke. The selectmen have been instructed by the town to collect from it's Collector, a balance of about $12, ,OOO in arrears. W. F. Bonnet is taking few weeks trip to Saratoga and Lake George ball is | reviving, and a game Is talked of with New Preston.-Charles Booth was a good dealhurt on the Fourth by the explosion of l crackers in milk can which blew the lid off cutting him badly in the forehead and breaking his nose.
 Just below CORNWALL BRIDGE on the 7th, says the Berkshire Courier, several OOSGIuCGlOuS WCAO OA1oCofSEeC OH Lno LraCk. The engine actually struck rock, and, little further north, tie placed on the track; happily throwing them off without doing serious damage. Four men were seen engaged in the work but escaped in to the woods. The Salisbury News says man has been arrested on suspicion. WEST CORNWALL enjoyed a pleasan picnic on the Fourth at Cream Hill. Wm Hoag lost finger; Michael had two toe mashed; and John Sileska got a blacl eye, on the same Glorious Day.-G. c Harrison's new house is rapidly approach ing completion.-Thefo foundry is complet ed and ready for business.-Deacon GolC is supplying the church at North Corn wall.-244O cans of milk were shippe' from this station in June.
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COUNTY ITEMS.

A BETHLEHEM Episcopalian opposes the proposed Union church, in the American.
 At ToRR1NGFoRD, on the 2d inst, a barn belonging to MT. Roderick Bissell was struck by lightning and burned down. Loss, $9OO; insured for $35O.
 At WoLcoTTvILLE, on the Fourth, says the Index, son of c. McNeil had his eyes burnt badly, but not so as to lose the use of them.-The Coe Brass Go. are putting in 75 horse power engine.-J. F. Calhoun met with painful accident on the 9th inst, by falling down stairs backwards about five feet and striking on the back ofshis head
 WINCHESTER CENTRE church was in- creased seven, by profession, Sunday be- fore last.
 NORFOLK gives S350 for three acres of land taken from Dr. Stevens for enlarging the Centre Seminary.
 CORNWALL reports to the News fine display of fireworks given on the evening of the Fourth, by J. c. Calhoun.-The Band of Hope have voted tobacco grow CTS in league with the devil-and a very ungrateful old gentlemen he certainly IS, if he has any sort of control of the wealth CT.
 RoxBURy reports to the Journal that the Shepaug ears are overloaded with passen- gers Maggie Mitchell, the renowned actress, has been staying in town few days and intends returning in August.
 WASHINGTON has sent out 2:40 horse, sold Rev. ". H. H. Murray by c. F. Woodruff. He is half brother to Wara- maug Chief, owned by Dr. B. P. Lyman of New Preston.
 The THoaAsToN Express is new five column paper recently started in that place. Its locals are numerous and spicy. A new water-wheel is being built at Weodward's tannery -The wooden side walk from the clock shop several hun dred feet to the depot is great improve Amos Wheeler, recently of Wolcottville, is now with Hopkins of this place.-J. D. Carter, of the Plume & At- wood Mfg. Co., is away on furlough, recruiting his health.-D. s. Plume has sold to Edson Thomas, and bought in
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over to next winter But let US hope for the best and prepare for the worst
 Edward Hickox readily passed the examination at Yale, where over seventy applicants were candidates, and some for ty rejected.
 Prof. Raymond, President of Vassar College, has been spending wdays in town, guest of Mr. Gunn's, where he has son at school.
 Our East-street man says that if we have such weather for about two years, we shall get fore-taste of heaven, for the minister told him that III the new heavens and earth, there shall be no more sea.
 J. Clark lost horse recently, by it's stumbling over a cobble stone in the highway and breaking its leg. Are our road surveyors sharp enough in re- quiring road repairers to throw out the loose stones? To tumble into the road scrapers full of stone and dirt is but the rough beginning. Anyone with sufficient strength can do that. But to level down the earth smoothly and evenly, throwing out all the stone, is trade we judge from the usual state of the roads is not learn ed yet to perfection. Many a rough road by having the loose stone thrown out, would be in fair. condition for travel. A question of law might be raised; is a town liable for damage under the above circumstances, where horse is not an inveterate stambler?
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Washington.

The Sabbath school has copy of Cole man & Osborn's map of Palestine; size, 6 feet by 9 feet, costing $15. It was ob- tained of W. H. Sargent, Treasurer of the Congregational Publishing House, Boston. There is also a Guide, book of 136 pages accompanying it, published by C., Garrigues, Philadelphia. It is the most complete and reliable map of the kind yet issued. With a iointed pole, twelve feet high, inserted into four-leg- ged base, it iseasily raised by means of a little hook at the top of the hole in front of the pulpit, where it can be studied by the school. By means of the Guide any Superintendent, or teacher, can show the place mentioned in given lesson, tell its history and everything of importance connected with it. We take pleasure in calling the attention of Sunday schools in the County to this map. It Is valuable gift for any benevolent person to make to school. We say to every school, get one, in some wayIs 5aa ssso7 1oIDlq
 The drouth at this writing has tue form of great calamity. But yefy little rain has fallen since April. Oats are spoiled, and grass nearly ruined. Dry upland, ,and sandy intervale meadows had not recov- cred from the effects of the drouthof three years ago. Newly stocked pieces are kill ed, and grass generally is not enc third of last years growth. It would seem to be the wisest course to save at once all there is left; many pieces have not oyer half that there was two weeks ago. H has dried up. Upland pastures are Drowned as if painted by November frosts. But little tobacco has been set out, aa9 that attended by watery labor; forty to fifty barrels being required to set aa acre, and as many more to make 1t stay up. Corn looks unusually we'll. though very late in planting. Fruit, noa est. Rocky pas ture lots are brown as November can make them. The landsmournefh and the inhabitants go about looking into each others faces end asking, sscan you tell when we shall eyer have any xaina', Of course everybody has done everything
 that they ever did do. when it rained at the time or soon after the doing. Some have thought of sending a deputation to the Country Miller. Some have prayed, and some have done otherwise. Every mans southeast eye is crossed by look ing across his nose into the north,west for signs of rain. Meanwhile the sun
 laughs down hotter smiles than ever pas sionate lover shot at the rosy cheeks and dewy lips of his sweetheart. It is a
 dreary prospect for farmers, and with the high rates of interest money, this year.
 Hia le distressing to many. The unpre- cedented hard apf Ieen leng winter used up fodder, which otherwise Wouid have gore
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Coshen--Mo. lOl.
Our farmers have commenced having.

Our farmers have commenced having.
 We notice the arrival of MT. < Mrs. Wm. Stoddard of Brooklyn, and MT. Charles Sewall, of New York.
 MT. Edward Norton, after his visit at Rome, passed through the tunnel under Mount Cenis, sezen and a half miles in length, spent much time at Lakes Geneva and Lucerne, visited village near Gene va, where the whole population, 1G, GOO, are engaged in the manufacture of s0atch- es, ascended Mount Rigi, made a long visit at Paris, was in London when last heard from, on h1s way to Scotland, and is now, doubtless, on one of the Anchor Line of Steamships, on his way home.
 H. N.
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LITCHFlELD.

MT. s. B. Cheney is 8 public benefac- factor. One day last week some picture pedlars called at his house in his ab- sence and tried to sell some pictures to his sister. She refused to buy unless the purchase was sanctioned by her brother. In short time the fellows came back, pretended they had seen Cheney and that he consented to their proposition and di- rected her to pay them 8 for one of their bogus chromos, which she did. In point of fact they had not seen him at all. I'm mediately on his return home Cheney got out process against the men for obtaining goods on false pretences, chased them to Wolcottville and thence to Thomaston, where he caught them. On Friday morn ing they were tried before Justice Mea- foy. One of them, John Magrath, was convicted, and the other acquitted. The culprit paid over S26.21 fine and costs, and departed sadder and wiser pedlar. es1s
 The inside painting and frescoing of the new church is finished, the seats and other fixtures have been put in position, and to-day Wednesday, they are hang
 ing the bell. The coloring is bright, the decorations tasteful, and the seats, made of ash trimmed with black walnut, are very pretty indeed. Above all they are wide enough apart to allow ample room for the long -geared christians who grow in these mountain regions, and who often find themselves much cramped in the modern church "slip." tgs af aa.
 In justice to those who conduct the Service of Song in our religious meetings, on semi-torrid evenings, the chapel win dows ought either to be all raised, or to be all shut down. A leading basso sitting by single open window may give forth what is merely cheerful bass for those within, but which seems rather reckless solo to almost as many hearers without.
 MT. T. s. Sedgwick lost a pretty and intelligent black and tan terrier, last week
 The poor fellow had two legs taken off by moving machine. et4 ,E,r--
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NEW PRESTON InlY IA 1273

MIR. EDITOR On Saturday afternoon the 18th inst, the Upson Seminary base ball nine visited Washington for the pur- pose of meeting the Gunnery nine for the third time, and they having lost the two previous games, it was expected that the home club would again be victorious, but it was not so; as can be seen by the ac companying score:
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GOSHEN. ,Tuly n

O'NoAAA~-f, oUi
 MR. EDITOR: It is written in history, and an inscription upon the monument to the memory of Ethan Allen at Burlington, Vermont, also informs us, that he was ''Born in Litchfeld, Ct 4 statue of him, seulptured in Italy, has recently been placed in position, on the monument over his grave. The inauguration cere monies, July 4th, were the most imposing that have ever occurred in Vermont. The whole State was represented by their prominent men, and other States by emi- nent citizens An invitation sent to the authorities of Litchfeld, Ct, from Yer mont, received no reply, and I could not learn that, with the exception of the wri- ter, any citizen of Connecticut appeared in the large civic and military parade in honor of the memory of Ethan Allen.
 Two of the four cannon surrendered to Gen. Stark at Bennington, by Colonel Baum, commander of five hundred picked Hessians, were i'll the procession, under charge of a detachment dressed in Conti- mental uniforms. They bear the inscrip- tion of ancient date, ''Taken from the Germans at Bennington, August Is 1777. D The sword worn by Colonel Baum, or Colonel Psifter, leader of the Tories and one hundred Indians, ill tie same battle. and other revolutionary relics were on ex- hibition. Captain Heman Allen, of Sails bury, Conn.,, the next brother younger than Ethan Allen, was so overcome by heat and extraordinary exertion at this battle that he died soon afterwards A monnmentSo % his memory stands by the side of Ethan Aliens monument. The latter is oyer fifty feet high, including the statue. The widow of Captain Heman Allen afterwards married Solomon Wad- hams, lived in this town and survived many years all of Ethan Aliens brothers and their wives Anecdotes of Ethan AL lens visits to Salisbury, of his brothers, Bennington, Saratoga and other battles of the Revolution, and of acts by women in the revolution, equally remarkable, were told me by an actor in the stirring drama of those times, and who lived till quite recently.
 ALBERT WADHAMs. *The first Selectman tells us he knows of no i such invitation having been received here.
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Yifh Enntlirar

Subscribers who are in arrears must make up arrezrges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions; and subscribers who are in advance may deduct the amount their subscrip tions are in advance.
 Money should be sent by post-office order, check or registered letter, if possible. If remit tAnees are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odieal Receipt will be returned in the next paper
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-07-17

The debate of the House on the bill giving the governor appointment of rail- Foad commissioners should be carefully considered by those who imagine our present miserable mode of appointment will ever be remedied by the very bodies that profit by it The House immediately went into Committee of the Whole on Mutual Admiration. Mir. Phillips of Put nam, with refreshing innocence, couldn't sec how the governor could appoint better men than they did. Mir. Case of Sims bury thought two hundred and forty rep- resentatives and twenty-one Senators could not be as easily controlled by the railroad companies as one man who hap pens to be governor. All the bill meant was to ''strip the House of the right to exercise its own judgment "-as if it had ever shown any judgment in the matter ! Marlor, of Brooklyn, feared the railroads would concentrate their power, elect a governor and entirely control the State. Siliman. of Chester, said it was Goodwin's bln. and that Goodwin had railroad on She braAA-moreover he saw no occasion Tor any change the railroads had carried 4O,OOO.OOO passengers during five years past tincluding members of the leg fslature, free ) and hadn't hurt one of them. But the coolest speech of the oc- casion, one that reads like masterpiece of irony to everyone who knows what sort of railroad commissioners legislative bar tering has always given us, was made by Mr. Wait of Norwich. 'He looked upon 1t as in the interest of the people to keep the appointment in the control of their representatives. is impossible to oct an appOfRtnaent through here of an ia- competent Dsas, ,tf the House acts upo,a its 4n0aCtcdgc and does its duty." That broad assertion, and it's seemingly slight qualification, no doubt tickled the House. as much as it tickles the intelligent ont aideF who appreciates the infinite satire of it
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ENQUIRER cLuBsIMc RATES.

Our Litchfeld County subscribers may not of- ten be able to take advantage of the low rates offered large clubs by most magazines and peri odicals. For their convenience and as an extra iuducement to new county subscribers we will send the following periodicals to county subscrib CTS. in connection with the ENQUIRER at the r,ri-aa nau1ed
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.


 Great Britain. One of the Princes is tC marry the daughter of the Czar. Four hundred and eighty-three clergy men of the State church have petitioned for the restoration of the confessional. Haly.-A new Ministry has been formed by Minghetti.
 Germany. Bismarck has retired from the Prussian cabinet.
 Sp0in.-The Carlists are gaining in spite of the efforts of the government. Asid.-The Khan of Khiva has yielded and acknowledges himself 8 vassal to Russia.
 Canada. Some Americans have got into trouble by trying to arrest the swim dler, Gordon Gordon, on Canadian soil. The steamer City of Washington was wrecked on the coast near Halifax, last week. No lives lost,
 7 BeMEsFIC,
 The annual national meeting of T.. NJ. C. A. was held at Poughkeepsie, last week.
 Atty. Gen. Williams reports that Gen. Howard has been negligent in Freedman's Bureau matters, but not otherwise cen surable. ..l fa1H Arkansas quarrels over the governor ship have broken out again.
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woodbuFy.

Rev. G. W. Moves people are putting up S2000 organ, manufactured by Messrs Hook of Boston, Mass. They have also voted to have the second preaching ser vice of the Sabbath i'll the evening through July and August.
 It is quite dry here yet, and manu- facturers are short of water, although we have had an occasional shower of late which has relieved the fears of our tobac- co growers very much. ENo.
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The District of Columbia criminal court claims the right to arrest editors any where in the country, to bring them to Washington, and try them there for libel. Brigham Young has just as good right to take us for trial before Mormon jury in Utah. -Ea
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STATE ITEMS.

st. 4 German was murdered in New Ha- ven, last week.
 Sixty New Haven merchants went on a codfish excursion, last week. --a The Eat Men meet at Gregory.s Point on the 18th of August. sr
 Bridgeport is convplsed with the Wells drawing.
 4 New Haven German has drawn S35, 900 in the Havana lottery. s-ae
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The secret of the Goodrich murder is out at last. He was killed by mistress called Kate Stoddard who was arrested last week, and who claims to have been cheated by mock marriage.
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Luckily the license law, if not 1mprov- ed is not injured by the present legisla- ture. The minority of the committee on spirituous liquors reported a bill that would have increased the efficiency of the present law considerably; but it unluch- ly met with an amendment in the House that killed it's utility, and was dropped through disagreeing votes of the two Houses. Mir. Newman of Greenwich, Mir. Eaton's chairman of the committee, made the following remarkable speech:
 "Mr. Newman said that members did not appear to consider that the men who stand behind the bar in this state are ,Uhite men, and he ventured- to say that four fifths of the members of this House osue their seats to these men! (Hisses.) The prohibitionists in this state number only about four thousand. If tic liquor deal CTS form an association-and he did not know but he should join them they will be power and rule parties, and neither party in this state is too moral to be in fuenced by them. We ought to respect the rights of these men, and not force them to the wall. He was perfectly will ing that prohibitionists should have their rights, but in this House, to-day, there hasn't been voice raised in favor of the liquor dealers! He was not exactly li- quor dealer himself, though he drank when he liked to. But he thought that some one should say something in favor of the rights of liquor dealers: A
 This swas little too frank to please even the Democratic members, many of whom voted against Mir. Newman's bill.
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We shall have to wait another week till the usual 'fObituaries" of prominent mem bers of Senate and House come out in the daiIies, before attempting the customary sketches for the Enquirer. It is astound- ing that so wise set of men as our legis- lators seem when viewed separately should prove such weak lot taken in the lump; bat such is statesmanship!
 We have no great faith in labor bu- reaus, but they are not extremely expen- sive experiments and may collect facts of some value. The readiness with which both parties grant requests of the ''work- ing men" and their dilatoriness in dealing with woman's disabilities, show pretty conclusively the difference between voters and non-voters in the eye of the politi- clan.