Litchfield enquirer., 1874-07-30

AAOAO COuulJS SCCulS CO UO cloud this session. His services were em- ployed in behalf of the town of Plymouth to prevent the set-off of ambitious Thomas ton, but before tho contest was through, after he had repeatedly shared the conf dence of hls employers, he was found to
 bo working for the other side, and even
 went so far as to approach member of the house and offer him $200 to make
 speech in favor of Thomaston. The
 member gave him twenty-four hours to
 make an apology in writing over his own
 name, and told him if he did not do it he
 would denounce him on the floor of the house. The apology was written and is now Ill the hands of the member as q me- mento of legislative experience. Next, MT. Beers was employed to assist on the Glastonbury side of the boundary line controversy, and reported progress with much minuteness and feeling, but very soon his movements had suspicious look and it was found that he was working for
 Wethersfeld. To-day it has trnnspired that last year he received pay from both
 Wethersfeld and Glastonbury, though
 he will find it difficult to get his cash from both sides this year. It is singular fact that the committee in both of the cases where he has played double this year have decided by majority vote in
 favor of the side on which he was last em-
 ployed; though before he was known to
 have changed front his earliest employers
 had reason to believe that the committee
 was all right. In demonstrating, there
 fore, that he is an interruptions operator,
 and has cheated one side or the other
 every time, it is perhaps not paying the highest compliment in the world to the
 { &koo oI 1,o l,oc I,n1 xo especially as it would seem that as often as he changed the majority ofthe commit tee changed also. think the whole sub jcct ought to be referred to the committee on 'inaccurate legislation. "-COatr0nt.
 AN UGLY CHARGE AGAINST GENERAL BUTLER. Joe Hooker, finding himself ill somewhat improved health, takes the war-path again with undimin- ished energy. His objective point is the scalp at present (constructively) adorning the head of our own Butler. He is ready to show, he says, that Benjamin's James River grab, when he ordered the colored troops to deposit their money and valu- ables at headquarters for safe-keeping, was way ahead of any of the subsequent ones. "When one of those poor devils got knocked over and put under ground, do you suppose, asks Fighting Joe, ''the money he had left at Buffers headquarters was ever heard of again? Not cent of it. It all went to the account and credit of Butler, who made least million dol lars in that way out of the poor negro regi- ments on the James. I was with the army in Virginia, and learned the facts about that business, which ought to be told"
 This is very serious accusation to bring N1H II. that General Hooker is bound to produce his supposed proofs without any unnecess- ary delay. The fact that he brings it is a conclusive proof that he believes it to be true, but even honest and chivalrous gen. tlemen of the military profession are lia- ble tc mistake. For our own part, it will take pretty straight evidence, and good deal of it, to convince us that General Butler IS guilty of the crime which is thus laid at his door.-Sprinfgeld RepuJH cdn.
 Here is startling proof of the low cit ization ill Hungary:-During the heat of the summer last year the cholera ragged ter ribly in tho Hungarian parishes of Bella tlnez and Pertisz (Alfoeld. The supersti- tious peasants had recourse to a female soothsayer to exercise their enemy, Death, for them. The old woman advised them to dig up the corpses of those who had shortly before died of the cholera, to cut out their hearts, and to eat them. The peasants did so. The relations of the de- ceased gave their consent to this desecra, tion of the dead, and number of the in habitants of both places went to the cem- etery and accomplished the design. Sixty corpses were exhumed, sixty hearts, some fI1n1o1 1o1,o l~vs Al sz1 l. were eaten by the crowd. It may easily imagined what effect this had in spreading the disease. Tho woman who had given the diabolical advice was sentenced to three months imprisonment, but appeal ed to tho higher court, and they have not yet given their judgment
 The Cocos ISLAND TREASURE TRovE.- The San Francesca Bulletin of June 29 says: '"The schooner Witch Queen sailed for Cocos Island on the 25th of last April in search of the treasure which the buc- cancers are said to have buried in that remote locality centuries ago, then ar- rangements having previously been made for the departure og the vessel for Pana- ma, if, at the expiration of ten days, the ingots and daubloons were not forth-com- ing. The three men representing the joint stock company who fitted out the ex- petition were to take the steamer at Pana- ma and return to this city. In the event of the discovery of the treasure, the com mander of the expedition had instructions O remain until he loaded his vessel to the full extent of her capacity. As the vessel has been out sixty-seven days and noth ing been heared of her, the stockholders feel elated, and appearances would seem to indicate that the treasure market is be- ing vigorously pulled. It IS barely pos- sib1e that considerable time will elapse be- fore any news of the expedition reaches this city. Meantime an industrious cir culation of spicy narratives about the dis covery of fabulous wealth may be antici- pated."