Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-22
With Enquirer.

sMuat commence with January or July num- her.
 Subscribers who are in arrears must make up arrsarges 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-offce order, check or registered letter, if possible. If remit [ tanoss 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 Odkcals.
 The annual meeting of the Litchfield North ConsOciation will be..held at Tor rington, Oct. 27th and 2sth, commencing at II a. m. on the 27th.
 The Democracy of the Essex Massa- chusetts District have prevented all pos sibility of defeating Butler by making a straight party nomination.
 The Chicago Advance says that we'll known theological professor in that city pronounces Tilt0n's last statement "a pa- per worthy of Demosthenes. Whether this is serious, or a grim reference to the Woodruff -Demcthenes is the conun- drum
 The WOlcottville Register states that Col. Tenn, of Plymouth, was recently ap- pointed prosecuting agent by the county commissioners and that he has notified the saloon and hotel keepers and drug gists in the towns of Harwinton, Plym- Outh, and Watertown, to stop selling un- der penalty of the law.
 No one would expect the ruin of Ger man colony in these days from religious fanaticism. Yet such seems to have been the case with the settlement at Porte Ale gro, Brazil A prophecies claiming to be a female Christ converted some fifty peo- ple who then proceeded to attempt the conversion of the rest of the colony by force. The government finally had to in- terfere and the fanatics were themselves exterminated. including the prophecies who died game" if it is proper so to speak of the exit of o martyr-prophetess.
 The Convention of Southern Republi- cans which met at Chattanooga, last week, adopted platform calling for the pass age of the Civil Rights bill; denounced 4hA En--A;... ~s .-~-a;Ao hasA1 ~.- -1:-4:--- lions of color. and the outrages prepetrat- ed on Southern Republicans; urged Con- gress to appropriate the proceeds of the public lands to education; and urged the administration to institute rigid inquiry iuto the capability and integrity of the persons holding office by their appoint ment. and, it it be found that even reason able suspicion exists against any such per- sons. to replace them with men of un- doubted integrity. An address was issued to the people of the country complaining of the outrages committed and hostility evinced against all Southern Republicans, and averring that no redress can be ob- tained for the most unproked injuries be- fore local tribunals.
 There is trouble in Turkey over the succession to the throne. The Sultan has concluded to change the succession to his eldest son instead of leaving it "ac- cording to seniority to the male de- scendants of Othman sprung from the Imperial Harem. The Harem is consid- cred 6 permanent state institution. All children in the Harem, whether offspring of free women. or of slaves, are legitimate and of equal lineage. but the Sultan is succeeded by his eldest son only in case there are no uncles or cousins of greater age. Thus the late Sultan Abdul-Mejid, who left fourteen children-six sons and eight daughters-was succeeded, not by his eldest son, twenty one years of age at the date of his death, but by his brother, the present sovereign"
 This change seems unfair to collaterals, but. as a mode of settling the succession to throne. the old arrangement is ob- Tiously open to objection.
 Speaking of the form of government needed for the city of Washington, Judge Hoar pays tho following just compliment to the New England ''selectman:'
 | think the best model for such gov. ernment is. to be found in our New Eng land towns; few plain, diligent select men, serving for the salary. without per- sonal ambition beyond it. and kept there. Their books are always in trim, ready to be seen. Their office is in little political. The perfection of our minor municipal life lies in the good quality of those un- ootrusive town governments"
 We fear there are more freuuent changes and little more politics with Connecti- cut than with Massachusetts selectmen. Still there are probably no more eeonomi. cal and few better local governments than those of our New England towns. All we need to perfect them is to exclude poli- tics and secure efficient men through some adequate form of minority representation.
 And now Catholics are aggravating the Freemasons with the following account of the conversion to thelx faith of the Mar quis of Ripon, recently Graad Master oi the English Nasons. He started to write pamphlet. the story goes, in defence of Masonry against Catholicism. Six months study convinced him that the Catholics were right and the Masons wrong, where upon he resigned his Grand Mastership and joined the catholic church. So little was his intention known, that, when he came to join their church at Kensington. his name and rank were unknown to the priests there until he disclosed them. All this makes very pretty story and very eonsoiatory one for Catholics but, it strikes the sceptical outsider as little too pretty to be true. @