Litchfield enquirer., 1874-12-17
January MonthIies 60.

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 HARPER's MAGAZINE contains: The Children's Night; The Ancient City, (con- eluded); The Rivals; Two Sketches; George D. Prentice; A Cry from the Shore; Rape of the Camp, (continuedi: The First Century of the Republic III, Qllustrated); Loves Imagination; Isma:- lia: The Story of the Three Bears, (Illus- trated); A Modern Lohengrin; The Re- publican Movement in Europe, xv; A Gala Night In Russia; The Man Who Was Like Shakespeare; Editorial Arti- cles.
 Harper & Brothers. New York; s4 year. See Enquirer clubbing rates.
 THE LONDON QUARTERLY REv1ew for October contains: The Jesuits; Provin. cial Turkey; The Hope of English Archi- lecture; Modern Culture; The Republic of Venice. its Rise, Decline. and Fall; Life of Bishop Patteson; East Anglia, it's Strikes aad Lock-outs; Burrows Worthies of All Souls; Criminal Statistics; The Ritual of the English Church.
 The Lennard Scott Publishing Co. New York; $4 a>year.
 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY contains: Rod erick Hudson, I; The Old Bridge at Flor ence, by Henry ". Longfellow; The yir- ginia Campaign of John Brown, I; Charles Sumner. by Henry W. Longfel- low; Autumn Days in Weimar, I. by Bay ard Taylor; Fritz Reuter-; 4 Woman's Mood; Wilhelmina; Lost at Sea; Touch ing Vlsitants from Higher Life, by Rob- ert Dale Owen; Old Times on the Missis- sipi, by Mark Twain; Enchanted; The Americanized European, by Oliver Wen dell Holmes; Youth and Age; Our Post Office; Recent Literature; Art; Masic; Education.
 H. O. Houghton < Co.,, Boston; S4 year. See Enquirer clubbing rates.
 The committee of the Presbytery of Jersey City which has been engaged try ing the case of the Rev. Mir. Glendenning has rendered verdict acqultting him of the graver offence charged, but advising his removal from the church of which he has been pastor because of his foolish and injudicious conduct regarding Miss Pome- roy. Nine out of the twenty-one mem bers voted to find hin guilty of her seduc- tion, but the majority gave him the be- neft of the possible doubt. Mir. Glendenn- ing has taken an appeal. Public opinion is very strongly against MT. Glendenning, but he has the support of his church and of many friends.
 The Proctor -Moulton suit has been set tied by the latter's paying the former her actual expenses in the suit, and by mak- ing full retraction of the charge implied in his repeating in his statement the story which he still affirms was told him by MT. Beecher. It is matter that, true or false, Mir. Moulton should never have published. Nor can we overlook the dis creditable fact that he also brought Ben Butler into the case who, with character istic impertinence, addressed Miss Proc tor as ''My darling" during her examina- tion as witness. In the case of Hilton vs. Beecher the court has granted the defendants motion for detailed statement of charges but not under such stringent limitations as was asked. This time Hilton appeals to a higher court. Trial of the case is post poned till early next month.
 The observations of the transit of Ve- nus, which took place on Tuesday of last week, are quite successful as far as heard from. Favorable reports are received from India, Cairo, Suez, and Thebes; Ade laide, Melbourne, Teheran, and points in China, and Japan. Failures are reported from seven Russian stations and Shang- hai.
 On Monday night two burglars were shot down while attempting to escape from the residence of Judge Van Brunt at Bay Ridge, L. I. One was killed out right, and the other lived but two hours. Before his death, the latter confessed that he and bis companion were the abductors of Charley Ross, and it is to hoped that the whereabouts of the boy will now be discovered.
 There Is chance of important disclos- ures in the Pacific Mail case now under in- vestigation. The three quarters of a mil lion supposed to have been used for the corruption of Congressman is traced to one Richard Irwin, who is to testify early this week
 A reduction of wages of all the em- ployees of the Housatonic railroad com pany. from president down to all but trackmen. has gone into effect recently. The men have in nearly every case acqui- esced cheerfully.
 The first number of the Housotossic Ray, reaches us, this week. It is q new paper printed in New Milford to take the place of the Journal. It is a we'll printed, we'll edited, seven column paper and bids fair to be credit to the place. ''The New Milford Journal is an excellent name to change.
 In a recent number, ,the Pittsfeld Eagle criticises the mode of treatment practiced in the county jail of that place because no form of steady work is required of ;ts in- mates:
 A jail managed on such principles is no punishment at all to the greater part of its inmates. To few the mere fact of imprisonment, is something of Q punish ment. but to the characters who get used to it, it has no effect. It would be better for the county, better for the iail, and far better for the caused of justice, to have those prisoners set to work breaking stone to macadamize the streets of Pittsfeld than to have them thus idling away their lives, and purposely committing crimes to