Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-05

check or registered letter, II possiDle. II remlt- ,aaess are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will rake all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri Odicals
 Governor Ingersoll and President Grant appoint Thursday. the 26th inst. as the state and national day of T thanksgiving
 1t is gratifying to learn that the Depart ment estimates at Washington will show reduction of fully ten millions. from Last years expenses.
 The trial of the. Dist. of Culumbla burglars is progressing slowly, and the evidence against the accused is very strong
 Tammany has by no means washed it's hands of fraud it seems. James Hayes, it's candidate for Registrar of New York city, helped put million and half into the pockets of the Ring in 1869, it seems.
 The charge brought against memher of the New Haven Board of Education of having been bribed by a $l,OOO check from some Philadelphia publishers to in- troduce their books into the schools, turns out to have been entirely unfounded.
 The Episcopal Triennal Convention is about winding up its business. The can- on against ritualism was materially modi- fed by the House of Bishops and passed as amended. The proposed rubric allow ing ministers to dispense with the portion of the baptismal service to which Mir. Cheney objected, was rejected by an over whelming majority.
 Prosecuting attorney Fenn, of Ply mouth, is going for the liquor sellers in his precinct with fervor that is gorgeous to contemplate. If the other prosecuting agents thoroughout the county will only 70 and do likewise there will be a mere effective check put upon the sales of liquor in this vicinity than has been known for years.
 A heartless English statistician has been calculating woman's chance of matrimony at different ages. At 25 half her chance is gone. After 30 she has but one sixth her original chance of marriage, and after 36 but one sixteenth. Yet people advise ladies to forego all opportunities of use- ful life in some paying avocation for the lonesome sixth or sixteenth chance of husband!
 Yale students had contest at athletic games, Saturday. The half-mile race was won by a son of Bowen, of the Independ- ent. in 2:173. A son of Congressman Dawes made the longest throw of a base ball, SIS feet. Cortes Maxwell made standing jump of 119 feet The quarter mile race was won by s. R. Belts in 57 seconds. Princeton has challenged Yale for another foot ball match.
 Most of the country advertising done by the business men of our large cities is contracted through advertising agencies. These agencies have dealings with large sasts of country journals and can usually manage such matters much more inteli- gentlyand successfully than the advertiser himself. An agency of this kind has been started in Hartford by Nr. E. 5. Dilling- ham. He has list of twenty papers cir eulAting in localities within easy reach of Hartford and has conducted large busi- ness with advertisers and publishers to the entire satisfaction, so far as we can learn, of both.
 A recent insurance decision of our Su- preme Court is of considerable import ance. It holds that where war breaks out between two countries, or sections of the same country, it abrogates life policies held between parties living in the belliger- ent countries. though the assured be non- Combantants. The effect of this decision ls to destroy the business done by our companies in Canada, where the people naturally refuse to pay their money for policies that may at any time be made worthless by a war.
 The correspondent of the New York Hines finds pretty base lot of poiiti- c'ans in Alabama. The secretary of the republican state executive committee, al- @ candidate for the state senate, made an attempt to bribe him to write letter favorable to him, and against & rival re- pubsican candidate The correspondent finds that both candidates are disreputa- hle. unprincipled wretehes who deserve tho penitentiary instead of office. Yet in Governor Lewis, aud in some other prom. inent men of that locality, he recognizes really capable and honest men. :
 The Rev. Mir. Staats who preached at the Congregational ehnrch in this place several times, last sammes. seems to be about leaving Birmingham. The Tran script says of him:
 Rnmor has it that this locality IS to iose the services of this Rev. gentleman We trust not. His coming here has been an advent to peace, for he seemed to pour tho oil of qnietude and gladness over troubled waters. We are told of late they have begun to bubble again. We hope not. Mir. Staats is 6 man of infuence, good, an able preacher, faithful pastor, etc. and we trust Howard avenue church ot New Haven, or Bristol in the inteuor will have to 'scall" long and ssloud" before they get him Derby church has ,advanc- cd under his care-at least in public estimation. and our whole people ;would regret his departure.