Litchfield enquirer., 1874-06-04

vor of the proposed woman suffrage amendment of their constitution.
 A MiddIetown N. Y.) board of trustees was recently visited while acting on liquor licenses by a company of seventeen ladies who presented an anti-license petition.
 Town taxation to build railroads has been decided in the U. s. Supreme court Co the constitutional We do not take quite the interest in that question we did few years since.
 There will be held at Watertown, on Wednesday, June 10th. at 10 A. M., Un- ion Sunday School Convention. All Pas tors, Superintendents and Teachers are invited.
 The Lee & New Haven railroad grant has passed the Massachusetts house and will probably go through the Senate. As Gov Washburn is no longer in it's way the measure seems likely to be successful at last.
 AEs the government will be large enough to meet its expenses. A marked revival of business within few months is indicated by an increase of receipts from customs
 The Courant correspondent at New Haven ayers that there will be some re- markable facts disclosed about savings banks before this legislature, showing among other things that bank officers have taken special commissions on loans. In one instance treasurer took as high as S2, 100 on a s120,O loan.
 Mr.Alfred Birch, of Woodbury, has been chosen county commissions in place of Mr. R. E. Canfeld, of New Milford, whose terw expires on the 4th of July. The county loses an efficient commissioner in Mr. Garfield, whose retirement results as @ matter of course from the political upset of last spring.
 Many of the recent emigrants from Ita- ly arc working at q considerably lower price than is demanded by Irish laborers Hence the latter insult and abuse them on every opportunity, and a murder was one of the recent results of this persecution. So it isn't the s'heathen" peculiarity that is objectionable in the Chinee but his ''cheap labor !"
 A typographical error did some inius- tice to an inoffensive body of religionists who had a convention in Illinois, recent ly. Their name got somehow metamor- phosed in the associated press dispatch and all the papers announced and com mented on a convention of Drunkards. They are really nothing but Dunkards.
 A lady in the treasury department, so unfortunate as to bear the name of Dawes, was unceremoniously dismissed, short time since, under the impression that she wasa relative of the chairman of the Ways and Means committee, whose opinion of Messrs. Sawyer and Richardson has taken a disagreable form of late. It happened that the busted clerk was no connection of the Massachusetts, member and she has been reinstated.
 The BLAcKwoOD's EDrNBURaH MAGdiI,, for May contains: The Story of Valen- tine, and his Brother; Hercules; Conviv- Tam Templare; Alice Lorraine: Interna- tiOnal Vanities; Names and Dates; The Badget and the Income Tax; A Knight of Rhineland; Our Fair Wind.-Setting Sail
 Leonard Scott Publishing Go. New YOVks $4 year.
 The nomination of Benjamin H. Bris- tOw. of Ny in place of Richardson, re- ssgned, ,is announced in Tuesdays papers. We believe that Mr. Bristow is fair man for the place. At any rate it is blessed relief from Richardson. Solicitor Ban Ee1d has gone, and now all that is needed sO make the affair complete is the retire @ent of Sawyer. Mir Richardson is nom- lnated tO 8 judgeship in the Court of Claims.
 Rls not expected that the question of a oo1zk1tat1O1al convention will be raised sill after the constitutional amendments are disposed of One of these amend mGnfs provides for redistricting of the sk2se for Senator's, adding from twenty Co thirty to the present number Anoth- CT gives t0wns with over five thousand in- hzhR2nts twO representatives. These anAe@ame1ts were passed by the House Ezzk year. and must have two thirds vote are the present Assembly to go before the Peopae-
 Anar2l L. Russell, a postgraduate, studying al the MiddletOwn University, WAS kllaed while rowing on the river by a c0llzzsoa with the ferry boat. Three oth- srs who were rOwing with him were saved. It Is iseAAine1 that the ferry boat backed 1poa the students boat and that the latter were nat to blame for the accident. Mir. R~<sd was a young man of more than o0@@oa ability who was soon to have taken a position as tutor in the college.
 OED KSD NEW for June contains: Old =@1News he Way VIC Live Now, by Am sA0@y TrOlOpe: Country Sights and Ss@H3ss A Leaf from a Journal; My Tenn Pses The F&kzlist, by Ivan Turguenieff; O~rSkeSchingC Ciub; Government by Par tl<z. by Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D.; The ROets The@es In an Appendix; A Short Ra@1 tO Specie Payments; The Protest szA TheoEy of Authority. by James Mar s1Heans SczOpe; or. The Lost Library, by Ers2sxse E. ReEkins; The Miser of Mar seSne<s TAe Examiner; Record of Prog resas Mn<Seal Review.
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