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Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19
New Preston.

The ladies of the village church have organized Sewing Society, and last Tuesday evening held their first meeting at the house of Mrs. Frank Brown. There was large attendance. The evening passed away pleasantly and the entertain. ment was enjoyed by all. May our best wishes attend the efforts of the ladies ot the village church. CRITIC.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19
With Enquirer,

~An=t eoMmetaca with January or July num- Der.
 Subscribers WhO are in arrears must make up aTrezrges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions and subscribers who are in advance may dsdS.ct the amount their subscrp- ti0u@ arc in advance.
 Money should he sent by post-office order, cheek or registered letter if possible. If remit tsnees are male by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri oiscal. Receipt will be returned in the next paper.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The CANAAN school of Mir. Buckingham closes with a public rehearsal at the Methodist church on Thursday evening of this week.-Rev. Mr. Lane has recovered sufficiently to take charge of the pulpit services again.-Howard Downing has rented Conductor Cuming's house.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

HUNTSVILLE talks of starting fire com pany.-Ensign & Son stopped work in woolen mil about the first of January. -- Uncle John refused to keep traveller the other night because the town will not give him license to sell
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

LASRsvILLE is to have tobacco ware house. Mir. Sabin is fixing over his car riage house for that purpose.-Levi and David Wanzer have divided the large farm they have hitherto held in common. The former takes tho south, the latter the north end, and Levi is preparing to build . new house on the Wood Creek road.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The Massachusetts Senate have repeal e1 the resolution censuring NIT. Sumner, 1Ia to 49.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

Minnesota doctors voted. last year, to admit applicants to their state society re. gaUileSs of sex or color. This year a yOang lady took them at their word, ap- piled. showed her diploma, and was re- yiss~AssR. by vote of 27 to 13.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The business manager of the New Ha- ven Union has been arrested on charge of libel Hon. James Gallagher gave bonds for the prisoner.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19
EHoUlRER cLusRINo RATES.

Our Lit1AAsA cOGnty subscribers may not of- sa De ahls to take advantage of the low rates oaersa large eluha bE most magazines and peri oa1eals- For their convenience and as an extra ndaeS@ent to new county subscribers we will ssa1 the fOttowing periodicals to county subscrib- CTS. ia connection xith the ENQUIRER at the Pxs-Ss n1rei
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

KENT has been enlivened with parties at MT. J. St. Johns and MT. John Hop- sons. The Episcopal and Congregational social societies have their regular meet ings and Kent is not loss for amuse- ments.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The Kellogg English Opera troupe is performing this week in Hartford. It is highly commended by competent critics.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The bio Lewis temperance campaign m Massachusetts, is to commence at Wor- eester next week.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN,

Gg'eat Britain.-The Conservatives have about 50 majority in the new House of Commons, and the Gladstone Ministry has resigned. The Irish Home Rulers have elected 51 members.
 There was an extensive fire in London. The loss is reported to be $15,00O,0OO.
 Frdnce.-M. Miehelet, the author, is dead.
 GeTnla1ay. Marshal Moltke said in the Reichstag, last week, that it was necessary to provide for the national defense against France.
 Russia-The Emperor of Austria is visiting the Czar at St. Petersburg.
 Spoin-Senor Castelar, will favor Ser rano in case of plebiscitum.
 Achievements will soon arrive to re- lieve Bilboa.
 Japan.-The government has renewed its refusal to open the whole country to foreigners.
 DOMESTIC.
 Red Clouds son is reported to have been killed by the Sioux.
 Our North Atlantic fleet is drilling at Florida Bay.
 The autopsy of the Siamese twins in- dicates that cutting them apart would have caused death.
 The resolutions censuring Senator Summer have been rescinded by both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature The National Grange adopted report ruling the Boston Grange out of the or der.
 Seven or eight workmen have been kill ed by the fall of an ice-house at Philadel- phia.
 Jay Cooke x Go. can derive no benefit from the recent amendment to the Bank rupt law.
 There has been general uprising of Indians in Wyoming Territory. Two off cers and an Indian agent were killed.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19
The Convention.

We give full report of the aoings of the Republican convention on our first page. There was entire harmony through out; the ticket nominated was an excel lent one; and the platform one of the best ever adopted by political convention The Gallagher party in New Haven, is op- posing Ingersoll, and the Democracy have the one hope suggested by the Springfield Republican, that ''This isn't good year for Republican tickets
 The Changers adopted declaration at their national meeting in which they claim to be laboring for the development of a higher manhood, and a higher woman hood; they denouLce excessive salaries, high rates of interest, exorbitant profits, and the tyranny of monopolies; the en- ployment of "middlemen" is discouraged: the reduction of expenses, public and pri- vate, is demanded, and the adoption of cooperation in every practicable form en- couraged; the rights of woman are recog- nized by her admission to membership; and the advancement of practical edu- cation earnestly recommended. Although not by any means perfect, the platform of the Changers is in advance of anything any political party has yet dared to adopt.
 The Advance continues to hold its place as one of the best and largest religious weeklies published in the country. It is old school, and conservative in theology, opposes woman's rights, and good many other reforms we believe in, but it is sound, thorough, conscientious paper that would probably prove more satisfac- tory to the average subscriber to the re- ligious paper than the more progressive Independent or Church Union. We were specially interested in an article in the last number entitled ''Three Years of Free Seats and Weekly Offerings which gives history of the successful workingof the free seat system in an Indiana church. One shrewd and comforting suggestion we clip entire:
 A few who make it point to get every thing at "bottom prices, have had a very cheap gospel. Unfortunately, however, it Las been worth to them no more than they paid, for the gospel is peculiar ar- ticle in this respect. A beating down in the price affects the quality of the goods
 c. H. Howard & Go. publishers, 151 Fifth Avenue, Chicago; s a year.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19
The Salisbury News suggests temper ance crusade in this county:

ance crusade in this county:
 It says, we shall not urge the ladies of Lltchfield county to start out on this mis- sion, as we are not informed that the men folks really desire the suppression of the liquor traffic; at least, as far as this village is concerned. We can say, and say truthfully, that they the men folks we arc talking about now,) either desire free rum, or i'll other words, would rather pre- fer that rum should run freely, than oth- erwise; or else they are all towards and dare not meddle with it. We are inclined to think the latter is very near to the truth. That they dare not grapple rum, and getting it down, hold t there, is a truth each individual for himself will not deny, and to call on the women to go at this business of managing this demon of destruction, as their sisters in Ohio are doing, we do not feel at liberty to do, un- til their husbands, fathers, or brothers are consulted as to their fears of their barns being burned, or some other terri ble something being done by rum, as revenge for the unlawful interference with it's legitimate @ business If these wor- thlesswill become reconciled to allow the ladies to take the matter in hand, and they follow prebisely the course pursued by their Ohio sisters, we know they will succeed, and will make their success most permanent.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The last Congress tried to exempt trop- ical fruit-plants from duty. The enrolled act reads, however, ''fruits, plants," &c. This addition of an and substitution of a comma for hyphen costs the govern ment two millions. The change is sus- pected to be forgery procured by inter- ested parties.
 Charley Crothers of Greenfield is one of the saloon keepers the Ohio women have been laboring with. He received them, day after day, with welcome, and looked happier at every visit. One day, an old patron brokd out: .'I say, Charley, ain't you gittin' most tired of this singin' and prayin' biznis ?" ''What! me gittin' tired? No, sir!' responded Charley emphaticaliy. ''If I git tired of the singin' and prayin' they do in my saloon here, what will do when I'm in company with the angels. who don't do nothin' but sing and pray?'' -Sprinafeld Republican.
 Susan B. Anthony and Isabella Beecher Hooker spoke at the City Hall, Wednes- day night, to fair audience. The seed these women are sowing may take root, and then again it may not. Woman's s rights, so called, has yet to undergo some pruning before the majorities will advance it to any successful condition.-Inder.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

CO~sSS@a Og Somers. on trial at Holland for kllssag his vife. has been found guilty of man. sAzzs<@aeT and wIIl he sentenced to imprisonment tSr a term Eo& exceeding ten years.-Er.
 Rather hand on COstiganl Ten days for mayhem and ten months for murder SS sbOat the usual penalty where it is the wife thzt Is hurt
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

4.lir-isasiald is again agitated about the
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

WARREN is indulging in matrimony and parlor croquet to an unprecedented ex- tent.-Justus Comstock has purchased the farm and residence lately owned by the widow Starr and son.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

JaSt seven-tenthS of the children in the State of Massachusetts,, between and 15 years of age attend the public schools. TaOse schools employ 1O2S male teachers with an average pay of s9s month, and Ttzt female teachers with an average of S7t. per month. Even Boston pays her feHaale teachers but SIS per month.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The Small pox plague Ill South Wind ham is thus described by correspondent of the Norwich Bulletin:
 Some very heart-rending scenes have occurred in South Windham. The place is as isolated as if it were in another sphere. Not a person is seen on the streets, the depot is vacated, stores closed, and the orminous red flag is seen in front of many houses. There have been five deaths from the disease In one case a gentleman died whose friends live in Le- banon, and two young men of that will lage who had had the small pox, removed his remains to Lebanon in the night and there buried them, afterwards thoroughly disinfect1ng their own clothing The mails are brought to Lebanon crossing, and letters which leave South Windham are disinfected. One has been received here which had been saturated with car bolic scid. As to the condition of the disease, it can be said that most of the cases are mild forms of varioloid, but there are some half dozen very severe cases of malignant small pox.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

PETEEsOS's MAGAzuxE, for March, con- tAias. Old England rs. the New; The Trailing Arbutus: Between Man and Wife; Oar Devil Fish" How paid my Debts; The Marriage Certificate; Engravings Patterns. Fashion Plate, Music, Poetry.
 q ]. Peterson, PhiIa-, Penn; S2 year. See Eaq- clubbing rates.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

The temperance crusade is progress sing with undiminished force in Ohio. On Monday Dr. bio Lewis presided over large meeting in Columbus, but active operations have not yet commenced in that city. The movement is subsidlng in Ohio and Indiana, and has begun in Ken lucky.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-19

the rectorship of St. Michael's by the Wardens and Vestry of that parish. MT. Elliott leaves the Congregational church at the expiration of his term in the spring. The Congregational society voted on Sat urday to assume the purchase of the land on which the old church stands, made by individuals at the time of its removal.
 The new hotel progresses rapidly. The inside partitioning is we'll advanced; the upper rooms are lathed, and the main stairway is up as far as the third story.
 We hope there will be full attend ance at the Stereopticon exhibition at the Old Church, on Friday evening. The programme will comprise views in Amer ica, Europe, and Asia; the castles of the Rhine, the lakes of Switzerland, the Big Trees, of California, &c., &c.; Portraits, Washington, Lincoln, and Ginx's Baby; Symbolic Series of the Voyage of Life; Dissolving Views; and Wonderful Comic Scenes for the children; ''Coon Person" 1" rats, cats, Pats, Darkeys, and Real Live Ghost
 Admission, 9 cts, with the Sons of Temperance specially interested in the proceeds. Exhibition begins at p. m. Tickets for. sale at the stores of A. s. Wright & Go. and F. D. McNeil S Co.
 A part of the committee appointed at the recent District School meeting to report upon the question of a grad ed school, visited Wolcottville, last week, to get information regarding the working of the system there. They are having estimates made. on the expense of fitting up the Old Church building for school, and of building a new graded school house, and will report at an early day.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03
A Law to Protect the Birds.

We publish this week a very important
law to protect number of insectvorous
birds, which was passed by the last Legis.
lature, but was some how overlooked by
the Secretary of the Senate and not sent to
this county for publication as the local
laws are required to be. A great many
violations of this law have occurred since
its passage laying tho bird hunters to severe
fines, and we hope that Censtables, whose
duty it is made, and others, will see that
some examples are made of the ruthless
slayers Of the little feathered innocents
The informer is entitled to half of the fine.
For the bettor protection of fish and
birds, sportsmen's associations should be
formed, whose members would be under
obligations to aid in enforcing the laws,
and check the indiscriminate poaching in
river, field and forest, which has, through
a course of years, almost entirely destroyed
the game and fish of long one of the most
abundant game and fish regions on the
globe. The innocent birds which this law
proposes to protect are the farmers best
friends, and they are most deeply interested
in stopping the cruel slaughter which has
been going on for hundred years, by idle
boys and loafers, and which of late years
has been fearfully on the incr ease.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03
AN ACT

TO PROTECT CLASS OF SMALL BIRDS
KNOWN AS INsECTIvoRous BIRDS IN
BALTIMORE COUNTY AND CECIL COUNTY.
SECTION 1. BE IL enacted by The General
assembly of Maryland, That it shall be
unlawful hereafter for any person at any
time to shoot, or otherwise kill, or injure,
or pursue with such intent, any of the fol-
lowing named birds within the limits of
Baltimore county and Cecil county, viz:
blue bird, thrush, martin, hooking bird,
swallow, oriole, red BIRD cat bird, sparrow,
whippowill, wren, pewit, goldfinch, sap
sucker, ground robin, hanging bird, or
woodpecker: provided, that nothing con-
tanned in this act shall be so construed as
to prevent the killing or capture of crows,
black birds, or birds of prey.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall
be unlawful for any person knowingly and
unnecessarily to destroy or disturb the eggs
of any of the birds protected by the pro-
visions of this act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any per-
son violating any of the provisions of this
act, shall on conviction thereof be fined in
any sum not less than two dollars and not
more than ten dollars for each offence, with
costs of prosecution; and all prosecutions
under this act, shall be in the name of the
State, before a justice of the peace of the
election district in which such violation
may occur; and all fines when collected
under this act, one-half thereof shall be
paid to the informer and the other to the
Treasurer of said counties, to be applied
by him to the support of the public schools
of said counties.
Sec. 4. And be 1t enacted, That the pos
session by any person within said counties
of any of the birds protected by this act,
as shot, killed or otherwise destroyed shall
be 4rinaa tacia evidence to make such per-
son liable for the fine for the violation of
the provisions of this act; and it shall be
the duty Of the constable of said counties
to arrest all persons they may detect in, or
who may be charged with the violation of
any of the provisions of this act, and take
them before the nearest justice of the peace
to be dealt with as directed by this act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect and be in operation from
the date of its passage.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is
true and perfect copy of an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland passed
at the January Session, 1874.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
Approved April 18th, 1874.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03

Splendid Honey Comb Spreads for 81,
at the NEW YORK BRANCH STORE.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03
Notice to Republican County Central Com.
mittee
REGISTRATION.

On Monday and Tuesday next the Regis
tiers will be in session in the several Dis
tricts for the purpose of completing and
perfect,ng their lists. All persons who pro-
pose to vote at the approaching Congress
sional election, and who have not yet been
registered will have to attend to the mat
ter one Of these days, and all persons who
have removed from one district to another
will have to procure certificate from the
Register of the District whence he remov-
ed and present it to the Register of the
District wherein he is resident.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03

Gentlemen who Clothing need,
Act like gentlemen indeed
Straight to TOWER HALL proceed
Do it suddenly.
Pick out Garments fresh and fair.
Fit for gentlemen to wear,
And to make the ladies stare
Most admiringly.
Every man who likes to shine,
In suit of superfine,
Haste to Fashions favorite Shrine
Haste, and happy be !!
Our patrons will find our Fall and Win
ter Stock for this season, unusually COM
plete, and by advantageous purchases of
materials at less than cost, we are enabled
to make prices lower than at any time since
1861. BENNETT & CO., TOWER HALL
CLOTHING BAZAAR, 51s MARKET
STREET, halfway between 9th and 9th
Streets, PHILADELPHIA.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03
The Wretched Condition of the South.

An exchange remarks that the anarchy,
Southern States is not political. 1t lies
deeper. 1t is a social condition, and there
fore more dangerous and difficult to treat.
Some of the State Governments of the
South are controlled by black people; some
by white; some by carpet-baggers; some
by native Southerners; some by Demo-
cratic, some by Republican factions; but
all alike are nefficient-subversiv of good
order, unable to protect life and property,
and all alike are charged with corruption.
Louisiana, the personnel of whose local
government is carpet bag and black, in
Guiding, however, Lieutenant general of
the Confederate army; South Carolina
with it's colored Legislature, and Governor
and Chief Justice of one of the old South
ern families, whose boast it is that they
fired the first parracidal shot at Sumter;
Kentucky with continuous native white
administration; Georgia and Alabama with
their Democratic governments; Arkansas
with Democratic Governor held in power
by Federal bayonets, and Louisiana with a
Republican Governor held in power by
Federal bayonets-all are equally power
less to enforce their own laws or protect
their own citizens from domestic violence
all are alike distracted, disorganized,
and, if we believe the reports of the un-
fortunate dwelers in those States, corrupt
Evidently the trouble here is something
deeper and more radical than political diff
ferences. 1t is probably the social evil of
Slavery working out its own fulfillment,
according to the unchanging and memorable
laws Of nature, as all evils. social or 9TH
erwise, do work themselves out. Slavery
now avenges itself on the body polite,
once prostituted by it and through it, just
as drunkenness or RIGHTEOUSNESS by the
natural working out of their own law will
avenge themselves on the human body.
WThe second-best and the most strik-
ing building in Louisville, Ky, is that
occupied by the Public Library. 1t was
paid for by three Gift Concerts, managed
by board headed by Ex-Governor Thomas
E. Bramlette. The Board is authorized BY
the Legislature of the State to give five of
these Concerts. The fifth takes place in
November next, and the profits, after dis
tributing $500, 900 to the ticket holders,
are to be used in perfecting the Library,
and furnishing the blind of the State with
books in raised letters. This is rather
large thing for Kentucky. Gov. Bramlette
has given three years to this Library, and
he is making it the best in the country.
Books are bought for this Library in orders
of $4,000 at time, and an enormous
amount of money has been paid for paint
ings, statuary, and other works of art.
The next drawing in aid Of the Library, in
which the capital prize is $3.50, 900, takes
place, as we stated, in November next,
positively.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03

N- If you want any kind of Implements
of the most approved kinds at Grange
prices, don't fail to see MICHENER & Co.,
at Colora, and ask to see the Malta Plow
and Van Wickle Grain Fan. [76
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03

eB- There is a quiet courtesy and modest
unobtrusiveness about wise advertise
ment that create certain responsive feel
ing of sympathy in the reader. We all
like to be solicited, and it is natural to
suppose that he who most politely, clearly
and persistently solicits us, stands the
better chance for our trade. The familiar
advertisements of local papers often cover
these points with great tact and ingenuity.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-03

There is every prospect of lots of roost-
ers being in the Forty third Congress, judg-
ing by the number of Coxes that have
been nominated. There is the irrepressi
BILE Sunset Cox, of New York; St. Julien
Cox, of Minnesota; Jonathan D. Cox, of
Indiana; and John r. Cox, of Maryland.
The two first are Democrats, and the last
two are Republicans. The question is
whether they will crow at sunrise or at
sunset of election day. OBSERVER.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

John III. Baker, Republican candidate
for Congress, made short speech to our
citizens at Balcony Hall, in this city, last
Monday evening. The audience was not
large, but quite attentive. Mr.. Baker did
not attempt to discuss the important po-
litical topics, but marked out the policy
which he should pursue. AS the day of
election is so near at hand, we shall not
attempt to give even the substance of his
speech. Mr.. Bakers manner is pleasing
and impressive, and his candid way OF
speaking is calculated to make friends
for him wherever he goes.
DIR. Huntsinger. Republican candidate
for Joint Representative, made short
speech after Mr.. Baker had spoken. The
Doctor is quite young man; but is we'll
posted in the affairs of our State, and if
elected, which he most probably will be,
will be great improvement upon our
former Joint Representative, Mr.. Hender-
son.
We hope every Republican and every
friend of good government will turn cut
to the election next Tuesday. and vote for
Baker for Congtess, and for Huntsinger
for Joint Representative.