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, 1874-01-13
HOME OF THE FRlENDLESS,
Fifteenth Annual Meeting Of tho
Institution.
Election Of officers for tho Ensuing Year.

Tho fiftoonth ANIMAL mooting Of tho Homo Of
tho Friondlosa was hold ycHtorday afternoon IN
the pnrlors Of tho fnatituttor. Thoro wore proB-
ont about forty lndoB Interested In tho inatitu-
hon. Elder Z. N. boring opened tho u1oetfng
with prayer, and invoked fIoavenlv MD in tho
discussion Of a{rairs which would aBaurolfy
como up.
ANNUAL REPORT.
Tho meeting organized by tho nov. F, D.
Grey taking tho chair, when Alr. Z. II. Boring
road tho report Of tho Board Of Managers, Of
which tho following oontainB tho saiiont points |:
Thu Homo for tho TricnlcEs provides temporary
hohle to worthy wo1cn III we'll Us helpless children.
Homo was thrown open to Tho public. thousands Ut
worthy aye bcon cared for, removed froi, tho
aceues Of temptation, aud Hayc4 10 sociuty anu to
sanu Of children avo been transferred from poverty
fn And want, to homes, mostly III thu country, wheEa
they haTa grown UP, or are rapidly growing nj, into
ChristiAn manhood md wonlanhool-a 6!eshiug 10
themselves aud to R0oiaty.
moro ilan can be found nno,iy children Of weltregu
lnted families everywhere. Tile uoms .takcs tho
taolitary aud puts theln In families" both from
personal observation und BY correspondence, wo hhva
very encouraging accounts from Intga minority Of
tho children We hRyc trausforrad to a1iph 19mc4.
uow much wo havu luua Of this work IL shown by
the following ieAs, taken from tho natron's annual
report:
Number In tho Homo, Jan. l, 1B73......... 1Ga
Number received during tho yenr, hlults. AN
Number received durang tho year, ehl-
oseh....'.''.. .....".'-....-....''......'. o4s
1otai:. !s :...........;.-'..'.'' '.''..:.2,9N ,.r
Aser iamly PER mnnlh. o.o 1e7
Number sont out during t1a year, chi.
- ;, Hen. ..-."...................-. bpl
Number died. ......-......-............ u
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Dr. J. Walkers California Vim egar Bitters are 0 purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sier- "a Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extract ed therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, ''What is the cause of the unparalleled success of VNEaAB BIrTERs?' Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life giving prih- ciple, perfect Renovator and Invigorntor of the system. Never beforein tho history of the world has medicine been com pounded possessing tho remarkable qual- ities of VINEaAR BITTERs in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They arc 0 gentle Purgative as well as Tonic, reliev- ing Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious usDis- eases.
 If men will enjoy good health, let them use VINEGAR BITTERs as medicine, and avoid the use of alcoholic stimulants m every form.
 N. IE. MCDONALD 6 CO.,
 Druggists and General Agents San Francisco Califor na, and cor Washington and Charlton Sts, New York
 Sold by ali Druggists and Dealers.
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TEEHMS:

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 Postage two cents number, to be prepaid by the quarter at the office of delivery.
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PREMIUMS.

New subscribeTs lspplying eaFIy) for the year 1874 my have, without charge, the numbers for the last quarter Of 1872 of such periodicals es they may subscribe for.
 Or instead, new subscribers to any two, three, UT four of the above periodicals may have one Of the -Four Reviews for 1873; subscribers to all five may have two Of the Four Reviews or on set of Blackw0od's Magazine for 1873.
 Neither premiums to subscribers, nor discount to clubs can be allowed unless the moncy is re- mitted direct to tho publishers. No premiums can be giYento clubs sss i Circulars with further particulars may be had
 THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO, fe-H zf8 I4OFulton Street. New York
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A FEW GOOD REASONS.

IA New Invention Thoroughly Tested and secured by Letters Patent.
 2.-Makes perfect lock stitch, alike on both sides, on all kinds of goods.
 3.-Runs Light, Smooth, Noiseless and Rapid best G9mbination of qualities ..,,.,, 5.-Will do all varieties of wook and Fancy Stitching in a superior manner. 6.-Is most easily managed by the operator. Length of stitch may be altered while running, and machine can be threaded without passing thread through holes.
 7.-Design Simple, Ingenious, Elegant, form ing the stitch without tho use of Cog Wheel Gears. Rotary Cams or Lever Arms. Has the Automatic Drop Food, which issues uniform length of stich at any speed Has our new Thread Controller, which allows easy movement of needle. bar and prevents injury to thread.
 8.--Construction most careful and finished It is manufactured by the most skillful and expe- rienced mechanics. at the celebrated Remington Armory, Ilion. N. Y, New York Office No. 6 Mad ison Spare, (Krutz's Building). 13 2m
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CLUBS.

discount of twenty per cent. will be allowed to clubs of four or more persons. Thus, four copies of Blackw0od or one Review, will be sent four Reviews and Blaekwood. for $48, and so on. For clubs of ten or more persons, Q copy gratis will be allowed to the getteF-up of the club.
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NOTICE.

E. D. McNeil & Go. will receive Breaa, Cakes &c. on Tuesdays and Fridays instea a dWednee- days and Saturdays as before t
 1itehfed, Oct, 1st 1878. ssJma. fss
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Naugatuck Railroad

 ON andafter May 26.h, 1878. trains will run s. GOING NORTH-LEAVE BRIDuEPoBT. 7.l5 A. M.-Milk train forwinsted with passenger
 car attached, connecting at WateI
 bury with train from Hartford
 Leave Litchtield 11.20. 10.15A M.-For Wfnsted, connecting with tbc
 500 a. m. train from New York and
 with tue 10.15 a. m train from New
 Haven.
 Leave Litchiield I2.46 D. m. i0.45A M.-Freigit train for Winstcd.
 Leave Litchfeld 4.4J p. m.
 connecting with train to Albany SEQ
 pm. special for Waterbury. 3.tO r. M.-Ior Wiisted, connecting wIlh the 3.Gi'
 p. m. train from Now YerL RIm tL'
 cop. m. from New Haven, aud ht
 Waterbury with train from Hartford Leave litchhr!,l T.j3.
 GOING SOUTH LEAVE WINSrfE I.C5 A. M.- For Bridgeport, New York, and New
 llaven connecting at AnsOhia Wiih
 train for New Haven in time in>
 connect with train via ShOr. III,. i,,
 New London and Providence.
 Leave LitcIIcid 7.39 5&U A. M.-Freight train f0r Bridgeport, rcl
 meeting at WatUrlsaFy fer Haftthd
 Leave Iitchield G.3S. l4' I. M. For lirldgOp"rt, N. l., sud \. I! Go. n"cting at Waterbury with t,nh. r., Hartford. iloSVu l.tchitld 2,20, i CO h. a Milk train will passcne, car nfta,I,.;
 connecting at Bridgeport F,I >u~ York. and AnaOnia for New Haven Leave LItchiiald 5. On Saturday nights, aH additional Train wIil lmsae hGor ear, will leave Bridgeport fn WiLriod at 9 0l5 P. Nj Sunday milk leave ilcLfeId S M
 WATLKrOWN & WATERBURY r.. I Trains leave Watertown at 50 A M and 4 95 F. 8I., connecting with passohger trains tu New York.
 Returning leave Waterbury 12O0 SI., and 6.5OP F M on arrival of passenger trains from Bridgeport WOodbury Stage arrives to connect at SoS uiuu, with the 7O5 A. NJ. Train down from Winsted ani at Watertown with 7.30 A. M. Train and Iotuin ,n arrival of the 1016 A. M. from Bridgeport The Stage from Now Hartford, Otis, COlebTOok Harrington, SaIIdisheld, arrives t0 connect with tEe l4j P. M. Train down from winated, and Iv turns on the arrival of the 1915 A. NJ. Train ny from Bridgeport. Tho Stage for Litchield leavos Litchtield Sta tion on the arrival of the 1915 and 6.OOP. Nl Trains from Bridgeport. The Stage for Harwlh ton leaves Ltchfeld Station on tho arrival of the | 1915 A. M. Train from Bridgeport. The Stage fOf Bethlehem and Morris leaves WatertOWn arrival 10. Is train from BTidg" \ port
 ! Smiths Stage for Middlebury leaves Waterbury ' 1 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, on the ami val of the 1915 A. M. Train up from Bridgeport. | The Stage for Goshen leaves WOlcUttVille on ar 1 rival of the 1915 A. NJ. Train from Bridgeport. | X Discount of cents made to Passengers pAr- ! chasing Tickets at the Ofiice GEO. W. BEACH, Superintendent ! Bridgeport, May 26th. 1873.
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These periodicals constitute a wonderful mis- cellany of modern thought, research and eTiti- cism. The cream of all European books worth reviewing is found here, and they treat of the leading events of the world in masterly articles written by men who have special knowledge of the matters treated. The American Publishers urge upon all intelligent readers in this country & liberal support of the Reprints which they have so long and 50 cheaply furnished, feeling sure that no expenditure for literary matters will yield so rich return as that required for sub scription to these the
 Ledding Periodicals of Great Britain.
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T As9H

(New Crop uia San Francisco1 try them and see if they arc not fresher than old ones,
 F. D. MCNEIL & Co. Litchield. Dec. 1, 1878, sk-fE tf4
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AT A MUCH LESS RATE

than all the way by rail or by any other line. A Propeller leaves the Banbury & Norwalk Rail- road Freight Depotat Norwalk, Sundays excepted. Returning, leaves New York every night, Sun days excepted, from Pier 37, foot of Market St., East River, arriving at Norwalk early next morn ing. All freight for New York must be marked "Yia Propeller Line from NorNalk.''
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-07-16

Messrs. Phelps, Dodge & Co.,, have re- piled to Ben Buffers attack just at the close of the session, and deny that there IS any truth in a single ono of tho charges he makes. On the main point their re- ply seems conclusive:
 Gen. Butler states, that, in our largo and complicated business, every invoice brought day by day by us to the custom house was wrongly stated, and that we were consciously and continually guilty of fraud. Gen. Butler knows this to be untrue. He knows, on the contrary (for, as tho paid attorney of the informer, he has given attention to the subiect), that after 0 most careful and merciless exami- nation of some thousands of our invoices by Jayne and his experts, aided by our own clerks bribed to betray their employ CTS, with the full use of our books and pa- pers, there were found only some 60 that could in any way be made the subject of controversy; and that in the case of some of these, of from % to 30 thousand dol lars each, the utmost possible loss to the government could not have been in excess of some 80 conts to S1 per invoice. And, furthermore, that the total loss claimed by the government on all the invoices was only about $1, 600, out of an importa- tiOn of some $40. .OO0. 900, and covering the space of five years. We believe Gen. But Ter further knows, but wlllfully conceals tho fact. that the same error and misun- derstanding of tho intricate law which compelled ms, under severe penalties, to invoice our goods, both at cost price and at market price, led us, in the case of Q great number of importations, to invoice their value above cost, and so result in a gain to the revenue and loss to ourselves immensely greater than the government claims to have lost.
 Mr. James Lick. of San Francisco, hay ing accumulated two millions of dollars, ia now engaged in distributing it. Seven hundred thousand dollars is devoted to the construction and equipment of an as. tronomical observatory at Lake Tahoe. a situatiOn particularly favorable for obser- vations, on account of the vast horizon and the exceptional clearness of the at. mOsphere there. Lord Rosse's great tel escope, thus far regarded as the most i'm portant private enterprise in astronomical science, constructed at cost of sixty thousand dollars, is to be eclipsed by MT. Licks new glass. A gift of four hundred and twenty thousand dollars for public monRme9ts ia not so clearly understood, and IT 4s iss intendcd to bes devoted to statues of eminent public men, we trust part may be assigned to tho work of ed.
 ucating sntisks eapabIe of producing works
 of ark The special gift of one hundred
 and fifty thousand dollars for the erection
 of afhFopze monument to the author ol
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the Star Spangled Banner, might well spare a portion for the special educa ton of the sculptor,-but we presume Mir. Ack. will receive advice enough from quarters nearer home.
, 1874-04-16

aa'a atato OF Pennsylvania, did, tho twenty
aay OF Juno eighteen hundred and scventy-throc,
INFORM me taa urorsfon had been 4,ado for the eyee
10" OF said b'fff;nus, ctc.: Nov therefore, bo It
known that I, ulysBos 8. 9rnnt, President Of the
Unled Satcs, ctc.
Tho ma1lagcrB Of tho Centennial joI, bnso their
rloa for bleeding tho TREASURY Oh this proclo'nh-
tion. This, tloy aay, committed tho country 10
tho Exposition. Not to baclt 1t now with million
on million would bo diagraco. But tl,IB proo1a-
nation, on which tho wlolo plea Is baRcd, soe!na
to llayo boon tho fruit Of a fraud. Tile penn-
a5lvania Legislature has just boon discussing
bill appropriatlng s1,o00,0o0 "for tho erection
Of auttRblo buildings" and Congress las
boon asked by tho Centennial lobby to voto
sa,0o0oo0 for tho buildings. It is evilont, thon,
that tho erection Of tho buildings had not boon
provided for on Juno "a, 1873, whon tho Govorn-
or Of Pennsylvania notlfied tho President that
1t had boon. This looks like d deliberate attompt
at fraud. The President WINS apparently dupcd.
It was case Of obtainiug a proclamation under
fa!so protoneos. Such q proclamation cannot
bind Tho people to achome they ropudiato, can-
not oblgo thom to spend millions Of dollars on
what ia suro to DO d coatly failure. Day by day,
tho evidence accumuates tint tho Centennial
enterprise. whatever It may havo been originally
has now become Job.
, 1874-04-16

It has beon said, mud with great probability,
that Pennsylvania yoteB hayo boon got for intla-
ton by the promise that part Of the now shin
plastors should be sunk In the Philadelphia Con-
tonnial show. The people have utterly rofuHad
to indorse any such use Of thepub1io fuuds; but
nobody knows what reckless Congress- u,ay DO
The preaont atate Of affairs Is thia. Tho bill
passed by OongroaB some tEmo ago provided IN
80 many words that the Unltoa statos should
"not DO liable for any expenao attending auoh
Exhibition or by reason Of tho samo." Tho
eighth section Of the bill was AZ follows,
That whenever tho President aLall DO informed by
tho Governor Of the State Of Pennsylvania tint pro-
vision has beta 4nads for the erection u suitable bu
igs for tho purpose, md for tho exclusive control by
thu Commission herein provided for OF the proposed
Exhibition the President shall, through tho Depart
net Of stuto, 1ssuo hts proclamation, netiug forth
the time ut which the Exhibition will open. aud thu
place at which 1t Will be hold.
On July Q, 1879, tho President iaauca tho
proclamation ordorod by this section. II oou~
tainod the follswiug o]ause,
And *hsssls h:s hioal1hcy, ths uessttss It tts
, 1874-04-16

Tho sonato Currency bill, which, Inns now
paBsod both uouaos Of Congresu, and which will
probably bo approved by tho President, provides
for all increase Of a18,000000 Of groonbacks, In
addition to tho e382, 900 now out It also
provides for an additional roaorvc Of grccnbacks,
to 10 kept by the National Danks In thor own
vaults which the Comptroller of tho Currency
estimates at about $44,000,O00. 1t authorisos
m inoreaso Of National Bank notcB to tho
nmonnt Of $4o,ooo.ooo, but tho conditions an-
ncxod to tho privilege aro Buch (as wo havo pro-
Vlous1y shown that tho banks will not be
likoly to avail tlomaolvoa OF 1t. Tho
net result therefore, is contraction OF tho cur
ronoy instoad Of an expansion, and this vortlca
what TIE Tribune has insiatod upon from tho
beginning, that Morton, Logan, and tho other
inflatorB had not aualcient intelligence to COM
prehond the effect Of thor own measures. The
bill, as passed, is not necessarily bad ono. Its
worst foaturo ia TINT It opens tho door to d
further imitation, by setting . precedent for in
croastng the volume Of lcgal-tondor notes with
ont milking any provision for their redemption.
, 1874-04-16

Chicagos ingenious plan for paving Washing
ton City with "ironlzed" pavement and good
intentions has been in part explained to tic
Committee investigating District OF Columbia
afrairs. G. E. Jonkins informed tho Committee
yesterday that he destroyed a largo number Of
letters received from Chittcndon after the ia-
yestigation lad boen ordered. Beng pressed
to give III idca OF tho matter contained In this
correspondence, the Witness related tho
gfat Of q letter written under date Of
May 80, 1879. It run to tho effect that
"things" woro propitious; TINT contract for
number OF thousand feet OF pavement had been
secured; and that '' Gen. Gar0elds influence" "
was "working we'll" Statements of this do.
script!on tho witueas must hayo regarded as
comparatively triaing, otherwise ho would not
havo takon tho trouble to destroy the lettors
while ho remembered aud reported their SUBJ
stance. II it is light thing to. connect Con.
Garfield with tho District Ring, what terrible
load nuat that have been which roated on
Mr. Jenkins soul aud necoasitatea tho do
atructon Of tho correspondence Some further
interoatlng Developments were nude by tho Conf
mlttoo. Thomas Eyans, a plumber, testified
that he was uuablo to obtain work from tho Gov
ernment because Mr.. Shepherd. Governor Of tho
District, was engaged In tint business. lie af-
Grmad that tho plumbing for tho Government
during the laBt threo years Inns boon doue eu-
tlrely by tho firm Of A.. r. Shepherd & Bro.
, 1874-04-16
THE WEST SIDE BRANCH,


A meeting Of tho West Division Branch Of tho
Woman's Temperance Organization WAS held yes
terlay afternoon in the parlor Of tho Union Park
Congregational Church, There wore about fifty
ladies present. Mrs. Case presided. Tho oxer-
clses opened with singing tho hymn, " MyFaith
Looks Up to Thoo," aftor which Mrs. Caso read
tho Cd Chapter Of Malaccht. Mrs. Clark thon led
III prayer.
CIRCULATING pLEpdE8
Mrs, Case said that the circulation Of pledges
should now bo proceeded With, aud the pledges
should be circulated from the churches, making
thom tho contre from which All efforts should
radate. Tho Central Committee Lad prepared
the pledges, antl 1t remained for tho meeting to
take action thereon.
BEGIN IN THE CHURCHES.
Mrs. Nuttiug said it Ind boen thought best for
each church to have plelgo-book, In which
natnos should be signod, commencing with the
pastors, and taking III tho of1ieers, II possible.
It WAS vol to know just wllero Olrlatians atood
III the matter OF temperance,
recommended by tho Central Committee, DO
adopted for circulation.
A'lady asked It 1t was dosignod to first take
tho pledge to tho pastor, aud then 90 through
tho whole church With 1t.
Mrs. Nutsing said she only meant to suggest
thp ohutohea es : good place to begin.
025. Matf3ita uudAlatood thai 6thttt ihkn
, 1874-04-16

IOWA.

spteia, Dispatch 10 IAs Chicago Tribune.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 15.-Ihe first symphonic
Of d contemplated crusade on tho liquor-dealors
broke out here to-day. Meetings havo been
othorB secretly, or, ct loast, privately, at which
the mattor has boon discussed and tho conc}u.
sion arrived ut to onforco by law tho prohibition
OF the sale Of liquors, The first prosecution
Of tue principal Wholesale liquor-dealers, aud
this was to have bcon followed up by the prose-
outlon Of all tho others. Attorneys were en-
ployed by the prohibitonistB, and every arrange
ment apparoutIy necesBary to SUCCESS vas maue.
FLEEING THE WRATH TO COME.
The lQHor-dealor who waB to DO the frat victim
was informed Of the matter, and, taking alarm
at tho threatened proceedings. commenced this
river into Illinois. Other lquor~doaor, also
took the alarm, aud commenced to follow lis ex-
ample.
AN ANTI-cnusApE MEETING.
droat oxcltement onB''ed. public meeting
msating Of business men Was called to meet at
2oc}ock this afternoon, to tako counsel OF each
other in tho impending crisis. Tho meeting waa
held, the Mayor presiding. Speeches were made
and resolutions passed deprocating tho course
Of tho temperance people as injurious 1o the
city and lta business aud as Of no good
to the carae OF temperance. They declared 1t To
be the duty of the City Council to maintain and
dofond the charter right Of the city in lLe
courts.
a 8FECIAL uHAHTEH.
It is believed that the city charter iS not af-
fected in the powos It has received by general
legislation in tho liquor question: AZ this chnrteI
III special ono Which o1i8ted before tho new
Constitution Of Iowa bocamo the fundamental
law Of tho State, and thiB Constitution prohibits
municipal corporations from being created by
special laws aud consequently it is assumed tor
tic charter Of Dubuque that 1t cannot be affected
ono way or another In tho powers contained
tn it.
THE QUESTION WILL ne LEGALLY TESTED.
Council, with the llquor-seflsrs win defend tle
right Of the city to license tie salo Of liauors,
aud Of the dealers to, sell the samo within the
corporate limits OF Dubuque, the prohibltosy
law to tho contrary Notwithstanding.
, 1874-04-16

Dockray. a oarpot-baggor from Connecticut,
who Established himsolf aa Collector OF CuH-
toms at Jacksonville, Florida, ard afterwards
passed oycr Into Cuba On myAtorious mission
to tho insurgents, Inns been sentenced to death
by Cuban court-1nartal A petition for hiB
pardon llas been presented to tho Captain-Go,,-
ora1, but thero is little prospect tint it will DO
favorab1y considered. Doclkray Ia wholly with
ont honor In the part Of tho United States
shonco hc originally came. hut ho IL aIill mn
American citizen, nnd Ills execution may lead to
trouble that noitAor tho United States nor
Spain Ia n1ixioug to incur,
, 1874-04-16

George William Curtin editorials On the sin
tero lovo Of the Republican party for Civil-scr-
vico Reform would he good enough reading now
adayH. Tho lucklcaa measure has had weary
life Of it, and will doubtless die readily. p1ocla-
nations lave been issued, rules lave boon
framed, examining boards have been appointed,
but somehow or otlor :" this particular instance
(Which means every instanco) has always neces-
sitatod q suspension Of tho ru1es." The purity
guillotino has worked aH stoadily aa ever. "IIon-
esty, efficiency, and fidelity" the shibboleth Of
the Reform, have been Of as little Aolp to Office
holding as over boforo. Cnscy has stayed at New
Orleans. jayne las plundcrod nt New York.
George William Curtis, though convinced against
his will, waa too thoroughly convinced to remain
Of the anmo opinion still. Ho mournfully With
drew from tho Cvil-Seryico Board, and published
plaintivo editorials about tho ignoring Of the
Reform in tho aame columns that were filled, but
few short months before, with glowing statements
Of the way the Republican party would enforce
it. Tho hollow pretease Is about to DO thoroughly
exploded at laat. The Clyil-soryice Reform
Committee will report to tho House all amend
mont to tho General Appropriation bill forbid
ding the use Of any money or tho dotalling Of
any officials to carry out tue rules. This, II
adopted, III it probably will be- will be tho coup
de grace. Dutloriam will again be officially do
1lnod rs Republcanism. The Republican party
has already destroyed all tho substance Of tho
Reform 1t might aa woll lay it's ghost.