Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-26
0be fitfb6elo sGuquirer,
 LITCHFIELD, CONN.
LlTcHFiELD.

MT. John l.. Plumb is raising green house plants for village supply.
 Michael Bion started for his perma- nent residence, Monday morning.
 Court adjourns for Thanksgiving this week and comes h again next Tuesday.
 Rev. Mir. Morrison breaches in the Conel. church tomorrow Thanksgiving.
 Col. Vessels is better and leaves New Haven for the South about Jan. l.
 -F. M. Sanford has new sign nicely painted by Mir. Garwood Sanford, who is now S1 years old.
 Walter B. Stickney was nominated for sheriff by the Prohibitionists on Tues day.
 MT. Edwin McNeil has sold to Miss Harriet T. Woodruff his place on North Sa. now occupied by Mir. Wooster, for s7.OO0.
 -E. c. Roberts, executo- of the late Thomas Harney, has conveyed to Mrs. Joanna Harney the half owned by the de- ceased of the residence on South St. The other half was already her property.
 Our snow storm of Sunday and north easter of Monday finally closed up with a novel afterpiece in the shape of rattling thunder storm. It is seldom we arc fa- vored with so many varieties of sammer and winter weather as the past week has vouchsafed.
 At the meeting of the county com missioners at this place, last week, the following liquor dealers were licensed:
 COIe6roOk.-Joseph c. Sheba.
 Manchester. Thomas Finn, B V and W A Pinney, William Higgins, John H Finns Henry A Dayton, James Baker, Charles P Phillippi, Watson & Catln, Conrad Barreuther, Patrick Kelley.
 Skaron. Gilbert E Lake.
 1orringtOn.- F Cumming.
 Watertown.-M Hickock.
 BGrkh0nasted.- Calvin Aldrich. Dwight & Frank A Case, Dudley N Smith.
 We are glad to learn that F. E. S. Messenger, chief clerk at the Litchield post-ofice, has effected an arrangement by which mail matters are distributed to tue neighboring offices half day in ad- vance of heretofore. MT. Messenger has the thanks of the Register, and we are certain of score of others for this long needed accomfnodation. - WoIcottUtLle Register. -.a.
 Tho Temperance Convention of Tues day morning was not large gathering. We presume it was harmonious as we saw only one prohibitionist, Mir. Beardsley of Plymouth, present. The addresses in the afternoon were really fine of their kind. Very few were there to hear them and although most of odr citizens would probably differ from many of the views expressed by our prohibition friends, they certainly lost great deal by not being present to hear them so ably presented.
 The Rev. Mfr. Hillard of Plymouth ar- gued the necessity of prohibition from the immsnse waste, crime and suffering aris- ing out of the liquor traffic. The records of the Intefnal Revenue for this State show about 3,6OO licensed places for the sale of liquor. Their receipts, MT. Hill lard thought, could hardly average less than $1O a day, each, or total sales of twelve millions year. The total expense | of schools public and private he estimated at $l, ,641 900; of churches. at $1, ,239, 900. Education and religion cost the state less than one sixth the expense of it's dram shops. The whole value of church prop eFty in the state is only about twelve mil lions. The people spend an amount of money for liquor, every year, that would build all our churches from the founda- ton. The increase in crime for the past | year had been 5Oper cent-the result of | increased intemperance. Prohibition, he | claimed, was no more failure than the l Ten Commandments were a failure. Sta tistics show that Prohibition has worked better than any other system. It has been a success in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island where it has been re- gently adopted-inasmuch as it has re- duCed the amount of liqaor sold there.
 Mir. Hillard was very severe upon the Republican party. claiming that they had l never earnestly advocated temperance. They had only favored it (one or two in- stances perhaps exoepted) with view to | pleasing temperance men, not because they heartily adopted the principle. Yielding unwillingly to the temperance men of their own party they falied of coasa. Once only, in this state. they came ont frankly in favor of a state constabulary, and. through the assistance of temper ance men. won the election. They then failed to keep their faith with those tenn perance men. who thereupon left the party. Mir. Hillard spoke most eloquent ly of the power of an earnest minority to | accomplish righteous measure Abo- lition was right; the earnest minority ad- vOcated 1t and won. Woman Suffrage is right. and 1t will win. Prohibition is right and it must succeed.
 Mfr. HiIlard certainly has great ability as a political. speaker. He IS bright, earnest and forcible-never stiff and heavy, as it so often the case with the clerical speaker on secnlar subjects. |
 Mir. H. D. Smith of Southington, the Prohibition candidate for governor last year. followed with short but powerful
 
 address. He objected to the dcgmas that rale the opinions of men. The dogma ''Of two evils, choose the least," was a fallacy. When Charles Sumner was ask ed to choose the least objectionable of two great parties. he began his great career with the reply. 'T choose neither I" Mir. Smith showed from Internal Reyeuue