Litchfield enquirer., 1874-06-25

South, provided they raise the necessary capital to organize the banks they seem to so much desire. The provision of the banking law requiring banks to keep q 15 per cent reserve is repealed, but banks are obliged to keep deposit in the Ma tional treasury sum equal to five per cent of their circulation. The effect of this bill will be to allow banks to loan some what larger proportion of their capital, but otherwise it cannot be said to tend towards imitation. It is probably as harm less financial bill as this Congress could be prevailed on to pass, and for that req son it has been allowed to become a law by the president.
 The new postal law proposed by the Senate seemed to have little malice in it. The plan of making newspapers pay pastage by weight is very well; but 4 cts per tb, on newspapers sent 10 ordinary subscribers, is extortionate. Whether they should be paid advance is not mat ter of so much consequence although it makes rather heavy tax on pub fishers. The Postmaster General only urged rate of 1! cts per pound on news papers sent regularly to subscribers and that certainly seems enough. As for public documents they are we'll enough where they are in the Capitol vaults. The congressman who should ship them to constituents, expecting them to pay 25 cts postage on each document, would need a pretty large ''jug of returns" for such as came back on his hands again.
 P. s. Postage has finally been fixed at 2 cents on newspapers and 3 cents on magazines; county circulation free. The law goes into effect Jan. 1st, '75.
 OLD AND NEW for July contains: Old and New; The Way we Live Now, by An thony Trollope; Artificial Teeth; The Protestant Theory of Authority, by James Martineau, l.. l.. D.; Washing Up and Washing Down; Technical Education; Our Sketching Club; Twilight; Scrope; or, The Lost Library, (concluded) by Frederick B. Perkins; French and Ger man Schools; Education for the Civil Ser. vice; The Examiner; Record of Progress; Musical Review.
 Roberts Brothers, Boston; $4 Q year. See Enquirer clubbing rates.
 GoDEY's LADY's BOOK contains: Coun- try Homes in New England Q Century Since; Hotspur's Oath; Summer Winds; Aunt Mehitable's Winter in Washington: Origin of Worlds; Mrs. Hiller's Queer Whim; The Gin-Around; Smoky Beads; Two Against one; Requited; One Old Fashion Plate, Fashions, Pat ters, Poetry, Music, &c.
 Louis A. Godey, Phila.; $3 year. See Enq. clubbing rates.
 The action of the Illinois State Republi- can convention indicates that irritation" is not so overwhelmingly, popular in the West as has been feared. Senator Logan tried hard to squeeze an imitation plank into the platform but was signally defeat ed in the attempt. On the other hand Indiana Republicans and the Indepen- dents of both States passed resolutions fa- voring that heresy.
 A noted Brooklyn dog trainer died of last week. He had always asserted that this disease is caused by the fears of those who suffer from it, but his own death proved his mistake.
 Messrs. Geo. O. Woodruff, s. B. Boards ley and Willard Spencer, commissioners on the estate of the late Greene Kendrick have rejected the claim for $14O,O0O pre- sented against it by John Kendrick.
 A Salisbury gentleman sends us an oak pin from dam built no years ago. It is as sound as the day it was put in.
 ''I would not enter on my list of friends.
 Though graced with polished manners and fine
 sense,
 Yet wanting sensibility-the man
 Who'd needlessly set foot upon a worm."
 I think Cowper wrote the foregoing and therefore I think he never lived il the country or tried to cultivate trees ol flowers. Presume he never had garden If he had seen the ruthless cut worn nipping in the morning of it's life the coy eted vegetable or choicest flowers h' would soon have learned to unearth tn, little pest, and end at once his life and his depredations. Suppose he had sur rounded his home with trees, expecting to enjoy in due season the fruit thereof
 and the loathsome appletree worms hat
 taken full possession of them do you be
 lieve ''he'd step aside and let the reptil live?" When he saw his cherished ros,
 bushes stripped of their beauty and fra
 grance by the greedy rose-bug, would h.
 forbear to apply the Paris-green to hi.
 bushes, lest the poison should disagret with the little deyourer? Women make ruthless war on the industrious spider whose chief mission is tO entrap end de stroy the vexatious fly, and whose chic fault is in putting his web where the tidy housewife has to sweep it down, but WI
 would recommend them to spare the spi
 der and war upon the ''pretty moth
 whose beauty is its only redeeming qual
 ity. One moth is the parent of man,
 worms; therefore, destroy the moths. J. SHARON, June 21st, 1874