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Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-29

nISTRIcT of Roxbury E. Prabste Court, July 10, Estate of Lauren Newton late of Roxbury in sai d District deceased.
 The Court Of Probate for the District of Roxbury hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said Estate represented insOfyent, in which to exhibit their claims thereto and has appointed Charles Beardsley aud Minott L.. Beardsley, Esquires of Roxbury, Commissioners to receive and examine said claims. Certified by .s HERMAN B. EASTMAN Judre The subscribers give notice that they shall meet at the office of Charles Beardsey said Koxbury on the 1Otn day ef September 1s75 and the IOh day of Jan uary, 1876 as o'clock in the afternoon oI eah of said days for the puipose attending on the business of said appointment.
 t. CHARLES BEARDSLFY
 8iINGTr L. BEAHDSLEY. ConIs- All persons indebted to said Est4te are requested to make immediate payment to
 LYMAN F. EASTMAN, Administrator. Is with the Will annexed
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-29
MOVING MACHINES! Ewn Assos w TIwooprs :: :

Improved Eagle Mower the most simple, least bolsss=hghtsst drafts and in eyervvav t,e hesta machine ever made This, stafement .seems rather broad. but it can be sustained. we invite an examination at any time. A few sec0nd- hand machines ssssSsRR 'et .sls ssassR,c CLOCK Agent.
 Also agent for Champion Horse Rake. 10H
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
PREHISTORIC AMERICA,

In the current number of the Overland Monthly California geologist reviews the geological evidence of the antiquity Oi a human settlement, near the present town of Cherokee in that State, and esti. mates the age of that most ancient o1 discovered towns to be not less than 18O,- 600 yearsl
 The traces in question are numerous stone mOrtars, found in undsturbed white and yellow gravel of a subaqueous forma- ton, not fuviatile, underlying the vast sheets of volcanic rock of which Table Mountain is a part. In one instance a mortar was found standing upright, with the pestle in it, apparently just as it had been left by its owner. In some eases mortars have been found ct the depth oi forty feet from the surface of the gravel underlying Table Mountain. The distri- button of mortars is such as to indicate with great p0sitiveness the former exist ence of human settlement on that an- cient beach when the water stood near the level at which they occur; time anterior to the volcanic Outpouring which Table Mountain records, and anterior to the glacial epoch.
 The recent geological history of that region may be briefly summed as follows: Previous to the placing of the mortars in the position in which they have been found, the early and middle tertiary sea level had receded to the position of the coal beds underlying Table Mountain. full. ly one thousand feet below the level of Cherokee. Subsequently, in the pliO- cene perIOd, there was a further subsid- ence of about fifteen hundred feet, some- fllinO Ike six hundred feet syeqs1rTiuor af- ter the mortars had been abandoned. All this, as has been noticed, took place be- fore the volcanic outAows which covered up all the ancient detritus of the region. including that of the ancient river (whose grayels have furnished so much of the gold of California The geological age of the river period was determined by Lesquereux from specimens of vegetation, now extinct, collected in the survey of the ancient rivers. specimens indicating q Ao- "a of the pliocene age, retaining some characteristic miocene forms. H alsf
 After the volcanic period the land rose
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
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again: the time of emeTgence embracing the glacial period in the sierra, during which the slates, and the hard metamOE- phic greenstones. and the gTanites slashed with canons three thousand feet deep by the action of ice and running water. Tax ing the rates of continental movement de- termined by LyelI, our geologist calcu- lates that the time required for the changes thus outlined could nothave been lees than eighteen hundred centuries. For a period so long proceeding the gla- cial epoch as the time when the ancient Cherokee was buried by the waters of the advancing sea, his estimate is certainly not extravagant, though it does transcend so enormously the time men have been accustomed. to allow for mans residence on earth.-Scientifc Anaericaa. r r
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
MAKING TOWNS AT1RAc1NE.


 MT Henry c. Boven delivered a brief, practical, and suggestive address at the Woodstock Fair, in Connecticut, the other day. closing as follows :.-r -. --.
 ''The time is not far distant, when the people in all these New England towns and villages will organIze and go system atically and joyfully. to work in making public Improvements. Those places which move the soonest will reap the earllest and greatest renown, for they will gain fin population the refined, the most enter prising and wealthy, and make perma- nently secure their prosperity. Real es- tate will increase Tn value, taxes will de- crease because of the increased valHe of property and of population, and every body will be made happier and better by the change. It is time to think of the improvement of your public streets and highways. It is time to think of side walks and shade trees along your high ways, of public parks and fountains, of bathing-houses and bOat-houses, of flow CTS and shrubbeFy-Of grading and level ing, of doing everything in your powcr,fO make all these beautiful hills and valleys bud and blossom as the rose, and be more and more your pride and joy. In this good work you must be united, harmO- niOus, and PerseveriDg, and the blessed yearly investment of time and money you will make will pay you a dividend every day the year round and your life long, and thousands shall share in your investment when you are dead and forgotten. Lot every man, woman, and child do s0nie- thing in this matter. and do it promptly. You can at least plant an elm or a. rose bush every year, and you will not have
 Hvo6 nT1kS in "A nrww more under this head. hope the tinfe will speedily come when it shall be called a punishable Offense for any man to make the public highway depository for all his old broken carts, and stone heaps, and old rubbish from his garret and barn, from cellar and doOr-yaFd. SucE action is harmful, demOralizing, and puhlic mi sance, and'it should be Tigidly forbidden and prevented. You have the power thus to do, and hope you will have the dis position to enforce it. It is for the pub lie good that this should be done, auGl that is reason enough. And hereafter. If a man wants a nuisance, let him haye-sit in his own dooryard, where he can see it, ponder over it. and smell it every day, all by himself. Those towns and villages will most prosper which fastest. multiply their local attractions. Ton will, ,aII,. of course, vote for schools, churches, and workshops, and t1IB IS rsgbt, but you must march onward beyond these points as fast as you can wfSE q proper regard to other duties. Look out for public in4fi- tutions, and endow them. Look out for your streets and highways, and improve them. Make your town, your village, ,and your home more and more beautiful every year. Your hearts will be made better. and your souls will be richer for so doing. Pardon this friendly criticism, and accept my best wishes for your continual pros perity." ae e -sss
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

Mr. B.. Q weli-known metropolitan printer. mentions that on one occasion an old woman from the country came into the printing office with an old large print Bible in her hand. "I want" said she. ''that you should print it over again. Its getting little blurreed sort of, and my eyes are not what they was. How much do you ax?" .'Half-a-crown." "Can you have it done in half an hour? wish you would-want to be getting home; I live 2 good way out of town" When the old lady vent out, he sent round to the office of the Bible Society and purchased copy for half-a-crown. 'Lor's sakes q massy!" exclaimed the old lady, when she came to look at it, ''how good you've fixed it, and how quick you've done it! I never sees nothin' so curious as you printers isl''
 A Newburyport man was the victim of a singular incident the other night. While passing along the street a boy exploded q common cracker just behind him, while at the same instant a rotten banana, thrown from . neighbcring fruit store, struch him on the back of the head. '.I'm shotl I'm shot" and taking handful of decayed fruit from his head, he exhibited 1t to horror-striken bystander as . spec. linen of his brains.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

emancipation of that boy. No one, not in conscious communion with the father, Son and the Holy Ghost, could wear such . happy countenance or express such exul tant praise. The Psalm1st of old never offered more acceptable service in the He brew tongue, nor touched sweeter melo- dy from his royal harp than did these Mississippi negroes when they poured forth their joy in such simple lines as- 'NOh won't we have happy time, .... Eatin' of the honey, and drinkin' of the wine :"
 Or, again, in soft refrain
 "Swing low, sweet chariot,
 A-coming for to carry me home."
 Mississippi letter to the Cincinnati Commercial.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

Benson. of sixth street, removed the body of his m0therin-Issw frOmg tEG saId cemetery the other day, and he Aasa he could find nothing but ter iaws Yhiek was in Q state of perfect preservation.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
Ibs GittbheIo Gnquirer, G. A. HICK0X, Editor x Proprietor
 urcHFIELD, CONN.

TERMS: Suhecviotfon. nap annunn.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21
Real Estate Transfers.

r. W. Burnet and wife to Patrick Lavell, lot
10 by 50 feet, on the north side of George street.
l25 feet east Of Central avenue-s2, ,6U0,
d. ID. Martin and wife to Nicholas Patterson,
leasehold 70 by 80 feet, on the south side OF
Seventh street. IT'S feet west Of Baymiller
street-sl2, 900.
W. s. Munson TO same, Il acres in Section 80,
Symmes township-$9O,0OO.
Timothy Kirby to George Robe, 20 years.
lease Of lot 81 by 10J feet on the north side OF
Hanheld street, 100 feet west Of Witter. street,
Twenty fifth ward, at an annual rent of $O
with the privilege Of purchasing the same for
The Riverside Land Association TO A. d.
Cunny, Lots " and S5, on the plat Of Minneola,
in Section 10, Delhi township, each 81 by lOO
Isaac Belts and wife to Agnes Ponlmann, lot
22K by leu feet, on the east side Of Linn street,
5O feet south OF HopKIns-s662 80.
The city to w. B. Dodds, lot 80 by 2s4 l1-l00
feet, southwest Of Kemper lane, and east Of AL
pine Place, adjoining Eden Park-sl and other
Henry Rogers to W. Il. Rogers, the undivided
half OF lS4 acres, in Section zs, Springfield
township-sl and other considerations.
A. U. Erwin to Enoch Erwin, three-fOurths OF
an acre on the G. and S. r. r., In Section 81,
Springfield township-ss75.
j. G. Isham and Wife to W. E. Strong, lot 95
by 1919 feet, on the southeast corner Of Eighth
Spring Grove Cemetery to W. II. Bricknell
and Mary j. Decamp, lot 81, in section u, con-
tanning y73 square feet-$4s8 30.
Nj. IL. Stone and wife to 4. j. Smith, assignee,
2 s5-l0O acres, ON the east side Of Lebanon pike,
3S3 feet south of Clinton street, In Avondale;
also, lot by 100 feet, on the southeast corner
of Vine and Commerce streets-s1 and other
Leah Steele and others to 7. L. Markland and
others, the Interest Of the grantors in tract OF
lO0 acres, i'll Sections and ". Miami township
- $6.500.
A. z. Cooke and wife to W. r. Halsted, lot
500 by 25l feet, on the north side Of Locust
avenue, west Of Washington avenue, in Avon
dale-$6,UO.
Martin Fitch to G. H. Hercking, lot 25 by 1U0
feet, on the south side of Wheeler avenue, 49,
feet west OF Foster strect-$5UU.
d. G. Chapman and wife to f. c. schonck, lot
l21s by 80 feet, on the north side Of Everett
street, 145 west of Central avenue.
William Van Week and wife to Samuel Nc
Clung, lot 50 by 100 feet on the south side Of
Vine street, 104 feet east of Maple street. Wal
nut HilIs-S300 and other considerations.
Thos. jenkins and Godfrey Ludwig, to Rob
ert Gottschalk, lot 25 by ,u5X feet, on the south
side OF Eighth street, 24J feet east OF Freeman
street-$4,4 ,4UO.
A tax deed from the Auditor to q. W. Keen
was also received.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21
who is unable to serve on account Of alb

who is unable to serve on account of alb.
sence from the city.
Catherine Steinmetz yesterday brought
u suit before Judge Force against her
husband to restrain him from collecting
judgment upon q note for $4,000, She
also petitioned that the money be paid
into Court, and that she receive alimony.
The Court refused the injunction, on the
ground that the plaintiff was not entitled
to relief by alimony, as the defendant
was q husband who was well able and
did care for his family.
Charles Hess was appointed admins
traitor OF Dora Keifer. Personally, 81 300;
real estate, $500.
Ferdinand Springmeier was appointed
guardian of the personal estate Qt Ed
ward, Clara, Ida, Jacob and Sophia Nei-
meyer.
The City of Cincinnati for the use OF
Jacob Worth, brought a suit before
Judge O'Connor against the Cincinnati
II Spring Grove Avenue Company, the
Central Christian Church, aud others,
on an assessment for grading and paving
johnson street, from Hopple street to
.Sring Grove avenue. The. plaintiff asks
for the enforcement OF lien against the
property, and also for a personal judg-
ment. The assessment was for 821 feet.
The City Engineer certified the work
was done according to the terms of the
contract.
The defendants claimed that the street
in question had never been dedicated,
ana that the ordinance had been passed
for the express benefit Of the Stock-yard
Company.
The case is now in progress.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21
FADING
The past is fading, fading,
Meier to come back again;
The cypress tree Is shading

The past is fading, fading,
Meier to come back again;
The cypress tree Is shading
Half of the sunny plai H..
Not q branch shows new in the hedgerowI
green,
just so the lark from the meadow sprung,
When life and alike were young;
just 80 the primrose peeped to light,
When and April nailed the sight.
Yet, Natures self pervading,
Is the sense Of something gone;
The past is fading, fading,
And the wheel OF time rolls on.
The past is fading, fading,
And gathered III its hold,
It's mighty pinions lading,
ls much we prize OF old;
The grass grows rank DER many grave
OF the young and joyous and gay and brave,
many we'll loved voice is hushed,
Many o golden hope is crushed,
Many happy dream is over,
With smile Of kindred, friend and lover.
The past is fading, fading,
The blood runs cold and slow;
Harsh wisdom is degrading
The creeds Of long ago.
The past is fading, fading, '"~-,,
We cling and pray in vain
Where the cypress tree is shading
The tombs Of all the slain,
Slain by the years and put aside,
The darlings of love, the idols OF pride,
One by one the frail links part,
Hand drops from hand, and heart from heart;
One by one the sweet things given
TO brighten earth 20 back to heaven,
10 love and life peryading,
Sigh the sense OF something gone,
And tho past is fading, fading,
=. And the wheel Of time rolls on.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21
Court CuIItn0se

A writ of error was allowed in the case
of John Mullaney, who was convicted
some time ago in the Police Court of ma
ground that the Statute requires prose-
cution by indictment.
Judge Coffin gave his argument in the
Mary Chandler case yesterday, after
which the Court adjourned on account
of the sickness Of Judge Cox.
Judson Harmon has been appointed on
the Examining Committee OF the Law
School instead OF Thomas 4cDougal,
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

WRIGHT, an English editor, yesterday y
had DR.. Kenealy arrested on charge. OF
libel. In this country we are glad to
say that editors know better than to
spend their time as plaintiffs in libel
suits. When one is mixed up in such a
matter it is generally as defendant. But
the result on both sides of the Atlantic
Ia usually the same-judgmentf for the de-
fendant and tho plaintiff left to pay the
costs. Still there are always people to
be found who think suing a newspaper
FOR libel may prove a short road to
wealth.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

In our notice of the fruit slaughter, the
other day, we somewhat modified the
panic Of certain growers who thought
that all was lost, and now we slightly
modify our own panic by saying that
more apples are safe than we then
counted upon. Many trees will bear
fair crops, if no further killing frosts
assail them. We are still confident of a
fair strawberry crop north of the lati-
tnde Of Hamilton, and the crop is not
entirely destroyed in the latitude Of the
city. Half degree makes considerable
difference in this fruit.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

PHILADELPHIA is puzzling over the
question OF supply Of W ater for the city i.
No feasible scheme has yet been adopt
ed, though the supply is very inadequate
for the ordinary requirements Of the city,
and will be still further from meeting the
demand when the great Centennial is in
mil blast.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

to decide 1t. As we understand IT, psy-
chology declares that willful perjury has
not been committed on either side, and
that Mr.. Beecher is not guilty Of adul-
terry.
1t can not be denied that the Plymouth
preacher has had many tempting oppor-
tunities for committing that sin; but we
which now urge him to deny it, pressed
upon him with equal force to avoid the
last act of mutual admiration between
the sexes. If it be replied that Beecher
could reasonably suppose that the secret
would never be made, public, let it be
replied that the whole moral force Of his
nature and his religion, together with
the force of duty to his own family, and
to bis friend (for such relation he sup
posed subsisted between himself and
Mr.. Tilton), combined with the selfish
motives that are now supposed to govern
him, to hold him in check against
actual crime. The offense Is not claimed
to have been made public except by the
confession of the parties themselves. No
rational person can believe that Mr..
Beecher ever made such confession;
and as to Mrs. Tilton her "confession"
was extorted, as it were, while in state
of physical debility and great nervous
prostration. That She has a delicate
conscience and fine religious scruples
there is NO doubt; and while so
prostrated she was led to believe that
her intimacies (not criminal) with Mr..
Beecher were unbecoming wife and
mother, and that, on seeing how she had
exposed herself and what risks she had
run, those intimacies assumed horrid
shapes in her over-wrought imagination
and hence the "confession" in which
she did not mean to confess the crime in
issue before the Court. This confession
was such as jury and the world would
take for more than she intended. So
with Mr.. Beecher's letter of contrition
and his many other expressions that are
considered, by most people, to look
toward guilt. No degree Of credulity
can believe that Mr.. Beecher ever made
confession Of crime In this case. The
same powerful motives that are now sup
posed to force him to the most positive
denial, operated upon him to make no
confession. Though he has been very
foolish in many things in the develop
ment Of the scandal, yet no one can be-
lieve that he was, at any time, 80 de-
mented as to confess such crime.
He made every possible acknowledg.
ment to Tilton and Moulton short Of such
a confession in the hope of reconcilia-
tion. He said many things under al
heated imagination that look ugly to the
world; but psychology can explain them
fully as satisfactorily as Mr.. Beecher
himself.
Imaginations were badly inflamed on
both sides. Probably no one is weaker
in this regard than Mr.. Tilton. So also
Mr.. and Mrs. Moulton. They interpret
ed Mr.. Beecher's expressions as confess
sions of guilt; and SO have sworn them.
They were not clear expressions Of car
nal guilt, and so MIR. Beecher has sworn
them. Therefore, neither side is guilty
of willful perjury.
Had we space we could explain all in
harmony with this hypothesis.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

An exchange gives as reason for
business inactivity that TOO many people
are sitting down waiting for 1t to become
more active instead Of going to work to
help make it SO.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

DIR. QUINN has again been chosen
Health Officer of this city. We have no
complaints to make; bat, as well as he
has done in the past, there is room for a
little improvement, and we want to see
It made. Let Cincinnati be known as
the city having the best sanitary regula-
tiOns in the country,
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

XNTANTED-TO RENTAL entire, floor
w OF THE STAR BUILDING. 23O Wal
nut street. Two fine front rooms, suitable
for business or editorial rooms, and large
room in the rear, with the best Of light, suitable
for a composition room. These rooms present
the very best location for large publishing
power. Press work can be done IN The build.
ing. Inquire at THE STAR OFFICE. ja26-tf
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

JOE HOWARD has attained more noto-
riety outside of the city of New York
siuee be commenced the defense of Mr.
Beecher in his paper than ever before.
In reply to the question, "Who is Joe
Auwardr it may be answered that he
Is the oldest of three brothers, and that
the other two are junior partners Of the
firm Of j. D. Ford & Co., Mr.. Beecher's
publishers. The Howard family being
owners in the Christian Union and
Er. Beechers other publications, very
naturally take a deep interest in the
great trial. 1t may be further remarked
that Joseph belongs to that class
Of journalists tat always condemn
every man in any way accused, and do
not consider that private citizen has
any rights that a newspaper should re-
Epect. In view Of this course heretofore
the position of his paper in this matter
was a surprise to those who did not
know how matters stood, and appeared
to indicate that his heart was softening
as he grew older. If Joseph had been
foot-loose in this emergency he would
have said meaner things about MI.
Beecher, and said them in a meaner way
than any Of the others of the same class
that have for so lonS been devoting their
little energies mainly to this topic.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-21

The Cabinet changes 30 much talked
Of have not assumed any substantial
shape. They are but rumors, and very
vague ones at that.