Litchfield enquirer., 1875-03-11
New Hampshire Republican,
covernor. iegisIature. and three M-R
 congressmen Elected.

congressmen Elected.
 Returns from New Hampshire indicate pretty conclusively the election of :. Ie- publican Governor and legislature, and probably three Republican Gongressmen.
 There was very large vote boiled. The Prohibition vote is cast this year for the Republican ticket.
 1 The Tribune comedies that sufficient returns have already come in to ensure beyond doubt sweeping victory for the Republicans" The House did some rather reputable work, just at its close. regarding South ern affairs. The Hoar resolutions, recog- nizing the Kellogg government in Louisi- ana but demanding reorganization of the legislature, were perhaps the only form of compromise practicable. The Poland re- solutions against interference in Arkansas were passed by large majority in the l face of the Presidents message. The ad- mission of Sheridan to his seat as Con- gressman at large from Louisiana was in effect an admission that Kellogg was never elected. Sheridan ran on the Conserva- tive State ticket with McEnery in 1872; his opponent ran on the Republican ticket with Kellogg, and there was no great diff ference in the number of votes cast for the respective candidates on the State tickets. If Sheridan was legally elected, therefore, ! there is little doubt that McEnery was legally elected also,-a conclusion some ] what different from that arrived at by Mr. Hoars branch of the Louisiana Commit te
 The New Milford Ray copies the charge against the authorities of this town of keeping a crazy woman in jail to avoid paying for her support at the Insane Asy- lum, made recently by the Winsted Press. Bro. Delavan don't seem to like giving Bro. Pinney's paper as authority for this story but speaks of it as Gan exchange" Now It turns out that this insane prisoner Is not a resident of Litchfeld, but of Cos hen, and that 1t was in the Goshen poor house that she committed the homicide for which she was tried, acquitted as in- sane, and committed to jail. Further more it appears that Judge Sanford of the Superior Court has decided that he has no authority to order her removal to Mid dletown, and that it can only bs effected by an act of the legislature.
 The Democratic Congressional Conven- tion at Bridgeport, last week, chose Hon. G. Fl. Hollister president, and gave W HI. BarRum a majority of votes on the first ballot. The most prominent candidates against him were Mir. J. S. Taylor of Danbury and $. B. Sumner, the former receiving eleven and the latter fourteen votes So the venerable form has been gone through with, again, and the voters of the District are asked to return to Con- gress for the fifth time man whose self ishness and neglect of public duty have been repeatedly censured by the leading opposition journals.
 A curious swindle was unearthed at New Haven, last week. One Benson ad- vertised himself as president of Sewing Machine Go. wanting agents. He asked 9 cts. for photograph of his machine, in- structions Sc. It turned out on investi- gation that there was no such company, and that Benson was making sometimes s3O from deIuded people desiring agen- I cies.
 There was an explosion at the powder house of the American Flask & Cap Go. ill Waterbury, on the 2d inst. killing Oscar F. Atwood, an employe of the company. The explosion was so violent as to break windows in various parts of the city.
 A few nights ago eight stores in Dan bury were entered by burglars. but they stole very llttle.-E1.
 That, now, is a kind of item that pro- tects village more effectually than bur- glar proof safes or night watchmen.
 The Democratic Sheriff's Convention has been postponed till the 25th inst. This will allow the newspapers but sin gle issue for comment on the nomination. This may be shrewd policy but it don't l look much like Reform
 We have so often had occasion, of late, to express dissatisfaction with the Presi- dents course that we take particular plea sure in noticing his righteous veto of the bunkum bounty bill. Had he been really an aspirant for Third Term we imagine he would have approved that bill for the same demagoguical reasons that led Con- gress to pass it.
 We are much pleased with short me- tre psalm (XXIII, Watts version) sent us by Hon. Robbins Battell, it's composer. It is Of that neat minor, Mendelsshonish cast, which delights the organist while it often sticks the choir. Sung in tune (and how many choirs can sing minor harmo- nies n tune?) we judge it would be very effective and by DO means heavy, in spite | of it's numerous minor chords. BLACKwooD's EDINBURG MAGAZINE for February contains: Giannetto; The Pay ment of the Five Milliards; The Story of Valentine, and his Brother; The Abode of Snow; Alice Lorraine, A Tale of the South Downs; Politics at Home and Abroad.
 The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,, New York; S4 year.
 Dr. Rob't Hubbard, of Bridgeport, was nominated for Congress by the Repubi- cans of this District in their convention l of Tuesday.
 1 Some half dozen witnesses have been