Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14


 0lil ir al Honest Clrrsley! HAYES. REPUBLICAN, ELECTED.
 MAJORITY. 15.oOo
 Returns from Ohio indicate the election of Hayes by 1s.0OO majority. It is im- possible Co overestimate the importance of this victory. It commits the Empire State of the West to a sound Currency and squslches Imitation for 1876. Three cheers for Honest Ohio II
 The first experiment in carrying peaches across the Atlantic in refrigerator failed, buh later one succeeded.
 ET. Turner makes 6 few very pointed and highly interesting remarks in his new advertisement. Read it.
 ( Correspondents should write us by Monday's mail if possible. Several let. ssrs received Tuesday evening are crowd. ed out this week. t-,.... ......,
 A sad accident occurred in Oakville, Watertown. on Tuesday. Mrs. David Hard. her daughter, and Miss Ida Judd. daughter of Bennett Judd. of watertown. were driving to Waterbury. when their horse ran, threw the ladies out, killing Mi@ Judd and seriously injuring Miss Hurd.
 Mrs. Tilton has been having house warming at Brooklyn. A purse of s4Oo and other donations were made. Part of the children are staying with Mir. Triton and part with her.
 Mir. Robert Dale Owen has recovered sufficiently to leave the asylum, and it is tO be hoped that his mortifying experience with "Katie King" has taught him to be little moro cautious in his endorsement ofspiEitual manifestations.
 We were in receipt of letter, last week. from Thomaston. complaining of the con. daCt of che Watertown fair as regards the drawing match and other matters. The article vas very personal in it's style, and one shat it could do no good to print. A ndke temperate production appears in the last Winsesd Herald on the same subject. Evidently some one is pretty earnest in thinking that Thomaston did not have fair play at Watertown. rt .. t
 The License matter is curiously mixed this year. Waterbury, Meriden, and Dan. bury vote No License. We hope they may stand up to their vote. In this coun. Q. Canaan. Norfolk, Colebrook, Harwin. son. and Goshen vote No License, while Tofrington, New Hartford, Winchester, Darkhamsted, Plymouth, Thomaston. WoOdbury. Washington, New Milford, and we believe Sharon, North Canaan and Salisbury. vote License. No vote means Lieense, not No License, as has been sup. wgwS0 m some quarters. F.-tsse .-... +s.--..
 Ms. Jewell has given another proof of his fitness for his present position by ap- pointing Mir. Alexander, postmaster of Jacksonville, Fla. Mir. Alexander is a competent person, bat not a"Grant man," wheeeat the virtuous Republicans who grow or arc imported in that region send up shout of indignation. The difficulty seems to be that there are some Repubh- cans and some honest and competent men in Jacksonville. but the republicans and the honest and competent men are not the same persons.
 Mir. John Zundel, the organist of the Plymouth church, comes out strongly, of course. for Congregational singing, and says that the location of the organ at the pulpit end of the church, ''is imperatively demanded for the blending of the voices of choir and congregation. He also claims for the organist the leadership of the choir. He also has his say against Precent0rs :- |.
 Precentors are an important in- 9titntion that in this country. where four-part singing only finds favor, will never take root. Precentors may do some good in German churches where all the people sing the air only, leaving it to the organ to give the necessary harmonic support, but here in America the ladies claim and maintain very creditably the leading part, the other parts following more and more powerfully and closer than than ever heard precentor followed by the congregation. And now in some churches we have even a cornet CD as a leader or precentor. What would that good old deacon say to the cornet who oblecsed even to the organ as a ,pooden leader. t.
 All this may be true as regards conere- gational singing in large city churches where there are great many good and cultivated voices in, the congregation; but in small country congregation, in place where ther6 is little or no musical cul. tivation and few good leading voices, the strong lead of cornet, well played, is not to be despised. i' ,.te..t- ,sN raa
 n is astonishing what devotion to the business of Agriculture comes out in un- expected places. Senator Dawes recently wrote as follows to Massachusetts Agri cultural Society, ea. siuees....., ..,t ...,
 Born and bred farmers boy, I look back upon the life of health and vieor and peace and independence, e.->1l3s;f
 i wAsfs shs mower whees his seyfhe ...s
 And the milk-mai sineeth bliihe, ..4s-.l with longing greatly intensified by the heaatv and gaiety of there festivals, on the enc side, and by the husky and enapty life for which 1 forsook the farm. the field. ths eseAqrd. and. incomparabiy above ali oehesas 4he farmers home. . t.-.-sA
 It is certainly much easier to find men who will undertake ''hnsky and empty &MAN B.