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Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

nssnx assirous of giving every encouragement to arnuns fsvcring us with local news make the fol- ensr nronoagious to regular and occasional ccrros- ponasnis:
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 an ss cnce in ioar weeks We vil send regular copy R 1ke Rnquiree and postage. as above.
 @-MsWahx euxespondenss sending items aess s Ire .I NnnaRssR azbgeek to stoppage whenever we may con- % fhrr oormunications too few, or of too little inn r.Uwnnnmn an warrant itn continuance.
 m-@n rnwmIar and occasional correspondents extra arae uR tRe paDer containing communications of spe- di impsEt11ee. win be sent on request, without
 Ioesa issms frOm reliable in any part of the sounax wl he received with pleasure, but par Saenlssay aexirous of increasing list of regular wssAay snA sortnishy correspondents, especially in x,nnsa Me New Milford Kent Cornwall, Falls Village, woauasvls Harwinton and other localities not ade- usssy represented in columns; and we hope also Ia from persons now furnishing only occasional letters.
 REQUIREMENTS AND sCGGEsTIoSs.
 A~auvunoua communication cannot expect pubii- en11oa- -
 TAs names Of correspondents will be kept strictly soens9, fl dsmtred. pahahsd une~. tbe propriety of such publication IS wmmtfeak =
 MaaaseEipt should be written only on one side 0i uA9 paper. .
 Ra9nIar eorrespondents avoid all danger of hay tnR eke eUnkrbufons of others attributed to them by anSnmlng some signature, single letter being sufh- 0mmk.
 n easa cf two communications relating to the same svwmk. the fullest will usually be published. Hence summmunicakions never amiss, even from places whsa s have regular correspondence since they often Mya valuable additional information.
 aimnle ataaemcnt of facts s all that is necessary, nnA hnnslly written communications will be corrected haoor0 publication.
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at that time seriously desired any such
 arrangement. The House of Commons
 was hardly representative body in those days, and it was much too large already. The Atlantic was practically twiceo three times wider there than now, and all Amer ica wanted was, ''to be let alone" Hence necessity offered England, only her choice between notification and tyranny. A statesman like Chatham might indeed see the wisdom of choosing the first of these evils. Bnt can we wonder that 8 stubborn king. stubborn parliament, and a stubborn people, should make 8 pretty hard fight for little tyranny rath- CT than yield peaceably to nulliication or
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
STATE HENS.

Burglars were up and doing in Meriden Friday night. i.f .-ta.a aesfi7 ..g55 r. l sa znfs hsfsae osfssa issfEt aa.a
 There are several eases of snaallp pox in Colechester and Westchestsr. i4He I.a,@
 James Porter's barn in Bridgeport vas burned. Friday morning. s.2s
 John Flanaganis house in Plantsyille was burned Thursday morning. .sa ggIs-9
 The Roman Catholics of Stafford Springs are building . large school house.
 The Leonard Silk company of Rockville is going to buih . new mill a5e feet long.
 The members Of the Wesleyan crew have begun their scourse of training for the regatta. = q 1'as ss isss
 Hartford realized about S4, ,OO9E for khA Osntennial by the Washington' lea narty last Week-i2aez1 II .asIst ! U iUan assIa1
 4 professional gamblar was Aeeeed ont of g, ,OO0 in private club at Hartford. recently.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
Wanted at the Polls!

About four years since, Walter P. Cham berlin, the Chief of Police of the City of Hartford, became involved in scandal which resulted in his dismissal from office. The charge against him is thus set forth in Mondays Courant:
 Four years ago Walter P. Chamberlin was found guilty of soliciting a young woman whom he met in the course of his official business, to commit a criminal offense. The proof was letter, couched in filthy language, and written on the off cial paper of the police department. He was then a man about sixty years of age. The act was no youthful indiscretion. The letter was evidence not merely of a single act, but of bad life and a loose character. It was conclusive proof that Hartford had chief of police who would use his official position to pander to his lowest vices.
 On Saturday night. by vote of five to one, the Hartford Board of Police Com missioners restored this man to his for mer place. He had been punished enough" they thought, and he resumes his position as chief guardian of the mor- als of the capital city of the "Land of Steady Habits!" Three Democrats and two Republicans voted for Chamberlin, so that his restoration is not the crime of any political party. It is the crime of one sex against the other. Can anyone won- der that crimes against chastity are so no- torious in our cities when such are the men employed to prevent them? While chief of police is levying horrible black mall on the prostitution within his pre- cincts, and his subordinates are emulating his example, are we to wonder that pros- titution is on the increase!
 But what remedy offers Simply this: good women are busy with Houses of Refuge when they should be busy with the Ballot. Till they stop their weak la- menting and do little indignant voting, such outrages as that under consideration will continue. Men are careless, if not indifferent. To the male mind, Walter P. Chamberlin is sufficiently punished, not by few years in State Prison, but by few years abstinence from his natural function as guardian of Hartford morals! Does any man in his senses believe that with woman enfranchised. any political party in Hartford, or combination of po- litical parties in Hartford, would dare to affront whole sex with such an appoint ment as that of Walter P. Chamberlin, for Chief of Police?
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
, NEWS oF TAE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

z
 Great Britain.-Roman Catholic Bish. ops of Great Britain have been writing letters of sympathy to the Bishops of Ger; many and Switzerland ,T;-
 Sundays revival meetings, by Moody and Sankey, were well attended. Mr. Glad stone was present. -ot ,t>r # Kenealys motion against the judges in the Tichborn case was rejected 433 to 1. The libel suit against him has been dis missed. 3I slfas aAst 41= i'd
 Fraace. 1.-Two Paris editors fought a duel, last week, and both were wounded. The funeral of the three aeronauts, who lost their lives in the balloon Zenith, took place at Paris, on Tuesday of last week. i
 An International Congress on the his tory of America before Columbuswill meet in Nancy,on July a. ssfao aa'- .Tsaii.e !.
 Belgiias. .-Ths investigation into the conspiracy against Prince Bismarck has begun at Brussels. 11 -9ssf!3 -lI F Is is said that Prince Bismarck has ad- dressed . note to Luxemburgs similar to that sent to Belgium. .syaas slI'
 Greece.-Much excitement prevails over the approaching elections. The Govern ment is concentrating troops in Athens i xiediu.-Ihe Viceroy has issued A pro ctaznAea0n 0c 0ck,OshuS tn1 uuAAWuf s0xs@ yDhr- oda. .9fH c ItEsss>5 zssl .itsa7siasai ! iS0stthera Aasevicd.l -Sharksy is stin in iail at HavanA. 1eaa g es! sss stssse1 soa s'ss I There wasa revolt in La Paz, Bolivia. against the authority of President Frias; the revolt. howeveR, was promptly sup .uressod. sEsg Hs tslfG9 ai8f sg 4z all
 President Lerdo in message to the Mexican Congress deplofss the spirit of bigotry prevailing in hs eoantfyI yqa
 DOMESTIC. issi.i 4H a.alszI
 The majority report of the Cqmmittee on Electiona of fhs Louisiana House of Representatiyea. .resea tin6 i've Democrats, was adopted, 61 to g. ,,.- If1r.'s. s..sa
 The bin giving the power of absolute removal of State officers to the Governor has been defeated in the New York Ben
 A auarrsI between tEo, man in Brook Iyn, last week, about the wife of one of them ended in fatal stabbing a6rsy.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
NoticeA!

THE partnership heretofore existing under l the name and firm of Mason Perkins be- tween the undersi9ned haa this day been dis solved. An claims due to said firm, have been assigned to, and all debts due. from said firm have been assumed by, the new firm of Merri- man & Perkins.
 s.a .M ,ah tbsoN fRRK1Ss 1HSSN' ? LLitehAsld. April sth. 1s76.yS faife23wF
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

County of Liteh6sld, ss. o.g l{
 Litchfeld. April 22d 1875.
 WHEREAS, Seth Thomas and others, citizens of Plymouth, in this State, have preferred their petiti on to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. to be holden at Hartford, on the first Wednesday of May 1875, praying for the reasons therein set forth, that so much of said Town of Plymouth as lies westerly of . line commencing at the east side of the Naugatuck river at . point bearing South 400 West from the pot-hole in the rock known as the sfIndian Sam Morta'' in aafd town on tho east siae of the road between the houses of Dan g. Carter and Widow Harry Painter, and running thence North IS deg. 10 min. east to the Harwinton town line about 64 miles, may be incorporated as new town to be known as the Town of Thomas ton.- Therefore ordered that notice of the pen dsncy of said petition be given to all whom it may concern by publishing this order in some weekly newspaper published in Waterbury or Litchheld, three weeks successively, eommsnc- ing on or before the 30th day of April 1875.
 48 DWIGHT LOOMS, G Judge of
 the Superior Court of the6 6ate of Connecticut
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N OTI El

A LII persons liable topay taxes in' the town A of Bethlehem, arc notified that the suhsori- beR haa recetved warrant foRthe collection of tax laid on the list Of 1874. All taxes remain cent. month.
 ssw* EBENEzER OSBORN. Collector.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

The NoRrHfHID. Red Caps have reor- ganized and intend contesting the County champion ship. the coming summer (ii any summer comes)s-The Rev. N. ]. Callat preached his farewell sermon Sun day before last.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

BUCHANs CARBoLIc BALM OINTMENT IS 2 very remarkable Fsmily Slave. Itcures sstonish everybody. Contains no grease, aud washes of without soap. It is trans parent, like currant jelly. For all the purposes of Family Slave it IS without an equal. 13 lY.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29
Mount Henness Nurseries. s

EAUR Annual ulustrated and Descriptive Cat N slogue of Greenhouse and Bedding Plants. Fruit, 0Enamental Trees, &e, ,&.. is nov readv'' and VIII be mailed free to all applicanfs.
 Address. BURR0W, WOOD q CO., F9sas SW ' ssi5 lAsfak4lf ft RishkilltN "
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

heat enough to give us foretasts of sum- mer. There sFs no mosdditos yet, however and we shall stay quietly here until driven away by them and the hot weather. k-l A
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

higher than at Vick's establishment, and in many cases lower. Any who design sending for seeds to MT. Wick, by leaving their orders with us, will have the seeds delivered without trouble or expense
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-29

EcoNoMICL NEW FooD.-25 cents will buy package of Sea Moss Farine, made from pure Irish Moss, which will make 50 kinds of dishes, such as cakes, pies. pud- dings, &c. ,or 16 quarts of custards, ,jellies, creams, Charlotte Russo. blanc mange, &c. Sold by all Druggists and Grocers. ? ly
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26
NEWS ITEMS.

The surveys for a ship canal
across the isthmus of Panama is re-
ported as progressing faVorably.
John Mitchell has again presented
himself to the electors of Tipperary
as a candidate for Parliament. 1t
is thought that he will meet with no
opposition.
Delegate Elect Thomas NJ. Pat
terson, Of Colordo, has arrived at
Washington, to urge the passage by
the senate of the house bill for the
admission of Colorado as q state
into the union.
A verdict was given against the
New York and New Haven rail.
road company at New York on
Friday for about $4,000, in favor
of q man who was robbed of that
amount in one of the company's
cars. 1t was held that the company
must protect its patrons.
Hon. j. d. Cox, has been appoint.
ed receiver for the Toledo, Wabash
and Western railroad.
Deaths in St. Louis last week
lO4; children under five years o.
age, 40. Principal causes of death
small pox %, consumption II.
The national convention of Mexi.
can war veterans, met in Washing.
ton on Monday, Gen. J. w. Denver
presiding. Sixteen states, two ter.
ritories and the District of Colum.
bia were represented.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26
HERE AND THERE.

People are being baptised In Yer.
mont through the ice.
The pawnbroker's shop is a popu-
lar institution this winter.
The cold appears to prevail in
Europe as well as America.
Reciprocity with the Sandwich
Islands Is now urged upon Con-
gress.
Snow is reported as seven feet
deep in the streets of Lewiston,
Maine.
At Detroit they have recently had
9 Baby. Dog and Poultry Show
there is one.
Cheaper freights to the seaboard
are subject of discussion, from
Chicago to Boston.
Bayard Taylor has lectured eigb-
ty-three times this winter, and still
has forty-four engagements.
One hundred and eighty-two
members of the present Congress
go out of public life, after March
A wealthy widow Of Peoria has
been elected Q directory in the bank
of that city in which she holds
stock.
Men who succeed in getting 8
good female cook, now-e-days, feel
compelled to marry her in order to
keep her.
The depositors in the Washing
ton Freodman's Savings Bank are to
receive forty or forty-fye cents on
the dollar.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26
BERGHH.

The citizens of New York have
suffered peculiarly this intensely
cold winter, the coolest experienced
there for many years, what with the
semi-frozen rivers, blocking the
ferries, the stagnation of business,
the oyer crowded population, and
not least, the persecution of the
ubiquitous Bergh, who by his ma
mia for the prevention of cruelty to
animals, has apparently become to
tally unconscious of the feelings of
human beings. A day or so ago a
poor man was attacked in the stree:
by a fcrocions cat, aud because in
self defense he chose to kill il, he
was arrested by one of Be"gh's off,
Gals, and sentenced to Blackwell's
island for three months, by q Judge
who had more respect for the letter
of the law than the spirit of it. III
dignatio0 is expressed by many peo-
pie who believe that there should
be limit to even Berghs' authority,
and it is not unlikely that public
sentiment may yet force the de-
Gnement of his powers. There is
40 doubt much cruelty to animals
in that great city, and there should
be q way of ameliorating it, but
why the same humanity that ia
shown the beast shall not be extend
ed to the man is not apparent. A
careful observer of New York life
is really struck with the general hu-
manity which is shown the brute
creation. The instances of extreme
cruelty are isolated and are gener-
ally dealt with as they deserve, and
the necessity of interference on the
part of these feline philanthropists
Is often imaginary. and people who
are disposed to be q little cynical
think the passion for notoriety, ii
not the love of little brief and
contempible authority may have
something to do with it. If, how
ever, Bergh could make himself
useful in the way Of protecting the
Thousands of poor and unemployed
from the icy weather, il he could
induce the ferry companies to keep
n little fire la their boats and the
tidal river to retain its summer sur
face, or the city council to build the
Brooklyn bridge, community would
rise up and bless him. He does
waste g vast amount of time and
labor, and misdirected effort which
ought otherwise result in much
good. Why are philanthropists the
most impracticable of men?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Elgin, (Tll.) is haunted by wolves.
The Detroit Scientific Association
is discussing cremation.
st. Lonis wants q Gold and Stock
Board on the New York plan.
The Mayor of Galena says there
is nothing immoral or indecent in
the can-caD.
The labors of Mr.. Earle, the
Evangelist, at st. Joseph, No., re-
suited in 200 converts.
A Berlin dispatch says that Bis
marck. takes q vacation of six
months at the request of the empe-
ror.
Water is so scarce at Newark, ILL.,,
that the people have to cart ice a
distance of two miles and melt It
for household use.
Mrs. Lander, the actress, has been
investing in Western real estate.
She purchased house and lot in
Fort Scott, Kan.
The lumbermen of Minnesota
haYe advanced the price of common
lumber from $40 to S12. They ex-
pect short crop.
DIR. Bigger, of Indianapolis, Ind,
is about to sue the Joural for $780,
600 damages for charging him with
criminal malpractice.
The wife of Senator.elect Nc
Donald, of Indiana, died suddenly
Thursday morning. They had
been married only few months.
Apropos of Mrs. Nellie Sartoria
joining a gymnastic class, an ex-
change remarks that such amuse.
ments appear TO be Sartoris.ky.
Thomas Tiger, who founded the
Fort Wayne (Ind.) Daily Seminal,
the second oldest paper in the State,
in 1888, died W ednesday night OF
paralysis, aged 81.
The new directory just published
at Sioux City, Iowa, contains 1857
names, showing a population of g..
700, an increase of over 5000 since
the census of 1870.
Senator elect Theodore f. Ran
dOlph, of New Jersey, has just pat
ented a stitching machine. One OF
the best ditch plows in use is the
invention of the Senator.
Mehitable Baker, the only Revo.
latiOnary soldiers widow in Iowa
died of old age in Des Moines
Thursday night. She had been g
pensioner of the government fifty
years.
The meteor that illuminated Du.
buque and other river towns a few
nights ago, fell near West Liberty
Iowa, and is now in the hands OF
President Thatcher, of the State
University.
Vermont is nota good place fol
murderers. By the law of that
State n felon must, before execution,
undergo twenty months imprison-
ment at hard labor and four months
of solitary confinement.
An expedition to the Black Hills
will be fitted out at Fort Laramie
in April or May. 1t will be under
the command of General Bradley,
and thorough reconnaissance OF
the country will be its object.
Mrs. r. P. Mckinney, Vice Pres
ident of the Illinois State Temper
an"e Association, Is on missionary
tour drought the Fourth Congress-
ional District, visiting every town
and organizing temperance soci-
cites.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26

but can't settle upon The amount of
aid il is willing to give.
Senator Peters, of Marion county,
tits said, has the inside track for
Judge of the 9th judicial district.
Sedgwick township, Harvey
county, hss thirty-flve destitute
families, Or over one-half of IFS pop
ulation.
The Atlanta, Rice county, postof-
fec was robbed OH the night of the
18th inst, of registered letter con-
tanning S2S.
Even Coffey county has her desti-
tute, and the number reported in
her borders amounts to 81 families,
numbering 357 persons.
On opening box of articles sent
to the starving of Kansas, over in
Howard comfy, tract was found,
the title of which is, ''The Wicked
ness of Gluttony."
The Times says the old Eldorado
House has been rented to q gentle
man from the East who will fit 1t
up so that white man can find
some accommodations when he ris-
its that town.
Rev. G. W. Kanavel, pastor of the
NJ. E. church, at Sedgwick city, had
both of his legs broken one night
last week, by his borse falling upon
him, while returning from one of
his revival meetings.
They arc having spiritual mani
festations near Hutchinson. The
mediums were formerly in the ne
gro minstrel business, and one of
them lie young man of every ex-
tensive and varied experience" but
of course that has nothing do with
producing the Manifestations.
In Alta township, Harvey coun-
ty, they have a committee whose
duty it is to search the house of ev-
cry applicant for aid from garnet to
cellar, and into the pockets if
thought best, to see that the appli-
cant is in fact needy. If she or he
objects to this their application is
cancelled. That's what the Kansan
| saws.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26
COUNTY FINDS,

There was lengthy debate the
other day on the proposition to
authorize county treasurers to de-
posite funds in banks, the latter
to give good security. Hulett, a
Democrat from Bourbon county
championed the measure. This was
defeated, and afterwards Atchison
sought to get through bill of this
kind to apply to that county
alone. We give a brief account
of the debate. Thispractice is in
force in Leayenworth, and that
county gets the benefit of the in
terest on its current deposits.
II. B. No. 321, an act in relation
to Atchison, and prescribing the
duties of the county treasurer there
of.
This bill authorizes the treasurer
of Atchison county to deposit the
public funds in his hands in some
responsible bank. The bill was
amended, allowing the treasurer of
Franklin, Bourbon, Marion and
johnson counties to make like de-
posits.l
Mr.. Palmer strongly opposed the
bill. He thought the law should be
uniform. What was right fer
Atchison, Bourbon, Marion and
johnson counties were also right
for Rocks or any other county. If
the bill confined the depositing of
money simply to county funds he
would not object to the bill 1t
was a bad precedent to allow treas
urers to deposit state aud school
funds in banks, and the state could
not afford to stand such q risk.
Mr.. TOmlinson thought it was in
bad taste for gentlemen to object TO
measures which were simply local
in their character. The people of
Atchison county wanted a law of
that kind. There was frequently
upwards of $4,000 locked up in the
county treasury.
Mr.. Elder said that he was oppos-
ed to the contraction of the curren~
cy as was done under the present
method of locking up the public
funds. He would inform the gen.
tlemen from Jewell that the ONLY
calamity we were likely to exper-
fence from the passage of this or
any other bill that did not suit the
gentleman, was a superabundance
of wind from the said gentleman.
The state would be in no danger of
losing its funds If the bill was made
q law, as the state and counties
would be doubly guarded.
Mr.. Stevenson said that he had
received petition signed by nearly
five hundred taxpayers of the
county, mostly farmers, praying for
the passage of such q law.
Mr.. Foster, of Shawnee, was op-
posed to the bill, as it proposed to
undo what had been done by the
legislature at its special session last
summer.
Mr.. Carter favored the bill. Most
of the safes of the county treasurers
were not suitable repositories for
public funds. The James brothers
could ego through" most any treas
urer's safe in the state.
Mr.. Martin did not ask for such
q law for Shawnee county, but he
had no objection to other counties
having it that wanted it. He
thought it was purely q local meas.
ure, and did not concern members
from counties net affected by the
bill.
Mr.. Benedict moved that the com.
mittee recommend the striking out
Of the eDacting clause.
Lost.
On motion of Mr.. Elder, the COM
mittee recommended it's passage.
| Deaths 10 NaHr Orleana Last uaal
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-26

The Chicago Innter- Ocean pub.
fishes the statistics of the Chicago
postoffice under the new law re-
quiring the prepayment of postage
by the publishers of papers, which
shows that Differentiation, through
the mails, Is greater than that of the
Times, Tribune, Journal and Posi-
and Mail combined. This is rather
a surprising statement, but the In.
ter-Ocean asserts that its figures are
official. In point of ability and en-.
terprise the Inter- Ocean is a num-
Der one journal, but we did not sup,
pose that IL led all its CO tempora.
ries in circulation.