Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-07
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MISCELLANEOUS.
 The vexed question of reading the Bi- bIe in the public schools is up at Chicago, and the board of education, last week, re- solved with but one dissenting vote to give it up. e}
 The tobacco crop in Hartford county has been harvested, and ia considered the largest and best that has been raiged in that vicinity for ten years. --
 The works of the New Haven wah G., at Centerville, were burnt Monday morn ina, together with the needle and shear works in an adjoining building loss. S10O,O00. @T
 Ten thousand dollars worth of silks were stolen from the dry goods store of Deming X Cooke on Chapel St., New Ha- ven, sometime between the closing of the store on Saturday night and its opening Monday morning.
 Since we came to Venice, which was June 4. we have not set foot out of it; iv. ing here, in fact, up to our chins in clover (also in fgs); and cheapl oh, you would not believe itl I have seen, now and then, 6 newspaper, and some extracts from what you in America facetiously call the relig- ious press. Now. some people don't like our religious newspapers, I do; for I know how entirely free they are from any personal bias, or selfish motive, or spirit of rivalry. If there ever was a press ready to go up, it is our religious press Letter from Charles D. Warner. 4A
 According to the London Times. we may expect something from the union of liberal elements now constituting the goY- qnarreled over the suffrage question, and They have taken their defeat very sulki1S, and in . way to deepen the public and royal sense of good riddance. Tt is thought that Castelar, and his friends will place hims1lf fin accord with the present cabinet and run for 6 seat in the Cortes, as Q supporter of the liberal monarchy.
 One of the Quincy delegates told an Adams meeting at Worcester, Wednesday morning. that he had talked with MT. Adams about his nomination, and that he had said he would accept it if he received good majority at the convention. Mir. Adams took occasion to say that he was one of the five founders of the republican party in Massachusetts, that he had al- ways been republican, and that he had kept from politics after his return from England, because he did not feel that fa. miliarity with them which was desirable.
 Siney and Parks, the leaders of the Pennsylvania miners in some of their out. rAges, are now on trial for conspiracy, the same charge on which six men have been sentenced to years imprisonment and B to 60 days. Parks was the man who gave orders that lot of new hands should be marched out of the county, which was done by mob of miners, who drove the others of 90 miles and threatened to send them of in ''pine boxes" if they ever re-. turned. Siney was the president of the miners union, and officially disapprovedl of the strike. but personally cast in his lot with the disorder. They ought to be put through to the extent of the law for every act and threat of violence.
 Nothing is easier than to make princi- ples and considerations involved in the currency discussion so plain that the most illiterate workman can understand them indeed, cannot help understanding them. To begin with, the wages of labor have now been practically cut down to fhe gold standard. If specie payments were resumed tomorrow, wages would scarcely be affected. But, when it come to buying things for his family-a shelter for their heads, food for their mouths-the labor ing man finds himself compelled, too of. ten, to pay paper money prices. He is the man of all others who ought to be ea- ger for resumption. It will be money in his pocket, since he will be simply com polling the capitalists, employer, middle men, landlords. store keepers, to come down on their prices as he. has elEeadg sive dialect of the street, it will be a '.square deal all around.-Spri,aQfetd RepubIicGn.
 The throwing open of university edu- cation to municipal and ecclesiastical ef- fort. under the recent law of the Assem- bly, produces a sudden revival in educa- tional interest in France. The Romisll church, of course. takes the lead in most active effort to establish universities, of which it contemplates three to be opened AS soon as possible, one at Paris, one at Orleans and one at fingers. The effort to establish the one Ut Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, produced Q remon- strance from the shop-keepers of the Latin quarter, who anticipated riots between the pupils of the church and those of the old college of France. Minister Wallon had the cool ness to ask the hierarchy if Versailles wouldn't do just as we'll. A circular of bishops has been put forth soliciting sub- scriptions to the endowment funds. The PrOtestants. also. will establish a school of university grade at Paris, though Wal lon is still more alarmed at the location of Q seminary of Protestant instruction in Tn the metropolis. Pressense, the Prot estant clergyman and deputy, announces. however, that i've shall continue indefa- tigueably to labor to create q nucleus of liberal and Christian science. This is in connection with the school of sciences opened two years ago. If the college of France is still maintained as Q govern ment institution, it will still be the arena of ultra free thought. as voiced by Renan and his colleagues.
 In his speech at Mir. Bee cher's house at Peekskill. the other day, Hon. Chauncy M. Depew was impelled, by an allusion to the great amount of testimony and the lit- tie evidence taken in the nix months trial of the Hilton suit to tell an anecdoae of the late President Lincoln. Mir. Depew when, as Secretary of the State of New York, he visited Washington in 1864 to look after the army vote, had occasion frequently to refer matters directly to Mir. Lincoln. who one day was reminded of story. which he declared was one of the only two anecdotes original with him, mot withstanding his reputation for sstory-tel. ling. 'T only apply the good stories others tell me, " the President said. The story vas to the effect that many years ago when Practicing in Illinois, he had appeared for the defendant in . case of assault and bat teEy in which the complainant did not seem to be very much injured, although he had been through long series of brawls. In the course of the plaintiffs examination Mfr. Lincoln asked, "How much ground did you fight overa" 'sAbout six acres. was the reply. Don't you thiHk. l" asked Mir. Lincoln. s'that that was