Litchfield enquirer., 1875-01-14

and their fellow-partisans have only to propose such bill in the House. In some quarters there is loud assertion that the Democratic patty is the hard money party. The Republicans make the same declaration, and, point to their pledge of resumption on fixed day. Let the Democrats bring them to the test. That they are in the minority, is not the least bar to such a course. For if the Democrats solidly support more string ent hard-money bill than this of the Sem ate, and it is defeated by the Republicans, the Democrats will occupy the strong DO sition. But if they merely snarl at the Republican bill, they will show that their hard-money claim is sheer pretense. They profess in this part of the Union the intention of going to the country upon hard money as chief policy, and there is no way in which they can show their poli- cy so plainly as by uniting in Congress upon simple and stringent measure of specie resumption.
 Mir. Logan is reported as saying that if 1 the Senate bill should ba amended in the ] House by a provision Of cancellation it would be defeated. If it were lost by Re- publican votes, it were better that the | original bill had not been passed. With all it's defects, which are evident, the bill has been sustained by the Republican press in good faith as pledge of definite resumption honestly made. Let MT. Lo- gan and his friends show the country that it is not so, and they will have dealt ter rible blow at the Republican party. y.-Har- per's Weekly.
 The history of the Union educational mission ought to be familiar to every man and woman interested in christian mis- | siOns, and offered as a nut to crack to those croakers who are ever insisting that missions don't pay," and that money given for missionary purposes is wasted. Forty years ago and more. the American Board sent the Rev. MT. Tracy and wife to Singapore. They remained only few years, Mir. Tracy's health being soon broked by the excessive heat of that trop- ical climate. Their stay was long enough, however, to permit the gathering of q school, into which there came bright Chinese boy, Lai Sun, who had been the servant of the American Consul The missionaries returning to this country soon lost sight of him, but his thirst for knowledge had been kindlel, and he made his way to the United States and pursued his studies at Hamilton College,
 About the same time another missiona- ry, Mrs. Gutzlaff, became interested in a Chinese lad, by name, Yung Wing. The elementery instruction which he received at her hand awakened in him Q longing for education, and he made his way to this land, and entered Yale College in the class of 1854. His success as a scholar may be inferred from the fact that in his Sophomore year he took first prize in English composition. I have always doubted whether there was then at Yale a young man who could have gone to China and in the same time carried off the palm for excellence in Chinese composition.
 A few years later Tai Sun and Yung Wing met in their own land, and with this question uppermost in their minds, What can lan ao1ao to eooure to China the advan- years they toiled over fRtglG2n ESg msnE E waited for it's solution, seizing every op- portunity, meanwhile to urge upon the government officials the value of occident- al learning to young China. At length their labor bore fruit The imperial gov ernment issued Q proclamation, embody- ing their plan for an Educational Mis- sion, inviting parents to send their sons for examination, pledging them official positions on their return to China, and Sppropriating $s2. .500, ,000 to defray the ex-
 
 were to be placed by twos in cultivated christian homes in New England, in the vicinity of good schools, to receive a thorough training in both English and Chinese, to remain fifteen years, and dur ing that time each boy to master some profession, some department of science or art, so as to be competent to teach it to his countrymen. In accordance with this plan, thirty picked boys came ill 1872, thirty more in 1873, thirty more have just arrived, and thirty more arc to come i'll 1875. Can any one imagine the influence these minds steeped during all their young years i'll American and christian idea, and put into high positions in their own land? Well may Tai Sun ask, in a recent letter to his old instructor, MT. Tracy, ''Can anyone doubt the result of one hundred and twenty men. of high at- tainments in the different professions, in improving the country and people of our vast Empire?"
 A SOUTHERN VENDETTA. Herring tons and the Bowens are neighbors but not friends. They live near the wayside station of Haddock, on the Macon and Augusta railway, in Georgla. The hatred which exists between the families origi- mated in some trifing quarrel, years ago. There's blood in the pathway between them now, and the way for reconciliation IS not open any more. The last act in the warfare of the clans took place few days ago. A number of persons had gathered at the station, and old man Thomas Bow en and his two sons, James and Blount of the clan, were there; also David and Will liam Harrington. Old man Thomas Bow en, for some cause, felt impelled to call AnIs F0rrtOY 1 V1,1 Of course this insinuation was a casus 6elli, and Harrington proposed to fight it out then and there. The battle opened Old man Bowen drew a pistol and shot David Herrlngton; ln another instant one of the young Bowens fired also, emptying the contents of double barreled shot, gun in the already wounded man, and struck him as he fell with the gun he had just discharged. The battle then ragged promiseuously; twenty or thirty shots were fired. David Harrington was killed outright, William Harrington, his broth CT. was wounded, but escaped by flight. Old man Bowen was shot in the shoulder, and his son James received shot in the abdomen. The Bowens vowed vengeance on the Harrington clan, and the tragedy created no little excitement at Haddock station. David Harrington was regarded aS desperate character, having only short time ago taken the life of young Hardeman, friend of the Bowens. He at last met tragic end at the hands of those upon whom he had warred for years. Other lives must be surrendered in thls terrible vendetta.
 PoMPEnAN ExP1oRATIoNs.--Ch Charles Warren Stoddart says. in describing a visit to the ruins of Pompeii: q cannot understand how 8 people who are SUD- posed to have been luxurious in their tastes ever lived in such ridiculously small houses as are those of Pompeii. The bed rooms are like staterooms, and the stone beds like berths fill the longest side of the apartment. There are no garden spors; even the baths, the crowning luxury of the time, are small. The Forum and some few of the temples are of more re- nrano&fr,l diraor4inr,c Iu,A &ho rnsort of 2A-