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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

nIsTRICT OF WaoDBURY, ss. Probate Court. De. O cember 11tb. 1876.
 Estate of Henry M Allen, of Woodbury n said Dis. trict, assigning debtor.
 Tue Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury hath limit ed and allowed three months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate solvent in which to exhibit their claims thereto and has appointed Leman W. Cutler of Watertown Willis A. Strong and Alfred Birch of Woodhu,y, Commis- sionefs to receive and examine said claims
 Certified by JAMES HUNTINGTON, Judge.
 The subscribers give notice that they shall meet at the Probate Office, in said Woodbury, the 12th day of January and the 18th day of March, IS7 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon each of said days for the purpose or attending on the business of said appointment LEHMAN W. CUTLERY -----4 -W WILLIS A. STRONG, Commis- ALFRED BIRCH, sieuers
 All persons indebted to said estae are requested make immediate payment to SHAW ASAHEt4 ". MITCHELL Trustee
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DISTRICT of WASHINGTON ss. Probate Court A December 5;h, 1876.
 Estate of stephen Babcock, late of Washington, in said District, deceased.
 Pursuant to order from the Court of Probate for said district will be sold at public auction the high est bidder subject to the Widows Dower, right of interest therein, the 2th day of December 1876 one o'clock in the afternoon (unless previously dis posed of at private sae much of the estate of said deceased as will raise the of $676 (ex hun dred aud seventy-slx dollars ninety-seven cents) with incidental charges of such sale. Sale to take place on the premises Gin Smoke Hollow, called) in 1 said Washington. Terms made known at the time of sale.
 38w1 FORD, Administrator.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21
PROBATE ADVERTISEMENTS.


O cember 11th 1876.
 Estate of Eunce Baldwin. late of woodbury in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement Those who neglect to present their accounts properly atested, within said time will be debarred recovery All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to 37w3 W MITCHELL Exe.ntor
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21
The New York TRIBUNE. THE LEADING AMERICAN NEWSPAPER LARGEST CIRCULATION among the
 Best People.

I-IT PUBLISHES ALL THE NEWS. The servant of no man and the slave of party it can afford to and does tell the truth about all.
 HIT IS IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT Be- hevng in intelligent suffraget aims to furnish voters the fullest and fairest information qualify them for the wisest discharge of their responsibility.
 HIT IS, AS IT ALWAYS WAS. ESSENTIALLY REPUBLICAN. It may quarrel in the future. as it has done in the past with of Republican lead- corruptions in the Republican party; but it can cease to be true to Republican principles and especially to those golden doctrines of civil service reorn hard money the sanctity of the National faith and equal justice to all classes at the South which formed the corner stones of Gov. Hayes's admir- be letter of acceptance.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Edmunds bill giving the-supreme Court the decision of contested presiden- tial elections was defeated in the Senate, 31 to IA.
 The House has passed the Silver bill.
 The Senate has voted to publish the reports of both visiting committees at New Orleans.
 Both Houses have appointed commit tees which are to confer on the matter of rules for counting the electoral vote.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

Last weeks Connecticut Catholic has a cut of the new cathedral in Hartford at at Hartford of which the foundations were laid in September last. It is to be magnificent ediice 254 feet in length, and 96 feet in width with transept 166 long and steeple 25O feet high.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21
TAKEN UP!

pY the subscriber, December 18th, a Fox Hound. o The owner is hereby requested prove property, pay charges and take him away.
 DWIGHT BUNNELL. Bantam Falls, December 2o 1878 s8w3s
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

The House committee at New Orleans get little Information from the Returning Board. They refuse absolutely to dis close what parishes or precincts they threw out ill order to arrive at the conclu- sion they announced, and no record of their doings discloses any of their action.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21
DOMESTIC.

tees which are to confer on the matter ol rules for counting the electoral vote
 DOMESTIC.
 The Congressional Investigating com. mittees are busily at work. The House committee in Florida have discovered much cheating by false registration and stuffing the boxes. . In one case the votes of eighteen negroes were counted at one poll who were proved to have voted else. where. ......- .- In Louisiana a good deal of evidence has been taken to show intimidation o1 black Democrats.
 D. T Corbin has been chosen U. s. Senator by the Chamberlain legislature o1 South Carolina -. There IS an issue between the Louisiana House committee and the Western Union Telegraph Co.,, about the disclosure oi dispatches.
 Wade Hampton has been inaugurated Governor of South Carolina.
 The Security Life Insurance Go. of New York has failed with liabilities amounting to three and one-half millions. Boston and Worcester both went Dem. ocratic at their city elections, last week. Boston was Democratic and Worcester Republican, last month.
 FOREIGN.
 Great Britain. ,a.-Brent is to be surren. deted this week. There has been @ terrible coll1erv dis aster in Wales.
 France The Assembly has voted the Budget.
 The ministerial crisis ended with the appointment of Jules Simon, premier.
 Turkey It is expected that the ar mistice will be prolonged till March. The Turks refuse to admit of any for eign occupation.
 There seems little chance of peace.
 Denmark. .-Theie is serious conflict between the administration an parlia ment.
 What other medicines have failed to do HUNT's REMEDY surely does, Restorine to health those afflicted with Dropsy, Bright Disease, Kidney, Bladder and Glandular Complaints. Diabetes and Gravel. HUNT's REMEDY cures Ineon. thence and Retention of Urine, Excesses lmtemperance and Loss of Appetite. HUNTs REMEDY is the best medicine ever discovered for these Diseases.
 INFALLIBLE EYE WASH improves the
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

Gen. Francis B. Barlow, of New York, the most noted of the visiting Republi- cans at Florida thinks Tilden entitled to the vote of that state. The matter is so close, however, that he thinks the diff ferent view of the Returning Board no in- dication of dishonesty.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

The Atlantic contains: The American (continned); The Herons of Elmwood, by Longfellow: from Ponkapog to Pesth, by T. B. Aldritch: January; The Blackbirds; Left out; Birthday verses, James Russell Lowell; Weimar in June, by Bayard Fay Tor; Sister Beatrice; Old Woman's Gossip (Continued): Some New Books of Poetry; Characteristics of the International Fair, Closing Days;the Contributors Club; Mat in Song(words by Bayard Taylor, music by John K. PaiHe): Recent Literatuure; Music; Education.
 H. O. Houghton & Co.,, Boston, S4 a year; see Enquirer Clubbing Rates.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

The new extradition treaty with Eng land which it is said comedies substan- tially the American claim. It will allow prisoner after trial on the offence for which he is given mp, to be arrested and tried for any other offence for which he might be extradited.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21

Hon Job Stevenson, one of the Repub- lican visitors at New Orleans, refused to sign the Sherman Garfield report. He could not endorse the doings of the Re- turning Board.
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Startling, however, as this exhibi,
may seem. showing these impover.
ished communities have been plum
dered of Sl6S, ,O57 ,OlO in three short
years of attempted restoration, it only
represents very small part OF the in
Jury inflicted. The enhanced cost of
conducting the State Administrations
has fully kept pace with the unprece-
dented imitation of debt, while taxa
ton has gone in many instances to the
extent of stripping the people of all
means of living. Thus in Arkansas,
the annual cost of conducting the gov
ernment was in 1850, S2O4O99, while
in lS7O!t is shown to have been So.
40. 1862. The tax rate before the war
was five and a-half mills, it now ex-
ceeds forty mills. Florida shows a
like increase of the general tax rate
from twenty three cents ON the hun.
dred dollars to Sl.5O, producing $S4,-
GOO OF taxes then as against $47l,Sll
OF extortion now. In Georgia the
expense of administration was, in
1865, ,$325'600; in 1871 $S24,4l3 with
tax rates increased from Elk and a.
quarter cents to 81 10 on the $lCO.
The tax rate in Louisiana has gone m
from five mills to fourteen and a.half
mills, while in Mississippi the con.
duct of affairs, which cost annually
about 100000 in 1850, is reported at
81, 100000 in 1870, showing an increase
of five hundred per cent. Alabama,
likewise has been victimi lied nightful-
ly. The tax returns there in 1860 was
S5l.17I, in 1870, S2.9S2, 932, with an in
crease in the rates from twenty cents
to 50 on the 500. North Carolina, i'm
like manner, has been necessitated to
tour or five times her taxa.
tion to meet expenses, passing from
forty cents to S1.S0 Oh the $lOO. South
Carolina has been for carpet -baggers
"a field of cloth in gold"-the taxes
levied for State purposes being in 1861
only 100000, while last year it is re-
ported by the Congressional Commit
tee as over $4,0OO.O00. Texas, the last
OF these nine States, has now tax
rate for State and county purposes OF
So II, while committee appointed to
investigate the alarming increase of
taxation reports that there was collect
ed from the people last year as general
taxes, the enormous sum of $5. .36I 900
An extortiOn from an unresisting
unprecedented in the his
tory of the world.
Bear In mind, too, that this vast in
fiatiOn Of debt, and this exhaustive
annual drain, the former mortgaging
the life work of more than one gener-
alton of men, and the latter making
the rich poorer than the poor, there
is absolutely nothing i'm the shape of a
return to show. 1t has been stealing
literally stealing, and a President
boasting Of Q policy, an adninistra.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-10-26
THE SOLID SOUTH.
AN OPEN LETTER TO "BLOODY.
SHIRT AND REBEL-CLAIM" EDITOR.

SAA AAsA AMI H
Murat Halsted, Esq, Editor of the
Commercial You are fond of assum-
ing that the Commercial is an lnde-
pendent paper, yet il somehow hap
pens that, after trying to convince
your readers through most of the year
that the Republican organization is a
rotten institution that no longer de-
serves TO be entrusted with the man.
agement of the Government, you turn
up before the election advocating its
continuance in power. OF course,
some excuse must he offered to induce
the public 10 believe that the same old
added eggs on which Grant, Cameron,
Chandler u Co., have been sitting un-
ill the smell ascends to heaven will
hatch out the healthy chickens of Re-
form by putting Hayes, like fresh
hen, on the nest, championed by the
same old cocks.
The solid Sonth, the rebel war
claims, and above all, the blood Y shirt,
in shaking which you out-herod Alex.
Sands Times, and all the lesser lights
of the old party machine, are
your tom-toms during the present
campaign. These war-cries, accompa-
MED with vociferous reiterations, are
simply intended to divert the reason
and conscience of the people from
considering the real Issues of the con-
test-the responsibility of the party in
power for the shameless demoraliza-
tion and corrupt peculation that have
grown up under its administration in
every department of the Government. |
The readers Of the Commercial in |
the Greeley campaign were furnished |
with substantial reasons why the |
South should be solid against the Re-
publican party, in the speech OF Coy
ernor Gratz Brown, an original anti
slavery man, at Springfield, ILL.,, on
8, 1872, published in your
paper, in which he says:
upon the termination of hostilities
a military. occupancy was had of the
States that had been i'm rebellion, and
by act o: Congress of March =, 1867,
they were constituted into seperate
departments. Satisfied that
here was every disposition there to
lcquiesce in the result of the war, and
confirmed still further in that belief by
he report of the General of the Army
Who made an extended tour of inspec.
ion with that view, Congress, by acts
passed in June 1868, began the work
# reconstruction. Prior to that time
he Confederate debts, local and
'eneral, and been repudiated, SO that
he vast increase which has since re- l.
ulted, is all chargeabie directly to
he reconstruction policy of the Pres
lent. II has been done entirely un. +.
er the auspices Of Republican rule.
has been sustained and fortified
throughout by the Administration at !
What the measures of
nat spoilation has actually been made l
lay be best realized from the tabulat-
d statement now submit:
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loyal Cincinnati Gazette srgues F. lThs
tigurss sho vssthat shseid6 per cents
$30O;000 ,OO0 payable in coin, could be
paid by $243,OOo 600 In gold, or $751;.
O00, 600 less than $500, 600 600 new ~
YER cent. bonds. Secretary Morrill, ia
reported to have already negotiated
SAC, ,OOO, 900 of the new AZ per cents
payable In gold, which is premium
to the bondholder of 1900, ,OOO, besides
y per cent. paid for expenses to the
Syndicate. Is it not time that the in
dependent press in favor Of the restor-
alton. of the old siicer, dollar sound the
alarm before the negotiation of the
whole $500, 100000, of bonds shall
swindle the country to the amount of
S57. 100000. sum greater than ever
will be paid on the rebel claims by
any Democratic Congress.
Can not the hand Of the Republican
Secretary of the Treasury, who is max
ing every $1,000 six per cent. bond
thus negotiated worth now $1,l9O, be
stayedsia this swindling attempt to
anticipate the action of Congress. on
the silver question by issuing ne,c
bondsf A vigorous protest from the
Commercial on this subject would
doubtless save more money now to the
country than it's virtual CHASING of
Senator Trnmbull, Governor Palmer
of Illinois, Cover Blair Of Michigan,
Pulitzer, Juessen, WIN. Cullen Bryant,
Parke Goodwin, Judges Hoadly and
Stallo, and, last but not least, Charles
Francis Adams, its own favorite can
aidate for President, with Thousands
Of other Liberal Republicans with
whom you acted in 1872, as allies of
The rebel South. Their treason con-
'ists in supporting Samuel j. Tilden
Tor President against Hayes, the nom-
NEE of the Senatorial Grant Ring
without whose consent he. is power
ess to make asingle removal from of
ice in the interest Of civil service re-
'orm by the provisions OF the Tenure
'f-Ofice Act of 1867, for which he
1oted, and which stands still on the
unrepesied. Vsa
3" A CONSTANT READER.
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G.. L. BELDEN,

nUYeICIAN AND SURGEON.-Oniec in
Empire Build ng; Residence on King
0sreef. first door south OF Main.
1Rysnna. May -, 1876 404-y$
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STAND UP, RUTHERFORD.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
Charges have been made impeach.
ing the integrity Of Gov. Hayes while
commanding brigade in the army,
and some of them under circumstan.
ces and with an array of testimony
that the opponents of Mr.. Tilden
wonld consider imposing, if applied
to him.
In the latest of these charges which
has been brought to light, Mr.. Hayes
does not appear creditably. 1t is al
legged that James LIE Roy of Tomah,
Wisconsin, that one of his sons, who
was killed at the battle ofWinchester,
in September, 1864, previously depos-
tied with General Hayes, then his
brigade commander, sum of money
derived from his pay and bounty, of
which no account has ever been rem
dered. The father applied TO Mr..
Hayes for this money in 1869, and a
sharp correspondence ensued between
them. About the merits of this claim
we have nothing to say. But the let
ters of Mr.. Hayes are fair subject of
criticism, and we give them in the
order of dates and answers, as they
have been published, without any de-
nial OF their genuineness.
The first is as follows:
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. Il, 1869.
Mr.. James Leroy:
Sill have no recollection Of anv
such person As his son and cOnse-
quenily could not have had his money.
You must be mistaken, or somebody
is trying to impose on you.
Il. B. HAYES.
This was evidently intended as
complete answer to the claim though
the logic OF the letter is not sound, for
it does not follow because Mr.. Hayes
had quo recollection" of a soldier in
his brigade, that the soldier may not
have placed mOuey or other yaluables
in his safe keeping, as was quite COM
mon in the army.
Twelve days after this letter, Mr..
Hayes wrote a second one to Lie Roy
in these words:
~ COLUMBUS, o., Nov. ., 1869.
"Mr. James LIE Roy:
SW:-In reply to yours of Oct. 26,
say that I remember the person This
soD] you speak Of. but nere,. had ana
money belonging to him. You are be-
ing deceived, or are trying to black
mail me. Yours, &C.,
r. B. HAYES"
He doee not say that his memory
was refreshed by inquiry, but admits
that he Remembers the person. in
question, while denying emphatieally
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the way, another point that hasn't beer
! clearly brought cut. ,Tifden's offens,
was against the National Government
and as I do hold the heresy of State
Rights, it follows that the State had nc
right to tax me. Ask Mr.. Taft and
he will give you an opinion on the
subject
After dinner the Governor said =
Here is watch of which you have
heard not little and in the puresi
Ohio French he carolled to a well.
know air the following eanzonet;
VOICI LA MoNTRE DE MA MERE.
(AIR-Foici le Sabre.
Voici Ia montre de ma mere.
Montre j'at fallli declarer:
Don't le movement est fait en- fer,
CommO pour un mouIin-a- cafe
Dams ie temps revOlutionaire,
Du moins eest-ee gu on m a raconte
Aux aieux de feu mon grand -pere
De leurs ancestres ellie fut luguee.
THAT watch, said Mr.. Hayes, cost
81 in Continental currency in It'll.
and 1t has since been repaired SO much
that I, the latest inheritor, am at least
81 500 out Of pocket, and lose money
every day that [ wear it. Instead,
therefore, of returning this watch as
part of my property, make a re-
duction for it. The same as regards
other items. For instance, my horse.
January. One of my earliest and
fondest recollections is my poor, saint.
ed grandfather, laying his trembling
hand on my head and saying: sRuthy,
me and that Ar hoss was colts together
and I'm rising y next grassv Tell
his age by his teeth? He has had
none since remember. Every morn
ing we hoist him up with jackscrews
and gear him up very short and then
with the shafts and the high wheels he
can't lie down and die until we get
home. anyhow. Ii l were a railroad
wrecker, like Mr.. Tildcn, would get
that horse run over by q railroad and
swear he was worth 81 500 but as he
is now he amt worth $I.S7ls without
his shoes. Then, again as to that
piano. For several months my hired
man kept his tools in it, before the
lightning struck it, aud whenever we
wanted bit of wire to ring a hog, or
10 pick butternuts, or to mend an um-
brella, why we just jerkcd chord out
Of that piano. Now, it ain't worth |
much. In fact, let them say what they
will, I'm poor man. There's all exact
of what am WORTH and
le handed me paper.
took it and opened it. sHello,'
aid l, ''this isn't the statement. This
3 letter written from the field III
$685.
'..Ah. yes responded Mr.. Hayes
that letter l wrote declaring that any
Older who ran for any Office in dis
rict where the majority was not big
nough to make his election sure with
ut his having to go home and stump.
ught to be scalped. 1t made quite
ensation At the time. Perhaps you
he Sum-
Il should replied, but for the fact
hat the letter is dated 1868 while the
'ater mark in the paper is 1870"
''Then the man who manufactured
he paper said Mr.. Hayes, must have
,ade a mistake in the day of the
1eek. What you want to see is the
orrect list of my property. Where
an it be2 Ah, here it is,' and he
anded mea schedule from which /
cad as follows:
Birchard legacy, $9.656,
Personal property, $l7, 7,425.
sThunder' said Mr.. Hayes, with a
shrek, I've given you the
'rong list! 7 ana he swoomed at my
.et.
a
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'Thunderv said Mr.. Hayes, with a
despairing shrek, sI've given You the
wrong list and he swoomed at my
feet.