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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-07

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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-07

The public journalist deems it duty to bring before the notice of a businoss community the claims of every firm which shows desire to act upon fair and hon. orable principles. Messrs. Hall & Read of Bridgeport, who are the leaders in that place, Tn Dry goods Carpets and House. keeping goods, deserve mention for their knowledge of the business; equitable deal- ing, their attractive variety and uniformly low prices. In these stringent times their store is filled with customers.
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The consecration of St. Patrick's church on the corner of Ann and Church St., Hartford, on Sunday of last week. was a splendid affair as is usual with Catholic solemnities of that kind. In the morning the Archbishop of Boston said Mass; and the music, by full chorus. organ, and an orchestra of IA instruments, was splendid. They performed Haydn's Imperial Mass entire; the' 'Quis est Homo from Rossini's Stabat Mater;G Gounod s "Domine Saloum,' and number of other selections from great musical works. Indeed the Catho- lies are fortunate in having music of ex- ceptional merit written by the great mas- ters for their services. The dinner of the clergy was as notable as their music. Game and four kinds of wine figure upon the bull of fare. In the evening vespers were said by the Bishop of Ogdensburgh and there was more fue music. The or gan in this magnificent church is a $l5, ,OO0 instrument with 10 full stops in the Swell, in the Choir. 5 in the Pedal, and 13 in the Great Organ.
 The South Carolina legislature attempt ed to organize, last week. The Demo- cratic members of the House from Lau- rens and Edge6eld counties. declared elected by the Supreme Court, were re- fused admission by us soldiers acting under direction of one of Chamberlain's Bubordinates. They then organized apart aud the Republican minority proceeded to organize without them. Afterwards the rivai Houses both had joint posses sion of the Hall for time, with a double set of officers, but finally on threat of the interference of armed State constables the Democrats again retired.
 The plainly illegal interference of the D s. troops at the outset has been disa- vowel by the President. but it seems to have nevertheless given the Republi- cans great advantage. The habeas cor . pus case of the Canvassing Board has been tired before U. s. Judge Bond, but has not yet been decided.
 The democrats have applied to the Su. prene Court for an order on the Repub. llcan Speaker to deliver over the election returns to the Democratic Speaker and will probably have the decision in thei, favor.
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DOMESTIC.

Congress assembled on Monday. MT. Randall was chosen Speaker of the House. The Senators from Colorado were admitted but the House sent the credentials of Belford, of that State, and of South Carolina member, to com mittee. Investigating committees for South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, were appointed in the House,
 Gen. Mckenzie has captured an Indian village of 200 lodges. s.5e
 The Lonisiana Returning Board give the Hayes eiector from 35G0 to 45OO ma jority, and the Republicans out of 6 congressman and the legislature.
 It is reported the Hayes electors are given majority by the Florida Returning Board.
 Chamberlain is declared elected by the Republican part of the South Carolina legislature.
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tho election. He swore squarely to the

the election. He swore squarely to the correctness of the Republican claim.
 When we go into the intermediate or county board of canvassers. we strike a rich character in the person of Justice Belton who first made an affidavit that he had refused, as member of the county board, to sign any returns acquiescing in the Archer Precinct fraud. Then he made a counter-afidavit in favor of the Repub- llcans, and closed the affidavit branch of his election business by a. third affidavit swearing that the Republican managers had got him drunk. and then procured his second affidavit from him when in such condition that he did not know what he was about. This was not the only trouble, however. in which Justice Belton involved himself. Upon Dukes counter-afidavit. which that officer had declared forgery, Belton's name appears as the magistrate administering the oath. He told Colonel Brown that Dennis and Walls came to his office and asked him to write out the affidavit. They then asked him to put his jurat to it, as it would save trouble. He did so, and they then went to get Dukes to sign it. Dukes refused; that he then thought the affidavit with his jurat was destroyed, but learned since that Dennis and Walls had kept it and used it. This statement. though sworn to positively by Colonel Brown, BeltoH un- dertook to modify by saying that Dukes at first refused but afterwards allowed him to afix his signature to the docu- ment.
 We give these facts at length because they characterize the class of Republicans who Lave the control of Southern elec- tions. This disputed precinct had three republicans as it's election officers; one 8 negro who cannot read or write-the hon. estest of the lot, we guess; a colored carpet -bagger; and a white Republican who signs three conflicting afidavits with in month and who now says that one of them is & lie and that he got $100 for sign ing it The clerk of this board is anoth- CT colored carpet-bagger, employed with in the month before the election in the office of the man Dennis, who IS charged with having engineered the. Archer Pre- cinct fraud. To cap tAe climax we are introduced to o Republican member of the County Board who also makes three af1davits, one of which was obtained from him while drunk, he says; and who is in the habit, it appears, of afixing his jurat to affidavits in advance of their signature to ''save trouble ?" With s,1ch a magis- trate at his command we can easily under stand how Dennis could procure hun. dreds of negro afidavits. si gned with 8 mark, to help on his fraud.
 We have read good deal before of the scoundrels who disgrace the Republican name in Southern states, but this set of rascals. for frank dishonesty and fragrant incompetency, beat anything We have ever read of even in the disgrac sful history of the Tweed usurpation in New York city.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN,

Russia Preparations for war contin- ne. Italy sides with England and ob- jects 10 foreign occupation of Turkish provinces. <t GernaGny. Prince Bismarck declares that Germany will remain neutral in a Turkish war,
 Fraace.:-The ministry has been beaten in the Chamber of Deputies and has resigned. sHtsg
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 WoLoorrv1LLE has arranged for an excellent course of entertainments this winter. It opens with concert of the flyers Sisters Go. on the 18th. Then, comes lecture from Dr. Chapin: Read. ings by Prof. Hubbard. and lecture by Mrs. Livermore. The K. G. o. w., have engaged G. W. Wright to prompt for new years ball to be given. by the society on the evening of Dec. 29th- Frost Knapp, grandson of Julius Wood ing, Esq. received, the other day, most valuable present from sea Captain. a friend of the littlg boys father. It was a Shetland pony and perfect beauty.-A much needed repair has been made in the Episcopal church which has done away with the long stove-pipes ex- tending through the body of the church. The hop given by the Y. e, o. ". last Thursday evening. was quite we'll attend ed.-The first annual ball given by the Star Social Club of thls place at Granite Hall, last Tuesday evening, proved very successful .-Register.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
POPULARITY OF SILVER.

"Old platen has been an aristocratic
iaVorite for centuries, and at this time
new silver coins are no less 30 among 8
people that have no sympathy with aris.
tocrscies. Whether silver be down To
4o3' as 1t was short time ago, or up to
oiE, as the kilograms reported it on Tues.
day, the people like it, want it, and rush
ior IL with as much esgerness as babies
SHOW when they cry for ugar.costed
pills" The music of its Jingle recalls
the good old times" The CHICAGO
1T'o''''essays zone banker, who has a
large country correspondence. renortod
the receipt during the week of two bnn~
areo letters ordering silver, somo =,
tnem were very urgent. One bsnk IN
large town within one hundred miIoao,
tne city had not five thousand doII.u.
IN silver and fractional currency All nnt
together There can be no dopbt - ,b b
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11

THE bureau Of statfrtfCs has Con1pIeteU
the record Of the foreign commerce of
the United States for the year ending
June 30th, and from the report just issued
we learn that the total gold value Of the
imports were SAG, 1853, 258, against $685..
9O6, 153 the year previous, and 1896, S61,
PAS two years ago, showing a decrease
last year of ST., 49,, S95 compared with
1874 and 1875, and S119, 1872, $50 compared
with 1873 and 1874. The exports during
the past year amounted in value to $685.
sod, 531, against S6O5. 574, S53 the year pre-.
vious, and S653, 1894 two years ago,
showing decrease last year of $685.
800 compared with 1874 and 1875, and of
$50, 476, 1868 compared with 1873 and 1874.
OF the imports the following represents
the amount OF specie in each year: $751;
904, 583 in 1875 and 1876, $40, 9OO,7I7 in
1874 and 1875, and $28, 1905 in 1873
and 1874, and Of The exports the follow
ing was gold: $56, 500, SOP in 1876 and
1876, $92, 1872, 142 in 1874 and 1875, and
$3.50, $50, 305 in 1873 and 1874. Tie value
of the exports last year exceeded that of
the imports by Sl2O, ,27S. The fact
that the falling off in the exports is
much less than that Of the imports is
gratifying reflection, as showing that we
are in position to get along with less Of
many kinds of foreign products than
some other nations are to dispense with
our leading staples.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
POTTER ON M.ULLETT.
The PePpeTy and PrOiane Little Fell
low More OF n HUmbUG and FEHud
than an Architect.


New York World
Mr.. William A. Potter, late treasury
architect, has been interviewed. OF his
resignation, to attend to his business as
a member of the firm of Potter & Robert.
SOD, after having designed some twenty
large government buildings in different
cities, he gives the following account:
He was not asked to resign, and would
not have done so had he feared Nj.
Mullett's Reinstatement. That gentle
man, he states, has never ceased to work
for this, however, and to hamper Mr..
Potter in his labOys. Mr.. Mullett shows
to poor advantage as an architect and
otherwise in MIR. POtter's account. He
is said to have no artistic ability in his
profession, or he could have formed at
once on leaving the public service an
advantageous connection in the BUSH
ness. His fixing a rate of fifteen per
cent. on contracts is declared 10 be un-
Just, as he could thus secure eXOrbitsnt
remuneration by simply il crossing the
cost of b building, though Mr.. Potter
would not assert that he did this. He,
however, intimatEs something of the
kind by saying that on salary OF three
thousand five hundred to four thou
sand dollars he lived expensive
~, built a fifty thousand dollar
house, and Invested" largely other
wise. His mode Of designing was Pc
culiar. In order TO be sure as to the ef-
feet Of great pile of granite chimneys
on the sta e buildings at Washington he
put up an imitation ID wood, sanded and
painted, and even with this guide built
a most unsightly affair. His merits as
builder, however, are admitted. His
granite work was Well cut and laid,
though the fifteen per cent. made it the
interest of the contractor to do this. He
was also good at general business, or
had great appetite for it, and imposed
on the office Of treasury architect ell
sorts of duties beside professional ones,
extending to the fitting and furnishing
of government buildings down to even
the safes. Nothing" ssys Mr.. Potter,
"cams anliss to him except arcbitec-
ture." This is about all, except person.
slities, that Mr.. Potter Gays of MIR. Null
lett. or the office, he says that it should
be confined to what the name implies,
merely supervising the government
work, which should be bid for by the
architects of the country at large. 1t is
stated that Mr.. Clark, architect Of the
capital, has declined the Office at the
hands of the secretary of the treasury,
on the ground that it would involve
him, "a it bad done Potter, in Mullett's
fraudulent contracts.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11

WE LEARN from the Baltimore Sun
that on Friday last the trustees Of the
Peabody fund for aiding the public
schools at the south held meeting at
the Greenbrier white sulphur springs,
at which the report made by DE-. Seals
of his last years work was discussed.
From this report we understand DR.. Sears
disbursed from the fund under his charge
but a small amount to South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana, because those
States do not foster public education. In
South Carolina and Louisiana the Re-
publicans have had possession OF the
government for years past. In Florida
The Democrats have only recently had
any chance of carrying the State. Yet
in these three States, where the white
friends Of the colored people have every
thing their own way, the school funds
have been squandered and dissipated
and the schoolhouses closed. WhatWo
der, then, is it that Mr.. George Peabody
Russell, who Joined in the discussion of
the Sears report, gave it as his opinion,
from personal and recent observation,
"that nothing could be expected from
those States in the way of advancing
their educational interests until there
was q change in their State govern
nantau
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
THE STATE CONVENTION.

Many of the delegates to the State
convention reached home yesterday, and
were generally congratulated on their
labors. All seemed impressed with the
necessity OF harmony, and, by proper
concessions, this was secured. The en-
tire proceedings of the convention tell
Of restored party unity. There is now
no division on the question of taxation.
The electoral ticket selected is eminent
ly satisfactory, as it is composed Of men
in whose hands the interests of the
Democratic party will be perfectly safe.
The nomination OF James D. Porter for
reelection to the office Of governor has
be IN receive throughout the State with
emphatic satisfaction. With substantial
popularity and solid strength, he is in
tbs prime Of life and solid vigor. Hence
forth The Democracy of Tennessee will
march on conquering and to conquer.
The harmony and enthusiasm in Ten
n sssee is a presage Of. a sweep
ing victory in November. We are
not now weakened by the Chestham
and Johnson canvass Of four years ago.
The signs of the times are prcpitious.
The air is filled with foretokens of tri-
umph. The noble response made to the
st. Louis ticket by the national Democ-
racy; the signal overthrow Of Radical
ism by a largely increased vote in Ala
bama, Kentucky, and in Tennessee; the
sympathy exhibited everywhere by
many of our former antagonists; the
German voters for Tilden and reform,
all these are harbingers of popular
uprising for the overthrow OF corrupt
Our cause itself is an in
spiration, and engenders the courage and
good cheer with which we shall prose-
cute the cause to success; the cause Of
honesty against corruption i'll high
places; the cause Of patriotic statesman
ship, reaching with equal beneficence to
sill sections of our great country; the |
cause of civil liberty, administered in |
conformity with constitution.
al law and the cause Of Democratic gov.
re.estsblished in the affections
Of free and united people.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
ALABAMA AND KENTUCKY.

Kentucky was so nearly unanimous
for Democracy that it was thought i'm
possible for gains to be made in the
State. But on Monday last the DEM
Ocrats made large gains considering the
small resources from which 10 draw. The
gallant Democracy of Alabama, whose
patriotism is as pure as their ever.last-
ing streams and as firm as their un-
shaken mountains, achieved a glorious
victory on Monday last. The Demo-
cratic ticket has swept the State. In the
last Presidential election Alabama voted
for Grant by majority Of several thou.
sand. Two years ago Governor Houston
carried the State by a small majority,
but on Monday last the Democratic ma.
jority was nesr forty thousand votes.
The result in Kentucky and Alabama
are straws showing the way the wind
blows. They are significant of the tidal
wave which will sweep the Radicals
from office in November. The electors
in these two southern States certainly
indicate that the claim of the Democrats
on solid southern vote rests on sub.
stantial grounds.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11

WE copy elsewhere from the New
York World the opinion expressed by
Architect Potter in regard to the So
called Architect Mullett. 1t will be seen
that the New Yorker, who enjoys the
respect and esteem of his fellow srchi.
tects Of the American institute Of archi-
tects, which Mullett does not, was not
favorably impressed with the work OF
conduct Of the latter while the occu.
pant Of an office which public pressure
forced him to resign, and which it is
now said he is working hard TO secure
sgsin, and be furnishes some figures for
the unfavOrsble impression, and yet,
Notwithstanding this, and the fact that
Mullett is condemned by many Of his
own party, and has been cut by the
present secretary of the treasury, he has
received the signatures of large mum.
Der Of senators for reinstatement, and.
as Grant is anxious to have him bsck, it
is not improbable that he will get the
and be confirmed BY the
senate. Secretary Morrill, is therefore
under a severe pressure. He has stated
that Mullett should not have the office,
as he is abundsntly convinced that the |
sx-architect is sWindler OF the first |
magnitude. Mr.. Morrill, may have to
Yield to his corrupt antagonists, who
nave intrenched them selves in the fa-
Tor OF the President, who compelled
resignation ard forced that OF
'luford vii on, Ysrysn and Pratt.
But If he does yield, and Mullelt is Cd.
ointed, we may be sure he will not
ing hold place which, by consent of
lRDy Of his own party, be dishonored
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
THE TRAIN THIEVES.
Large Part of the I'Iunder Recovered,
Consisting of Checks, Drafts and
Coupons.

SEDALIA, Mo-, August 1O.-GeneraI
Montgomery, Larry HazeD, the Cincin-
natl detective, Sheriff Rogers and others
who, with Hobbs Kerry, the train rob
Der, went out on Monday to search for
the papers taken from the express safes,
returned last night. They found the
place where the robbers divided
their booty, and discovered a great
quantity OF papers, consisting Of rifed
envelopes, checks, drafts, coupons, etc.,
scattered over a considerable space Of
ground, damaged by rain and exposure.
The drafts, checks, etc., amounted to
many thousands of dollars, mostly
drawn by Treasurer Jsynes, Of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad for the
Of employees. Kerry did not
point out the place where the papers
we've found; it was discovered accident
ally by one of the party. Kerry has
been returned to the Cooper county jail.