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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

NORTHFIELD has made another contri- button to the Centennial; L. s. Wooster started for Philadelphia, Monday, and is going to use up week there.-J Joseph Ward, who sailed for England a few weeks ago, has arrived safeiy, and is with his friends in Sheffield. What there is left of the Red Caps were beaten at H 1tchkissville by the Woodbury boys on Saturday. The Knife company commenc- ed work again Monday, after lying still since the first of July. Both their large reservoirs are fu of water -Northfeld,s 8 latest enterprise Is not milk wagon, but a milk pail, from which T. K. Pearson serves dozen customers, more or less. regularly every morning -Mr. Charles Blakeslee has invented apdE Is manufact- uring ali improved harness isnap.-Anaer- 1 icdn
 At THoMAsFoN several new houses are going up, low in price, for the laboring class. Dr. Pease's barn is nearly ready for occupancys for livery business. The old barn on Main st eet is gone. Mir. Thomas has taken down his old store i house adjoining, leaving large clear space for Esq. Morses new block, which l is to be built of brick as soon as contracts can be closed Rev Dr. Perrin of Vol cottville occupied Mr. Backus' pulpit, Sunday-A gentleman just returned from the worlds fair, says that 1t is very com fortable i'll the buildings Mrs. Hulme, of Ansonia, formerly of Thomaston, was bur- jed here last Monday. - The big rock on East Main is being removed gradually.- All about here and far down the road, the I dry, hot Vt ather is parching up the soil aud cutting short the grass, both. in pas I tnre and meadow.
 At PLYMOUTH Henry Smith has moved into his new .house.--B. B. Sattsrlee is no longer prophet without honor. He has long been collecting ancient. and valu able documents hearing on the history of l the tom, and ill tleir historical research es both Rev. Messrs. Hillard and Backus l have found his collection invaluable, re- vealing documents throwinga a strong light on former times. He possessed the origi- nal rules for the government of the early church in Mr, Todd's own handwriting, | church to which they are especially valua- ble.-Marcus Gilbert, the boy who was sent to the Reform School from this place for four years, about a year and half ago, hasfbeen liberated on Habeas Cor pus by the Waterbury City Court for inn formality in his mittimus.
 Burke, the NEW MILFORD burglar. has rot been arrested.-Wm. Beardsley, of South Main st, is building an addition to his house.-At the regular meeting of tn e YP.T,U., Wednesday evening, it was vo- ted to discontinue the Sunday afternoon prayer-meeting until September new steam whistle has been placed in position at s. R. Hills mill.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27
Roxbury.

Last week John Dooly showed his neighbors how to get rid of hornets. I think John believes his remedy, if applied as he applied it. sure and effectual. He was troubled with a nest of hornets in his barn, up on the scaffold. Now John want- ed to put rye in his barn upon the scaf- fold, which contained two sheaves of straw and the hornets. the straw lyIng little way from the nest; so John goes into the house, takes some old rags, saturates them with kerosene Then he returns to the barn, lights the rags and applies them to the nest The hornets apply them selves in double quick time to John, who let go the rags and looks out for number one. Some one opens the barn deor about this time, and brisk gust of wind carres the flame of the torch to the straw
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The Hartford nine seem to have perma- nently lost the national championship for '76; if there is anything permanent in the shifting chances of the national game. Their first experience, West. was very tattering They beat the Chicagos twice on their own grounds, and had really, for a day. the advantage in the race for the championship; but the Chicagos managed to win the final game of the series, making things about even. It was at St. Louis, however, that the Hartfords were fairly ''scooped." In the series of three games played there they failed to score run. Three whItewashes in succession, from a club they had beaten in every one of the three games of their first series. seem like ''dispensation;" at any rate it is a per yersity of luck that puts Hartford perma- nently below Chicago for this. year, and may even lose them the second position to St. Louis.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27
AarWlnton

A prayer meeting was held at MT. FL liott's, in Campville, Sunday evening.
 MT. Geo. White, of Morris, preached at the chapel in Campville. last Sunday. After the services he baptised MT. Joel ceastls, Ly i-....vrDi0u., HI ci.tso. OHUIIn s pond. A storm of hail and rain brought the ceremony to nasty conclusion.
 Mrs. F. s. Crossman and son are wis., iting at her fathers, Lewis Catlin.
 Summer boarders are arriving; Mr. Bryant has got as many as he can accom- modate. MT. J. s. Birden, of Hartford, is staying, with his wife, at his fathers.
 Dogs have been worrying Levi Leon- ards sheep, killing one lamb and injuring others. We think it is about time that We had cat law, as we'll as a dog law, making the owners of felines responsible for damages. Our neighbors' cats have mulcted us of one hundred and fifty chickens and when the neighbors were complained to all they would do was to say Cit was too bad" A little cold lead made the cats all right, but not the chick ems.
 We have waited for "M. J. w." to mention the celebration of the Fourth at East Litchfeld. The boys, not wishing to be outdone by their neighbors, with the aid of the patriotic Mir. Page, manu- factured cannon by boring hole in an old anvill which had the noise of genuine field piece.
 The Naugatuck river has been so low that Page & Dains have had to close their mill, part of the time. notwithstanding the recent heavy showers which make but little impression on our mighty stream.
 We thank H. N. for his compliment and append the following personal .des- cription to avoid the embarrassment of Q personal introduction should we ever meet again a green-looking, pensive, red-eyed youth; 'homely as sln, with mole on the cheek: deaf in one ear, and lame in one leg, sometimes; not considered very Upright" in Har~inton. Indeed, We were not aware before that any but Harwintonians cared to read the scribbling of "5f @
 .e LITTLE GHoNN1E.
 P, .,S.4Just as we are mailing this we are told that the members of the Calli- thumpian Club, some thirty in number. serenaded MT. and Mrs. Atkins (recently united in matrimony by Justice VailD, last Saturday night. and in return were re- galed with cider and tobacco. The happy pair have the best wishes of the commu- nity, etc. s.,.e- s..a s
 The hail storm, Sunday afternoon, cut our tobacco badly. L. G.
 The Poland Brook Grove meetings commence July 3Oth. Services at usual hours every pleasant Sunday during the season. ''Let him that heareth say, come." Fl. c.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27
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 Local items from reliable souFces in any part of the county will be received with pleasure, but we are par Eiculnrly desirous of increasing our list of regular weekly and fortuighty correspondence, especially Tn places like New Milford, Kent. Cornwall Falls Village, q ouatey represented in columns and we hope also t hear from persons now furnishing only occasional REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The ATLANTIC MONTHLY for August con- tains: The Arthuriad; Shakespeare; Jeru- salem. by Charles Dudley Warner; Isola- tion; The American, VI, VII; The Divi. sion of School Fund for Religious Pur- poses; Stella Speciosa; Old Woman's Cos sip (continuedj, by Frances Anne Kemble; The Bird in the Brain; Chattanooga, by Gen O. O. Howari; Dickens and the Pickwick Papers, by Edwin P. 5Whipple, August; From the Purple Island; Charac teristics of the International Fair, IT; Ed itorial Articles. .
 Hurd X Roughton, New York; $4 year. See Enquirer clubbing rates.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27
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 USE KEYNES MAGIC OIL. If you have got Collie or Cramps,
 USE RENNE'S MAGIC OIL. If you have got auy klnd of Ache or Pain,
 USE RENNE'S PAIN KILLING MAGIC OIL, Try it, and you will be surprised at the beneficial effect derived from thorough and faithful this popular family remedy It is purely vegetable safe and clean to internally externally Sold by all dealers in Medicines.
 VIM. RENNE X SONS, Proprietors, ,Pittsfeld, Mass
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

A Couft of Probate holden at Plymouth within A and for the District of Plymouth, the 18th day of July, A. D. 1876. Present, George Pierpont, Esq, Judge. This Court doth direct Levi H. Dunbar, trustee of the estate Of Adam AIche, of Plymouth insolvent debtor, to give notice to all persons interested in the estate of said assignOr appear if they cause be- fore the Court of Probate to be holden at the Probate Office in said District, the 2lst day of July, at o'clock afternoon to be heard relative to the appoint ment of commissioners said estate, by posting said order of notice public sign-post in said town of Plymouth nearest to the place of residence o said debtor And by advertising the same ln a,neWspaper published in Litchfield county.
 Certified from Record,
 IT 1w GEO. w. COLE, Clerk.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

MOTHERS can secure health for their children and rest for themselves by the use of Castoria. a perfect substitute for Cas- tor Oil. It is absolutely harmless, and is Jas pleasant to take as honey. For Wind Collie, Sour Stomach, Worms or constipation, for young or old, there is nothing ill existence like it. It is certain, 1t is speedy. it is cheap.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The president has been severely scored by the press of both parties, and of neith- CT party, for his removal of Secretary Jewell. Indeed. we.know of no president who has done so much to lower the gen. eral estimation in which cabinet officers are held as Gen. Grant.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

China recently lost high official who died 80 poor that he had to be buried at the public expense. But then China has competitive examinations for official po- sitions, and knows nothing of the "best civil service system on the planet,
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

Yachting has it's risks, it seems. even with the completest outfits. On Thursday the yacht Mohawk capsized in squall, of Staten Island and five persons were ArnHna5- among them MT Garner millionaire and vlce-commodore of the New York Yachting club. .
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

BLACKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for July contains: A Woman-Hater. Part II. ]; In Studio. Conversation No. V.; Johns Hero; A Wanderers Letter, III; Lady Adelaide, Ia study; The Eastern Ques- tion; The Autobiography of Joint'Stock Company Limited). 4
 The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,, New York; $4 year.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

CARED BREASTS, Rheumatism, ,Sciatica, Swelling, Sprains, Stiff Joints, Burns, Scalds, Poisonous Bites, and all flesh, bone and muscle ailments, can be abso- lutelv cured by the centaur Liniments. What the White Liniment is for the hu- man family, the Yellow Liniment IS for spavined, galled. and lame horses and an- finals.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

Boston ladies have purchased the Old South Church building, at more than it's value; and, if they cannot raise the money for the land on which it stands. it will be removed and set up elsewhere.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

Why do such men as Senators Dawes and Blaine, and Gen. Garfield sign the whis- key thieves petition for the release of their friend Avery from prison? The popular regret is not that Avery is in, but that Babcock is out of jail. ....
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

He came home one night with torn coat which she kindly undertook to mend, but when she turned it upside down so that letter and Domestic Fashion. of new overskirt which she had given him to mail to her mother some tAo weeks. before, tumbled out of one of the pockets it was so lively there for the next ten minutes that his first move in the morning was in the direction of wig store, to the proprietor of which he gravely ex- planned that close application to the study of the Foreign Policy of the Khedive of EQypt had done 1t.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

CIsTRICT OF PLYMOUTH ss Probate Court, July U p. l876..
 The voluntary agreement of Henry C. Ives and Cor della A. B. Ives. his wife, both of the town of Ply mouth. in LtcheId county, state of Connecticut, pa rents of minor child of the age of about four months, giving in ad pton said child to Truman D. Ivea of said Plymouth, having been exhibited to this court aud said agreement having been approved by the lectmen of said town of Plymouth, as by Statute in such made and provided, Revision 1875, Title IA, Chapter 4, Section l, therefore,
 OkDEkED,-That the 9th day of August, at two o'clock afternoon and the same is hereby assigned Probate Office in Pymouth that all persons inter ested thereon may have notice to appear if they cause and be heard thereon, this Court directs that this order be published by posting copy thereof on the public sign post in said plymouth nearest to the residence of said child, and that the be adver tised for two weeks successively ill the Lcheld quirer, a newspaper published in the county where said child resides at least six days before said time assigned
 By order of the Court,
 l7-2w GEO. w. COLE, Clerk.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

There is at last break in the "heated term" Though the heat has been longer, and though the thermometer ran higher Tn New York this ''spell," than in 1872, the heat was less steady and the deaths resulting from it less numerous.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

MT. Wheeler accepts the nomination for the Vice presidency teudered by the Gin cinati Convention in an excellent letter published in the papers of last week. This letter supplies the very omission we no- ticed in Gov. Hayes letter of acceptance, by quotation from one of the speeches made by MT. Wheeler, while in congress, on the Louisiana difficulty. We italicise the portions which seem particularly wor-
 We of the north delude ourselves in ex- pecting that the masses of the South, so far behind in many of the attributes of enlightened civilization and improvement, are, in the brief period of ten or fifteen years, to be transformed into our model northen communities. That can only come through long course of patient waiting, to which no one can now set cer- tain bounds There will be good deal of unavoidable friction, which will call for forbearance, and which will have to be re ieved by the temperate, fostering care of the government. One of the most potent, if not indispensable agencies in this direc- tion, will be the devising of some system to aid qn the edpcation of the masses. The fact that there are whole counties in Lou isana in which there, is not a solitary school house is full of suggestion. We compelled these people to remain in the Union, and now duty and interest demand that we leave no just means untried to make them good, loyal citizens. How to stimulate the elevation of this portion of our country are problems constantly ad. dressing themselves to our best and wisest statesmanship. The foundation tor these efforts must be laid io satistying the south- erra people that they are to hove equal erGct justice accorded to them. Give them, to the fullest extent, every blessing which the government conters upon the most favored--give no just cause for com plaint and then hold them, by every nec- essary means. to an exact,. rigid obser- vance of all their duties and obligations un- der the constitution and it's amendments, to secure to all within their borders man. hood and citizenship, with every right thereto belonging.
 It is precisely this position we have al- ways maintained that the South must be ensured just government before we exact obedience to that government. The whole influence of the national government should be thrown against the rascals who plundered and tyrannized over the south under the forms of Republication. There have been state governments at the south which had no right to the obedience of the citizen.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27
The Regatta.

The college regatta of last Wednesday lacked much of the interest of former contests. The New England colleges have in affect abandoned the Association. To be sure, Harvard and Middletown send crews this year; but the former long since announced her withdrawal after last weeks. race, and Middletown can hardly be expected to represent New England alone, in future contests. Whether there is to be New England Association and another in the Middle States is not yet determined. Perhaps, for a few years, there will only be the annual Yale-Har- yard race. These regattas entail heavy expense on the students of the colleges who participate-an expense that is, we believe, defrayed by the students snb-. scriptions. and which therefore weighs with especial severity on the small col leges. Though there are manifest advan-
 tages from the culture of athletic sports in colleges, it is to be feared that these ad- vantages are confined by the regatta sys- tenn to the few, rather than distributed among the many. What is needed is some general physical culture to offset the wear. and tear of purely intellectu- al culture; and system that over-trains six out of five hundred students, for an annual race, may tend rather to the dis couragement rather than the encourage ment of general physical culture.
 The result of this years race surprised no one Cornell lead easily. Though the fiery aristocrats of Harvard made their accustomed plucky push, the toughened sinews of the Cornell democracy gave them really no chance. This latter is large college. Its students are as differ ent a social class from those of Harvard, we judge, as are the students of Glasgow from those of Oxford. among British uni versailles. They are maturer in years; and they have most of them known hard physical labor before they trained for university race. Ostrom. the captain of their crew, seems to be to Cornell what Cook has been to Yale, the man to ''or- ganize victory" It is no doubt far from the true purposes of university education for the student to expend his prime en- ergies on mere physical culture. Yet, we cannot but admire the intelligent perse- verence which has enabled the model Yale oarsman to discern the true from the false theories of his art, and to train suc- cessive crews to tHe perfection which has won so many victories. The success of Yale in her contest with Harvard, this year. was gratifying not only to those who had a special interest in the former col lege, but to all who like to See Reform triumphant. For Cook is reformer. Recognizing the fact that the Yale meth cd of rowing was wrong; the Harvard method, wrong; he adopted the correct one. Ostrom seems to have done the same for Cornell; and the victories of these colleges are specially satisfactory because they are the victories of intel lect rather than of brute force. :.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27
CONGRESSIONAL.

There has been good deal of political haranguing in the Senate, the past week. The evidence in the Belknap case was finished. last week. and several arguments have been heard. The Sundry Civil bill and Army bill were passed as reported from conference committees.
 Bills have passed both houses to pro- vide for the Government temporarily.
 There was fiery debate over the Ham, burgh massacre in the House, last week. The Army bill has passed. The Texas Frontier bill was, debated and passed The Sundry Civil bill passed. The mo- ton to suspend the rules and pass MT. Kelley's Silver bill failed.- 1.-The bill to amend the Revised Statutes about the Post-O Office Department has been vetoed.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The athletic contests at Saratoga result ed in the success of Noble. of Princeton, in the three mile walk; of Stevens. of Will Hams, in the one hundred yard race; of Wakeman, of Yale, in the hurdle race; of Green, of Princeton. in the one-half mile race.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

Crop prospects, West, are generally splendid. Special localities are poorly of; but most report a magnificent yield of wheat and fine prospect for corn.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The young ladies of Aiken, s. O.. have formed Tilden club. Good progress for the conservative ladies of South Carolina Now let them demand the ballot
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The Massachusetts Temperance Reform clubs have done good thing at. their re- cent convention in resolving to keep out of politics.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

Three thousand Indians are said to have left the Red Cloud Agency to join Sitting Bull.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The Springfield Republican makes a statement that may account for MT. Ty- ner's being made the successor of Post- master General Jewell
 In the Indiana delegation, when the question of leaving Morton was settled, about three quarters of the delegates wanted to go for Bristow, but Tyner step ped forward and said: 'I, for one, will support MT. Hayes. I will not support MT. Bristow. will not consent to have the Republican. party Johnsonized again. " And this did it.
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The trial of ex-Secretary Belknap will be concluded, this week. His guilt seems certain. and hls only chance of escape through the doubt in the minds of mil nority of the Senate whether, after his resignation. they have jurisdiction of his case. On the original vote on the priso- ner's plea to the jurisdiction, more than one-third of the Senate held the plea val i'd. Should this minority consider this question settled by the decision of the majority, Belknap will be convicted; should they. on the other hand, feel ob- liged still to give the prisoner the benefit of this doubt of their right to try him, he will >be acquitted. The vital point, therefore, would seem to be whether mere majority of the Senate can decide the question of jurisdiction or whether the original dissentients in rendering their final decison should take the matter of jurisdiction iuto consideration as we'll as the more direct issue of guilt or inno- c0nc6. x
Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-27

The ninth annual Reunion of the 1st Conn. Cavalry takes place at Bridgeport, August 18th. |