Litchfield enquirer., 1877-12-27
Al15id fitchfeld Paper.

A gentleman sends us copy of the Iitch- field MonitoE of Sept. IA, 1796, printed by T. Collier. It long step backward from the first Yearef Hayes to the last of Washington's presideney The European news is that of Napoleon's first Italian campaign, and pro- clamation of the great French War Minister,
 Carnot, the man who organized victory out of
 the chaos of the Revolution, appears on one of its pages Is entire orresponaencee consists of the following letter describing the ordination of Mr. Porter at Washington sIGiCa if.e Washington, Sept 8, 1796 , Yesterday the Rev Mr. Ebenezer Porter was ordained the pastor of this Church and Congregation. It was performed in the follow l ing manner :-The Rev. Mir Gridley was pro- l locutor, Rev. MT. SmaIley preached, Rev. Mr. Benedict made the consecrating prayer,- Rev. MT. Champion gave the charge, Rev. MT. Waterman gave the right hand of fellow ship, and the Rev. MT. Day made the conclnd- ing prayer, The solemnity was. graced with excellent music, vocal and instrumental. A very numerous assembly behaved with the greatest propriety. .,,.e., tfs,f{ ..s,ffe, Col. Tfacy's regiment is called ont for in spection: and the soldier is entreated to come out in neat and complete dress with boots and buttons polished. and every part of his dress put on in q sung soldier like manner. The Ap- pearance and orderly Behaviour of each Citi-
 zen-Soldier, will designate him either as the
 man of Ambition & Friend to order. -or as
 unheeding, rude, and slovenly"
 The members of the county Medical Society are summoned to their annual meeting at. .'Mr. Morgan's Tavern, and general attendance is
 requested ''as it is contemplated by number
 of the Members. to establish Medical Library in said County: <. .S.s ..,.s ya. ..@.s.
 A cut of n lady wall<ins -sssith staH and
 hand bag is prefixedto q notice by Reuben
 Bachelor cantioning the public against trusting
 his wife Anna. ''Swift's System" is advertised
 as just out, and there are number of probate
 and estray notices, but of mercantile advertise ments such as take up three quarters of the
 advertising space. of the modern newspaper
 there is but a single specimen, occupying about ati inch and half of space and inserted
 for only six weeks by q Derby firm, offering
 codfish and saltiat wholesale or retail IL .sd t.
 Among the items of domestic news is a let
 ter from the ''Intendent" of Charleston s. c.
 thanking citizens of Philadelphia for 8 eontri.
 button of $5, O00 in behalf of the sufferers by
 ''the late dreadful fire among us' The letter
 is put by editor Collier under the head oi
 BLUSH, NEW YORK :" indicating that the
 people of that city had not been as generous as
 the Philadelphians. .' '''. ' 'A''+. '' - s F.. The editor rather neatly dodged his duty
 of writing an obituary of 8 deceased dignitary,
 evidently of some local importance, by remark
 ing, that ''It would be easy to write an GU. logium on his character,--but his character does not need one. 'oi a;5l T. *5 ,.it :. a=
 How this Litchfeld editor of the Old Red Sandstone got his living, however, is a mys-
 tery. A single good printer could have set all
 the type for his paper, but, with so few adver-
 tisements, and probably small subscription list, poor Mr Collier must have; had trouble
 enough to make his ends meet. saz te Et}.,Iiy s56it -3t-+ i.I .{h a- III t Fg&l 2