Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-30

0be fitfb6elo Gnquirer,
 LITCHFIElD, CONN.
 Thursday, Aug. 30, 1877
 The wheat crop in England and in Ger many is much below the average, promis- inR good prices for American grain.
 Ead's sisaaiss ~at tha4 month of the Mis-. sinaippi seem really to have accomplished ths deepening of the channel which was sxpected cf them. !, s/ T r 1
 The s'WeFkingmen" of Ohio nominated . tieket. without a single workingman on h-sO sbsurd performance that another convention has been called.
 Turkist stories of Russian barbarities ssem to be mainly fabr1cations which the Trrks. through the connivance of cores poodents. have been able to palm of on the Eng1ish papers. 55- .--;-t -sa1e , "
 There is consolidation of telegrapic lines and prospect of higher rates. Nothing can ROW limit the exactions of the com bined monopoly, except that uncertain re- Eancs-the corporate conscience. -
 The moons of Mars are very diminutive aRairs-less than 100 miles in diameter, only I5. .Oe0 miles from the body of the planst. and eompleting their revolutions around is in little more than day. 'sa,. i,
 The Ssldens had a big family gathering at Penwiek Grove, last week. Lyme is the old h0ms of the Seldens, and crowds of thea assembled there. among them Chief Juss4cs Waite, of the US. Supreme court -sa '-f--->'ei IioA- 7hIo'i sASit'i On Thazsday evening" a Bridgeport mna vasstabbsa with pitchferk, fatally ik is feared, ak the Canaan residence of Caszinszn BdinaY. near the camp-ground.- O. tho nrsE day the meeting opened, vsrmcaf burglar was caught and sent on Co th6k state. -r l7sL biBoR ,a9.--.... R0stmAstsr Gen Key gets plentifully abused. 6onEh, for his remark about the ''srring7 brethren who tried to secede froa tha Union. few years since, It is prssty evident that somebody erred on that msmerabls occasion; was it the men whO restored. or the msn who vainly at tempted to dismember the Union?
 
 As far as ve can judge from the com msnss of Che press. Secretary Sherman's Ohio speech is considered very power. fal indication of the Southern policy of Gha prsasns Administration, but his finan- eiAl talk does not take as we'll His si. Isaes regarding the silver heresy is crit eisad with especial severity. a-
 La&xanwurth County, Kansas. owes $1, 3nOO0.a .aad her taxable property IS assess d at $SO0. .OOO. Two OF three more conn., tias in that State are nearly as badly of, and look to repudiation as their only re- sOares. The towns on our Air Line rail rOAA sanersd severely, but nowhefe near this sxtsat
 BeElin is hsxlng an experience like that oF mass American cities. Buildings have bean going mp with mushroom rapidity in the capital 0f Germany. till finally there eAnsa crash in real estate prices. Rests have gone down; thers are 10000. .wacant '1sPexsmsnts" in the city, and thousands of SpssalatOu in real estate are ruined.q
 ASAd Acciasnt occurred at Stony Greek. on the lskh inst. A son of Lieut.. Gov. SllI. 6f Haftford, aged 16. as he was jumping from a moving railroad train, came fn collision with brakeman just spE1nging upon the car. Young Sill was thrown down and had both feet cut of by the train. It is thought that he will re-
 The Coney Island Island excursion down the Naugatuck, last week, Wednes- day attracted crowd of 123.00 people, nearly half of them from Waterbury, and with q hundred or more from Thomaston and Watert0Wn m this. county. They took the steamer Laura from Bridgeport and the crowd was pretty large for com- fort. showing the need of more frequent trips Of the kind -ss l.as G.~a .e. -.,e
 The HOusatOuic railroad company gave its employees grand picnic at Parlor Rock. few miles this side of Bridgeport, Oa the lTth instant The gronnds belong tneths conpany. and about twelve hundred peopIs. employees and their families, had an excellent dinner followed bv dance. For lstssaEy fsfreshment there was a DO. em by Colonel Sumner. letters from Geo. VI. HssG. Esq. and others. ac'g 7d sa ,tia.
 The Springfield Republican shrewdly remarks of the Hayes-Co Conkling situ- ssioa. - -
 The danger for Conkling lies in the fact that Hayes can wait longer than he can. For the senakoF,s power is slowly erumhiing in, New York. and he needs to gather 1p his forces before the November election; while the president and his cause arc both likely to grow, meantime, both in Pepalar end congressional power '.@'
 Ths pgssidsnt's recent order regarding the snploymept of relatives by federal oGiesn seem t0 be specially needed in BostOa- Says the Springfield Republican;
 PestmAster TObey has half dozen of Lis family ia the post office, while one of his s0as belong Go the firm that supplies the ssafionsgy and printing for the office. Be- sidsa khese. he has seven under-oficers from the little town of Daxhury, to which hs belong1 Collector Simmons, as has already been shown, has dozen relatives n psAcs.s and collector Slack reports six