Litchfield enquirer., 1877-06-07
Gbe Gttfbhelo Gl1quirer,
 LlTCHflELD, CONN.
Thursday, June 7, 1877.

Thursday, June 7, 1877. Ben Buffers letter to Marshal Pitkin. of Louisiana, is splendid specimen of that arrogant humility of which the Es- SEX statesman IS now model. He coun- sells Pitkin to submission-eyen to tbe resignation of his ofice-and "not to kick and squirm any more than Isaac did when he lay upon the altar under the knife of his father, Abraham" The facts on which this onslaught on the Presi- dents policy is based are denied by Com missioner McVeigh; but what cares But Ter for facts? f 4. gs < It don't do to move hastlly in commen- dation of 6 Southern legislature. Here was the South Carolina legislature promi- sing excellently, week before last. Last week it took turn for the worse. The repudiationists carried the Senate. and now the House is trying to drive off the only Republican judge left on the Circuit bench, and pretty honest judge, too, the papers say.
 The Republicans of France are continu- ing to show the cautious forbearing spirit which has made thsm so powerful Of late years. Gambetta openly proposes, not his own name, but that of Thiers.a as success sor to McMahon in case of his withdraw al; and Simon, late prime minister, has ta- ken charge of Republican journal. We believe that McMahon will soon be driv. en either to resign or to attempt coup c et0t. #7 ~ -
 
 The ENQUIRER SUPPLEMENT is not a mere overflow of advertisements, to be thrown aside by the reader uninterested in business, but an important part of the paper itself. It contains, this week, two newspaper colums of original matter. edi- torials, county letters, &c.
 Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, NC. con- siders the Union concurrent compact '' So thought the late John 0. Calhoun and many lesser lights, but the case went be- fore the highest of mortal courts and was 1Acided otherwise .~e .. ...ss- In the great divorce case luas 4.as v~...r-z muUn Urue III DrIugePurt, for the past flow months. The defense was got up chiefly by detectives" it seems, and met with the small success it deserved.
 Messrs. Tracy & Chapman, defaulting officials of the Farmers X Mechanics Bank, at Hartford, have received full jus tice from Jude Chipman. President Ira cy gets six and half years at hard labor in the State Prison; Cashier Chapman, five years
 The WESTMINSTER REVIEW, contains: Popular Fallacies concerning the Functions of Government; Courtship and Marriage in France; Charles Kingsley; Slavery in Af- rica; Lord Macaulay as an Historian; The Factory and Workshop Acts. Part II; Russia; Contemporary Literature.
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 Thank heaven it is not quite so safe to kill Chinamen in California as Republl- cans in Mississippi. Five of the perpe- trators of the Chico massacre are in the penitentiary for 6 quarter of a century each. South Norwalk bids fair to be great city. Its chief of police and ono of his subordinates are charged with various burglaries in the precincts they were em' ployed to protect.
 Texas seems to be rather more of 8 Temperance State then Connecticut. They have local option law, and third of the counties have voted "No License"
 The Venus of Milo has found her arms at last. They were within twenty feet o! the place where her body was found ir 1920.