Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-02

dbe fttfbhel0 Gnquirer,
 HTCHFIELD, CONN.
 Thursday, Aug. 2, 1877
 Eight hundred dogs have been killed il Hartford, this summer.
 The Grand Duke Nicholas denies tn Turkish stories of Cossack cruelties.
 Ats London wedding. recently, it wa the bridegroom that tainted away.
 Cosopaxi has been srupting again, de struying properly to the amount of g mil lion. Pittsburgh did four times as badl. as that.
 Jay Gould said during last weeks riots that he expected them to lead to the de struetion of the republic. It is the Grea Bear that speaks thus.
 The insurrection, which at one tim threatened the reviving civilization o Japan with destruction, has been vel nigh queIIed.
 The Charter Oak Life has been recrga nized, Ex-Gov. Jewell is the President and buys ont Furber's stock who, witl wIRgin, retires from. the Company. Tn injunction has been removed.
 Dr. Holland has bought an island il the St Lawrsnce, and named it Bonn, Castle. and intends to build Swiss cot tAge on it Why do good men make sucl atEOcious puns?
 rambling old portrait-painter nance Cooper, always seen with rusty satche under his arm, has been found dead nea Mnsinsville. Ky. and the bundle whel opened was found to contain S65, 900 il government bonds.
 The recent Massachusetts census show that sneh have been the improvements of machinery that double the numbere o1 shoes. of caFpeting, of ready-made cloth ing. and of wOoIen goods, are produced by each employee, than was the case ter years sg0.
 One of the reforms most needed fol protection of railroad employees is some device for car coupling that will save tho lives of brakemen. Had the companies been legally liable for such losses of life the difficulty would have been overcome long ego.
 The Springfield Republican publishes { Louisiana letter in which it is declared that the notorious Returning Board is prosecuted for altering the returns oi Vernon parish, so as to elect Republican member of legislature, and that the pro. eeeding has no reference to the presiden tiaI election.
 The Springfield Republican made { rather startling typographical blunder last week Speaking of the collapse of the Republican party, South, il sAya. ''God is responsible for the fail 'ure. not Hayes." A subsequent sentence shows that the first word of this sentence should have been '.Grant."
 The BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW fol July. contains: Religious Ideas and Mod eKn Thought: The Athens of Thucydides ME. Arnold on Butler; The Ridsdals Judgment; The Southern Slaves; The Liberation Society: Contemporary Litera' tara.
 The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,, Nsw York. S4. e year.
 Shaffenburgh, ex-U. $. Marshal of Col OradO. is a typical politician. The money he stole from the government. he loyall, spent on the pOpulace of Denver, and hs enjoyed a personal popularity in conse quence which made his punishment diff cult. and secured him a short term of i'm pTisOnment for offences which should have consigned him to the penetentiar, for the remainder of his life.
 Ohio is the most important state tha BOW has an election in October ant both parties are holding their conven lions. Last week the Democrats nomina ted R M Bishop of Cincinnati for gov eEn0C. and adopted silver and greenbacl platform which declares that the Repub hcan party is responsible for the labo trOables. This. week the Republican hold their convention with the prospec of nominating Judge Taft in spite of hi declinakiOn.
 ME. Alexander H. Stephens says tha President Hayes has done what Tide could not have done without civi var. because he has revolutionize sentiment in the North. "I told Nil Hayes that he should cut loose from part and give the people good government an' paeiication, and seven-tenths of the ped pie would uphold him. I advised him moreover, not to have a hand in tn Speaker's election. but to appeal to tn country on the strength of his own right doing"
 A Harvard professor has been complair ing that our college faculties are mer teachers. who accomplish little by way ( original thought and investigation. Mo, especially is this the case in compariso with the great German universities. o kha nkhar hand considered as mal