Litchfield enquirer., 1877-10-11

6be fitfb6el0 Gnquirer,
 uTcHFlElD, CONN.
 Thursday, Oct. II, 1877
 Attention is called to new advertisement of Raymond < Whitney's Shoe Store. Irv inx Cl6ck, Waterbury.
 There murs gross election frauds on the lss in the eth Ward of Hartford, and thu perpskrnt0Rs are on trial.
 Al Cincinnati, recently, horse paced nils in 2:I6. It would seem, therefore, tha vith tAs sxms cult1vation ths pace is [ Rnis thak wOaId beat the trvt.
 Ex-Gov. 0asson, the Democratic nomi. nes for Governor of Massachusetts. is . nossd lobbyist ahout their legislature- a faet that viii cost him some votes and eaxha to eost him more.
 The anti -Conkling Republicans of New Tozk hold their public meeting at Coop. CTS Institute this CWednesday) evening. hs t0 bs addressed by Mir. Geo. W. CurkiA
 Kansas crops are enormous: wheat, afksen million bushels; corn. 15O million bushels. One 50 acre corn lot is noticed as having yielded over 155 bushels to the acre. That certainty does beat Barkham. sled a txifIe.
 Mi.a Field, Nev Hampshire lady whom Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, was -tO have married. last week, died of brain fever on Sunday ofthat week. She was @ yeara of age. very accomplished and at. txmesiva. -s.-
 The New Haven Journal states that at the recent town elections 69 towns went Republican; T4, Democratic, and 21. di- vidsd;-which indicates close pull for Che House in November. with the chances slightly in favor of the Democracy.
 Gen. Ssarges has had severe engage meat with Chief Joseph and his Nez Perc- sa. gvatang possession ofnearly all their horses and driving them into a place somekhing Ifke the Modoc Lava Beds where hs hopes to compel them to surren- der. The loss on our side was heavy, Overtusnty being killed.
 The Triennial Convention of the Epis- eOpal church is now in session at Boston. The most important measure before them seems to be . proposition for changing the name of the Church by striking out the words, Protestant Episcopal" from it's present name. The High Church. men claim that theirs is the only divinely authorized church in the county, and they claim every baptised Christian in the land as Q member of it. IndieaEaons are that the movement will be unsuccessful
 1t is said to be doubtful whether Mir. Morton will ever be able to resume his seat in the U. S. Senate. No one expects him to be present ct the extra session. If the Democratic claimants are admitted from Soath Carolina and Louisiana, the Republican majority left will hardly be more than one or i've. and those even may nok al be present.
 n is stated that the Khedive of Egypt who has given ''Cleopatra's Needle" to England. is willing to make present of the similar obelisk at Alexandria to the city Of New York. The papers of that place sAy the money needed for it's re. noval to and setting up in that place eoald readily be raised. The only object of the kind now in the city is the Tribune baildin9.
 The result in Colorado was adverse to woman suffrage, as we had anticipated. Since the enfranchisement of the negro, the current of feeling has run against ex- tensions of the suffrage. Seeing all the evils of carpet-baggery at the South and Irish domination in our cities, people do not stop to consider that woman suf- frags is conservative movement, raising and not lowering the suffrage.
 One of the Republican papers of Mis- sOari ealOgizes the new Democatic U. s. Senator. appointed by the governor of that state, as follows:
 He is without a particle of experience aa legislator; man of very mediocre ability; a cross grained, sour-tempered misanthropist; chronic grumbler, and he will be as useless in the Senate as a mule and about as stubborn.
 Fred Douglass talks to his race in the following sensible way:
 The question with us is. will we work as hard for ourselves as we once did for our masteFs2 If we don't we will go to the wall, for liberty is as essentially state of hard work as slavery is of disgraceful slOth. lk is only by hard labor that we can ever catch up with the white race, and by initiating their virtues instead of their vices. Emigration is Q delusion and 6 @9Mms 448 W4AbS T8Co 1H CNcEyWuci0 VI tha face of the globe, and we could mol gee away from them if we would.
 In onR account of the shooting of MT Wyant. last week, VIC were in error in attrib uting the actual arrest of the tramp Crail to Constable Abbott. He had nothing tt do with it. A man named Jesse Smith employed by the Shepaug Milk associa tioa deserves all the credit given Abbot in our account Smith was right behind wysnt when he was shot. Smith and Mir ". J. Ford brought the prisoner to thu