Litchfield enquirer., 1877-12-27

6he fitrbhelo Gnqnirer,
 IITcHFlELp. CONN.
 Thursday. Dec. 27. 1877 Hrzra s to sah@sdExe line of steamers be- tweez New T0k and Rio Janeiro.
 n~h Co be 10 boat race between Harvard sd Cukumhsa. next summer.
 In MEn<xpFi, Gen Warner E Furiong, an exITnsua suaEez, has been sent to the State Seuzae from she vIrksburg District F
 Cuznesznza Morse, of Boston, tells an in- servi<wvr that ..President Hayes is supported hE@P4 seat Of both parties in Massachu- asx2~
 The Hause committee on Civil Service Re Hom h@id to be favorable to any good mea- sre. OF the Senate Committee it is enough 0 Ny th@k Is chairman is Mr. Blaine. 8
 Jzz=z T. EzEley, Democrat, has been ehos- eaT- s Senn1w frOm California to succeed Nr- Sergeant in 1s7s He is said to be more of fa B1rnzn than Bayard
 Asrvrahacks approach par in gold their ux Es beginning in California, where hereto suzH gDSd has been the currency employed. If Cozzrvzs win Oaly sop meddling and mud dE1g the currency will soon come right.
 In lsss, South Carolina paid $sS1, ,s45 for p.h15e pxiusing. The lat years expense un- d.r thza kemd has fallen to S6.972. Yet Mir. Hayes w8 expccted to support these very men in the abuuin&hle system of corruption which C9p<shaEgzy introduced @ -s. n< Psslsaeus and Mrs. Hayes wilicelebrate th-z< sSlsxx wedding on Christmas
 The TmAMrionisss have lost a splendid chance of making the president present of a Silver bH f~ wedding gift He could hardly have rrfuSsd its scceptsnce- Iansrs Gordon Bennett is reported to be en- -aerd tO handsome young French countess rp<szifnx in Paris
 Hitherto ii has been the American party to thrs~ fu<eixn aIIizDcesthat hasbeen victimized. Now. 1t is pow Frsnce that will learn :Thow hk hexsslf.-
 nury have .'s1rack iler in Kentucky, recent Iy. in a sulaIl tsWH at the foot of the Cumber- l..a Noszntzins. about 1a5 miles South of Gin. ciznMai They have it also in the Black Hills, I0o zliEes sOaah of DeadwOod, but as the peo. pie of that region love darkness rather than E<hG. the discovery will probably prove of no immediate gse
 The negT0 who was said to have been en- P1syrd by Judge Chisolm (massacred last sp<ing in Mi<i$sippi) to kill one Gully, was hung rrrrufly for that crime. He utterly deni- iesi the ss@y to the Iast. and 90 passes away th< IzSs shadow of excuse for the abominable usb murders thas dizgrsced Kenlper county.
 Postmaster N. ID. Speny has been lecturing in New Haven in favor of retaining the Bible As ~-hOnl reader. The last time this gentle man appeared in public in this role of moral g1ide and teacher was when, out of personal spife. he peEsaaded several college professors and dncsUES of divinity to use their influence to prevent Gov. Hawley from taking the seat in the United States Senate now occupied by WmL H. Baruum. '"
 Attention Is called to the advertisement of Liflelrs Living Age in another column This paper Is esalled from the best foreign pubiica- tiou with selections also from our own journ- slS. and is the very best of the 'eclectic" peri o<iiczIs VIC know
 As wiII he seen. it offers extra inducements Co n-w sahSribeTS- AttentiOnIs also called to the resfuccd clubbing rate allowed in connec- ti"a with the Enquirer. a..
 To COKEEsFoxDESTs.-In giving our em. psoyees their Christmas Holiday, we were Obdged tO set up mOst of our matter day in salvance. this week Unfortunately near two columns ofcOnespOndence,f for which we should under ordinary circumstances have had space sre thus thrown ever to the first page of oul next iSzle- We hope to get early and full ac- counts Of Holiday and other dOings from on correspondents throughout the county nex wcek, and shall try to reserve sufficient space for the publication of their letters.
 Rev. George F. Seymour, whose election tt 6shOpric in the Episcopal church was annul led by former General Convection of tha church, has been again chosen a bishop, by tn new diocese of Springfield, H. He was ac clsed Of ritaAlistic beliefs and practices, and shzrp personal controversy with Bishop Cox followed his rejection by the Convention What will be the result of his present electio remains tO be seen. The approval of tn sanding committees of majority of the sev eral Episcopal DiOceses is required, if we ar not mistaken. before he can be consecrated
 The election of prize-fghter to Congres has been treated as disgrace that could onl have occurred in demOcrAtic America, unde the drmOEaIization of universal suffrage in large city. We notice, however, from the lat Earl Of AIbemarle's Fifty Years of My Life, that oBe of the members of the first Reforme British Parliament. in 1888. wasa prize-fghtel IOrd AThemarie speaks of him as follow (PaS s6sl:
 FrSt, theEe was Gully the ex-prize-fghte tae houoFan1e member for FOnteffAct-a silei respectable. in0densive member, whom ha the paea%uFe frequently to accompany into u khby Oa a division Usa
 POuaefracs, or POsnfret. is atown in the We Riding Of Yorkshire. with apopulationin IS; Of .SsS. and situated l60 miles northwest LOodOa- Not the kind of place, appa ently, thalin America, would have sent aJoh NogTizsey to Congress or to the State Senat
 The New Haven Register takes the grour that the 6nancial question is such mudd th&a no fellow can find out" which is in u right: the geen-baekers; the advocates of Eemo0esizaaion of silver; or those who demar Resumption On the gold basis Can there any doaht as to what species of coin it w Vrus1er~n4 fH,as eha ,,ots,.l I.r,,,slo ,,,,,,,l1