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Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-03
Approved, March
House Bill No. 25.l

CHAPTER LuI.
 An Act Concerning Mortgages of Chat
 .A tels.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened: ttF -.rr.r.-~ Sec. l.. Whoever with fraudulent in- tent to place mortgaged personal property beyond the control of the mortgages, re- moves or conceals. or aids or abets in re- moving or concealing the same, and any mortgagor of.slch property who assents to such removaLor ccncealment, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hun dred dollars, or by. imprisonment in jail not exceeding six months. m - = Sec 2. If any mortgager of personal property sells or conveys the same, or any part thereof, without the written consent of the .mortgagee, and without informing the person to whom he sells or conveys that the same is mortgaged. Incl shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hun. dred dollars, or by imprisonment iu jail not exceeding six months ..-.-.-
 Approved, March 9, 1877.
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House Bill No. 77.1

CHAPTER LvI
 An Act relating to tha Election of Officers
 of Corporations.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened: .... :. Whenever any corporation of any kind, either private or public. except corpora. lions having stock capital or proprietors of common fields. or whenever any asso. citation organized under the laws of this State shall have failed to hold their annu- al meetingor to legally elect officers there. at, and no provision shall be contained in its charter, articles of association or by laws. or provided by law for such contin. gency, c special meeting for that purpose may be called by the pesons whose duty it is to call the annual meeting, and shall be called by such persons whenever re- quested so to do by not less than ten Or majority of the members of such cor poration or association in writing. and such notice shall be given of such special meeting as ia required in calling an annu- al meeting. and at such meeting the nec- essary officers may be elected.
 g Approved March 2, 1877.
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Approved March ', 1877.
House Bill No. 561. l

s CHAPTER LV. An Act to amend the General Statutes in relation to the Reports of Savings Banks.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:
 Sec I. The Directors, Managers or Trustees of savings banks shall annually appoint not less than two Auditors, who shall not be Directors, Managers or Trus- tees thereof, who shall examine the books, accounts and securities belonging to such bank and make sworn statement show ing the true condition thereof, on the first day of October in each year, which shall be kept on file in the office of said bank, and an attested ccpy forwarded to- the bank Commissioners on or before the first day of November in each year.
 Sec. 2. The Treasurer of each savings bank, on or before the first day of Octo- Der in each year, and oftener if required by the Bank Commissioners, shall trans init to them a sworn statement of it's con dition, containing the particulars requir- ed in the annual statements of banks and trust companies to said Commissioners:
 Sec. 8. Sections six and fourteen of chapter two, part three, title seventeen of the General Statuter are hereby repealed
 " Approved March ', 1877.
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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF
 Vsa CONNECTICUT.
.Publiahed by Authority.l

PAasKD AT THE JANUARY sEssIoN OF THE
 GENERAL. ASSEMBLY,, 1877.
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[ House Bill No. 232.l

-.t-rr-. .s CHAPTER LIV
 An Act relating to the Taxation of Dwell ing Houses Ibeionging to Railroad Com.
 "<fs ef3 panles. e. ra Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:I
 That any dwelling.house belonging to any railroad company shall be set in the list and be liable to taxation 1n the town whera- -said dwelling house is situated, notwitiih ing -thsA fact that the same may bs rented to. or occupied by, an em- ployee of said railroad company; and the amount paid for taxes on any such dwell- ing house of houses, shall be deducted from the sum required by law to be paid by such railroad company for taxes to the State.
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[House Bill No. ss.l


 CHAPTER II. An Act concerning the Election and Pow CTS of School Visitors in Towns having Union Districts.
 Be it enacted bY' the Senate and House of RspsssentGtiSes in General Assembly convenedss ye6ls- tas. .,.l
 See. 1. Whenever in any town the school district have been consolidated undef the provIsons of the acts of 1866, 1887. 1889, and 1872. and sneh towns may have heFetDfoge abandoned. or shall here- after abandon such system under the provfdiOns Of said acts, those persons who have been, or who shall be elected school committee of such union districts, shall be and remain the members of the Board of School visitors of such towns, with all the powers and duties of School Visitors, for the terms of one, two, and three years respectively, to which they have been or may be elected, in the same manner ass II they had been elected School Visitors of such towns according to the provisions of the statutes in such case provided.
 Sec. 2. This act shall affect no suit now pending, and shall take effect from its passage.
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House Bill No. 134.]

CHAPTER LIx.
 An Act in addition to an Act in Regard to Closing Saloons on Election Days. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
 |. That section forty eight, chapter nine, title twenty. be amended by adduig in the in the first line of said section. after tke word cities. "wardens of boroughs," and in the second line, after the word city. ''borough," the section to read as amend ed:
 Mayors of cities, wardens of boroughs, and selectmen of towns may between sunrise and sunset on the day of any city, borough. town, or electors meeting, close any place therein where any intox- icating liquors or cider are ordinarily sold or repnted to be sold. or to be drunk on the premises, and may order any such place to be kept closed between sunrise and sunset on the day of any such meet ing, aud every sheriff, deputy sheriff. constable, bailiff. and police officer, with in their respective precincts, shall enforce such orders and arrest any person diso- beying them, who shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more thad thirty days. or both.
 Approved, March 9. 1877.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-03

Fast Day in Maine comes on the 26th, the Governor wisely thinking the ball grounds and race tracks will be in much better condition by that time.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-03

It IS the glass which makes SO much mischief with both men and women.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-03
House Bill No. 12O.l

House Bill No. 12O. CHAPTER LvI1. An Act in addition to an Act Relating to - Assessors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
 Sec. 1. That no assessor duly elected in any town in this State, shall during the continuance of his said office of as- sessor, act as a member of the board of relief in such town. Sec. 2. This act shail take effect from and after it's passage.
 Approved March g, 1877.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-28

next moment was driving ahead on the
other side. The flames seem to have
reached right over the ten acres and
grasped the forest beyond.
Our cave was like an oven. The earth
on the roof was soon baked as dry
as powder. The green logs began to
stew and burn, and in ten minutes we
were almost as wet as if we had fallen
into the river, and were hard-pressed fot
breath. Buried in the side of that hill
we were in the center of an ocean of
flame, of acres of the hottest kind of fire.
For miles to the west the fire was eating
away at trees and logs, and into the very
ground The wall of fire which had
reached its red arms over the clearing
was now miles to the east. North six
miles, south six miles; and the pioneer
and his wife knelt beside the gasping,
choking babe and wept and prayed.
That was an awful night. The heat did
not abate until after midnight, and al
most every minute we could hear the dull
thud of the mighty trees as they yielded
to the fire and fell among the great heaps
of Goals. From 10 O'Clock TO midnight
we existed only by lying flat on the
ground to secure breath. The babe
seemed constantly at the point of death,
but the other children suffered less than
the grown people. Next morning the
worst had passed. Before us was q
cleared space, with every stump burn
ing, and the ground covered with ashes,
Goals and burning branches. Beyond
the clearing the forest was strange,
lonesome sight. Some trees had burned,
some were burning, and others had been
robbed of leaves and smaller limbs, leav-
ing the blackened trunks landmark to
appal the hearts of future settlers. We
could not leave the cave that day, nor
that night, and the next morning every
body was nearly dead with thirst and ex-
hausted with hunger. The pioneer and
myself carried wife and little ones nearly
half a mile over the baked and smoking
ground to a creek, and were fortunate
enough to find the half roasted body of
deer in the blood-warm water. The
animal had lain down in the water to
avoid the heat, and had been literally
roasted alive, as the water was not over
six inches deep, and the heavy fringe
bushes on either side of the creek had
blazed fiercely.
1t was walk of eleven miles to ham,
let-a place which had escaped only by
change of wind and the continued eff
forts of desperate men and heroic women.
Thousands of acres of valuable timber
had been ruined. A green wilderness,
through which the deer bounded and
the fox and rabbit softly made their way,
had given place to such picture of des-
olation as the human eye seldom rests
upon. Dozens of pioneers had lost
everything. Dozens of capitalists had
suffered severe losses. The lowly thorn
apple, the towering pine, the cabin, mill
and village-all had melted away before
that awful wall of fire, and it had cir
cled away to create further desolation.
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You watch its development with expectant
solieitude-the choice, exquisitely-molded bud,
which promises to unfold with the perfect flower.
You perhaps think how it will adorn the draw
n5-room vase and anticipate the pleasure of
showing it to your iower-loving friends But
some morning you find its head dropping, its
fragrance fled, and an ugly purple spot on one
OF the delIcatey-tinted petals. 1t is the poets
''eanker in the bud" How often the loath-
some capker blights the cherished ''infant
blossoms i'll household gardens-those
human buds which give earnest of q brilliant
future. The noisome canker, SO long con-
cealed-scrofula-a length reveals its dreaded
presence and TO our bright hopes succeeds the
most agonizing fear, for we know the fatal Sc
qiel 1t portends-pulmonary consumption. 1t
Ii estimated by eminent medical authorities
that at least one-tifth OF mankind are afflicted
with this insidious malady. But its ravages are
50 secret that even its victims are unaware Of
Us presence until it suddenly discloses itself in
some of its myriad and ofttimeS fatal forms
slight cutaneous eruption is often the only
Indicator of its presence. The only means of
discriminating this disease from the system is
by thorough course of constitutional treat
nlent. This treatment must fulfill three indi-
cations, namely promote nutrition, alter or
purify the blood, and arrest disorganization of
the tissues and the formation of tuberces
No more efficient Alternative can be employed
for these purposes than DIR. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery. While imparting strength
and tone to the digestive organs it cleanses the
blood and heals the diseased tissues. Test its
virtues ere the deadly canker has blightcd the
life YOU prize.
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THEOLOGY IN THE BrD

L renewed my acquaintance with a
3-year-old boy, a minister's son, who
gave me some of his ideas about God.
He was helping to destroy good-sized
strawberry shortcake, which to his mag
nified appetite and worldly eyes looked
all too small for the requirements of
those who had made an attack on it. Il
wish" said the voracious infant, Z" that /
could see strawberry shortcake as big
as God" On being questioned as to his
idea of the size of the Deity, he thought
that he was either about as big as the
railroad bridge or the Episcopal Church.
Anyway, he could DO lots of things. He
could slice off a boys nose and put it on
again lust as easy" and you wouldn't
know it hardly.-Cor. Indianapolis
Herald.
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BILE chair. Then he dipped the brush,
and stuck pieces of the morning paper on
the walls, ON the doors, ON the stove, and,
last of all, he happened to remember
how he had seen funny man walking
through the streets with handbills on his
hat and his back, SO he pasted some pa
pers on the baby's back, and ON the top
of her poor, little bald head. Baby had
no hair to speak of, but she did not at all
fancy this way of dressing it, SO she set
up loud scream of anger, and at that
very moment came ring at the door
bell.
"Dear, dear p said Tommy's mamma,
"peeping out at her chamber window,
" if there isn't Miss Oily Dean come to
spend the day."
Mamma hurried down to the door to
receive Miss Oily, who stood in the hall,
with the inky water running off from her
umbrella, and making little, black river
on the oiI-cloth.
''You didn't look for me to-day, I'm
sure" said Miss Oily, ''but I thought I
should be sure of a good, long visit all to
myself, because it rained so.'
Ellen went back to try to hush the
baby, and Tommy stood in the door with
the hair-bru in his hand, while mamma
said:
"Well, come right into the dining
room, Miss Oily, and dry your feet; we
keep fire there ON account of the baby"
And Tommy kept on staring at Miss
Dilly's funny little curls, until mamma
pushed Uncle Jim's chair to the CRATE,
and said:
''Sit right down here, Miss Dilly;;"
and Miss billy sat down.
Mamma began to pick up things about
the room, and by-and-by she found the
empty mucilage bottle, and she said:
"Why, Tommy Bancroft, where's my
mucilage2"
Then Tommy put his finger in his
mouth, and looked at Miss Oily harder
than ever, and said, "She's sittin' omit"
Miss Oily jumped up as spry as a
kitten, and the chair jumped, too; and
Miss Dilly's best alpaca dress was just
about ruined.
I don't know just what Tommy's mann
ma said to him, but whatever it was, she
put him to bed afterward to think about
it.-Frona What Tommy Did, by Emil
Ly Huntington Miller.
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A Medicine of Many Uses.

medicine which remedies dyspepsia, liver
complaint constipation, debility Intermittent
and remittent fevers, urinary and uterine
troubles, depurates the blood. counteracts IL
tendency to rheumatism and govt, and relieves
nervousness, may be truly said to have many
uses. Sucn article is Hostetter's Bitters
one of the most reliable alternatives of disor-
derby 10 a welI-ordered state of the system
ever prepared or sold. 1t has been over a
quarter of century before the public, is in
dorsed by many eminent professors of the
healing art, and its merits have received re-
peated recognitions in the columns of leading
American and foreign journals. 1t is highly
esteemed in every part of this country, and is
extensively used in South America, Mexico, the
British possessions and the West Indies. If its
increase in public favor i'll the past is to be re-
garded reliable criterion of It's gain in
popularity in coming years, it has indeed a
enlnndih futurn hefnra
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-28
QUE JUVENILES.


The Three Fishers.
John, Frederick and Eanry
Had once holiday;
And they would go a-fishing,
So merry and so gay.
1t was not in the ocean,
Nor from the river-shore,
But in the monstrous water-butt
Outside the kitchen door.
And John he had a fsh-hook,
And Freddy had pin,
And Henry took his sisters net
And thought it was no sin.
They climbed up on the ladder
Till they the top did win;
And then they perched upon the edge,
And then they did begin.
But how their fishing prospered,
Or if they did it well,
Or if they caught the salmon,
really cannot tell,
Because L was not there, you know,
But can only say
That 1, too, went a-fshing
That pleasant summer day.
1t was not for salmon,
Or shark with INDUSTRIOUS fin,
But it was for three little boys
All dripping to the skin
1 took them, and 1 shook them,
And l hung them up to dry.
Dye think they ever fished again?
You don't? No more 90 L !
tttra f. Richards, in st. Nicholas for June
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DITISIBHTyY or earn

The divisibility of gold almost sur
passes belief. Mr.. A. E. Outerbridge.
Jr., OF the Philadelphia Assay Office.
recently exhibited before the Franklin
Institute some thin films of gold OBJ
tanned by electric deposition upon cop
per and afterw,lrd detached, These
pieces Of gold leaf were transparent. and
gave a green color to transmitted light.
Mr.. Outerbridge has thus produced
films OF gold SO thin that one grain of
the metal would cover nearly four square
feet. This is 1000 times thinner than
ordinary writing paper, and 2,79S, 900 of
such films together would only make
one inch.
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Good Material is Always Requisite

to great results. You may have the best flour
eggs, milk shortening, however, and still have
poor bread, cake, pastry, etc. Why? You didn't
use DooLEYs YEAST POWDER. With this last
magic element to give order, harmony and
union to the rest, the result is mathematical
certainty. Try L, and be convinced.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-28

STEPHEN JOHNSTON, the Greenback
nominee for Governor of Ohio, is a son
of the late Col. John Johnston, of Piqua,
the well-known pioneer and famous In
dian Agent of generation OF two ago.
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AFTER an experience of over twenty

five years. many leading physicians acknowl-
edge that the G,'aeteabe1g Marshaps Uterine
Cot1oticol is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject The
Grdefe'sbe7g Vegetable Pills. the most popular
remedy of the day for biliousness. headache.
liver complaint and diseases of digestion Sold
by all druggists. Send for al1nanars. Graefen-
berg Co.. New York
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rheumatism Quickly Cured.

Durangs Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
of rheumatism ON the face of the earth Price
81 bottle. six bottles, So Sold by all drug
gists; Send for circular to Helphenstine &
Bentley, Druggists, Washington o. C.
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BUILDING Il "HELL, ON 4 CHURCl

BUILDING Il "HELLv ON 4 CHURCH
DR.. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, spoke
at the Unitarian festival in Boston. and
told some stories. Speaking of the
"good orthodox fellows in Chicago, he
said
''There is a man out there I like to
meet who generally has a good story to
tell, and when [ can see his eye twinkle
half block away 1 know there is some
thing good coming. Meeting me some
time ago he said, 'Collyer, we had a
good thing at our church the other
night was an orthodox minister.
we have at our church an Englishman
for sexton who isn't very sure of his his.
The church is getting full and we are
having very good times, and last night
it was particularly full. We could NO.
find room enough for the folks, and,
after meeting, he came to me and said /:
L tell you what 1t is, sir, this church is
getting too small, and we shall have to
build hell on it or else we will never
make it go any further"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-28

PoND's EXTRACT FOR PAIN.-You sell
dom see much allusion to it in the public
prints, yet its sale has extended to all parts
of the world.
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RECENT investigations warrant the as
sertion that one baby with cracker-bis-
cult will make the couch of wearied in
dustry more uncomfortable than fifteen
prize mosquitoes.
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BURNETTs CoCoAINE allays irritation,
removes dandruff, and invigorates the action Of
the capillaries in the highest degree.
PATESTEES and inventors should read adver
tsement OF Edison Bros. i'll mother column.
SEE advertisement of S. Taylor & Co.
i'll another column of this paper.
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That to Read.

An exchange says it is very hard for
some boys and girls to believe what
older people tell them concerning the
selection of reading matter. IF a book
is very exciting and thrilling, and pro-
nounced by their elders unfit to be read,
this is only the more reason why they
should read it forbidden fruit being al
ways sweet This is too true. If the
book abounds in hair-breadth escapes.
daring exploits, and blood curdling
deeds, it is for this very reason the more
interesting There is no harm in it,
they argue. ''What injury can the
mere reading of such book do them %
Now, listen, boys and girls, and let me
see if [ cannot show you what harm
there is in it. I knew a little boy once
you know many just such-who from
babyhood was fed constantly ON the
richest and most unwholesome of sweet
meats. What was the result? Very
soon the child lost all appetite for health
full food, his stomach became deranged,
he grew dull and sluggish, his eyes be-
came weak and watery, while his teeth
blackened and rotted away. But, worst
of all; when he grew to manhood,
he began to crave tobacco and
strong drink as means of whet-
ting his appetite and of giving
him a relish for wholesome food. Alas,
what mistake! Now, if I were to ask
you what perfects the growth of the
body, you would readily say the food we
eat. Just 50 in regard to the mind.
That develops itself in accordance with
the nourishment it receives. Do you
think the girl who passes her time read
ing silly, love-sick stories, or trashy
novels, Will ever grow up into anything
but a weak-minded, sentimental woman,
with brain as devoid of one solid
thought as her life is of noble purpose?
And the boy who, hour after hour, is
found perusing n dime novel, a book of
exciting highway robberies, or an OBJ
scene newspaper, do you think he will
develop into pure-souled, noble mind
ed man, a man destined to make his
mark i'll the world? No; for just as I'M
pure food Will dwarf and injure our
whole physical system, just SO impure
reading will faint and corrupt our men
tai organization. Then think of this,
boys and girls, and be very careful what
you select to read, for, be it said with
shame, hundreds of books and papers of
the very lowest, vilest kind may be
found all over our country.