Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-09

A&@1 week. the elRnS uIBn6Bb aV0rHS0u 2OsI Splendid shooting.
 The Winsted News has been victimized by iokee with an ancient chess problem contributed by "J. MiIler;" Joe Miller is a signature that arouses suspicion in the breast of the veteran night editor.
 As set-oif against the newspaper jokes on the Ehepaug weclip the following item from the New Preston correspondence of the New Milford Ray:
 The Shepaug Railroad is meeting with great success this Summer. The Road is doing large passenger and freight busi. According to the Cincinnati Conner ciaI. Pres. Hayes is inquiring of friends whs doubt the wisdom of hls Southern policy what sort of . fix he should have been in with Louisiana and South Oaroli- na to keep down and the railroad strike On his hands at the same time?
 There is said to be movement on the part of the railrOad companies to do the business now managed by the express companies. It would be reasonable un. dertaking. the whole express business hav- ing grown out of the neglect of the rail- road companies to do their business prop eEiy.
 RarOpe is demanding more and more grain. every decade. Germany has ceas. sd to bs an exporter, and is now large importer: France nearly furnishes it's own supply; while England now imports over T5.OO0. 600 bushels of wheat annually; the supply needed. doubling every twenty yean A +ff
 The Mississippi democracy have renom. mated their present governor. Senate, Lamar made . speech praising Mir. Hayea' Southern administration. and a Bourbon replied, "Fraudl" but there is no signs of breach in the Democracy of that state.
 nb now said that thirty were killed and l5O wounded in the Chicago section Of the mol. One of the killed was a ra. ging Communist called Tessman. who had grand funeral on Sunday of last week The Courant tersely remarks, ''The more such funerals. the bettsr."
 Mr. McPhenon. Chief of the Bureau Of Printing and Engraving. has been reor. gAnizlng that department into three gr@des of employees. promotion being de. pendent entirely on merit. Heretofore the most scandalous favoritism hes prevailed in the appointments in this department.
 That sminently respectable body, the British House of Commons, has been learning from Q small minority of Irish ''HOus RaleEs." what ''fillibHstering' means. No end of time and temper has been lost and one Right Honorable per son so far forget himself, as to cal another ''d-d fool"
 The Nation accuses the present Soutt Carolina legislature of acting in open hos- Y to the public school system. establish sd m that state. We hope future legisla- turss will show more patriotism and more sense. In state where more than half the legal voters can neither read or write, good system of common school educa. ton is the only hope.
 Tharsdnys Hartford Courant reached us with the rather startling announce nenk ''LOcAl Character Deadl" Thi % entirely cOincided with our views o the place. since the recent exposures in in bank and insurance matters. that VI expected something very contrite and sat isfaCtOEy. Closer examination, however, sAOSed fhAt the piece had reference to e dead dArksy named Jack West
 Virginia is repudiating state. whethe, more or less co. is to be the issue at hel next DemOcrafic Convention. The mos prominent of her candidates for governor fMvOrs compelling the State creditors tt farths< rsnnnciations (they have most Q then already gsisn up third of thei izst eaAinsl Nobody proposes heavier t4xss-ths oaly honest way out of th di&mlty.
 n is HOW said that the railroad strik ws Pss@atarG IL was organized for Oct |, bat ths reduction of wages on the Bal t@Ors & Ohio railroad 50 enraged it's employees that they would hold of ns lOoesH. Had the suspension of railroad bzzzness occurred in the fall, the distress q baziness inferests would have beel vsxy hxwely increased.