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Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

DR. Cooks CARBoLIzsD CORN AND BUN- ION PLAsTERs Few discoveries in Chem istry have produced a greater sensation in the Medical world than that of Carbol- ic Acid. Combining it's wonderful cura tive properties with other valuable Ball. sams, we have produced the acme of Corn and Bunion Plasters.
 Feeling therefor, confident of their quail lties, we offer them to the Public as a boon to all those suffering from the an- moving and painful excrescences. guaran- teeing perfect satisfaction.
 All Druggists keeping them will .speak in their praise, we'll knowing their .supe- riority over all other remedies in the mar ket. Try them once and you will never be without them
 Sold by John E. Henry, Curran.& Co.,, ". H. Schiefelin & Co.,, LazelI, Marsh < Gardiner, Wells & Elliot. Day, Hoag- land X Stiger. Chas, N. Crittenton. McKesson < Robbins, John H. Francis, John M. Grosvenor. and by Druggists everywhere. J. K CooK & Co.,, Manufac. turers, 10 Clinton Place. New York.
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For Rent!
Notice.

THE undersigned, Commissioners of Litch- l field County will meet at the Mansion House in Litchfield, Conn. on the 1st and Sd Mondays of November, 1876, at 2 F. Af., and on the first Tuesday of each month following, for the pur- pose of acting on recommendations for license. for receiving reports of prosecuting agents, and for transaoting other County buslness.
 M. E. BUTTON, o09n,y
 GEO. PIERPONT, O"mmAslont te Litchfeld. July 1st. 1877. 97tf.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

CHILDREN CRY FOR PITCHERS CAsToRIA. It is as pleasant to take as honey It contains no morphine or other deleterious ingredient, and is sure to expel worms, cure wind collie, regulate the bowels and stomach. and overcome irritation caused by rash or cutting teeth. Mothers can rest. and children enjoy health, who use Castoria. It is harmless, it is certain, it is speedy, and it is cheap. 31-3m.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15
New cure for Disease-read this and
 tt may SaV Vouf life.

W0w cure TOT OIS0dS0-T0aO Cn1S a 10
 itmav say your life. Persons afflicted with any Long stand. ing Disease should try the new and yon- derfullv successful treatment of the AL BIoN MEDICAL INSTITUTION of Saratoga Springs, N. P. No fees are charged until a cure is effected; and any person who is unable to visit the Institution can procure a prescription for trial free of charge, by forwarding statement of the case. All manner of Long standing Diseases are cured. no matter if older Physicians have failed, such as Liver and Kidney Complaints. Dyspepsla. Spinal Weakness, and Female Diseases of the worst form, Scrofulous Eruptions, &c.; Nervous De- bility, Vital Weakness or Depression-a weak or exhausted and gloomy feeling, energy or courage-the result of mental over-work, excesses or indiscretions, &c. !; always cured.
 Address, with stamp for reply,
 DR. o. O. GAGE & Co.,,
 ALBION MEDICAL INSTITUTION,
 Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Are you out of Work 1

CMART boys and girls can earn almost much as O an experienced agent, Address with stamp. P. O. Box 113 Unionvtlle, Conn. 33-fw
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

The recent attempt m New York city to steal an elephant was failure.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

nIsTR1CT OF LITCHFIELD, ss. Probate Court ONov. 5th, 1877.
 Estate of Alwda Birge, late of Litchfeld, in said district, deceased.
 The Administrator represents the Estates nsovent, and prays the appointment of Commissioners there- 
 Ordered, That commissioners to receive and decide upon the claims of the Creditors of said Estate be 1th day of November 1S77 at two o'clock afternoon; And said Administrator ordered to cite by adNer- tising in newspaper published in Litchfeld County to be heard relative to said appointment.
 Certified by
 GEO. NJ. WOODRUFF, Judge All persons interested in said estate hereby cited to appear at the time and place named in the above order to be heard relative to said appointment.
 DAVID TURNER, Administrator.
 32-2w~
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

A Congregational council at East Or chard. Mass, declined. last week. to set. tie the Rev. J. F. Merriam>as minister of that society, on his frank avowaf of dis. belief in the doctrine of eternal punish. ment. The. vote in the council stood eight to six.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

nIsTRIcT OF wooDBURY, ss. Probate Court. O November, 10th, 1877.
 Estate of Wyllys Umber6eld, late of woodbury in said District, deceased.
 Pursuant to order from the Court of Probate for said District, will be sold at Pabc Auction to the highest bidder. the first day of December 1877, at 10 o'clock in the (uness previously disposed of at private sale all of the Real Estate of said de- ceased It being farm of 68 acres with buildings in good repair, within mile of Post Office and mill and1H miles of WoodbHry Center. on the main road from said Woodbury to Watertown and Waterbury. Sale to take place the premises in said Woodbury Terms made known at time of sale.
 3S-Sw SCOVILL NETTLETON, Executor. nIsTRICT OF LITCHFLELD, SIS. Probate Court, xJ Nov. 7th, 1877.
 Estate of Watson J. Morse late of Ltchfed in said district, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the district of lichfeld, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested, within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons in- debted to said Estate are requested to make imme- diste payment to
 Ss-3w HARRIET E. MORSE, Administhatrix:
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

Ire Springfield Republican justly re- marks that every time the President giyes ofhce to men outside political rings, his appointments are popular. even with poll. ticiana' whereas his political appoint ments arouse jealousy and give dissatis. faetion on all hands. s.The moral is not far to seeks there are pore citiaens than there are politicians. and the one are growing in infnenoe and importance, aa the others are fading"
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nIsrRICr oF LIrcKFIELD. ss. probat.

DISTRICT OF LITCHFHELD, ss. Probate Court, U November, 1877.
 Estate of Linus Morse late of Litchfeld, in satd District deceased.
 Tho Court of Probate for the District of Litchfeld hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested, within said time, will be debarled 8 recovery. All persons in- debtCd to said estate requested to make imme- diate payment to
 33-3w J, H, HOPKINS, Administrator.
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A Goshen School Committee" replies to H Ms call for more experienced teach. CTS for the young with the objection that tour means are small" and insufficient to pay for experienced teachers. He tells H. N: that he should be very glad of such a teacher if he could be obtained for the salary they are able to pay. Our own be. lief is that ''cheap" teacher is the dear est investment a district can make.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-15

Woman's ecclesiastical rights seem to be meeting with full recognition on the part of some of our Congregational brethren. We see it stated In the papers that the Hartford South Conference sent 50 women out of 56 delegates to the annual meeting at Southington. This is rather larger proportion than seems fair, and we expect soon. to hear a demand for ''minority rep resentation" from the male members so conspicuously left at home.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

wrought out by men engaged in wheeling
muck on farm, or young man selling
tape behind a counter, but by those who
were familiar with the mysteries Of print
ing Office and prcss-room. Daily contact
with machinery is the connecting link be-
tween the fertile brain and the patented
products. There are hundreds Of Vermont
ers as capable Of "invontiDg" something as
their brethren in Connecticut, but being busy
with other things the world will 20 without
the results Of the inventive genius. and we
are persuaded il will be as we'll for the world,
as providence sees to il that the great march
Of invention keeps pace with the general
progress Of mankind. Just think of the
un6tness Of having one of our "ironclads"
at the battle Of Salamis or a Krupp gun at
the seigo of Troyf
II will be seen that this inventive genius
is peculiar prerogative Of the Yankees.
As there are coal areas and iron areas in the
country, SO there Yankee areas or belts,
running across the continent, bisectiDg its
population like geological dixie, or like the
Gull Stream running through the Atlantic,
and when you strike into this Yankee belt
you will find inventions springing up as if
by magic. Invention is the "native breath
Of Yankee, all that he needs, like we'll
ripened seed, is the conditions for growth,
and the harvest is sure.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Spiritualism.

We received few weeks since from a
reader who enclosed some verses which he
said were mot written by any medium, but
by the spirit herself in her own handwrit-
ing" We publish two stanzas and they are
above the average Of the poem, and leave
our readers to draw their own inference as
to the reality Of spiritualism from this pro.
duction. We know there are those who
cherish the matter as a sacred thing, and
will say nothing to displease or wound their
feelings. We read the Banner of Light
steadily for two years and this poem is
above the average Of its columns, but such
things serve only to convince us that it is
delusion. If We supposed that disembOdied
spirits from the very presence of God, and
the atmosphere of heaven, freed from all the
letters incident to life on the earth could
rise to no higher intellectual nights than
esprit productions" which we have seen, we
should pray to be delivered from going to
heaven. We have higher faith than that
believe there are grander capabilities of the
human mind, than these things indicate in
the presence Of God for those who are but
"little lower than the angels !" expect when
we reach that place to have a little more
idea Of poetry than this article shows, and
not have the longiugs for a return to the
earth which found expression in other stan.
zas. As we have already said VIC would
wound no one in their religious feelings, but
speak only because several communications
have rather urged it. We want our read
ers to peruse these stanzas and judge for
themselves:
think the time Is very near at hand
When can come and before you stand
ROBBED As when dwelt here with thee
Then all Of you will know tits me.
Noy must 70 and bid you adsu
Although bayo not got half through
But will write agaip sometime
And will try " have more In rhyme
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Did You Ever Try IT.

Ifany one uusel6shly undertake to promote
some good cause useful to portion or the
whole Of society around him, he will meet with
some queer experiences, that will illuminate
to him as nothing else can, the warnings Of
the Lord to his disciples when he sent them
out to preach his gospel of grace. II such
individuals are supplemented persons, mon
or women, with little experience of human
nature, what they will fnd out in the course
Of their experiment will shock as well as as
touish them, and il the seeds of their good
disposition are not we'll rooted in good
ground they will be apt to be touched with
killing frost.
Opposition will be met on every side, and
often from the very persons it is desired to
benefit There are many people SO ingrained
with sel6shuess that they have no belief 10
disinterestedness. These suspect "a cat
under the meal" in every good work. If
you should offer such IN one a FIVE dollar
bill gratis, he would suspect some trick; and
if he found it to be genuine would entertain
no other belief than that the giver was
crazy. The strongest thing Of oil is not
few who are of this way Of thinking
are nOminally Christians. They pro.
fess to receive and to DO saved
BY a religion the very first principle
Of which is incompreheusible to them.
But If one wants to know how many Of
his neighbors have n pecuniary interest in
some public evil or crying social wrong, let
him mako telling effort to reform it. He
will not only find himself encountered with
distractions Of every sort, coupled with
defamation and derision, but he will DO Of.
fered aid and sympathy by those whose only
object Is to win his confidence, the better to
defeat his purpose.
These are times when wrong and outrage
are rampant there is not an honest citizen in
the land that does not suffer loss, and many
are in want to-day because Of them. These
evils are both political and social They
are powerfully armed and strongly intreuched
like an invading army on the territory Of an
unprepared people. They have grown and
spread until all but the most apathetic are
beginning to be reused against them. 1t is
the duty Of every lover of his kind, as we'll
as the interest Of the simply selfish nature,
to fight against them. But the mere philo-
sophical philaHthropist, much less the ego
fist, cannot be relied upon in such contest
His experiences will soon transform the
former into cynic, and the latter will be
ready to lay down his arms, or 60 over to
the other side, like Arnold, for a consider
alton" 1t is the earnest christian believers
filled with the spirit of the first and great
commandment" and "the second, which is
like unto it," that are the dependence Of the
nation 10 this crisis, and must be relied on
to enlist, without pay, for the war. As Ar
mold is the type Of one class, so must WASH
ington be the exemplar Of the other. 1t
is only 10 the strength Of the christian ideal
that our wrongs can be righted; it is only
the militant christian who will be recognized
as hero in the fight Where are our lead
ers2
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
The Geography Of Brains.

Those familiar with religious statistics in.
slst upon the Importance Of maintaining the
country churches, as from them large per
cent. of the ministry are secured as we'll as
the better class Of lay members. We sup.
pose the general principle is true, and the
census reports tell other tales as we'll. One
of them is the habitat Of brains, especially
of the inventive type. A careful collator
of these returns has found that one patent
was granted for every 730 persons in Con-
necticut, GA 10 Rhode Island and 9l8 in
Massachusetts,, last year, while out west the
proportion sinks TO one in 1857 for Illinois,
and one in 449S for Kansas. Now it does
not follow that the brain Of each inhabitant
Of the old nutmeg state is six times as great
as that of the citizens of Kansas. For tho
same report gives patent to only one in
about three thousand in Vermont, and near
the same proportion for New Hampshire
and Maine. OF course 1t would be prepos-
ferrous in US 10 admit that "blue law" son
of Connecticut has more brains than the
hardy children of the Green Mountain state /;
indeed, il the facts proved it We should feel
inclined to say $50 much worse for the facts. "
Two things will account for the difference in
the number Of patents granted the respective
states. One is, Vermonters have no great
"hankering" after patent rights they regard
them as "mighty poor trash" and save now
and then out of compassion for the vendor
of the double twisted, hollow clothes line, OF
double acting farmers gate, or egg.beater,
they shun property in "pateuts." They also
have profound respect for that old law Of
the human race, ain the sweat Of thy face
shalt thou eat bread" aud so they start the
"sweat" as the legitimate road, 10 success in
procuring bread for themselves or others
They are also profoundly respectful towards
the ways Of the fathers, and 80 will 60 as
long and as far in fruits" rs any other people
with their{amount Of sense. The fathers
did not have Jersey or ShOrthOrn or Durham
breeds Of cattle, therefore they will not and
so on through a long chapter. And thi'
slow conservatism makes them stick to po
litical leader after he has gone by, or beer
proved unfit for further public service.
A second reason why VsrmOnters, as well
as their brethren in Maine aud New Hamp-
shire take out fewer fewer patents that thu
people of the other three New England
states is their remoteness from large citiel
especially manufacturing towns. The won
dsFful inventions which have given the world
the perfected Hoe printing presses we're moi
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
GENERAL NEWS.

The Boston Herald is about 10 erect
six-story building, to cost 100000.
Prof. Young Of Dartmouth college has nc.
cepted his call to the professorship Of astron.
omy at Princeton.
Frank NJ. Baker of Rochester, N. Y, has
been sentenced to Is years hard labor in
Auburn state prison for having four wives.
Montreal detectives inform the Philadel.
phia police that they think the loug-lost
Charlie Ross lives with woman at st. John
Baptiste, village near Montreal.
Rev. w. IL. II. Murray's annual recep-
ton, which was held at Music hall, Boston,
Thursday night, was attended by about 100
Of his Pensioners, and was very brilliant
affair.
The Indiana state-house at indianapolis is
weak and rotten and in danger Of tumbling
down. Experts pronounce it unsafe, and it
is very obvious that it must be sooa aban.
doned.
A man, calling himself DR.. Count De
Mervile, has been arrested at Montreal for
spopgiug 800 apiece out Of Il men on the
pretense of organizing an expedition to the
Black hills, where he professed to own rich
ming lands.
Mrs Il. d. Winsow, wife of the Boston
forger, is living at Whitehall, N. Y, where,
it is said, she is supporting herself by sewing.
Winslow himself, it is supposed, has left
England for Spain on his way 10 South
America.
This is outrageous. The Rochester Dem
ocrat says: 1.-The sale of Bibles in Chicago
is said to be three times as great as it was
year ago. Mr.. Moody drew attention to
the work and they think it is a new book. p
Brigham Young, Jr, is organizing in Salt
Lake City a company of 500 Mormon fami.
lies, which will colonize in Sonora, Mexico.
The Mexican authorities have promised per-
feet religious toeration, and large grants Of
land.
A New Milford maiden, who found her.
self in unpleasant company after accepting
an invitation to take q sleigh ride with Q
young man, dropped her handkerchief on
the road, and, when he got out to pick il
up, applied the whip, and drove home with
out him.
II. N. Dean and Son manufacture yearly
10000 sides of card leather at their factory
10 South Adams, Mass, employing IL mer
and running by water power. At Owego
Tioga county, N Y, they are employing rs
men in the manufacture of card, upper, aud
bag leather, using steam and power exclu
sively.
We have had the warmest February THU
year we have had for seven years. Tn,
highest temperature in February since 1870
was in 1871, when the mean was 80 degrees
while in February, 1875, the Arctic nature
of which many still remember, the near
was only 24.9 degrees. But the mean tenn
perature of February this year was SO de
grees, nearly IL degrees higher than 1875
and degrees higher than 1871.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
Grants Political Career.

No satrist Of the administration now ex.
piring can ever hope to compete with Pres
ideut Grant himself. His loyalty to his
friends" is proverbial, but his treachcry to
his apologists has, during the past eight
years, been simply shocking. A curious
perversity has made him disappoint every
reasonable expectation which they based upon
his promises, aud confute every defence Of
his character for integrity and statesman
ship which they laboriously constructed. He
took office with significant declaration tina
he would have no "policy" distinct from the
will OF the country, aud in less than q year
hc was lobbying to secure the ratification Of
the treaty negotiated by Babcock with Baez
without the authority, or even knowledge, of
the state department and, when defeated,
he was so far from promptly dismissing the
project Of annexing San Domingo that in his
latest message he has REQUIRED to it with q
kiad Of mulsh fondness. Almost his earli-
est act was to intercept the pardons which
President johnson had just sent out to con-
victed whiskey-thieves aud it is now prob
able that among his very last will be the re-
lease, beyond the chance Of President Hayes's
interference, Of the only guilty man" Of the
Bristow convictions whose escape" has not
already been provided for. He shortly af-
forwards invented a new solution OF the In
dian question by means of missionaries whose
calling would be guaranty Of their official
purity aud then he displaced a Methodist
minister, appointed Secretary Cox on the
recommendation Of the missionary board, in
favor of prOtes6 of Zach" Chandler's, also
a Methodist minister but who had fallen
into disgrace with his own society and been
discharged from its employ and gone into
politics. After this, aud after he had got
rid of Secretary Cox in the interest of Nc
Gsrrahan's discredited claim. he appointed
the civil service commission in tho spring of
1871 and adopted its regulations in Decem-
Der, and stood by Casey 10 the spring of
1872 after his exposure by q congressional
committee, and renewed his appointment in
the spring of 1878, and accepted Mr. Cur
tis's resignation next month, and invited
Harrington while under indictment to one of
his receptions in 1874, and meantime pre-.
scented his brother Orvil with the living of
four lucrative post-traderships, and ended by
making Zach" Chandler secretary of the
Interior and allowing him to be chairman of
the republican executive committee for the
presidential campaign of lS76.-NeiO York
Nation.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09

"Vote the straight republican ticket"
said the Fress Press of Monday. That was
of the "town meeting" the day following.
Now Burlington is a fine place, but we have
yet to learn that the republicans there are
above the general average, aud if SO they
will put up some bad men for Office, aud We
would say to the citizens of the Queen City
"vote for the best men" and when both or
all parties do that we will get the best men.
The advice of the Fress Press everywhere
followed would perpetuate the rule of COR
ruptiOn and plumber and kuavery. No, let
us accept the motto of President Hayes.
He serves his party best, who serves best
his country"