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, 1878-02-02

THE PLAIN GoLD RINC--To perscn
of sentiment no gift confers the pleasure
or touches the feeling that does the glu
of A ring. In England the PLAIN gold ring
is universally reserved for the Wedding
ring. and whenever All Englishman sees
such a one on a woman lett hand, he, OF
aourse. supposes her TO be married 1t Is
a pity We do not observe the same custom
Marriage is such high and holy and aw-
fnIiy solemn relation, that it might well
have It's own peculiar badge all to itself
But with us young girls constantly wear
nlain gold riH9s, and that even on the
nwedding" or third finger on the left
hand. The diamond ring, too, Is almost
by common consent the engagement
,in, and in the "solitaire form certainly
II ouoht to be sacred to this ctlice- At
least unmarried women under thirty-hve
ono,,t moi to wear the solitaire diamond
rim. nor should they ever have the bad
taste to purchase themselves one II they
inherit such ring from their mother let
them wear it, if they choose, when they
consider themselves hopelessiy welded to
the sinqle estate, But IN general this
most beautiful of all rings should be re-
served as the gift of happy love There
are varieties enough OF splendid gems to
choose from, and diamonds may surround
or he set themselves in rows or IN clusters
Let then. the young girl beware how she
assnmes the solitaire diamond ring, lest,
having placed one on her finger herself,
sha viii find no future lover who Will
r,I,ca second there. On the other hand,
= true lover will not be satisfied with glv-
;ng her whom he has chosen before all the
world any symbol less precious than TINS
cf the truth and purity OF the faith ne
has pledged her.
, 1878-02-02

Mrs. GEN SHERMAN doesn't believe In
grape-shot 1t makes the enemy dance
around too lively
, 1878-02-02

A LAKE THAT NEVER FREEZES. s.-Truckee
is a thriving railroad town and the starting
point for Lake Tahoe-calied the "Gem o.:
the Sierras" Half of the Lake is in Nevada,
the other hak in California. 1t Is twenty
eight miles long and from twelve to sixteen
miles wide, and has been sounded TO depth
of IC00 feet. Its waters are beautiful ul-
tramarine, and it may be called the purest
water in the world, containing by analysis
only per cent. OF impurities. 1t is so light
and mobile as to be easily lashed into foam
or ealmed to a 1nirror-like surface In the
morning it is Ike looking-glass with sur
rounding objects reflected IL it with surpris-
ing accuracy. Several steamers OF small ton
mage are used in navigating it, Its altitude
is about $500 feet; it is always cool and
pleasant in the hottest weather. The lake
never freezes and never gives up Its dead
No person that has been drownded has been
known TO rise TO the surface Wood, as soon
as it is saturated, sinks to the bottom. The
water is as clear as crystal and huge rocks
fifty feet down are plainly diseernable. In
fact it is a marvel, and the very contrast OF
our Salt Lake; for this is so dense and slug
gish as to offer grea. resistance to the human
body and everything else.-Sdk Lake Herald
, 1878-02-02
One sSy One.

One by one the sands are flowing.
One by one the moments fall:
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one the duties await thee,
Let thy whole strength so to each;
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach
One by one, hrish: gifts from Heaven,
Joys are set thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, TO let them 80.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band,
One will fade as others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the Land.
Do not look at life's long SORROW;
See how small each moments pain;
God viii help thee for to morrow,
So each day begin again.
Every hour that ieets so slowly,
Has its task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy
When each gem is set with care.
Do not linger with regretting.
Or for passing hours despond
Nor the daily. toll forgetting,
Lock too eagerly beyond
Hours are golden links. Gods token,
Reaching Heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage b. done
, 1878-02-02
POETICAL SELECTIONS.
Amer the storm.

The summers abroad on the ocean.
1t shimmers IN sunlight for miles;
Last night how it thunlered in anger,
Atdaybreak came rippies and smiles.
And yet on the rocks where the seaweed
Is hung in long tresses of green,
Some good ship that started 50 gayly
All broken and battered is seen,
And tossed to our feet as We wander,
Are spars thrown up OF the sand,
And sadly the friends of the sailors
Are gathered in tears on the strand
See yonder crowd, Oh, my husband,
What is it the searchers have found,
Some sailor thrown up by the ocean
How silen. they cluster around.
\ boy, do you say, A midshipman-
Biue-eyed, with fair curls or his brow.
On, Heaven give me strength. 1t is Charlie
They're bearing him on to Us row
He comes from the sea; i,h. how cruel
The bilows that snatched him away,
They dance as Of old in the sunshine,
Unrecking their deed Of to-day.
The men pass 50 sad and so silent,
And dull on the sand sounds their tread
The ocean to mock at our sorrow,
This morning has yielded our dead
All, me can dare To remember,
My watch at the window yesterday,
L heard the loud boom OF the thunder,
NorthouSht where that brave lad hal been
NJ prayers for all sailors in danger,
Last night We're the first | could frame;
hardly dared think of our Charley,
And scarcely could whisper his name
And May-who shall tell her the tidings?
Now darkness has gathered forever
Around the fair nom of her lie.
She had been, II Heaven n'iiled it, his wife
/ said yesternight there was sadness
In hearing the Voice OF the sea;
But little thought of the sorrow
The waves had in keeping for NE.
A terrible meaning for ever
VIII lurk on the speech Of the wave,
shall walk by the brink of the ocean
a mourner that stands by a grave.
The saddest of visions in slnmber
VIII spring from itS menacing roar,
\ dream of 4 dead face enwoven
With love that is lost evermore.
, 1878-02-02

BLANK MORTGAGES at this Office.
, 1878-02-02

COOKING parties are among the means
bv which society in Paris amuses itself.
The ladies and gentlemen are paired on,
and each pair has to cook a dish; The
dishes thus cooked form the dinner
These parties are sort of indoors picnic.
, 1878-02-02

marty of Irishmen, who felt agrieved
over the irreverent parody OF the waSe n
Ths .S6aHghranR, assailed the actors In
Denver. with shower OF eggs Just before
that scene was to be gwen.
, 1878-02-02

THERE was only seventy cats at phlia- ! a.
delnbia's cat-show. The other Z 7,OOO, ,54l
were sitting on back fences and sheds Of
nights, growing at the small amount oi
nremiums offered, and discussing methods
TO avert the dangers threatened by the
lively SAUSAGE season.
, 1878-02-02

WHEN ulan has nothing in the world to
lose he is then In the bestcondition to sacrl-
fee for the public good everything that Is
lis
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30
STATE ITEMS.

Stafford Springs's new Masonic hall was | dedicated Thursday.
 A sixteen-pound salmon was caught in the Hcusatonic at Stratford, Monday
 ''Dew Drop Band" is the name of new | temperance organization in Norwalk Daniel Kinne of Canterbury slipped cut of wagon, recently, and injured himself fatally.
 Two Fair Haven men hope to make money by catching and pickling eels fer shipment to Germany.
 A striped bass weighing sixty-s and half pounds was caught in shad seine at Haddam, l Tuesday.
 The Higganum manufacturing company has recently received an order from South Ameri- ca for 5000 blows. The nautical school-ship St. Mary's is now | off New London harbor, with 131 pupils on l board. She sails soon for Lisbon. The Wakemans of Greens Farms report loss of about $2, 900 te their fruit-trees and grape-vines by the recent frosts. In 184S New London had fleet of eighty
 vessels engaged in the whale fisheries. At present less than a dozen whalers hail from the port.
 1 About TOO employees at the Bridgeport car- l fridge shop have been dismissed because the
 supply of cartridges for the Turks has been diminished.
 l One of the most notorious criminals of the
 age, Mrs Lydia Sherman, the murderess of
 seven persons, died at the Wethersfeld state
 prison last week, after an illness of several | weeks.
 | Forty prominent men from Hartford and 1 Norwich visited Colonel Joseph Sslden's fish
 cry at Deep River, Wednesday, the 22d, saw l 1000 shad and ten pound salmon caught,
 and had a good dinner.
 Gustavus Lonhardt, 70 yearold carder in | the Thempeonviife carpet works, drowned
 himself Tuesday in the Connecticut river be-
 cause he couldn't earn more than sixty cents
 per day towards the support of himself and wife.
 1 Thieves took . $40 harness from E. T. Hoyt's barn in Danbury, last week, and har
 ness from E. A. Benedict's and would have
 taken Benedict's horse if they had had time te unfasten the door. l The Allen, Stephens & Go. suit, which has been decided against the Charter Oak Life h. surance company in the United States court l for Iowa, is to go to the supreme court Over 1 $1, ,O00, 900 is involved in the case. 1 A whirlwind passed over the Collins com pany's pond in Cellinsville, May 19, taking up
 a column of water nearly two feet in diameter
 and six feet high, and making quite loud
 roaring, violently swaying the bushes as it left 1 the river.
 There were thirteen persons killed in the | Tariffville accident, and seventy persons have l nut in claims seventeen of which have been
 settled, the company paying $2, 375 for them Mir. Gibson, who recently had many of the customers of the road factorized, accepted l $55O, while others have been paid from $50 to $500 each.
 l Two Norwich boys, twelve and thirteen
 years of age respectively, getting their heads l turned by reading dime novels and similar lit
 erature of the sensational class, set out on foot Wednesday to make their fortunes after the manner of the heroes they had read about They were found at New London late in the evening and taken home.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The bell for the Hartford West Middle school, No. 927 Asylum street, is encased in a lattice-work. Inside of this, the so-called En- giish sparrows (the city street sparrow pen etrated, and built their nests so nunerously that 1t actually became impossible to ring the bell. An investigating committee soon discov- cred the truth, the nests were destroyed. and the boys and girls secured about fifty eggs
 The Norwalk temperance people have been taken in by a couple of fellows they employed to obtain evidence against violators of the liq- uor law. They were furnished with plenty of money, which they freely spent in saloons, and in the course of time turned in to their employ CTS eight small bottles of liquor, each labeled with the name of the seller, but when every thing was in readiness to .make arrests they were missing having left town the night before.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30
Fertilizer Analysis.
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT.
 STATION,
 NEW HAVEN, May 25th, 1878. T

CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT.
 STATION,
 NEW HAVEN, May 25th, 1878.
 BULLETIN, No. 13.
 116. Forester Potato Fertilizer, claimed, 35 per cent. nitrogen, 55 per cent. soluble Phos. Acid, 10 per cent. potash. Manufactured by Fl. J. Baker & Bros, 215 Pearl St. N. Y.
 128. Mapss' Potato Manure, Vile Formula, claimed, 3.7 per cent. nitrogen, 597 per cent. Phos. Acid, 13.4 per cent. Potash. Manufac- tured by Mapes Formula 6 Peruvian Guano Co. Sampled Apr. 18th, by Moses Sherwood, Green Farms zN
 130. Superphesphate claimed, 24 per cent. nitrogen, 6 per cent. soluble and reverted Phos. Acid, 1.5 per cent. Potash. Manufac- tured by Quinnipac Fertilizer Go. New Ha- ven. Sampled May 11th, from lot in transit by H. F. Annsby.
 131. Muriate of Potash.
 126. Acid Phosphate, Manufactured by New Haven Chemical Co. Sampled May Sth, by J. J. Webb, New Haven
 129. Russell Goes Superphosphate, claimed, 1.65 per cent nitrogen, per cent. Soluble Phes Acid, per cent. Insoluble Phos. Acid 135. E. Frank Goes Superphosphate, claim ed 3 per cent.-2.9 per cent. nitrogen, 9 per cent.-1.2 per cent. Phos. Acid. From Os- born 6 Tolles, Naugatuck
 133. Fish Guano .s 129, 131, 135, are from stock of Southmayd 6 Gardner. Middletown and were sampled May Eth, by R. S. Hubbard of Middletown. 116 was sampled May 3d, 135 May 10, by M. $. Baldwin, Naugatuck.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

It has been discovered that the mortgage of the Connecticut Western railroad, under which sued, is defective in not having been witnessed by two persons as required by law. It is as tonishing that such blunder in so important matter should have so long escaped attention. No doubt healing act will be passed by the legislature, but the deed, as it stands is utterly void ,; and, in case the property of the compa- nv should be attached in the meantime by sui ferers from the Taritfville disaster, their at- tachment would take precedence of the mort gage. Would the legislature then interfere, by validating act, with pending suits
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

A recent biographical sketch shows that the eccentricities of John Randolph, of Roanoke, were largely due to intemperance. A gentle man who knew him we'll says:
 ''From the first time ever saw Mir. Ran dolph to the last-say from about 1908 or g till his death-he drank very rd,-great quantities of all kinds of intoxicating drinks. He generally drank the best, whether wine or distilled spirits; but he would drink bad if he could not get good, This had various and ve- " singular effects on him. Sometimes he be- came drunk in the ordinary way-lost the use of his limbs, including his tongue, and his mental faculties became almost entirely ob- scured. Generally the more he drank, the stronger and more brilliant he became, until after weeks sometimes he would suddenly become prostrate and sink, and so after time he would recover. Although he drank much in public, he drank still more in private, and although this fact was known to so many, vet it is matter of great surprise to nine tenths o1 persons to be told that he drank to excess'
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

Philadelphia, under government nominally Republican, seems nearly as heavily loaded with debt in proportion to its means as New 9Rk- That city now owes about fifty-two million dollars; and it takes about one per esat- Of all the property in the city every year ts pay the interest on this debt. Nevertheless the Load continues to increase at the rate of about three quarters of million year.
 A cOrUaer's jury has sanctioned the theory of an explosion of mill dust floating in the air, as the cause of the recent disaster at the Min ne4pOIis mills. There was first fire in the woodwork of one of the mills kindled by a spark from al pair of stones running empty. The explOsiTeness of a certain kind of mill dust seems pretty well established, little as anyone would expect it. We have eaten bread, how ever, made from grade of four in which we are confident there was no risky tendency of that kind We do not care to name any of eur advertisers in connection with such flour, but if can be found.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30
Suicide in New Milford.

Tuesdays New Haven Palladium has the following account of a suicide at Merryall (New MilfordD on Sunday morning last:
 Last Sunday morning Miss Sarah McArthur, who had been for twenty two years housekeep- CT for Charles E. Marsh of Merryall, New Mill ford, committed suicide by taking strychnine She had for some time been Respondent and had threatened to take her life, in consequence of which she has been closely watched. Mr. Marsh had purchased the poison to destroy crows and had hidden it in a corner of the barn. Miss McArthur, however, discovered it and died in half an hour after taking it. She was forty-two years of age.
 Phillips Academy, at ARdover, Mass, cele- June. Among other attractions offered is a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The New York Observer is very indignant at the gift of $50, 900 to a Catholic charitable institution by the New York legislature. The apprepnation was supported by both parties, 1t seems. who are very much alive to the inn portance of consolidating the Irish vete. In Last weeks Christian Advocate we find an es- timaie of gifts of public money to charitable institutions between 1869 and 1871. It claims that the Catholics have received $1, 369, ,3S9 while Protestants got only $13S, 148 Taking into account the fact that Catholics pay but One-tenth of the taxes, the dispreportion does seem rather remarkable. The only safe prin- eiple is that which allows no public money to any denominational institutien-not even any exemption from taxation.
 The Advocate is further alarmed at the growth of OUT Catholic population which, it es- inmates, will equal the Protestant at the end of another half ceAtury. In the first place we must admit that if free schools, universal suf frage and fair play, cannot put down Roman ism, then if is entitled to stand. We have however. little fear of the permanent Roman izing of these United States. The average Frenchman and the average Italian of our times are not very well educated persons, but they are too intelligent to be very bigoted Catholics. The American Catholic of 1880 will, we hope, be vastly better educated than the average French Catholic or the average Italian Catholic of to-day. The average Irish man. as we know him, is the bigot centuries of Anglo-Saxon oppression and persecution have made him. Fair play and democratic institutions will suck most of the poison out of that bigotry, and make him more an American .nan Catholic, unless we entirely mistake fhe tendency of American progress.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The success of the Read Carpet Co.'S Car pets is something wonderful, commencing a few years ago making not more than five or six thousand yards per month have increased to an enormous production which are all inn A. T. Stewart & Co.,, & W. & J. Sloane, N. Y. They are not only the handsomest designs, many of them rivalling the best Body Brus- sels, but they are superior in quality to any Carpet made, and are sold at prices lower than same grade of other market. David NJ. Read, of Bridgeport, is the sole agent for the United States, he supplies all other merchants with them and cuts them up to his Retail customers at wholesale prices
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

It is pleasant to notice any improvement in the habits of our city people regarding the use of spirituous liqnors. Temperance has never been able to get any firm hold of the people of New York city. Its population is so large ly foreign in it's composition, and it's native American population has so little sympathy with any mere moral movement, that we are glad to read the following in the New York correspondence of the Springfield Republican |: The use of wines is greatly on the increase, while lager beer is really quite popular bev- craze with Americans as we'll as Germans The change in the drinking habits of the city within dozen years is very striking. The number of German and French restaurants has increased five-fold, and Americans frequent them; and the American restaurants have adopted the foreign fashions to great extent Light wines are constantly called for, and used by ladies as well as gentlemen; and they are to some extent supplanting the strong and f. cry liquors which used to be taken standing in | silence. People sit longer at the tables in the saloons, and talk more and laugh more hear | tily and it is interesting to see at the down. town restaurants how little companies of men meet at the same tables every day. This is vast improvement on the old plan of dis patching unner u0 the StOmacn Dy express train, and washing it down with glass of wa ter and brandy at the bar. And the light wines are certainly comparatively innoxious, l by the side of the whiskies and gins and other ! compounds. mention this as showing that the change in our eating and drinking fashions 1 is favorable to temperance, though not to total abstinence, which is an issue very few city people believe in enough to practice.
 l FIRE AT WASHINGTON HRPoT.-0n Monday night the barns of Messrs. Joseph s. and John w. Titus, near Washington Depot, were en- tirely consumed by fire, together with three horses, a bull, farming tools, and other valua-
 ble contents. Mir. J. W. Titus new house was saved with great difficulty. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendi- arg. ..
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The negro murderer Ten Eyck has been sen- te0eed to be hung. The Great Harrington Courier published a daily edition during the trial. and giOated in a picture of a gallows, when verdict of Guilty was reached. The criminal is to be hung on the 16th day of Au- gust
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

National finances are on the gain. The de- fciency of the revenues is eleven millions less than last year, and expenditures are decreased eight millions improvement of near twenty millions in all
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The Chinese conservatism which denounces railroads has met with terrific rebuke in the recent famine in that country. The food so much needed in parts of that country abound cd elsewhere, only there were no sufficient means Of transportation. A few railroads would have saved most of the suffering
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30
millions in all

The Vosburgh trial is still dragging slowly along. The prisoner himself testified on Fri day Mrs Vesburgh escaped last week and went to relatives of her husband in New York. She went back with the Sheriff, however
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

Benjamin Moves is still under the harrow in New Jersey. We don't know exactly what he is charged with, nor how the evidence looks. bSEt nearly every Connecticut man has a profound conviction that Benjamin is guilty of something.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

THINK OF IT, that Cough or Cold neg lected, may lead to serious consequences; in the early stage of Throat and Lung diseases.
 Madame Porter's Cough Basam is an invalu- able remedy, can be taken by the oldest person or youngest child. Is safe, reliable, and agreeable to the taste. Price 25 cents. and in iadge pottles at OO and 70 cents. 4w
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

THE CERTAIN, speedy, and harmless remedy for children, is Pitchers Castoria It is as pleasant to take as honey, and as certain in it's effects as Castor Oil. For Wind Coic, Worms, Sour Stomach, and Disordered Bowels, there is nothing like Castoria 6-3m
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The colOred and white Methodists of the South have been fraternizing, and most of the unpleasantness between their respective relig- ious organizations seems to have evaporated.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

THE CENTAUR LINIMENTs allay pain, subdue swellings, heal burns, and will cure Rheuma- tism, spavin, and any flesh, bone or muscle ailment: The White Wrapperis for family use, the Yellow Wrapper is for animals. A list of the ingredients are contained around each bot tie. They are cheap, speedy, and certain.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

Cost '" ' t30 OO $500 4500 $500 As muriate is valued at 4 cts per tb. ** In Carolina rock is valued at B cts. I Cash in 5 ton lots $24.0O. In bone ash at cts. The station is credibly informed that ''Pure Bone Superphosphate, sample Ill, made by Lombard & Matthewson Bulletin No. 10 and 'Pulverized Bone," Sample 121, Bulletin ID were offered in good faith at what were sup posed to be fair prices and are withdrawn from the market.
 s. w. JOHNSON, Director.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

IT HAS BEEN CUSTOMARY in old communities to suspend pieces of stick sulphur around the necks of children as a protection against con tagion in epidemics. A thorough washing with GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP has been found much surer preventive. Sold everywhere HILL's HAIR & WHIsKER DYE, Black or Brown. 50 cents. S-4w
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30
Thursday May 30, 1878.

The Connecticut State Sunday School Con- ventiOn is to meet at Middletown on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-30

The Springfield Republican, rather friendly to the South, in general, admits that the ship usenf of seven car loads of cucumbers from Florida to the North has bad look.