Litchfield enquirer., 1878-06-13
BUELL. A WHEELER
L.itchfeld.

Prof LasIier lectures on America and France at Armory Hall this Wednesday, eve ming. .-'..
 Mir. W. D. Smith of ''Clover Hill Farm" Goshen, brings specimen ofhis Alderney Print Butter, and a very excellent article it certainly is
 The Village Improvement Society will hold Strawberry Festival at Armory Hall, Wednesday, June 26th. Further particulars hereafter.
 The South street furniture rooms are re- eeiving new goods which are offered at the lswest prices, consisting of chamber suits, ta- bles and chairs. bedding, &c. Please call and examine steck and prices.
 Capt E. o. Peck has an appointment as enc of the officers of the Clinton Prison DznneuOra \. Y., one of the three State Prisons of New York, under the general charge of Louis PiIIsbury.
 At meeting of the executive committee sf the V. L B., on Monday evening, it was voted to lay walk across West street from the csEner Of Meadow street toa point near Mrs. G. Sanford's on the North side of West street, as sOOn ss the necessary funds were rxisuA
 Our new deputy signalized his accession to sGlce by arresting Geo. c. Hitchcock at New Preston, Tuesday, on prosecution of l. J. BeardsleY for sureties of the peace. Hitchcock was brought before Justice Shove, of Warren, and gave bonds for his appearance for trial on the 29d inst.
 At the annual meeting of the Litchfeld Circulating Library Association on Thursday evening last the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Virginia K. Roberts, President; Harriet Belden, Treasurer; En- ma J. PIatt, Librarian; Julia A. Wessells, Secretary; Fanny E. Colt, Mary c. Hickox, Mary J. BueI, Emma Deming, A. B. Shum- way, W. H. McAlIister, Book Committe.
 The long agony of the deputy shrievalty (f that is the proper wOrd) is over at last. Mir Edward E, Champlin has the commission in due form, and the political waters are no longer turbid with incessant internal commo- ton Constable Munger is in the employment Of the new deputy,-a concentration of exec ufive authority in one establishment that the patriot may regard with some suspicion. We wish the new officer joy, and hope this com nunity may have very little need of his ser- vices
 We see by the papers that the Rev. L. T. necsion with the Presbyterian church in Pitts bsIrgh where he was preaching. Remarks he made were considered un- Presbyterian and hearing that they had given offence, he forth with sent in his resignation. Can this be 8 son of the former pastor of the Congregational church in this place9 Probably, for the fight ing blood in Bacon will show itself trife, be he never sO good a christian.
 A sad event of. the present week comes sharply home to us of the Enquirer Office. Nearly two years since, Miss Adella A. Doug laE began to learn the trade of printing in our office She worked most steadily and consci- euti0sEsly till about fortnight since, within snly month of the termination of her appren- ticsShip, when she was attacked with bleeding st the lungs, and successive hemorrhages hrUughG her short life to a close on Monday sight. A true woman, she 90 conducted her. self as to win the regard and respect of all in the office and WhefeRer else she was known Bei&g very ambitious, she read and studied hard and late, often denying herself the rest needed ls fit her for the unremitting toll of the day. It is probable, however, that no care wsala have saved her from the fate to which hereditary weakness of the lungs had doomed her.
 The lecture of Father Walsh on Friday evening last was great success in every re- spect- The house was full. The lecture was nsa oily able and effective; it came straight frUn the heart of worthy, patriotic American .eitizen- It was addressed to and evidently had great influence with section of our socl- -esy which.she ordinary temperance lecturer finds ik difficult to reach. There is no class ahnG neeas the protection of total abstinence so =swsly as the citizen of foreign birth. Differ. ence of climate, difference of social condition, diaeEeace of political condition, all tend to in. CTe&ae his temptation to undue alcoholic indul. gence- Moreover liquor is more immediately injurious to the Irish than to any ether ract amsng aG It inflames them at once te mad ness. 0nce intoxicated, the Irishman is read, for any deed of violence, to destroy property to beat his wife, to attack his enemy or hi friend Alcshol is at the bottom of nine tenth k~ss hiFnf fn ,Nrsco and of the vagabondage that sets him roamin the country as a tramp. The temperanC movement that cannot reach the foreigne promises only half reform at best.
 Nor are the Catholic clergy avsrse to tot, abstinence. They desire, however, that tt under the auspices of the church, and not direct cooperation with any Protestant nov ment. While we regret such determination we cannot but wish to see the laity of tt Catholic church urged to the practice of tot abstinence by whatever form of influence wi most surely reach them. If they can only reached through their own clergy, let us sed' OUsly encourage their clergy te undertake u work
 Father Walsh not only preached temperan'
 10 Catholics. he gave Protestants valuab
 lesson in hberalty. The American branch
 the Romish church is just now unfortunate
 being ofiicered by men of foreign birth al foreign education. The Catholic priesthood
 moi a national priesthood among us as it is
 France, in Austria, in Spain Father Walsh,
 Rhode Islander by birth, talked as an Americ,
 to Americans. In him we could discern t
 probable priest of thefuture, when Catholicis
 has bscolne nationalized among us Protesta.