Litchfield enquirer., 1878-12-26

GU Df tue adnhHiSsTatiOn or brandy. and the Collrant reporter adds:
 The druggist who sold the brandy which l saved the children's lives will be prosecuted as soon as his name is ascertained by the reform l CTS.
 No doubt that reporter has had his difficult ties in getting supply of needfuI medicine
 Sport the Bridgeport ..walkist, began his six days walk, or run, with O.Leary, at Gilmore's Garden. on Monday. LYONS, DEo 14th, 1878. l Ed. Enq. Although this is the second week of December.it it is the first week of real winter. Up to week ago, chrysanthemums and pan sies could still be seen in blossom outdoor about town. Last Sunday, snow fell to the depth of about five inches, and last night came ten more, so there is good prospect for sleigh ing. Last winter we did not take our sleighs out, and it proved bad season for the manu- facturers hut the season now opens propi- tiously for them.
 The river closed over with ice. Thursday. sand Friday witnessed most distressing acci- dent few miles above here on the river A station agent on the Dubuque road took his wife and two little children out on the ice for little diversion, pushing them ahead of him on an improvised sled or sleigh, while he was on skates. He ventured too near the channel where the ice was thin, and all were engulfed almost in an instant. The father came to the surface, and called for help, two men being in sight. They ran to him with a pole, but it proved too short He then told them where to find rope, and that his wife and children were under the ice. He was so far benumbed and strangled, that when they returned, he could not hold the rope with his hands, and took it in his teeth, but let go and sank to rise no more All the bodies except the babe nine months old were recovered. The neighbors, returning to the house, found bright fire in the stove, the tea-kettle cheerfully singing a welcome return, and the cat and dog content edly sleeping near, little dreaming of the ter rible fate of the little hands that had fondled them for the last>time.
 Did chronicle an accident to one of our
 
 which he lost both feet He was returning from business trip West. late Saturday night and to save time and about two blocks walk, jumped from the train, but the switch knock ed him down and partially under the train, with the above results. After very thorough and searching investigation of different pat ents and an extensive correspondence, I as sisted him in procuring pair of rubber feet, made by Marks, of New York, which cane last night, and he expects soon to be walking around again.
 Wendell Phillips orated in Clinton, last week, delivering his new CD lecture on the ''Lost Arts" AS we were among the few who had never heard it, we were duly interested The Congregational church have instituted series of cheap priced lectures. The first was given by Rev. Albert Bushnell graduate of Yale, on ''Alan, Where from Where to?" Il is an elaborately prepared argument against Materialism, contrasting it with the.Bible doc trine little after the Wendell style, and was one of the best lectures ever heard. It has received higher praises than Phillips lec-
  ture.
 There are about twenty five 1872 pensioners in this part of the state The eldest, eighty seven years old, still writes his name ''HenIy Hall, jr"
 Fish Commissioner Shaw of this state as been fishing in the bayous below Keokuk ant Lansing, ind taken out about eight million s"all Hsh, placing them in his special car. and distributing them in the smaller streams throughout the State. They vary in size from a quarter of an inch to four inches long, larger ones discarded. They are estimated at fifteen thousand to a bushels consisting principally of 'coppies, black and yellow striped bass, sun fish, wall-eyed pike, white and ringed abundant and grow to weigh 75 lbs.
 A new branch of industry Cor enterprise) is being. rapidly developed in Wisconsin. The State offers a bounty of $5 for wolf scalps. IL is found that instead of diminishing the num- Der as was anticipated and intended, the pro- duction of scalps has enormously increased, and it is more than suspected that parties are now raising them, their culture being more profitable than sheep raising. It is proposed to abolish the bounty. and see what effect that will have.
 Hon. J. B. Nesoe0 in my last should have read GreneU, ex-member of Congress, after whom the city of Grenell is named, where the Iowa College is located. AB.