Litchfield enquirer., 1878-04-04
Unionviue,


 We have a dog pound here. Dogs ming
 ling in society, unless dressed in the legal style,
 are taken there, the taker receiving one
 dollar for his trouble. Some dog owners are
 thoughtful enough to take their own dogs
 themselves, and thus manage to make fair
 profit out of the transaction. The dogs are
 held certain length of time and then if not released, are taken out and killed Quite a number have been disposed of in this way,
 and there are mora to follow.
 This month has been remarkably free from high winds, so far. The ''lion" of the month has been mostly confined to two or three blus- tering days.
 John StimeitZ removes with his shears and razors to Collinsville MT. Perkins is go- ing to open a meat market where MT. s. va- cates X Barber from Winsted has opened a shop near tue centre bridge M. J. w.
 EARLY IRISH AUDIENcEs.-The memoirs of Miss Bellamy, which she left behind, present some strange pictures of the Dublin audience of that age. One night, as she was passing oD to the stage, an officer, who was standing at the wings, stoopen and kissedher on the neck She turned and slapped his face, in sight of the whole audience, among whom was Lord Chesterfield, then Lord Lieutenant, who rose from his seat and applauded the act. In con- sequence of this, Sheridan published notice in all the papers that henceforth no gentleman would be admitted behind the scenes, and to enforce the notice he had sentry placed at the stage door. One night drunken officer, being refused admission, stabbed the soldier in fha fRinh xyifh VoIInh viO1npoo of hio yord broke in the wound. Another night, a MT. Kelley mounted over the spikes which guarded the pit from the stage, coolly made his way be- hind the scenes into the green room, and gross ly insulted one of the actresses. Miss Bellamy entering at the time, and seeing the lady in tears, and the fellow holding her down in her chair, she asked her why she did not force her. self away from him. Upon which the brute turned savagely upon the young girl, pursued her to her dressing room, and tried to break in the door, swearing the direst vengance upon her. The manager came up and desired him to quit the theatre he refused, and was sum- marily ejected. Returning to the pit he threw an apple at Sheridan, who was performing 1EsOp, and it struck him upon the forehead with such force as to dent the iron of the false nose into the flesh. The actor addressed the audience, but they were too ruffianly to take his part, 90 the curtain was dropped, and the play left unfinished. Kelley had the impudence to rush around to his dressing room and de- mand satisfaction. And he got it, but not in way he desired-with a thick oaken cudgel, with which Sheridan belabored him, until he howled again, and could scarcely crawl Of he went to a coffee-house to relate his wrongs to his friends, and call upon them to assist him in his vengeance. But when they arrived at the theatre it was shut, and so well defended that the ruffians thought it best to retire. The next night 'The Far Penitent'' was to be per- formed The moment Sheridan appeared as HOrGtiO these scOundrels, who had planted themselves in the pit, jumped from their seats, and drawing their swords, yelled, Out with the ladies and down with. the house !' Sheri- dan was obliged to fly for his life, while they destroyed his property, smashed in every door, and stabbed and thrust into every place in which they supposed he might be hidden Such terror did these riots inspire, that the magis- trates ordered the theatre to be closed for time. The college students annoyed at being deprived of their faverite amusement, took the side of the manager, invited some of the ring leaders to breakfast, and as soon as they were within the precincts of the college, dragged them to the pumps, and pumped upon them until they were nearly drowned. Temple Bur.
 AND hRI.-I USu against facts in vain. Mr. Goldwin Smith, a writer of eloquence and power, although too prone to acerbity,is partisan of the Puritans, and of the Nonconformists who are the special interiors of the Puritan tradition. He angrily reSents the imputation upon that Puritan type of life on which the life of our serious middle class has been formed that it was doomed to hideousness, to immense ennui He protests thai it had beauty, amenity, accomplishment. Let us go to facts. Charles l., who with all his faults had the just idea that art and letters are great civiizers, made as you know, famous collection of pctures-our first National Gal lery- It was, l suppose, the best collection at that time north of the Alps. It contained nine Raphaels, 1h&oTeggios, % Titians. What be- came of that collection? The journals of the House of Commons will tell you. There you may see the Puritan Parliament disposing of this Whitehall or York House collection as follows: Ordered, that all such pictures and statues there as are without any superstition, shall be forthwith sold. Ordered, that all such pictures there as have the representation of the Second Person in Trinity upon them, shall be forthwith burned Ordered, that all such pictures there, as have the representation of the Virgin Mary upon them, shall be forthwith burned" There we have the weak side of our parliamentary gov ernment and our serious middle class. Weare incapable of sending Mir. Gladstone to be tried al the Old Bailey because he proclaims his an- tipathy to Lord BeBconsfeld; a majority in our House or Commons is incapable of hailing, with frantic laughter and applause, a string of indecent jests against Christianity and it's foun- der; but we are not, or were not, incapable of producing a Parliament which burns or sells the masterpieces of Italian art. And one may surely say of such Puritan Parliament, and of those who determine its lne for il, that they