Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-18
The Legality of Aggravation?


 Most business thriyes on advertising. Not; so with riots. We have noticed that the more thoroughly people prepare for a general Gear nival of blood," the less there is split. Here was Montreal affair that promised really splendidly. For days in advance the newspa- pers prepared us for a second Bartholomew massacre. Friday came; the Orangemen had concluded not to 'walk," and the riot was fizzle.
 As regards the principle of walking" we are not altogether sure. Any amount of mere idiotic walking is no doubt in order, but is walking for the pure purpose of insult an in- alienable right of the citizen? Suppose the eight or ten middle-aged- bachelors of Litch- field were to make an anniversary of the day Eve ate her unlucky apple; and were to par ade up and down the sidewalks of the village in procession, each with an apple at the end of his cane, and carrying banners with insulting texts from St. Paul? The thing might go on peaceably for year or two but eventually the hundred or more single and widowed la- l dies of the place would rise up in their might and insult that procession with epithets, souse | it with water, cover It to the depth of several inches with flour, red pepper and other condi- ments-might, perhaps, abolish it altogether, unless Company H were to put in an early and an effectual appearance.
 | So, too, there are Southerners enough in New York city to get up fine procession on the anniversary of the first battle of Bull Run. How would it be received even in that Demo cratic city? Catholics might make carnival of St. Bartholemew's Day, or Jews of Good l Friday, if insulting performances of thls kind are lawful. We are inclined te believe, in. deed, that the Mayor of Montreal exceeded his legal powers but, even if legal, proces. sions like those of the Orangemen, designed merely te infame old animosities of race and | religion, are in most execrable taste. l IA USEFUL INVENTION Charles S. Darby, | a Carolinan by birth, but resident of Noroton, Connecticut has patented a new rubber safety | stopper for bottles and phials It is claimed \ to be air tight, economical and indestructible, outlasting dozen corks and avoiding the me- cessity for the use of a corkscrew A sample has been received in Charleston, and is pro- nounced to be perfect. Charleston Journal oJ ! Commerce. CE
 This stopper has every appearance of being a useful invention. It is air tight and resists the action of liquids. For ink bottles, whose c@ks are eternally sticking, it is specially con venient. It is offered in sizes suited to g. 8 and 4 OF. bottles, at 1925 per 100, by, Theo Ricksecker, 146 and 14S William St., New York.
 HARPER's contains: The Golden Age o Engraving d3 illustrations); The White Sul phur Springs C90 illus ); Aunt Eunice's Idea Shipwreck An Old-fashiened Spa 13 illus
 Manuel Menedez; Who knews?: Birds an,
 Plumage (16 illus. ); In Cloud-rift; A Glimps
 of Nature from my Verandah 6 illus); Macleo,
 of Dare, by William Black John Comprador
 A Summer Day The Return of the Natiy (continued); The Cliffs at Newport; Jenn,
 Gridley's Concession.
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 T Lord Ogilyie, it seems, is and has been wit his regiment in India. The New York prt ] tender to that title is a swindler who has dt : frauded people in almost every city in Englan
 and on the continent, and actually swindled : lodging house woman in London, by pretend , 1 ing to be correspondent of The World. a
 The Jewish and Unitarian churches unite recently in lawn party at Kalamazoo, Mich dividing the proceeds equally. .-E1, 2f
 And no doubt counted the spoons carefully