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Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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N1HERE will be a meeting of the Democratic and \ Liberal Electors of the town of Lichfeld, Fri day, the 1st day of November, 1878, at the Town Hall in said Litcheld at o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of nominating Representatives for the next General Assembly, and to do any other business prop to be done at said meeting.
 Per order of the COMMITTEE.
 Litchfield Oct 18th, 1878. 31-1w
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

The money raised to aid yellow fever suffer CTS amounts in all to a million and a half of dollars. Jefferson Davis publicly thanks the North for their magnificent charity, and recog- nizes the fact that it has been all that broth erhoed of race and common citizenship could require
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

The Florida and South Carolina dispatches will evidently go before some Congressional Committee. next winter They can inquire, alsO about the Republican telegfams of the same period.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

Congressman Acklen finally 'tsteps down and out"
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

About three fifths of the voters of New York City are of foreign birth, and reserve of 40OO0 or 5O,OOO more have not yet been naturalized. Nevertheless the failure of uni versal suffrage in that city is attributed to the inherent defects of our American system! The truth is that in all our large Northern cities, great proportion of their voting popu- latlon is composed of foreigners; some, good citizens; some, bad but thoroughly un-Ameri- can and all entirely unused to republicanism from their early training abroad, and from their clannish ways of living since their arrl- val here.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

The Democrats of Charleston S. C., have nominated three negroes for the legislature; and, in Sumter county, they have up another.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

Gen. Grout, Republican, and Bradley Bar low, Greenbacker, are ''to shoot off their tie'' in the third Congressional District of Vermont, in November. The Democrats will help the Greenbacker, and his chances seem the better for an election.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

Since Nov. TT, there has been still further contraction of several millions in the volume of the currency.
 Looking at the above table we see that the total amount of paper currency in circulation in January '67 was 73 millions more than in August '65. From that time the volume of currency gradually lessened till 1868. Then it began to increase and continued to do so till 1875, or more than 8 year after the great crash of 1873. During those years there was steady and continued imitation of our paper currency, both bank and national It did not begin to fall off till the lessening business of later years required smaller volume of cur rency for it's transaction. How then, can any candid observer, even after cursory glance at the foregoing table, attribute the crash of '73 to any contraction of the currency? On the other hand, with thousands of millions of dollars invested in unproductive railroads, in manufacturing establishments glutting al- ready over-stocked markets, and in real estate at fancy prices why go further for the causes of the collapse of business values in 1873? With very proper distrust of unduly accu- mulated wealth. it seems to us, therefore, that the Greenbaeker has entirely mistaken his rem edy. A fluctuating irredeemable paper cur rency will only add chances for these very ac- cumulations. The national banks, as it strikes us, are infinitely less dangerous than than the overgrown railroad, manufacturing mining and agricultural interests which threaten tostealthe government of the country away from the null titude of men of moderate means. Any honest legislation that will tend to check the growth among us of Camerons, of Barnums, of Tom Scotts, of Jay Goulds;and of William D. Bish- ops, will be real statesmanship tampering with the currency and attacking the banks, is not even cunning dishonesty
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

Anderson finally acknowledges his belief that the Sherman letter is not genuine. His perjury was so thoroughly established before that anything he can now say will have very little effect on public opinion. s.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

English newspapers are ''held" very high. The Times is thought to be worth twenty mill lion dollars; the Standard, ten millions: the News, six; and the Telegraph. i've The Times has the smallest circulation Con account of it's high price) of the four, but it's advertis- ing patronage is tremendous. American met ropolitan journals would hardly rate as high as these English papers, especially in these dull times
 Emma Bulkley, of Shurtleff college at Alton, H., recently carried of the medal offered as a prize in the state einter-collegateo oratorical con- test at Lebanon, against the combined opposi- tion of Knox, Monmouth, Champaign, Illinois, Bloomington and McKendree colleges. The people of her native town turned out to meet their heroine on her return, headed by a brass band, and making all those demonstrations usu- ally lavished oh victors of the ''sterner" sex.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

These is but one Senatorial election in the county, this spring, g,-in the Sixteenth Senato- rial District. The Republicans have nomina- ted Hon. Leman W. Cutler, of Watertown, an excellent man for the place, in every respect The Democrats have put up Isaac B. Bristol, of New Milford-one of the ablest politicians in the state. He will poll an enormous ma jority in New Milford and that vicinity and will probably be elected. We have little doubt that he favors the election of Wm. H. Barnum; and. for one other reason we shall regret his election: He owns the New Eng land Hotel, and has always been defiant op- ponent of Temperance-in fact the chief stumbling-block in the way of that reform iu that village. He has been repeatedly pros ecuted for unlicensed sales of liquor but has always managed to escape conviction.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

.garding Mir Miles, it convicts the Hon. W.H. Barnum of the crime of bribery beyond any. reasonable doubt Nevertheless the Farmer and the Democratic party of Connecticut have sent him five times to the national House. once to the Senate, and are straining every nerve to secure his reelection to the latter body
 Barnums ''still hunt" for the Senatorship is not so quiet but that it attracts some attention. In one case Republican committee man has been offered $20O to sell out his party. The prominence of the liquor-selling interest is rather remarkable among the candidates pre- scented On Sunday of last week, the Catho- lie priest in Salisbury it is said, acknowledged receipt of $250 as gift to the parish from Mir. Barnum, urged his congregation to vote the Democratic ticket, and to go to the polls in body. Tuesdays Hartford Post says, ''Word comes from Litchfield county that Sen- ator Barnums agents are offering to sell out Bruggerhof for Democratic members of the Legislature. The New York Times says that $25, 900 have been spent in the Democratic campaign in Connecticut already.
 The storm of Wednesday last, was one of the most severe and destructive ever known on the Eastern coast. A large number of ships were wrecked. The steamer Express sunk in the Chesapeake and twenty lives were lost i; the ship A. s. Davis went ashore and only one man of the crew was saved Damage was done in the city of Philadelphia to the amount of two millions.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31
SPECIAL NOTICES.

ly on hand.
 Particular attention given to laying out, and preserving the dead. with or without ice.
 They will also give their personal attention and take entire charge of funerals, when re- quested.
 They have recently added to their business 8 Hearse of modern styl which wall be furnished free of expense.
 Litchfeld, Nov Is. 1875. 33tf
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31
A Serious Charge, Is it True

The Bridgeport Farmer, of last week, prints the following evidence which it ayers was giv- en to the Congressional Committee investigat- ing into the manner of William H. Barnums first election to Congress in 1867. The witness is one John Odenbreit who, the Farmer says, was at the time an employee of Mir. Frederick Miles, now the Republican nominee for Congress in this district, and living on a farm of his. He was offered as witness to prove the bri- berries practised by Barnum and his agents in Salisbury; and, on being cross examined by Hon. John H. Hubbard, Barnum's counsel, tes : tifed as follows:
 Ouestion.-Was there any money transac- ton between you and William Parks election day?
 Answer. Not that know of.
 Q.-You did not pay Mir. Parks $50, or any money that day?
 At may be did. would not under take to swear.
 Q.-Don't you recollect that you received money from MT. Frederick Miles to use on election day?
 Al may have received money from Mr. Miles and paid it out. don't remember any thing about it.
 Q.-When did you receive money from Mir. Miles?
 .A.-On election day.
 Q.-How much money did you receive from MT. Miles on election day?
 Al could not tell did not count it.
 Q-Was it a considerable pile of bills !?
 Al saw more money that I had about that time. a
 Q.-How much was it? Was it package handed you by Mr Miles
 Alt was package. Yes, sir. Q,-Now did you pay some of that money to Wm. Parks on election day?
 Al could not swear to it.
 Q.-Will you swear that you did not :?
 A,-No sir! will not
 Q.-State whether on that day you got out of money and went to Frederick Miles and asked him for more. &
 Al did. tt Q.-How much money did you receive from Mr. Miles the second time?
 Al could not tell did not count it. Q.-Did you count It when you paid It out?
 A.-When paid it out counted it cer- tainiy.
 Q.-Who did you pay that money to? Al paid it to several
 Q.-How many men did you pay money to that day to induce them to vote for P. T. Bar mum?
 Question objectedto.
 Q.-You voteds
 A.-Yes, sir
 Q.-And you were paying out money to ob- tain voters, were you not
 A.-Yes, sir.
 Q.-Do you remember now whether you
, 1878-05-31

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, 1878-05-31
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, 1878-05-31

On the evening OF May 9th, Senator j.
ID. Cameron and Miss Elizabeth Sherman.
were married at Cleveland, Ohio. The
floral decorations were lavish and beauti-
fnl. One hundred and fifty relatives and
near trends attended the reception at the
residence Of Colgate Hoyt Esq, OH Case
avenue, brother-in-law OF the bride.
The wedding gifts were numerous and
cestly, their aggregate value being $780,
600.
, 1878-05-31

Hops are selling in San Francisco from
D to s cents pound by the bale. This
makes IL easy or beer makers aud drinkers
but it is rough OIL hop-iaisers.
, 1878-05-31
Port Townsend Hospital.


Port Townsend Hospital.
The above institution having been placed
on permanent footing, as the United
States Hospital for Marine Patients on
Puget Sound, the proprietor takes pleasure
In announcing that no paips or expense
will be spared In ninisterlng to the COM
fort and convenience Of private patients.
This Is the largest General Hospital north
of San Francisco, and by far the most COM
plete in equipment. II has been thoroughly
reftted and refurnished. Its general wards
have accommodations for about one hun
dred patients and are peculiarly adapted
for cases requiring the most careful treat.
ment and constant supervision at limited
expense Those who desire them will be
furnished with private rooms, entirely
separate and distinct, at slight additional
cost.
N1- The attention OF Mill owners, and
those interested In shipping, Ia called to
the fact that seamen suffering from conta-
gious diseases will be treated outside the
Hospital without expense to the vessel.
THOMAS L. MINOR, M. D.,
a6-tf Managing Surgeon.
, 1878-05-31
OLD,
TRIED,
AND
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that great American Remedy, the
MEXICAN
Mustang Liniment,
FOB MAN AND BEAST.

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until now It encircles the habitable glope'
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remedy fora!l external ailments OF man anu ,V"'''
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A single bottle often saves n human nre F"
stores the usefulness Of an excellent hora'' '''
COW, or sheep. n
1t cures foot-rot, hoof-all, hollow horn, p"',
screwworn, shoulderrot, mango, the D"se Vs.,
stngs OF poisonous reptiles and insects aneuY'''
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, 1878-05-31

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, 1878-05-31

The ''Times" says that war Las cost
Russia $500, 1000, 600.
, 1878-05-31

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, 1878-05-31

ES- Two rIst-class sewing machines,
a " ilsOn anda Singer, NEW, for sale.
Apply nc the ARGUS office.
, 1878-05-31
Ut. S. Marine Hospital.
PORT TOWNSEND, w. 7.

ANY SICK SAILOR WHO HAS PAID
N Hospital dues for two months prec ed.
ing his application for admisS 'on,i Is entitled
to Hospital relief.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21

The Binghamton (N. W Republican.
of Nov. 22d says: Dana Hyde, lad aged
twelve years, was found hanging dead
from a rafter in the loft of barn in
Oswego village this morning. OF late
Dana evinced great dread Of attending
school, and had been heard to soy that
he would rather throw himself under a
railroad train than go to aohool another
day. On the inquest held this afternoon
it was brought out that he had been in
the habit Of reading dime novels and
weekly story papers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21
MARK TWAIN's PRINTING DAYS,

One Compositor who worked on the
News then still lives, says writer in the
st. Louis Spirit, and has made consider
able noise in the world. We allude to
Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark
Twain. He was about 81 or % years of
age, very good looking. and most i'm
pressed with that fact He was the
LATEST mortal that ever ''soldiered I" on
the hook. In that year the Crimean
war and the printers were raging-the
latter over the long diabolical combina-
tion OF consonants that made the Rus
sian officers names. When o steamer
arrived at New York the telegraph would
ire these Internal names over the wires
until the tops of the posts were shattered
to pieces. Sam Clemens used to say
that the telegraph operator never wrote
fhese names s--when he came to q hard
nare he just took up pepper-box Of
black sand and shook il over the man
uscript. Sam was known to dwell for
10 minutes over q Russian name, and
then snatch few rs, three rs, and
then fencing them il with an he would
go ahead until the first galley came
around to allow him O rest. He occupied
a stand in the corner of the room which
had been christened Sebastopol.
AS we have said, Sam was lazy. He
had peculiar manner of drawing out
his words that was irresistibly comical
when relating joke, and he was eter.
Dally relating joke or something "that
reminds me Of" But he was good heart
ed and good natured and much liked
One not morning in June, Sam did not
make his appearance until about nine
O'Clock, when he ought to have been
there promptly at seven. The foreman
was excited and angry, and as Sam came
sauntering slowly in. tanning himself
with a straw hat, Bailey said "Sam, il
you can't get here before this time OF
day you needn't come at ALL" Sam
leaned upon the imposing stone with
both elbows, and drawled out: "WelI,
John, guess l won't come ag'n; it's
--hot!' and be slowly meandered out
Of the composing room. He got birth
on the river, became pilot and Mark
Twain. The world knows the rest. He
used to drop in occasionally when in
port, and on one occasion he insisted on
his brother Henry. who worked in the
Office, accompanying him down the
river. They were blown up and Henry
killed; Mark with his usual luck escaped
uninjured.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21

HEINE AND THE VENUS OF MILo.-A
touching story is told of Heine's last
walk in the boulevards, from which he
went home to the death in life he was
doomed to undergo for many years. 1t
was in May, 1848. a day of revolution.
" Masses of people rolled along the
streets of Paris, driven about by their
tribunes as by storms. The poet half
blind, half lame, dragged himself on his
stick, tried TO extricate himself from the
deafning uproar and fed into the Louvre
close by. He stepped into the rooms of
the palace-in that troubled time nearly
empty-and found himself on the ground
floor, in the room in which the ancient
gods and goddesses stand. Suddenly he
stood before the ideal of beauty, the
smiling, enhancing goddessess. the mir
aole OF an unknown master, the Venus
OF Milo. Overcome. agitated, stricken
through, almost terrified at her aspect,
the stick man staggered back till he sank
into a seat, and tears hot and bitter
coursed down his cheeks. The beautiful
lips of the goddess, which appsar to
breathe, smiled with her wonted smile
at the unhappy victim" Heine says
himself, in letter to the father of Las.
selle: "Only with pain could drag N.Y.
self to the Louvre, and I was nearly ex-
hausted when I entered the lofty hall
where the blessed goddess of beauty, our
dear lady Of Milo, stands on her pedestal.
At her feet lay long time, and wept
80 passionately that stone must have
had compassion on me. Therefore, the
goddess looked down pityingly upon me,
yet at the same time inconsolably, as
though she would say, See you not that
have no arms, and that, therefore, l
can give you no help?' From the
Western.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21

A Miss Campbell, of New York, wears
three hundred dollar feathers in her bon
net. Next thing you hear old Campbell 8
back will be broken. Those feathers are
exactly the kind that we've heard of so
long as being one too many for the back
of the Campbell.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21

The Abyssinians cut the whole OF the
flesh off the bones of the elephant into
thongs, like the reins Of a bride, and
hang these like festoons upon branches
of trees till they become perfectly dry,
without salt, and then then they lay
them up for their provisions in the sea.
son of the rains.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21
PLUG TOBACCOES.

Iwould call the attention of tobacco
buyers to the fact that have now on
hand, and to arrive, an assortment of
First-class Plug Tobaccoes. sell un-
broken p'kges at low prices for cash.
1t will pay buyers to examine my
goods in this line.
T. c. POUJADE.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21

Some doubts may exist as to the NOR
aity of the methods of Miss or Mrs.
Mary A. Naples (as the case may boy,
but certainly there can be no difference
OF opinion respecting her ingenuity.
Brother Jonathan is proverbially sharp.
but Brother Jonathan has sister who
knows thing or two, reckon" One
Edward F. Chase few years ago made
his debut in Norwich. Ct, as merchant.
He failed in business, but he captured
the heart of tie fair Miss Mary, and
despite the opposition of the Naples,
tree and branches, they were married.
died, and of his ample fortune Mary
could not have sou unless she separated
from her husband-in the event of which
proper provision was mad for her in the
will. Now Edward and Mary were
beginning to fee. the pangs Of poverty
and they longed for the loaves and the
fishes. They made virtue of necessity.
Suddenly Mary discovered that Edward
was horrible, perfectly awful, so to speak.
She applied to the courts of her native
State for relief, and obtained divorce
from him on the ground of intolerable
cruelty" Then she shook the decree in
the face of her brothers and the executors
of her fathers will, and straightway she
was placed in possession of houses and
lands and bank stock and money, and
the wolf ran away from her door. This
fairly settled, she got married again.
And so did Edward. And their second
courtship lasted only two days, and theil
second marriage was private, even as. the
first had been. Thus it is that Mary has
the money and the man too.-[N. Y
Graphic.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21

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