Litchfield enquirer., 1879-04-24

The N. Y. Times critic prenounces the parts of Kiel's ''Christus'', performed by the New York Olatorio Society, last week, "a dry ser mon with an eloquent text"
 There was a severe hailstorm in New Or leans on Wednesday last, and on the same day & tornado blew down several houses and church. es in Tennessee. A village in South Carolina was also destroyed.
 The Nation considers the Fitz Jehn Porter trial complete yindicatien, and that the full Ter evidence now attainable shows conclusive ly that his former conviction was based upon an entire misapprehension of fact.
 Lord Lonsdale, who came into his title and possession of a property worth 1850, 900, a year ago is now bankrupt. Considered asa ''cham- pion" spendthrift his career has been decid- ed success.
 Attention is called to new advertisement of H. Whitney, of Waterbury, Boot and Shoe Dealer. He has an extremely fine stock and purchasers visiting Waterbury should not fail to give him call. MT. Whitney served in the 2d H. V. A. during the war.
 The Greeley sisters come to the rescue of Col. Smith, husband of the elder, in card in which they say that, aside from the recent payments from Mir. Cornelius Vanderbilt, their property, under Smiths management, has been more pro- ductive than ever before
 Tho racept fr;ebtfuI ,ourdor in Ioorr;o s.on,s to have stirred up the people to the dangers of the barbarous practice of carrying concealed weapons. A number of persons in Atlanta have been indicted under an existing statute and still severer legislation is proposed.
 w. W. Savage dealer in .Ready-Made Clothing at Bridgeport, has very fine stock of Mems Boys and Childrens Clothing. People living on the lines of the Shepaug, and Housatonic railroads, and who trade largely in Bridgeport, would find it for their advantage to examine his goods before buying elsewhere. See advertisement
 The victory of Parole, an American horse, at Newmarket race in England, last week. is a rather notable event. This horse had won several important races in this country before going abroad. Running, however, is not the prevalent American gait, and it has been gen. erally supposed that the English racer was much superior to anything of that kind America could show.
 Saturdays World contains reports from va- rious parts of the country showing very great revival of business Manufactures of all kinds are starting into a renewed activity. That capital is abundant has been shown by invest mentsi in low rate of interest bonds. All that is needed is a revival of confidence to bring about a revival of business but, to ensure such a re- vival of confidence, the beginnings at least, of renewed business success must be recognized
 There is great suffering among the negroes landed so hastily in Kansas. Many have died of cold and privation. and there will have to be large contributions, the mortality will be ter rife. A convention met in Louisiana, last week, to consider the question of the negro ex- odus. The press dispatch says that "ths make up of the convention is credltable, includ- ing among its members careful thinkers and representative men,"
 Philadelphia, the rottenest Republican city in the country, naturally leads off the cry for Third Term The Union League Club gave Gov. Hoyt banquet, recently tive busts of Grant were displayed and there was an abun- dance of Grant speeches and applause. This reminds one of the fact that not long since innocent MT. Evarts asked the Pennsylvania Congressmen to nominate man for the En- glish mission. They met, and with one accord nominated Simon Cameron.
 On Wednesday afternoon of last week, Sec. Sherman offered $150, 900, 900 additional four per cents fer purchase. A syndicate of New York and Boston banks promptly subscribed the required amount. On Friday the Secreta- " called in $160 900, 900 of the five per cents of 1864. The reduction of the interest burden by the conversion of bonds paying six and five per cents into four per cents, is a most commend abls feature of Sec. Shermans financial ad- ministration.
 The decision rendered by the U S. Supreme Court, last week, in favor of the irrevocabe exemption from taxation of certain property of an Illinois college, is of one of great impor- tance, and it may affect good deal of proper ty now regularly taxed in Connecticut.
 Of all the forms of perpetuity, perpetual ex- emption from taxation is the most objections ble. It is one that should be positively for bidden to every legislature by constitutional provision. corporation that may seem wor- thy of help at the present time may have be- come entirely undeserving such aid or may have grown entirely out of the need of such preference, century hence. Then the ex- emption becomes odious and unfair to the last degree. No doubt the precedent followed is that of the Dartmouth college, grand monu- ment to the eloquence of Daniel Webster rath- part of the Supreme Court.
 The May Scribner has pleasantly written article upon that pillar of the old Atlantic Monthly, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. More attention is given to his poetry than to his re- markedly fine prose which we consider much the more meritorious of the two. No doubt the poems of this our American Horace will always be greatly admired, but it is the light seeming, yet thoughtful prose of the Autocrat and of the Professor which is his really origi- nal, inimitable work. Those books are to the people of our day what the Spectator was to the English-reading people of two and half centuries ago. It is very pleasant to see one American Mag azine doing full justice to the writers of another instead of indulging in that vulgar and thor oughly unjust depreciation with which parti- sanship has infected our newspaper press, as it disgraced those older partisan periodicals in which Macaulay, Sidney Smith, Wilson and