Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-31

\ with the approval and in accordance with the ] instructions of the State Department. there would seem noquestion that the expense should fall upon the Goverement. The bill appropriat- ing $7, 900 to reimburse Mrs. Conard for the loss her husband had sustained from his humane interference in behalf of the victims of savage political persecution had the support of the present administration, was first passed by the Senate, and finally by the House of Represen- tatives on the day, and almost at the hour of it's final adjournment.
 | Much sympathy was felt for Mrs. Conard, and she made many friends during her visit to Washington.
 | Hartford is waking up to thequestion of de- 1 fective sewerage, and the Courant is adducing 1 facts in proof of the loss of life that is con- stantly resulting. Of certain part of the city ! it says:
 ''An experienced city official said, the other day, speaking of a certain populous district of the city, that ii Calling gun were planted there and discharged at hazard every day, it could not be so fatal to the inhabitants as the filthy condition of that district is''
 The science of drainage is yet in its infancy. Cities and villages are beginning, however, to appreciate it's importance
 European reports are still of short crops The peasantry of Germany and Russia, who live mainly on rye, have crop forty per cent below the usual yield. Wheat is also poor crop. In France the wheat crop is not up to the average, and in Great Britain both the acreage and the yield are below the usual amount. The Springfield Republican esti- mates that Europe will need 272, GOO, 900 bush- els of grain from America during the coming year. The West certainly ought to recuperate with such chance for the sale of her great staples
 The Louisiana convention has finished it's labors, and the new constitution will be sub mitted to the people in December The mat ter of the public debt was finally settled by providing that the interest should be 3 per cent for five years per cent, for ten years and per cent thereafter. Such plan may please the present generation, which is to pay two or three per cent, but how will it suit the next generation which is to pay seven?
 BAKER AND BRINsMADE, of Washington Depot, call attention to special bargains which as cash dealers, with a store right on the rail- road side track, they are able to offer: Best Michigan Flour $615 per bbl Yellow c Sugar, T cts ; Kerosene, IS cts. Soda Crack CTS, 64 cts. Oatmeal, 5 Raisins, Ii Smoked Beef, 15; Sword Fish. 5; Prints, 5a Wire Spring Beds $4.50; Balloon Fly Trap, 29 cts; Gan Openers, 10 cts. and other things in pro- portion. See full advertisement in another column.
 Gen. Butler, at the request of his admiring supporters, has consented" to run for Govern or once more He takes his stand as reform CT; thinks his former candidacy forced the Republicans to adopt more economical poli- cy; and talks of bringing back the govern ment of the Commonwealth to the efficiency, economy and justice to thepeople of all classes which characterized the earlier days of the Re- public" .:.....
 There is som sense still left in the South. A bulldozing South Carolina paper which ob- jected to allowing eA-s state Senator SwaiIs to return to his old haunts, is soundly scored by the Charleston News. That paper excuses the fraud and intimidation of 1876 on the ground of supreme necessity, but declares that the like 'cannot and must not be done again."
 The shrewd London manager who secured the players of the ConaeGse Fra1acaise for a se- ries of 42 representations in London, has made made wonderful personal success and is very likely to pay America visit, thinks Mr. Smalley, of the Tribune
 MT. Henry James Jr., has aroused much in- terest in England by his masterly contrasts of American and European character. His American women are really fine portrats-a little f1attered perhaps. An appreeiative and quite favorable critique of his works appears in the last number of Black wood
 The southern part of Ulster county, N. Y., has been going largely into peach cultivation. In TT no less than 1, 500 GOO trees were set out, and double that number, last year. Last years crop was good one, and this years promised fairly, when hail storm, last week, cut off nearly all the fruit, and whole orchards were uprooted by the wind.
 The new counties of Northern Michigan seem to have fallen into the hands of the meanest sort of official swindlers The land has generally been owned by non-residents The residents paid no taxes, and were utterly indifferent, and there has been d fearful amount of official peculation.
 The British troops in South Africa have at last won what they consider an important vic tory over the Zulus. We see, however, from the latest reports, that Cetewayo does not yet consider himself irretrievably beaten, as was at first supposed.
 The burden of the national debt has been reduced by refunding to little less than 94 millions annually--an average of less than 4 per cent interest. In 1865, the country paid 150 millions interest on it's debt, which was greater by three quarters of billion than it is now. . ..
 There seems to be slight diminution of fever in Memphis, though nobody remains there who can get away. Of the remaining population, half have had the contagion al- ready and consider themselves safe.
 The National banks, it appears, are not us- ing all the circulation to whichthey are by law entitled, by over seventy-six millions or one fifth of their entire circulation. Yet there are lunatics that insist that the great difficulty with our finances is the lack of circulation
 The Rev. MT. Vosburgh, whose trial on charge of attempting to poison his wife made such scandal in Jersey City, has obtained divorce Attention is called to nayy advartisanant of