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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
DOMESTIC.

l Since Friday there have been about IA new cases of yellow fever at Memphis day and nine deaths the mortality IS decreasing the Rev. Father Doyle dled there of that disease
 Charles Fechter, the actor, died at Philadel- phia, on Monday.
 The Bourbons carried Kentucky as usual, Monday, though the vote was very light.
 There were thirteen cases of sunstroke in New ! orks and vicinity, Saturday and Sunday five of which were fatal
 Solicitor Rayner is of opinion that the four boats seized in Mississippi for carrying negroes North carried those people from necessity and as an act of humanity
 A collision of steam yachts has taken place ens the St. Lawrence and the licenses of two captains have been revoked. Cotton in Texas is maturing early from lack of rain.
 Inspectors are diligently at work among the New York tenement-houses.
 w. l.. Goldsmith, Controller General of Georgia. is to be impeached for dedication.
 The town of Volcano, W. Va. ; has been de- stroyed by fire>
 There were eight new cases of yellow fever at Memphis and five. deaths on Tuesday of last, week; also one death in St. Louis.
 Secretary Evarts announces Consul General Spencer, Augustus Morris and Samuel c. Lord as the commission to the Australian Exhibi- tions.
 tSec. Key has been visiting Vermont.
 The winners at Saratoga on the 29th ult. were Bramble, Sensation, Checkmate and Una. .3 at.9I -.a.., .t ....
 The Congressional investigation in Cincinna- tl is bringing out testimony favorable to the Republicans. .,
 The project of Admiral Ammen for new Panama Canal, Congress is approved by many engineers,
 + sIhe Cabinet has decided to spend the full nine millions appropriated by Congress for i'm provement of rivers and harbors
 There was death from yellow fever in the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, on Tues day.
 Only two deaths from yellow fever were re- ported in the South on Wednesday. F.
 There have been an unusual number of deaths from a disease resembling cholera, in Linn County, Iowa S@
 There were two deaths from yellow fever at Quarantine, Thursday. -s.-
 Charles Foster has been challenged to a joint debate with the Greenbackers, and has accepted.
 There were four deaths from yellow fever in Memphis, Thursday.
 It is said in Washington that Mir. Tilden has spoken of Justice Field, of California, as the next best man to himself to be the candidate of the Democratic party in 1880.
 The matter at issue between the Mayor and Commissioner Wheeler has been referred to the Corporation Counsel.
 The winnersat Saratoga, Friday, were Lady Middleton, Fortune, Lancewood, and Charlie Gorham. '~
 The public debt was increased 6,0S6, ,344 in July, owing to payments of arrears of pen sions. ta It'3
 There were thirteen new cases of fever and four deaths in Memphis Friday. a.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

, ,@ ENJOY LIFE.-What truly beautiful world we live in! Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health but, how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfactory proof that Greens August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct cause of seventy five per cent of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove it's wonder full effect, Sample bottels, 10 cents. Try it. Sold by A. s. Wright 6 Co.,, Litchfield.
 SIoK PoLITICIAN.-Of whatever party, you have one common friend in Boneset Bitters.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

NJ. Lesseps is coming to this country in the fall, and thinks he can reconcile us to his Pan- anna project. Mir. Hayes and his Cabinet think differently. Capt. Eads, whose plan of deepening the mouths of the Mississippi seems to be success, is very strongly in favor of a ship railroad instead of ship canal. He thinks that an expense of 45 millions will bnild a railroad across the Isthmus which will take loaded vessels over without injury. A ''cradle" can, he says, be constructed which will hold the ship securely, and which will it. self run on specially prepared railroad track.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Telegraph wires are risky neighbors in a thunder storm. Not many years since, Q tele- graph pole down East Hill was struck by lightning. There was such cracking of electricity at the postofflce that the employees skedaddled out of it pell nell. We have have heard of many similar cases. Satur- days Tribune gives tho following.
 It was temperance lecturer who was struck by Tightening while descendlnd Pike's Peak ten days ago. His wife who was riding beside him, heard what she at first supposed was a pistol-shot, and then saw stream of fire run from the telegraph wires to his head The horse stumbled and the man fell heavily to the ground. Her own horse threw her backward and then plunged down the mountain side. She went to the assistance of her husband, and found the mark of the lightning just above his left ear. He was unconscious for an hour, but his wife was finally able to set him on his feet and to lead him along the trail until they could find their horses. | When the electricity of the earth is rushing to it's point of combination with the electricity of the heavens it takes the line of best conduc- tors that is most available. Long lead water pipes are favorite lines, of transit, as, we can testify from personal experience D. af .s
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The success of the Read Carpet Co.'S Car few years ago making not more than five or six thousand yards per month they have in- creased to an enormous production which is all mediately taken up by such leading houses as A. T. Stewart 6 Co.,, $ w. & s. Sloane, N
 Y. They are not only the handsomest designs, many of them rivalling the best Body Brus- sells, but they are superior in quality to any Carpet made, and are sold at prices lower than the same grade of any other make. David M
 Read, of Bridgeport, is the sole agent for the United States, he supplies all other merchants with them and cuts them up to his Retail custimers at wholesale prices.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Few who remember the later position of the New England clergy regarding the anti-slavery question are aware of the bitter opposition which Garrison met from them at the outset. Mr. Oliver Johnson tellsin Saturdays Tribune of the difficulty he experienced in finding a clergyman anywhere in Boston to open an an- ti-slavery meeting with prayer. Once, when the legislature had allowed them the use of the Representatives Hall for 6 meeting, and all the older and more conspicuous pastors had one after another refused, it was with the greatest difficulty that MT. Johnson succeeded in persuading Rev. Amos A. Phelps to help them out. A clergyman who ventured on such step was lucky if he did not irnmedi
 ately lose his parish. It was the custom of an Andover theological professor of the period to warn his senior class 'tYoung gentlemen. if you hope to be settted over intelligent, culti- vated and prosperous parishes, you must be careful to keep aloof from the exciting uues lions of the day. The clergy were simply in accord with their hocks; and, difficult as it now is to understand, Massachusetts was then a thoroughly pro-slavery state, The reyoluI ton in general sentiment that occurred during the generation which immediately preceded the war, was one of the most complete and as- founding of which history has any record.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The Receiver of the National Capital Life h. surance Co, Ben Moves noted corporation, has been attaching property of Mr. Darlington of the New Haven Courier, of Postmaster Sperry, and of other prominent citizens of New Haved. on large claims arising out of their alleged connection with Moves insurance schemes
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
Notice.
ATTE:NTIoN.

TN accordance with the provisions of Section 9, Chapter l, Title K of the General Statutes, the fol. lowing persons appointed Post Surgeons to deter mine exemptions from military duty by the standard of disability prescribed by the Surgeon General.
 LITcHFIELD Co.-Willis J. Beach, Litchfeld John H. Hlokgett, Salisbury James Hine, New Milford; James Welch, West Winsted; Francis w. Brown, Woodbury. tteaf
 All persons between the ages of IS and 45, desiring exemption from military duty and communication tax by reason of mental or physical disability, must re- port to of the Post Surgeons for examination and found exempt will be furnished with certificate of exemption, to be filed oy them with the Selectmen of the town where they liable to anrollment. Those who were exempt by Post Surgeon in 1873, and the disability classed as ptrmanent will not be qnired to be examined again, unless ordered by the Surgeon General. ' 3NkW
 The dates for examination follows: July 10, E 3, 3Os August 6, IS, 20, 27. from till 9 p. m ~
 Persons not filing their certificate of exemption witn the selectnen before the first day of September VIII .be debarred from exemption for the year. tf 4H JACOB MORSE, '3 THEODORE s. SEDGWIOK.
 F. s. PORTER, Seiecunsn'
 E. H. WRIGHT,
 L. c, HOTCHKISS. ao
 Litchfeld, July 2s, 1879. io'z"
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The Catholics who are now in league with Bisrnark are to have something more than a suspension of the laws against them. These are to be greatly modified if not repealed An arrangement has been effected between the Pope and the German Chancellor which will grant these notifications.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Poor Woody" is having hard time of itin NOrwalk. He has tried to be elected vestry- man and signally failed; he offered himself for admission to the Episcopal church, and was repelled by the rector, and cannot even be elected an insurance director. The only way to rehabilitate him will be to send him hack to the Connecticut Senate.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
PROBATE ADVERTISEMENTS,

ABSTRACT OF LITGHFIELD. ss. Probate Court U June 21st, 1876.
 Estate of John T. Peters, late of Litched, in said District, deceased. - fs fs
 Pursuant to order from the Court of Probate for said District, will be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder, the 24tb day of July, 1879, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon (unless previously disposed of at private much of the Real Estate of said deceased, ,as will raise the sum of six hundred and eighty-fve dt1lars, and thirty cents
 Sale to take place at the late residence of said de- ceased. in said Litchfeld. Terms made known at time of sale. ELI D. WEEKS, Administrator.
 The foregoing sale is adjourned to Aug. 19th ls7s at 10 a. m: g t'st--.s 18-3w
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Speaking of yellow fever. member of the New York Board of Health remarked that ''the number of cases pf yellow fever last year did not exceed the number of cases of scarlet fever; and yet, while the first pestilence at tracted the attention of the whole civilized world. the latter does not even arouse the peo- pie who are suffering from it to the adoption Of any adequate precautions against it's in- craoaa
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The expenses of the English Mission are said to exceed the salary by about S24, 900 a year. Obviously no one will be likely to take Mir. Welsh's place from mercenary motives To very wealthy men, however, the social dis tinctiOn attendant upon the position may be worth what it will cost them.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

We regret to say that the Republican party in California. in spite of its professions, has fallen into the hands of the nionopolists. It will probably be beaten by the so-called Con- ssitutiOnalists who propose to put the anti-mo- nspolist features of that curious production into active operation. ..t +..
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Frp<Exz, th< Poczsset murderer continues ss F1sEfF kis sszcrIfIce" His wife, who wzESzvd ss frs has BO~ come fully over to his wzr ct skinking.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The NOgthern Pacific railroad counts on the shipment of three and a half million bushels of wheat raised on its line, this year. A few years may make that valuable road, after all is had luck
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Ewing has put himself squarely on the soft money issue in Ohio, and we are pleased to see that there is thought to be ittec of hls election. There seems increasing reason also to think that Tilden may capture the Demo cratic presidential nomination. .-
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Crop reports continue favorable ; also the chances for good foreign market for our sur plus grain. Last year our excess of exports Ooer imports was about 265 millions A like balance in our favor. this year. would bring back something more than our own bonds.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The owners and managers of the steamboat whose upset in Lake Quinsigamond caused the loss of five lives on the Fourth of July have been arrested on charge of man. slaughter. They had no license for running the boat. and took no precautions against overlooking IL
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Maine Greenbackers seem to have adopted sOme of Granger methods of organization Ttey get up social clubs. dances, and other festivities into which the unwary are attracted snd are then won over to the soft money here. Sv
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
Cottage For Sale. ON NlEAsT-STREET.

THREE FOURTHS acres land more or less. Good < garden, fruit, and never failing we'll of pure wa ter. Two minutes walk from churches and post-of. flee. Very desirable ,
 SUMMERS RESIDENC for small family, Apply to or address, Mrs. wm. H Wheeler, or ctf a9 lg: WoLcoTT gs WHEELER, HE d,
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

F0aE Or i've of the boats which took negroes DnEth frum Louisiana in the exodus have been seixsi hy the authorities of thst state for overlooking. an offence that suggests some thing like as spirit of persecution.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

In the month of July twenty seven million postal cards were manufactured, requiring over one hundred tons of paper Tins is some- thrng more than the average monthly stock required and shows an increase on previous years -1r .r..i ,,...... . .- All
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

AissSss1ppi greenbackers are organizing for the fan campaign The shotgun form of dealing with snti-Democratic parties, hereto fore pracsicad in that state, will hardly be al lowed in thls case
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

We are rzah9 anxious to hear whether the Huaarh between the rich young Boston girl and the San Es1nessco hosel-waiter who claims to be Yak gr@dnzfe has happy result
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Dr. Graham, an English clergyman, lost his life while bathing st Cape May, Friday. He had veutured out too far. His niece clung to him pluckily till aid came. and it is thought that he died from congestion of the heart, and not from drowning.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The chief Democratic papers in Nassachu- Democracy is to be organized in his interest. Ex-cOllecsor Simmons prOnounces in his favor, and others of like kidney -...
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Thene~ Kheiiveci Egypt isto have thesame pswerx .s the old ooe- The Porte tried to re- eoEsr some Of its old authority over Egypt but Enghnd promptIy vetoed the proposition.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

JaAa Brown, IT., writes that many of the ca 1exrOeS who emigrzted to Kansas find no ewp&gylsza= in ether words, that the exodus hEz prvvei thunder
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

! Our readers may probably remember how,
 several years ago, small pox was brought up the Shepaug railroad in infected bedding. It seems that the renewal of the pestilence in Memphis is attributed to the criminal folly of those who could not be persuaded to utterly destroy all the infected bedding and clothing of last years plague. This saving of few dollars has already cost that one city hun. dreds of thousands of dollars, besides many lives. The terrible Russian plague had sim liar origin. How long before people will finally learn that cleanliness is the only safe- guard against contagion. 9. "- t4"
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

G<z M1z seems to have had his usual g.sd tork Ta kss fight with Sitting Bull, of the 7sh uG He kHBed eight Indians The light srtIIk-y proved great help. v
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
Thursday, Aug. 7, 1879.

Nr- G-uE. oE Pennsylvania is said to be uzsssr sauzs8Ezzz5on for the English mission
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The SrEing6eli Republican considers the Tew 1FTn5r.r.euts from civil fife to lieutenant cses h the army, mostly matter of favorit- 6SzxR
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

\ Ffv@cA Assembly committee have decid- sE ss $eA the crUwn iewels which are Of great vzBze xzd k0r wtEh the republic has no use.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Tr~s <ssessueat Of the business portion of Ckdzg0 xA0wS decrease of A per cent. from kss yezr- Sot % -reviving" circumstance As c1SzId be wished-
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The FsSncA government has bought an Anserrza pScxEre for the Luxembourg gaIle- rsr=. the wO<k Of Henry Mosler, Cincinnati z-rHS
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Jews c0otinue to he unacceptable guests at sazzSer resorss They spend little, and their nznn<xs zFe deses<Able, thinks the watering ptare Eznkfky~vi
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Parole is not keeping up his reputation, but was again beaten, in his race for the Godwood cup Thursday
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

In France, shares of the Lesseps Canal stock are at Two per cent. discount, and there is not likely to be any demand for them in England.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
S25.O0 Will buy

barrel best Michigan four 1 sack Higgins salt
 1 set Sargent's barn door hangers. 20 feet track
 and stay roll f .' .' l boys arched axle express wagon, large size pair ladies button slippers 1 e gents A calf ties rubber overcoat (good one) :" heavy duck ovsralls ] ~yzy yr F. 16 knives for Wood, Clipper, or Union mower : 10 pounds smoked beef covered 20 's Merwins or Bsrtrams hams 6 Bullard's hay tedder forks 1'water pail ball Dexter's best knitting cotton
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Coop ADvIoE.-O Generation of Wine Bib- bers, let the damnable stuff alone and if you need Tonic, ask your Druggist for Boneset Bitters. which do their work without reaction.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
S2.OO Will Buy
S3.OO Will Buy

pound of our best Japanese tea (try it) t pounds laundry starch g " $E5'1s.t F.
 extra soda biscuit ~ t -7 +.f ~"t = 1 golden clipper scythe (best made) t papers Dixon's stove polish Z lSA pounds yellow Sugar l-z- IL
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The McGarrahan claim to the New Idria mine under an old Spanish grant, has been de- clared invalid in the Interior Department
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The number of buildings erected in New York during the past SIX months is fully up to the average of the ante-cris,s period.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

It is said that Mrs. Piebe Halaford will soon return to New Haven to take charge of thc Mission Unipersalist Church. .t3
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
S4.O0 Will Buy

1 pair gents fine calf boots 3-tined hay fork (Bachelder's make) pound fine cut chewing tobacco 1 So pure paris green for potato bugs l balloon fly trap pound good Japanese tea l sardine or can opener 1 ounce camphor gum
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Mir. Casey Young a Congressman from Tennessee, has been talking politics to a Washington interviewer He thinks the plan which repudiates half the debt of that State and third of the interest on the remainder, will be voted by the people. The strangest part of his talk is that regarding Hayes and the South t -.."' t"
 Mir. Young declares that the Southern poli- cy of President Hayes came near to breaking up the Democratic party in the South than most people imagine and he says that, ''if the Southern people had believed that Mir. Hayes was fairly elected President" great majority of them would have become his sup porters. Even as it is, the Memphis Repre- sentative declares that President Hayes has more friends among the Democrats of the South to-day than MT. Tilden has; and he believes that if both were in the field again, Mir
 Hayes would carry more Southern States than MT. IHden. .- -... ..'
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The chief exports from this country to Flu rope are grain, and cotton; the former show ing the chief increase. ,-.. .f....t..... .-..
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
NOTICE.,

A IL persons are hereby forbidden in any way to k1 trespass upon the farm belonging to the under signed situated in the town Ltcheld about six miles westerly of the center. the highway from Litch field to Cornwall, and bounded the northerly and westerly sides by town lines of Goshen and Warren Parties who in future may be guilty of committing any trespass upon the premises question will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 @-s@ Fs.>s ADDISON E. JOHNSON ,t July 30, 1879 182ws
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The law which Col. Aston got passed by the Georgia legislature, and under which his own murderer escaped hanging, will probably be repealed at the next session of that body. |
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

There is talk of the abolition of slavery in Cuba, again. It is matter regarding which Spain does not incline to move rapidly.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

A Nevada woman, says the newspapers. hit upon curious way of avoiding ruin from her husbands gambling. Finding he would spend all he could make, she set up faro bank herself He agreed to patronize it. She ''cleaned him out" every time he earned any
 money, and perhaps plucked other equally foolish pigeons, though nothing is said of that in the good little story told of her. Then she built mansion, bought stocks. sported her carriage and her diamonds and finally made the tour of the world with her pauper husband by. her side. "Noble devotion" etc. etc! Having tried in vain to extract any moral from this story we conclude that 1t is lie. .'
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

Old Count Chambord, the legitimate heir of the French Bourbons, is out with manifesto in which he invites France once more to re- cognize his divine right of sovereignty. He evidently thinks that Bonapartism, being tem- porarily disabled, Bourbonism has now suc- ceeded to its chances. He excuses his refusal to yield the points which stood in the way of his Restoration in 1873, with the statement, that while the country needed klng, what the intriguers wanted was Mayor of the Palace. The intriguers referred to are evi- dently the. Orleanists, and we imagine that his criticism IS just one. s.... f. ,.. ...
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

The Socialists carried the recent Bresla election. and the government now talk of fur thcr repression. The Liberals, on the other hand, are organizing for united action.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07
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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-07

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