Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-21

sumed, It IS done Tn a more decent way. This
 is owing in part. he thinks, to the influence of
 the climate. A Scotchman, it is said, will
 drink good deal of whiskey and die in his
 bed at the age of eighty, but the same quanti-
 ty would kill an American in much less time.
 Thus necessity compels certain degree of moderation.
 Mississippi begins to see that the Mississippi
 plan is mistake-that it is revolution not government. Ex-U. s. Senator Brown de- nounces the bull.dozers in the Vicksburg Her aid in letter in which he makes the follow l ing pertinent suggestions: Is the defeat of an independent candidate l for sheriff in YaZoo worth more to us than the election of Ewing as governor of Ohio? Is it worth more than the election of democratic president in 1880? Is it not better to allow
 Dixon to be sheriff of Yazoo than to swell the ''boom" for Grant as the radical candidate for president next year? And yet, calmly con- ! sidered, that is the issue which our indiscrect friends in Yazoo seem willing to force upon us Can it be that any considerable portion of the people of this country are willing to l substitute force and violence for the peaceful i methods of our fathers in the choice of off, cers? hope not, think not. But if I am
 mistaken. let me say to all such. correct your error and do it quickly If there Is any one point on which the great American public has made up it's mind it is that the ballot shall be sacred and the ballot box free from corruption of intimidation. In this lies the only security l for our free institutions.
 Why clnnot Senator Blaine make few of his ringing speeches in some of the Southern States, this fail If they kill him, it would ensure the election of a Stalwart president in l 1880; if he comes back alive, he might be that l Stalwart president, himself.
 Northern Pacific bonds, at one tune thought 1 so poor an investment, are likely to turn out good thing after all. Says the Springfield 1 Republican:
 The time is not far distant when the North ern Pacific railroad will make good all the 1 early predictions of the enterprise When it's 1 line was pushed to Bismarck, it ran through uneccupied lands; the road IS now threaded l with villages. and the number of passengers 1 carried in the first quarters of 1877, 1878 anl 1 1879 has nearly doubled in each succeeding l year, beginning with 4298 in '77, and reaching | nearly IT, 900 in '79 The sales of land aloi.s the line of the road by the railroad and govern l inent in 1878 amounted to 2,000, ,000 acres, and it probably reached 5000, 900 acres Tn the
  | from 34 settlements show that this land aver aged 324 bushels of wheat to the acre and 42t of barley. The construction of the Northern Pacific is in progress this season at the rate nf | a mile day, and is expected to reach the Yellowstone river in two years. Our readers will doubtless recollect the pri- vate failures attendant upon the wreck of the | Glasgow bank, growing out of the English
 law which holds all the individual share hold CTS liable, as in case of partnership. The re- suit was the ruin of many who each held only | a share or two of the stock of this bank-in some case, we believe, only AS trustees. The hardship attendant upon such system had l occasioned the passage of bill through the | Commons, last week, enabling banks of un- limited liability, to become banks of limited liability, thus preventing recourse to the private estates of stockholders In this country, corporation officers are held
 to a sharp responsibility Theoretically, at least but stockholders, except in few states which we believe still follow the English rule,
 are not personally responsible for corporation debts. 1 There has been much newspaper talk, for the week past, about the Conklin-Sprague difficulty. Mrs. Sprague has made statements for publication Link, the German tutor, has had his say; but Messrs, Sprague and Conk- ling preserve a judicious silence. Mrs. Sprague has finally returned to her husbands house. There is a vast amount of smoke with but | 1irht
 tribute his visit to the Sprague mansion to law
 business regarding the Governors unsettled
 affairs; the general opinion is, however, that
 this is a mere pretence, of piece with the
 Link newspaper story first published. The
 facts seem to be that MT. Conkling and Mrs.
 sprague have been quite intimate at Wash
 ington, and that his visit to Rhode Island was simply to see her. It is probably foolish
 affair which circumstances and Gov. Sprague
 have developed into very promising scandal. ThA death of the young American student,
 Dr.. WM. O. Mosely. of Boston, in Switzer. land, will cause very deep regret in this coun-
 try. Dr. Mosely graduated at Harvard in
 1869, since when he has spent the greater part | Ol uiS bAtAlC HI uoVCI HI ouu
 the East. He has lately been pursuing the
 study of medicine at Vienna. He was an en-
 thusiastic mountaineer; had been elected 6
 member of the English Alpine Club. He had
 made ascents of most of the highest peaks ir Switzerland. It was while climbing the Mat
 terhorn in pursuit of his favorite pastime that
 he met with the accident which caused hi, death. The World says ''the deceased was z man of unusual promise and was both mental
 ly and physically noble type of manhood!" The weekly editor labors under one disad vantage as compared with the daily editor The work of the latter is always utilized, whil, D some of the best writing of the latter, baset : on false reports, goes down with the correc l. tion of these reports. Last week, the -cabl, f announced the death of ex-Pres. Grant l. daughter, Mrs. Nelly Sartoris. We wrote = touching little tribute to her memory-not st il long, but more tender than our obituary of tn, e late J. Casar-when another telegram com r pletely spells it. We do not repine, for ou : loss is Mrs. Sartoris' gain, but we rather envy l. the daily editor.
 ', To the inexpressible ;rief of the Stalwarts Ben. Hill refuses to make any more speeche = at present. He says that he is just now tot . busy to furnish any more material for Repub