Litchfield enquirer., 1879-06-12

1 of the late William Lloyd Garrison is still on the statute books of that state, having never been repealed. Elsf | A census of Portugal was taken on Dec. 31, | 1877, the previous one having been taken as | far back as 1863. The total population is A. 745, 1A, as compared with 5, ,343, 935 Tn 1868; and the total increase is 401, 189. aka Grand Rapids has had it's bogus foreign | Count. He was handsome, plausible, and au dacl0us. The young women were bewitched by him, and he picked out Estina Sexton, mar ried her, took her to Chicago on a wedding tour, stole her money and deserted her. | Cholera has been making fearful havoc among the pilgrims returning from the Hurd- war fair, and is being spread by them through northern India. It is asserted that between %, 600 and 30,000 hillmen from the Himalayan districts near Nynee Tal died on their home ward journey. l-a- S' ts%%@ fe | In recent German debate, Herr Liedemann stated that there were in Germany 1000, 900 landed proprietors, 2,000, 900 of whom were untaxed as having incomes under $105 year. | Out of the actual tax payers there were not more than 150,O whose income exceeded 1 $750 year. Forced sales of lands and farms are of daily occurrence, and general distress l prevails.
 The newborn zeal of the Prince of Whales and the Duke of Edin burgh in favor of the | bill for legaIizing the marriage with deceas- l ed wife's sister is said to find inspiration in the wish of the Queen that her daughter Beat rice should marry the widowed Prince Louis | of Hesse and take charge of the children of | her deceased sister, the Princess Alice. Mir. Edward A. Freeman thinks that any one who. compares Lord Beaconsfield's writ | ings and speeches with his Eastern policy will see that Orientalsm is as the bottom of the whole matter. "Lord Beaconsfields best and wofst acts are the direct effect of his birth.'' z A process has been patented in Germany for retaining the aroma of ground coffee by | pressing it into cakes in cast-iron moulds l The cakes, like those of chocolate, are cross- ed by lines that they may be broken into sizes needed for use. The volume of the coffee is reduced to less than one third of the original bulk. Like chocolate, it is packed in tin foil for preservation.
 Cahan Maloney shot Bridget Murphy, at Monroeville, O., because she would not marry him. Then he ran wildly into the street, de- fed anybody to arrest him, fired at men who approached him, and terrorized the whole vilS lage.' Constable Crane thought that the best plan of restoring order was tokill Maloney, and deliberately proceeded to do it by shooting him from safe distance with rifle.
 There has been a terrible loss of camels in the Afghan campaign Already the trade be- tween India and Central Asia will be crippled simply for want of means of carriage during the next few years. Thousands of camels have perished from overwork and bad forage and as these had been got together at high prices and with great difficulty, it is easy to understand the inconvenience that will be oc- casioned on the frontier.
 In speech at Rome last month, Cardinal Newman defined liberalism in religion" as the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as an- other. ''This, he said, lis the teaching;which is daily gaining force and substance It is in- consistent with the recognition of any religion as true For thirty, ferty, fifty years 1 have resisted, to the best of my power, the spirit of liberalism in religion"
 The land in Ireland is cultivated by 500, 900 tenants, who occupy an average of thrty-two acres each. There are 16,00O landlords, of whom ,942 own two-thirds of the whole cour- try. MT. Gladstone says tEat the question of converting the disaffected Irish stenant into an owner rises into the higher region of politics and of moral and social order, and goes to the root of how to banish Irish discontent A family of four adults, in Northbridge Mass, have drank enormously of cider since last fall, the quantity being estimated at forty to fifty barrels. They had been unable to sell it at a fair price, and so used it themselves. During the spring and latter part of winter it was very hard, and the drinkers were intoxi- cated much of the time. Six weeks ago, the mother died in a fit, and later one of the sons died in similar way, while the father has de- lirium tremens.
 The Illinois Legislature does not seem to be held in great respect in that state. The Chica- go Tribune of Thursday says:
 ''The Legislature of Illinois has prolonged the record of it's own shame and disgrace at least another week. After some sixty of it's members spent three days in drinking, rio fous, gambling, Sabbath breaking excursion, costing the state about twenty five thousand dollars, the members returned unfit for any in- ielligent business, and the time for adjourn ment was postponed indefinitely"
 There are certain comparisons beteen the vital statistics of France and of Prussia, in recent report to the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Thus, it appears that in France 100 marriages give about 300 children; in Prussia t60. 1t is also shown that in France the an- nual increase of population (births over deaths) is 3, 400 for each million of inhabitants, while in Prussia it is 13 600. At this rate the popu- iation of France should double in ITO years; that of Prussia in 42.
 Mrs. Starch of Surgeon Bay, Wis, desired to get rid of her husband. She put poison in his coffee, but the dose was so small that it made him only slightly ill She tried again, and made the quantity so large that it did not seriously harm him. Then she expermented on dog and a eat: but, by the time she had thoroughly mast tered the subject, MT. Starch's suspicion was aroused and he detected the drug in his cup on the occasion of the third attempt on his life
 The decline of the Clyde shipbuilding trade is exciting much uneasiness How great the decline is, may be shown very briefly from statistics collected by the Glasgow Herald. In 1874 the steam tonnage built on the Clyde, amounted to 1S3, IA tons in all, being A per cent of the steam tonnage built in the whole United Kingdom, and 399 per cent. of the sailing tonnage or 43 per cent of the whole. Last year the Clyde turned outsonly 131, AS steam tons and 56, CTS sailing tons; while the total tonnage built in the United Kingdom was per cent. greater than in 1874.
 Mrs. Hatch has for years been aconspcuous