Litchfield enquirer., 1879-08-21
There are now seven prisoners in our jail,

There are now seven prisoners in our jail,
 committed in default of bonds for trial before
 the Superior Court; three under the new
 tramp law. Two of these were received, last
 week; one, Gustavus Cornish, of New Mil ford, accused of an assault the other Robert
 Vinegar, from Kent on charge of theft. Si- mon Riggs, of Woodbury, is in custody for failure to obtain sureties of the peace.
 ". l. S.-On Thursday of next week (2Sth, inst. Garden Party, in aid of the Society,
 will be given at "Spruce Lawn," the residence of Mrs. Belden, on South Street. Croquet,
 Archery and Lawn Games, together with Re- treatments from until o'clock, will he pro-
 vided, and all are invited to attend. Tickets can be had at the gate, and also at Buell. 6 Wheeler's and the Post Office.
 On Wednesday evening of last week, fine horse, with buggy and harness, was stolen
 from Messrs. Jerome and William Wheeler,
 of Mt. Tom. The team was tracked to Corn
 wall Bridge, and back to near the place of starting when it was lost sight of altogether. The supposition is that the thief got lost in the night, and travelled in a circle. Nothing has ty. The horse was valuable one, fast trot- ter, worth not less than $500 and was recently bought in Canada.
 Rev. B. c. Northrop, Secretary of the State Board of Education, preached at tte Congregational Church, Sunday morning. The sermon was on the intellectual influence of the Bible and was very interesting discourse. In the evening he lectured on Japan. A good audience was present in spite of the rain. The lecturer gave many new and interesting facts regarding this wonderful people,, After cen turies of isolation they seem at last convinced that the result of such a policy has been to throw them ia. in the rear of other natiOns and they are now making enormous strides to recover lost ground. It is this consciousness of backwardness which is so peculiarly favor able sign, and which gives the nation it's pe- iculiar characteristic of receptivity, in marked contrast with the self f-conceit of the Chinaman. Whether this wonderful desire for the acauire- ment of every species of modern knowledge will lead the Japanese to change their irreligion as well as their laws their manners and cus- toms, is a question that MT. Northrop hopes strongly to see answered in the affirmative, The government has been extremely liberal in. it's treatment of Christian converts, but it strikes us that as shrewd people as the Jap- anese will be more inclined to judge Christian ity from it's practice than it's precepts. They will look at the men of Christianity rather than it's books. We should think, indeed, from Mir. Northrop's own statement, that Japan would be likely to have very poor opinion of Chris tian ethics. The American government con- tinues to hold fast to more than million dol lars of Japanese money to which it confessed ly has no right; the British government insists on odious advantages gained by over-reaching Japan on commercial treaty all Christian nations hold Japanese residents among them amenable to their local laws, while they will not allow their own people resident in Japan to be tried for the most heinous offences, ex- cept by their own consuls. It must puzzle missionary considerably to harmonize the Christian ''golden rule" with such practices as these ! Siaf s%