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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
Crime and Pauperism in City and
 Country.

The tramp is to the country what the occu- pant of the tenement house is to the city. One, however, is an old nuisance the other, comparatively new. Hence the air is full of threatenings of punishment and eXtermination against the tramp, while the objectionable city person is treated with a forbearance only accor- ded to evils of very long standing. In fact the human product of the tenement house is not only an older but far greater danger to society than the tramp. Our strolling beggars are a small proportion of the whole country population even at the worst On the other hand the tenement houses of New York con- tain nearly if not quite half the p opulation of the city. The physical life of the tramp is deicded improvement on that of the slums of a city. His moral condition is certainly not in- ferior The proportion of criminals in tene- ment house population is probably greater than that among our country tramps, nor are the crimes they commit less serious In the country, vice has at least the advantage of be- ing well scattered while, in the city, it becomes pestilental from it's frightful accumulation in- to narrow limits. The country constable usu- ally finds little difficulty in keeping the tramp in order while our cities must maintain large and expensive army of policemen whose chief duty it is to watch, to seize, and to punish the occupant of the tenement houses.
 If then, the tramp is a nuisance to be sav- agely exterminated from the country, how are we to treat the tenement house? Into few blocks of ill-lighted, discovered buildings are crowded thousands of paupers, criminals, and prostitutes. The product of such life can be nothing less than ruin. The moral and physical condition of the herds of women and children harbored in these abominable holes, is simply horrible. Health and morality are utterly incompatible with such surroundings. If the well being of society requires that the | tramp should be hustled out of our country by-ways into work houses or state prisons, is there not ten times the necessity that every city tenement house should be razed to the | ground Indeed, we have always wondered that decency had not long since risen up and destroyed these nurseries of vice.
 The evil has escaped destruction simply be- cause it is so old and so enormous. The an- cient city offered still more striking contrast of novels with palaces than the modern. It is only of late that the better city people have learned how much they suffer physically from l the squalor of their ill-condtioned neighbors
 It is only of late that they have begun to claim the right to regulate evil modes of life not per haps vicious in themselves, but which inevi-
 ably tend to vice. They must carry reform still further, and sternly obliterate such breed, ing grounds of niquity as the tenement house, where are congregated all the pauperism and nine-tenths of the crime which bring city so- ciety into deserved disrepute.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
The Mormon Question.
MILWAUKEE. Wis
 March Sth. 1876.

MILmAUKEE Wis
 March 8th, 1876.
 ED ENQUIRER: There is difference of decision of the U. s. Supreme Court on poly gamy A certain class would punish ndis- criminately, while another would be more hu- mane. We should not forget that the Mormons have been models of industry, having reclaim ed barren, cut of-the-way desert, doing it just in time to be of the greatest value to over- land travel to Calfornia-in a>sense, an act of providence. Whatever may have been the case with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young it is evident that the present generation of Mormons are sincere. Misguided and igno- rant as they are. we must remember that the thousands of woman who so recently petition ed Congress are devoted to their religion
 Slavery was as great crime as pelygamy, yet who proposes to punish the holder 1? The system was an inherited one, and it would be manifestly unjust to attempt to punish the present generation with fine and imprison- ment for what is in fact the crime of many generations.
 Let the decision of the Supreme Court re- suit in the abolition, but not in the punishment of polygamy! An institution of so long stand ing, no matter how bad. cannot be uprooted in d day. It cannot be persecuted out of exist ence. The government permitted Mormonism to establish itself in what was then the most forlern and inaccessible part of the country. For thirty years they have followed their pc culiar religious and social practices without se- rious molestation. No doubt polygamy, like slavery deserves abolition but does it not in common fairness also deserve that amount of consideration in the process of abolition which wise statesmanship has always accorded to long established evils? Let Congress pass laws abolishing polygamy for the future, but granting a general amnesty for past offences and legitimizing children of plural marriages. Such legislation would be just; it would not make criminals of whole population and it might be enforced, where the result of attempt ing more may be to accomplish nothing
 F. M R
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
The Suffrage.

EDITOR ENQUIRER I live in a school dis trlct where there are twenty -one males who can vote in school meetings. Of this number twelve pay no taxes except poll tax and the poll taxes of five out of the twelve are abated by the selectmen. Of the remaining nine More than one half of the taxable property in the district is owned by women. I think that women own about two thirds of the real estate Now the twelve non taxpayers govern the district. They are always in favor of lavish expenditures. Not one dollar of all the sums of money that they vote to pay comes out of their own pockets. The eleven female tax payers have no voice in affairs whatever Their children go to school, yet the mothers nave no voice in selecting teachers. The property of these women is taxed but they have no right to say how their money shall be spent. Not only are these women dlsfranchised and their wishes utterly ignored but the male taxpayers are virtually disfranchised by being outnumbered. Evidently this state of things is not right. What is the remedy? 1.-the eleven female tax payers could vote, they, together
 with the male tax payers could control district matters. If Gu the females of legal age should be allowed to vote, upwards of twenty females would be added to the non tax-paying voters, and the condition of affairs would be still worse Shall it not be said that women have equal rights with men ?-and if men who pay no taxes can vote, why not women? Is not the simple truth this: Suffrage is not natur- al right at all that the suffrage is already too much extended; that it's further extension ought to be carefully guarded; that little, a Ue,y Httle more fooling with the suffrage will upset our institutions and disgust the best I friends of our form of government.
 SoMNAMBULIsT.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

Ezra c. Ray vs. Sheldon Ray ct als Litcheld Coun- ty, Superior Court, April Term. A. D. ls79 It being shown to and found by this Court, that James H. Ray, and Susan Ray now residing in parts unknown to the petitioner respondents and partes in interest in the above entitled cause, now pending in this Court, and upon whom personal service cannot be made:>
 Therefore. Ordered That notice of the pendency of said petition and action be given the above named respondents by the petitioner causing this order of notice to be published in the Litchfeld Enouirer weekly newspaper, published in Litchfed in said County, three weeks, commencing before the 20th day of March A. D cause proper return to be and that said petition be continu- ed to the next term of this Court.
 Dated at Litcbheld, this 17th day of March, A, D. 1879. By order of
 - a-.Ms WM. L. RANSOM, Clerk.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The legislature expects to finish its business
 this week: adjourn over Dext week to give the
 governor time to examine the bills submitted
 to him and then return for final adjourn
 ment, the week after.
 After quite sharp discussion in the House,
 further meddling with the statute regarding
 exemptions from facterizing process was | checked by an indefinite postponement of the bill proposing several important changes. We regret to see that the woman suffrage committee has reported against all the bills be-
 fore them. There can be no doubt of the jus
 tice, whatever may be said of the suficiency of the measures proposed.
 The civil procedure bill passed the Senate, last week, in spite of the opposition of the two lawyers in that select body. Mir. Phillips, chairman of the Judsciary committee, natural ly led the opposition His speech, as it ap- pears in the papers, is carefully elaborated eff fort,a sort of show piece, such as most speeches are apt to seem to the cool reader. Its great faults are those of exaggeration and misrepre- sentation. It undertakes the faults of the old system as much as it overrates the dangers of the new. Code pleadings no doubt have their technicalities, but these are neither so many nor so dangerous as those of the common law procedure. The bar of Connecticut is by no means unused to the new style of pleadngs. It is founded upon that now practiced in our equity courts and almost all our lawyers must have noticed how seldom it is that tech nalities interfere with the due course of justice on that side; while the reports are full of cases dismissed, on the common law side, for mere technical errors in no way affecting their mer- it's. In all the States in which codes have been adopted we have yet to hear of single in- stance of return to the common law practice. On the other hand, the number of States in which the simpler modes of pleading are adopt ed is constantly increasing There is another consideration which we have not seen much dwelt upon. Lawyers are still at liberty to use the old forms of declaration if they are afraid of the new. Nor ought they to con- plain, when acting upon the defensive, if they are called upon to make simple statement of matters really relied upon, instead of spreading out irrelevant pages of ''notice" suggesting all suits of insufficient and irrelevant defences, as is 70 often the case under our practice,
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

Cur THIS OUT-Ir MAY SAVE YOUR L1FE.- There is no person living but what suffers more or less with Lung Disease, Coughs, Colds or Consumption, yet some. would die rather than pay 72 cents for bottle of medi- cine that would cure them. Dr. Boschee's German Syrup has latoly been introduced in this country from Germany, and its wonder ous cures astonishes every one that try it. If you doubt what we say in print, cut this out and take it to your Druggist. and get sample bottle for 10 cents and try it, or a regular size for 75 cents. Sold by A. s. Wright & Co.,
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
The Vanderbilt will is approved by the Sur

The Vanderbilt will is approved by the Sur rogate.
 The first boat of the season left Poughkeep sic for New York on Monday night.
 The Scranton and Lackawanna coal cOmpa nies have established agencies in Boston for the sale of coal at decline of $1.50 per ton from the recent current rates
 The Philadelphia Common Council will send on comnIitte to San Francisco to meet Grant when he lands there (eXpenses paid by the city).
 Gen. T. W. Sherman is dead
 It is announced that a process of making steel from Cleaveland iron has been discov- cred
 Now AND THEN-Akin to a curiosty-shop was the old-faseioned cupboard, with it's pills and bottled nostrums These nauseous nomi- nal remedies are, to-day, supplanted by reme- dies purer and almost tasteless. Worthy of illustrative mention is Peter Moller's CoD-L1v- ER OIL. This limpid, pure and palatable preparation has long had the highest praise of physicians and the household.
 Influenza is a great bother, but one or two swallows of Dr. A. J. Flagg's Cough and Lung Syrup will drive it away like chaff before the wind. Keep it in the house.
 cVSly Caimer laKe NOClce! SdOe your we'll on a postal card, to J. H. IVES, Dan bury, Conn.,, and see what he will do for you (Oldest established Rubber Bucket Pump ma ker In the State. 49-3m
 The success of the Read Carpet Co.'S Car pets is something wonderful, commencing a few years ago making not more than five or six thousand yards per month they have in- to an ic col1 mediately taken up by such leading houses as A. T. Stewart & Co.,, E 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.
 ENJOY LIFE. 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 ful effect, Sample bottels, 10 cents.. Try it. Sold by A. s. Wright & Co.,, Litchfeld.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
The contest for the Speakership of the ne

The contest for the Speakership of the new House was ended on Monday by choice in the Democratic caucus of Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the last House He is a hard mon- 6y man, and, on that account more satisfacto " to the East than to the West. The Repub- licans nominated Mir. Garfield, It is expected that the business of the extra session will be confined to the passage of the appropriation bills which failed in the last session with the same objectionable provisions as before.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

It being found by the undersigned that there are persons who the heirs at law of John T. Peters, deceased who are so that tney should De brought to the April Term, 1879, of the Superior Conrt for Litcheld County, and that the names and residences of said heirs at law are unknown to the petitioner. and that Catharine E Rogers, Will liam Peters and Della Mcwly such heirs at law whose names and residences known to petitioner reside out of the state of Connecticut therefore order. ed that the petitioner give notice of the pendency of said petition to said Catharine E. Rogers, William Peters and Della Mowry, and the unknown heirs at law of said John T Peters deceased, by publishing the order in the Ltchfeld Enquirer. a newspaper lively before the 28th day of March, A. D. 1879. By order of
 VIM L. RANSOM, Clerk
 of the Superior Court for said County,
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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

A fire proof museum is to be built near the Smithsonian institute at Washington, for sto- age of government curiosties for which there is no suitable place elsewhere $25O. GOO were appropriated for this purpose by the late Con-
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

In seems that condensed milk business in America is being greatly interfered with by a company formed by some young Illinoisans in Switzerland, where they manufactured 18 O00,- 900 cans in 1878. The result has been the lowering of prices in America
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

Bishop Gilmour, Catholic, of Cleveland, O., has been issuing pastoral in which he con- demns labor unions for their secrecy; threat ems parents with communication who do not send their children to the parochial instead of the public schools; and orders young Catholics not to marry Protestants.
 Sam. Wilkeson has been suing Beecher for not finishing his "Life of Christi as per con- tract. Not content with knocking this pious work 'as high as kite by the Scandal, the pastor of Plymouth church has absolutely re- fused to finish the second volume upon which s. w. based SO many hopes and inv ested so much money
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
Notice.

THIs is to certify that copartnership has been 4 formed between Henry B., and Howard c. Peck of Northfeld, Conn.,, dating from Feb. st. 1873, to be known by the firm name of Peck Brothers and to continue five years for the manufacture and sale of Flour, Feed, Ground Bone other Fertilizers, and general milling business, her retofore carried on at the 'Northfeld Mills Having bought all right and title to the estates ot the late Jeremiah Peck and CorDea E. Peck, any legal claims against said estates are hereby assumed and notice given that all dues to the above estates, be paid imme diately, costs for collection may be expected.
 PECk BROTHERS.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

RESTRICT OF LITCHFIELD, ss Probate Court, D March 8th, 1879.
 Estate Of Charles Munson late of Morris in said district, deceased.
 The court of Probate for the District of Litchicd hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of sad Estate to exhibit ther claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred aracovery, All persons in-- iebted to said Estate requested to made immedi ate payment to
 LUOIUs E. MoNsON, Executor.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

Kentucky has cheaper and speedler way of disposing of tramps even than New Hamp- shire. On Sunday fellow who had outraged Q woman across the river from Cincinnati, was taken out of the iail and lYnched
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The present'head of the Spanish ministry is Gen. Martinez Campos who put an end to the Cuban rebellion, as much by liberal treatment as by force of arms.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

NIsTRIOT OF CORNWALL sS Probate Court U March 9th. 1879.
 Estate of Alexander Breguet of Cornwall, m said District insolvent debtor.
 The Court of Probate for the District of Cornwall hath limited and allowed three months from the date hereof, for the creditors of sd estate reprt scented insovcnt, in which to exhibit their claims thereto and has appoint ed Frederick Kellngg Cornwall aud Abijah Catin of Harwinton Commissioners to receive and examine Said claims.
 Certified by GEO. c. HARRISON, Judge. The subsc ibers give notice that they shall meet at the office of Frederick Kellogg in said Cornwall on the Sd day of April and the 5th day of June 187g ten o'clock in the forenoon, each of said days for the purpose of attending the business of said ap- continent.
 FREDERICK KELLOGG, Con-
 ABI1Au CATLIN [ missioners All persons indebted to said estate requested to make immediate payment to
 50-4w c. s. BALDWIN, Trustee.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The Springfield Republican compliments the Massachusetts legislature upon the reforming nature of it's legislation. Governor and legis- lature are united in this most honorable at temnt
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The Rev. G. l.. Taylor, D. D., of Wolcott- vile, will address the Christian Temperance Union of Norfolk in the Congregationalist Church on Thursday, March 27, commencing at 45 n m
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The tramp bill goes back to the House with the section restored which makes it state prison offense to build fires on the highway or on the land of another without permission
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

It is expected that the San Gothard tunnel will be ready for use next year. It is to be 1 ] miles longer than that under Mont Cenis and to cost considerably more.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

A great disaster occurred, last week, in Hungary, where the Theiss, large river run ing through the middle of that Country south to the Danube, swept away the dikes protect ing Szegedin, the second city of Hungary, and destroyed the whole city. Of the 9,700 houses within the city, less than three hundred remain. Over three thousand lives were lost and property to the amount of seven or eight mil lions was destroyed. Not only the city but ten thousand farm houses were swept away by the flood, and deaths are still occurring almost hourly from exposure, wounds, disease and want of food
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
GEO. M. WOODRUFF, Judge
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DISTRICr OF LITCHFIELD ss. Probate CourG- A March 7th, 1879. Estate of Francis H. Pratt late of Lichfeld in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for District of Litchfeld hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly alested within said time, will debarred recovery. All persons indeb ed to said Estate requested to make immediate pigment to
 HENRY A. PRATT, Administrator or
 MARY E. PRATT. Attorney.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
n1oTK1or OF LIrcHrIELD. s., Probate oonrt

nlHIRlCT OF L1FCHFIELD, ss. Probate Court, A March 17th, 1879.
 Upon the application of Julia A. Ensign showing to tnls Cou that she IS Guardian to Mary E Ensign of Morris, Corn, minor b,lo gng to said distrio and that id minor the owner of the following real tate. stna ted in said Morris viz: One piece containing about four and hal acres, bounded east by high way, sou h and west by land of Edward w. Ensign. ana north by land of Richard TH Hkingon, valued at :bo't $2jO And one piece containing about one half icre witt the buildings thereon. bounded east and south Dy highways west and north by land of David rurkington value,, at about 8 o and showing just and reasonable for selling said real estate praying for ore and that She somc other meet person be empower to sell the same per appIca- tion file, dated the 17th day f March, 1879 more fully appears.
 Cr'leir-rhat the foregoing appl ation be heard at the Probate Office in LltChicld on the 18th day of April 1872, at nine o'clock forenoon and that notice thereof Ue published in some public newspaper the place where such real estate lies least three wt eks successively, before said time assigned.
 Certified from Record
 GEO. M. WOODRUFF, Judge
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

There has been another murder in Norwich. If this thing goes on, there will be nothing left in Norwich to go into the census of 80.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The Litchfield charter, which came from the expressing committee with some amendments, and much reduced in length, has finally passed both Houses.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

DIsTRICT OF CORNWALL, ss. Probate Court. U March 5th, 1879.
 Hp9R hs ss Q & 4hsoTe pc1soD I the ahdavit provided in the 3lst section of chapter II, part 2nd, title Is, entitled "Of insolvent persons of Gensral Statutes of Com ectcut to obtain the benefits and privileges of section 32nd of sad acr. Ordered That said application be heard and said affidavit be made at the Probate Office in Cornwall in said District the 27th day March, 1879 at one o'clock. afternoon, and that notice thereof be given by publishing this order in q newspaper printed in Litcheld County at least weeks before said day of hearing, and by posting copy thereuf the pub lie sign-post at Cornwall in said Cornwall and return make to this Court
 GEO. c. HARRISON, Judge.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

New York business men have been organlz- ing temperance societies proposing three grades of abstinence to their members-known as the red white and blue pledges. The red binds the person taking it to total abstinence for certain period; the white, to abstinence dur ing business hours; the blue prohibits ''treat- posed would be great improvement upon the prevailing practices of the metropolis
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

Judge Granger is quite i'll at his residence in Canaan of pneumonia, though his condition is not considered dangerous.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

The first steamer of '79 from New York to Hartford left on Monday.