Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-11

cratic, as was expected. Indeed the return ing board machinery, now worked Tn tn Democratic interest, makes any other resuI an impOssibility. The new constitution wa adopted and the debt ordinance defeated.
 One of the Ute chiefs who was in the Thorn burgh fight, says the affair began without an, intention of fighting on their part. The troop had taken a byway to avoid the Indians, ant the Indians had taken the same trail to avoio the trOOps-hence the collision. He also de clared that the Mormons had promised then help.
 Senator Bayard has entitled himself to cred 1t by making sensible movement forward on the financial question, while Republicans were deprecating the policy of the Administration He proposes the repeal of the legal tender quality of the greenback. More cautious pol iticians are waiting for decision of the U. s. Supreme court on the question of the cnnstitu tiOnality of issuing legal tender notes in time of peace
 The Sun promises an exhibition of Edison' electric light on Christmas. He claimsto have solved tine problems of dividing the current in to seperate burners of sixteen candle power and Ohave perfected his platinum burner iron being rapidly consumed in the intense heat by placing it in glass bulb from which the ali has been exhausted. He belives that the cleo tric light will entirely supersede gas.
 
 There was apleasant commemoration al Boston, on Wednesday, in honor of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the arrival of his seven tieih birthday. 4 number of other Atlantic celebrities and of BOston's noted literary men were present, and an ode was read by the "Au- tocTzt" himself. The best thing of the eve- ming was a speech by Mark Twain.
 The Boston school difficulty is quieted, for the presents by the declaration of the Catholic archbishop that individual priests must not assume to punish Catholic parents for sending their children to the public schools without his sanction He still holds to the right of excom- municstion for such an offence should he see fl to employ it.
 The Springfield Republican considers the present price of wheat too high to last. Ii the Washington estimates of this years croE Me cogrec1, there is surplus of 180 million bazbeA< for expogtation. England has already provided six months supply. France needl O1Iy 50 million bushels, and the Eastern and osher sources of supply are furnishing mucl gTeAEer quantity than had been expected. Al tc1<s quarter more land than last year is sOW1 for the next crop, and there is certainty good prospect of cheaper wheat in the neal future
 h IS pleasant to notice that though tho an1o1nz pf liquor distilled in the country is in ervz<izg zr rapid rate, this increase is not il pruy.ortiOn sO that of population. On the con Trzry satisfies would seem to prove that only zlout half the distilled liquors are now drunk per hcad. that were So misused forty years ago There has undoubtedly been great increas' in the cu0zunpsiOn of malt liquors, which arr to coGSSierzble extent supplanting the nor fiery beyer1ges of former generation.
 The Readjusser-R Republican combination il YryinEa Is q queer affair. The Republican thrOw In their whole force with the part which proposes repudiation, or semi-repudis tion- In return, their leaders will expect DO t-Sczl positions al coming elections A Soutf sru Republican politician seems a commend, hlr and even somewhat heroic object in th dim distance; on close inspection, neithe hercsc noC cOmmendable.
 The sSqud of the Gilman iniquity is 6 sEd &s Ets begInning. He was sentenced { AHburn prison fOr five years. it will be remen bered. for fOCgeEy- His devoted wife has mad every effcTt to obtain 8 pardon. She wa unsa8cceSsful; the matter preyed on her health she died sudtrnly and then, at last, Gilma wss given his pardon, and on Wednesday kz<s week. Ieft Auburn 10 attend her funer al New York
 Honesty used to be thought the best polio Perhaps 1t is 8 still. The department paper and presidents message were printed in at v1nce- this year. and printed slips of the me sage were sent or were to be sent to the leat ing papers of the cOCntry So that they migf pe punslshed ImmeuIaIely on their transmi. siou to Congress. without the heavy expens and the unavoidable imperfections of a tels graphic rePOrt- The New York Tribune, b brIhery. burglary. or in some other method nc exartly known, got a copy of the treasury rt pogt which it published on the Saturday b' fore Congress met The Times followed SUI it's delivery All this may be considered 'fe Gerprise- by the Metropolitan press, but u result will be that hereaftsr they will probab be obliged to pay for imperfect telegraph copies. a vast deal more money than the ''e terpgise- of this year can possibly netted ther
 People reading of the tenant uprising Ireland and not understanding the causes which it is based, are apt to be very unjust the apparent Iawlessness exhibited. The re difficulty is that there is perhaps anoth Irish famine ahead. 4 Tuesdays dispat says.
 Trustworthy information from count SIigo. R0sscommOn, Mayo, Leitrim, Galwa and a part of the counties of Cork, Kerry, ri peTary, Antrim and Tyrone all unite in C pressing foTebOdings of most terrible sufferi during the coming winter by the fireless a foodless peasantry.
 The peasAntry OfIreland are today in mu the c IitiOn of the French peasantry before Revolution of 17ss. If the people of all Grt
 Britain were as badly of as the Celtic popu fion of Ireland. revolution would be inevtab As the matter now stands, difference of rat ofreIigica and condition, prevents the peasar " of England and Scotland, and the Sax
 population of Ireland, from sympathizing wi the Celtic peasantry, and saves the Engli rule & Ireland from the overthrow which tyranny nchly deserves.