Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-17

Gbe Gitebhelo Gnquirer,
 LITCHFlELD, CORN.
 Thursday, July 17, 1879
 The Hayden trial is finally set down fol Sept g.
 The Erie railroad company has recovered two millions from London agent
 
 A Mississippi lady has left a handsome for tune to Jefferson Davis.
 The Russian official gazette places the loss on their side in the late Turkish war at 200, GOO men and 750 millions of money.
 The Chicago Club has decided lead among the professional base ballists, this season, with Providence in the second place.
 The city of Hartford has been making very important reduction in the salaries of it's off, cers, amounting on an average to some twenty per cent.
 Hartford recently lost one of its old aboli- tionists in Alanson Work, who spent three years in Missouri prison for helping slaves escape. -.
 A terrible explosion occurred at the Bodie mine in California, on Thursday. Five tons of giant powder exploded from some unknown cause eight men were killed and forty wound ed. -
 The Bridgeport Farmer is worried over the absence of Congressman Miles from so many of tine voses in the last Congress. Barnum has always been the Farmers model of punctual attendance.
 Over forty million dollars are now in contest tracts made with Flood and O'Brien. We hope the California lawyers having these liNle matters in charge will not be too moderate in their charges.
 The pension arrears extravaganza, and other lavish expenditures, are bringing the Govern ment expenses up to the amount so much con- plained of by the Democrats in times past when there was Republican Congress.
 We see Senator Sharon threatened with loss of pay for this session. To be sure he was not at Washington, at all we believe, his pri- vate interests requiring his presence elsewhere. Cannot Nevada elect some poor man who could afford to fill the place that gentleman hes left practically vacant for several years?
 The Ohio contest, with Democratic candi- date for governor running on his popularity as soldier of the war, and Republican who saw no service, is a queer political struggle. The Republicans claim that Ewing was alto gether too severe in his treatment of secession lsts; in other words that he is too stalwart even for the stalwarts
 Brooklyn is now having fine row with it's proposed elevated railroads. It is a shame that these valuable street franchises should be given away, when, if offered at public sale, they would bring millions. It seems that the street railways of New York, though paying enormous dividends, have substantially escaped taxation hitherto. The attempt will now be made to tax them, as we'll as the elevated rall- roads, as real estate
 It seems that no vessel can be armored heavily enough to withstand the bolts sent by the large guns now manufactured. A gun that weighs hundred tons. and fires shot of ton weight, is one of the latest products of the competition between aruIur and artillnry that has been going on ever since defensive ship armor has come into use. This gun knocked in pieces target 24 inches thick, in three shots A single bolt from such a cannon which, says the Springfield Republican, ''can be aimed and handled by hydraulic machinery as easily as in it weighed ton," would sink any iron-clad ever built.
 There was great gathering of oarsmen at Saratoga, last week, for the amateur regatta at that place. Murray, of Portsmouth, Va, and Mumford of New Orleans won, at the single sculls. The Athletics, of New York, won the double soull race, while the four cared race was won by the Hillsdale crew. The New York Atlantas were beaten in one heat and their stroke was sunstruck, so that they could not compete on the last trial. The noted "Sh9-wB -cB-mettes" were one of the beaten crews The six-oar race was won by the Mutuals, of Albany.
 We are surprised to see such an interest as seems manifested by the women of Massachu- sets in their newly recognized right of voting at school meetings. Numbers of them are registering, though it costs each applicant at least dollar tax, and in some places two dol lars are imposed. If each voter at Litchield school meeting were charged dollar for his privilege, we venture to say that the meetings, small enough now, would dwindle to nothing, unless proposition for some real reform like graded school were to give life to an opposl- tion..
 The Homestead presents favorable prospects for the tobacco crop this year. The season here, though backward, has been on the whole favorable; while Pennsylvania, Connecticut's chief rival, is suffering from drouth that bids fair to ruin their crop:
 There is no overplus of seed leaf or Havana m the manufacturing centers or the country, and it is morally certain that the crop of '79, with all the old tobacco remaining on hand (the amount of which is small), will be no more than enough to supply the manufactur- CTS for the year to come, thus leaving clear field for the crop of 1879 as soon as it shall be ready for use.
 The Bennett Arctic Expedition which start ed for Behring's Straits, last week, has at least the advantage of new field of discovery The common track of exploration leads up the west coast of Greenland. The Jeanette tries new course. and may add materially to the knnwledre of the Pnlar rarinns hitherto at :