Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-15

According to the St. Petersburg Golos, the Russian Government will hereafter compel the proprietors of all factories to provide free hos pItals and medical attendance for those of their employees who contract disease or suffer injuries in the factories.
 There is new experiment in reform and economy in that hotbed of politics, the New Orleans Custom House. Fifty names have been dropped from the rolls, and almost all the salaries have been reduced some ten per centum.
 The three tallest trees in the world are be- lieved to be a sequoia near Stockton, Califor- mia, which is 325 feet high and two eucalyptl in Victoria, Australia, estimated to be 435 and 450 feet high respectively.
 One European country is absolutely setting the example of reducing its military expenses. The Swedish Legislature insists that these expenses weigh down the country and must be reduced, and the Government is compiled to consent.
 The Rev. R. R. Gabbert of Pellvile, Ky., wrote as follows: T am a hypocrite, deceiv- CT, and the people have lost confidence in me-" " plary clergyman, but his delusion on that point led him to suicide. 4
 The radical party in France have put for ward the name of Monsieur Loyson best known as Father Haycinthe, as q candidate for the French Chamber of Deputies in one of the Paris arondissments.
 Mr. Woodbridge of Hillsboro, Texas, went into drug store, drew revolver, compelled a clerk to give him some strychnine, said he would shoot anybody who tried to prevent his suicide, toek the poison, and died with the cooked weapon in his hands
 school-mistress Gust beginning nice, im- proving lesson upon minerals to the jun niorsg ''Now, what are the principal things we get out of the earth ?" Youthful angler, aged four Confidently "Werms.
 Under new law, the Massachusetts State prisons are under the control of two men and a woman, called Supervisors, who are to re- ceive no pay except for expenses. Their pow CT is unrestricted as to disipline, choosing off cials, and the general government of the insti- tutions.
 'I am struck with one thing in connection with colonial farmers" writes an Australian correspondent, ''their appearance of being (amid plenty dreadfully poor and overworkec.
  pare, in appearance at least of general comfort, with the average British farmer"
 One hundred and sixty-two authentic cases of living burial are put on record by the eIni- nent French physician, Dr. Josat. The period of unconsciousness before burial, in these cases, lasted from two hours to forty-two. The causes of apparent death were these, Syncope, hys- teria, apoplexy, narcotism, concussiOn of brain, anesthesia, Tightening, and drunkenness.
 William Emerson Baker offers $20O, 900 to the Public Health Association of Boston. on condition that half as much more be contribu- ted by others. The association is devoted to investigation as to house ventilation and drail . age, the sale of adulterated and otherwise un- fit food, and general questions concerning health.
 Two factories for the preparation of opium for smoking are said to exist in San Francisco and another somewher; in New Jersey. Co., officials suspect that the customs laws are evaded by the proprieols as the crude opium used is of very low grade and is thought n conta h" nine per cent of morNhine required y law. The cuty on this is $1 a pound, and on opilm prepared for smoking $5 a pound.
 The people of Deslhoines. Iowa, have voted in favor of law licensing liquor selling by five hundred majority. The significant fact about the election, however is that women were allowed to vote, and out of four hundred and eighty who cast their ballots only three voted in favor of license.
 Elenor Graves says that she has becn divine ly appointed Matrimonial Supervisor of Cali fornia with power to marry an1 sei arate lov- CTS, and to generally direct the martial affairs of the State. She has opened an office in San Francisco, and issued a proclamation, con- nanding all persons who intend entering we'd lock to apply to her at once for permission. It is her intention she says, to annul the mar riages of several thousand couples in San Frar- cisco alone.
 Major Horten's house, in Newton, Mass, was burned in the night Orpha Smith, ser want, was compelled to jump from an upper window. AS she had tried hard to put out the flames, according to her own story, and the fall broke her hip, she was regarded as a here- inc She now confesses, however, that she kindled the fire herself, as a means of hiding her thefts of clothing Decming it necessary to wait in bed until somebody else discovered The fire, her escape was almost cut off.
 The late Ross Winans, of Baltimore seven years ago built one hundred and twelve dwell- ing houses for working people in Baltimore. They were built in flats for two families each, and though they had all modern conveniences, and were cheap as to rent, they were not pop ular in that City. They have just been offer ed for sale, but the sale was stopped when only nine of the enc hundred and twelve had been sold.
 Seven hundred thousand Protestants in Ire lank hold he University of Dublin, with it's magnificent college, library of two hundred thousand printed volumes and one thousand seven hundred rare manuscripts, richly stocked t,.ll,- i>oI and two hundred thousand acres of landed property. Four million and half of Roman Catholics have iher University, for which they tax themselves to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds, but from the State they have not received farthing and it's very existence is ignored
 MT. Monroe of Meredith, Mo, was strong disciplinarian in his own household, and prided himself on the obedience of his family His children were accustomed to the rod from their cradles until they quilted the parental roof, and 1t was even said that he whipped his wife on several occasions. But he was of high standing in the community, and when, a few days ago, he spoke in church meeting of the duty of fathers in training their off spring. he was very attentively listened to. On his way home he met his son George who had been fishing on Sunday, and gave the boy O CluCi oCdtiuS3 PCiHdpo tO IIuo6totC ClIC Suu- ject that he had been discussing in church. George went to a neighbor's house, borrowed a gun, and shot his father dead.
 Jerry Shilt was one of the loafers of West Baltimore, Ohio, yet he was the accepted suit or of Mary Brittenbaugh, highly respectable lady. The neighbors were not willing to let her have her own way in the matter, but de- termined to put an end to the courtship. On three successive evenings Jerry was dragged out of Miss Brittenbaugh's parlor by masked men, but on the fourth evening he was there as usual. The next measure was to tar and feather him; and that kept him away from the house several days but he called again as soon as he was clean. On emerging he was fired at from an ambush, the bullet going through his hat That incident appears to have reused him to the necessity of action, and he eloped with Miss Brittenbaugh on the fol- lowing night.