Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-27
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 After nearly all the hogs in the country have been picked up and slaughtered, the pice has gone up dollar hundred, and the h'ld- CTS of mess pork, etc., are reaping richre- ward, by turning 'bulls" just when it willdo the most good. Having 'beared'' down Dn the poor farmers and business interests of the country, all the past season, the monopolists suddenly give twist the other way, as it he- comes necessary to realize on the enormous crop, and send the price up nearly one third. In 1877, the number of hogs marketed was 2,115,00 price S22, 738, 900. In 1878, hogs marketed 2,345, 900, this greater number bring ing only S16, 724, 900. Add one third and you begin to realize the enormous profits these manipulators are making and the end is not yet. They are operating the same in the wheat market. Over II GOO, 900 bushels are now held in Chicago and Milwaukee, awaiting dearth ill the East to send Prioos .r, and the few make the money without benetitting the country It makes one want to turn "Gran- ger" or something else when we contemplate the enormous power of money and monopo- lists. But Changers are not without their pee cadilloes either.
 During the late cold spell, Theodore Hilton was at Hampton in this state and recollecting that he owned land somewhere in that vicini- ty, called for horse and sleigh and guide to show him his farm. On further inquiry they teld him it was we'll he came in sleighing time, as otherwise he would have had to examine his farm from row boat.
 The Western papers have generally been pretty severe on Sammy Tilden and the ci- pher business, broadly intimating that he was not brought up on the little matched" :" But it seems to some more probable that he told them, 'whatever they did must be done at the other end of the bar'p' and that their tap ping must be done there without his knoWl- edge.
 To "S" of Washington Thanks! !! Moth ing could give me greater pleasure than 'e oe present at your"C Home Gathering. And allow me to suggest that in addition to other good things, your old garrets be ransack- ed and a museum of antiquities be placed on exhibition, side by side with modern improve ments At this moment there rises up before my minds eye section of log something over feet long, hollowed out nearly half way, standing on end, and double-ender mallett nearly as long with which we used to reduce cinnamon and spices to the required finenss for culinary purposes, to say nothing of dried and Drowned cracked bread in milk and pud- ding, a dish I don't remember to have had in quarter century, but which makes my mouth water" to think of Our Pastors name is Sid ney Crawford, of Mass; was a class-mate of Joseph Cook at Andover, ordained in 1870, travelled in Europe and the Holy Land, com menced labor here in 1875, after having sup piled his elder brothers pulpit some time in Green Bay Wisconsin. His brother is one of the leading dlvines in that state: an old bach elor, and is booked for lecture in Lyons, this week, on ''What would do if were Girl. J Our home paper rises to remark, ''That our girls don't care much about the opinions of an old bachelor, anyway, but they just want to hear what he has to say about subject he has shown so little ability to grasp and master himself" Facts in relation to Sunday Schools found in Congregational Quarterly for Jan. 1865, page 21.
 The Chicago Clearing House for January shows an increase of business over correspond ing month last year of F millions of dollars better times in prospect. A. B.