Litchfield enquirer., 1879-01-02
DOMESTIC.

When Congress reassembles, bill will be introduced for the recoinage of the silver dollar into one of 4S0 grains weight.
 Chief Moses and his head men have been captured, and the danger of war with that band has been averted,
 Last weeks snow storm blOckaded the rail- roads around Buffalo and Chicago
 Rear Admiral Hoff is dead.
 General Garfield says that he is for Mir. Eos ter as Governor of Ohio.
 The snow is four feet deep in Northern New York, and the drifts are fifteen feet deep; railroad travel was for time almost at stand still.
 On Wednesday, the Oswego Midland round- house and nine engines were burnt. The Hudson was frozen as low as Pough- keepsie on Thursday. Dr. Leonard Woods, formerly President of Bowdoin College, died in Boston. Thursday. Several Army officers have expressed favor | able opinions on the Army bil
 Colonel Grant will probably visit India with his father.
 The social scandal against Mir. Acklen, the Louisiana member of Congress, is again re- vived
 The President saya that there no urgency in filling the vacant Mission to Berlin l William H. Vanderbilt has chartered four teen steamships to connect with the1 New | York Central Road for freight to Europe: 1 The First National Bank of New York, 1 paid out $100,O00 in gold on demand last | week
 | The coal combination is at an end. | On Friday gold certificates and notes worth | 5209, 722. 38 were lost by the messenger of the | New York Importers and Traders National l Bank.
 The Potter and Teller Committees are both | to he in New Orleans, this week. Iol~s 2. .:- l THE NEW VOLUME OF THE LIVING AGE- The number of Littelps Liging Age for the week ending Jany 4th begins it's one hundred and fortieth volume. | In this volume George MacDonald's new and increasingly interesting serial story, ''Sir | Gibbie," will be continued from week to week until completed a new serial, ''The Brides Pass" by Sarah Tytler, whose stories "What She Came Through and ''Rev Adam Cam eron's Visit to London attracted so much at tention in 1Ae Ltcing Age, will be begun in January: serial story, ''The Romance of Calcot House." by Katherine g. Macquoid, author of Patty" etc, is a1nouncel to ap pear early in the new year choice short sto- res. for which The Lieing Age has become noted. including transations from the French. etc.. will continue feature of the magazine; l anu, Inrol9n the year, the leading foreign au- thors will be represented in this department | of the nnrindical
 In science, politics, theology and general literature, articles are mentioned as forthcom- ing from the foremost thinkers, investigators and writers, including W. H. Mallock, author of "Positivism on an Island" Dean Stanley. R. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Jas. Anthony Froude, Prof. Goldwin Smith, Richard A.. Proctor. Pref: Huxley. Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Prof. Max Muller, Matthew Arnold, and others, With sketches by R. D. Blackm ,re, author of Lorna Doone" Wm Black, Mrs. Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, etc. In short, with the recent great impetus given to foreign periodical literature, 1he Lfctrg Age promises to be richer than ever in the work of the ablest minds of the time. and will give their produc- tions with completeness not elsewhere at- tempted.
 The beginnin, of a new year is a favorable time for the beginning of subscription; and the publishers still present to new subscribers for 1879 the six numbers of 1878 containing the first parts of MacDonald's ''Sir Gibbie ' LITTELL & GAY. Boston, Publishers.