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Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-02
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Cur TIIis Our. IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. - There is no person living but what suffers .lorc or less with Lung Disease, Coughs Colds or Consumption, yet some would .dit rather thanspay 72 cents for bottle of medi cine that would cure them. %Dr. A Boschee's German Syrup has lately been introduced ir this country from Germany, and it's wondrous cures ast0nish every one that tries it. Ii you doubt what we say in print, cut this out for 75 cents. Sold by w. K. Peck. N.3 < B <
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The GREATEST LIVING; AUTHORS, such as Prof. Max ELullcr, Itt Hon. ". E. Glad stone, James A. FrOude, Prof. Huxley R. A. Proctor, Edw. A. Freeman, Prof. Tyndall, Dr. w. B, Carpenter, Frances Power CObbc, The Duke of Argyll, Wm, Black, Miss ThRrkefy. Miss MulOch, Geo. MacDOnaId, Mrs. OiIphant, Jean IngelOw, Mrs, Alexander, Thomas Hardy. Matthew Arnold. Henry Kingsley, ". W, Story, Turguenief, Carlyle, Ruskin, TcnnysOn. BrOwnings and many others, are represented in the pages of -
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The wife of q barished French Communist was overloyed at the news of his pardon, and went to the railroad station, with her children. at the proper time, to welcome him. But he had been very ill for years, and was so much altered Tn appearance that she did not recog- nize him. She went home in Respondent mood, while he hunted in vain for her in tbe crowd. At last iie found her residence but she had committed suicide, after writing a despairing letter. EfF 2r]E
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Bot'the people of Kelnper county cannot justly complain if public sentiment is in some sort held responsible for the horrible crime for which the man Gully was tried It was a coid-blooded, dastardlv affair from beginning t0 eudLa massacre that would possess features of especial hideodsness even in Zululand At IGRtG (GG,) Consultation.
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Sf'f' 1T Al Barclay Street. New York.
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One Stove with all the new improvem ents of ex- tenson hearth, shelves. anti-clnker grates, Mica fronts, nickled Trimmings)
 Stove furnlture consisting of Wash Boiler, Tea Kettle Iron Pot and Kettle, Dpper Gridiron. Spider of Pipe and zinc, One Kitchen Table, four Chairs, one Rocker. two Wash Tubs; two Wood Fails, two Bro0ms Rolling Pin. Choppn5 Tray, Scrub Brush, Wash Board, Soap Dish, one Flour Sieve, one Set Kitchen Knives and Forks two Iron spoons, enc Wash Basin, Bread Board, Coffee Pot Tea Pot one Dish Pan, one Dust Pan, two Milk Pans, two Tin Fails two Sad Irons Cake Bowls. Plates. Pie Patters Pudding Dishes, Pepper and Dredge Boxes. Graters etc.. etc. '@aH' v P v, sam
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LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.

In 1879, THE LIVING AGE enters upon it's thirtg-srth year, admittedly un rvaed and continusls successu- Outing the year will furnish it's readers the pru ductions of the most eminent authors, abOv0-nnm- ed. and many others, embracing the choicest SeTia- and Short Stories by the Leading Foreign Novel; ists, and amount
 Cnapproached7 by any other Periodical. in the wold of the valuable Literary aud Scien thc matter of the day, from the pen If the foremost EssRyists Scientists, Critics, Discovers and Ed- hOr-, representing every department of Knowledge and Progress.
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-02

Lionel Tenn5son, son of the poet, is to suc-, ceed to the Aincolnshre estate of his uncle, the, Rev. Charles Turner, whose surname he will consequently assume. He is the Laureate's younger son, and he married the daughter of another poet, Frederick Lockyer, in the Abbey, about two years ago. His father lately yreflst ed to take the property with the condition of changing his urne P funsr $ "
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Edward, what do hear that you have 'fisobeyed your grandmother, who told you just now not to jump down these steps?" Grandma didn't tell us not to, papa she only cane to the door and said, I wouldn't jump down those steps, boys and 1 shouldn't think she would-an old lady like her.'
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THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING co
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A bald-headed Professor, reproving youth for the exercise of his fists, said. I've fight with our heads at this college" The young man reflected moment and then replied, 'Ah, 1 see and you butted all your hair off,"
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.s.Oh, you're just from Memphis Got the yellow fever, have yep said the stalWart off. cer as he yanked the tramp into the station- house. ''Wan, we'll disinfcct ye by washing ye an then shettin' ye up in the ice-chest all night" And in ten seconds the tramp had concluded that it was a case of mistaken identity and that he had never seen Memphis.
 They were talking about the weight of diff ferent individuals in a certain family, and the daughters young man, who was present, spoke up before he thought, and said, 'T tell you that Jennie ain't so very light, either, although she looks so, And then he looked suddenly conscious, and blushed, and Jennie became absorbed in studying a chromo on the wall.
 AS he was ascending the pulpit steps one of the elders button -holed him to whisper an ad- dtional caution : ,~.
 ''The liquor dealerh has just come intp church and he gives u@ lift sometimes. 1 wish you would be particular not to allude to the whisky business or the temperance question:"
 The young minister, getting frightened to see the moral ground thus steadily narrowing before him, inquired:
 ''Whom or what shall 1 preach against then"
 The elders reply came with an air of tri- umph .-z& Lassa &
 Preach against the Mormons: they haven't got friend in town"
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On the river: ~':cWhat's the lnatter Alfred? i? You look uneasy. "WelI, niy wife, who is fond of swimming, dived off the boat some time ago, and has not yet come to the surface; l ain afraid that something must have happen ed to her" ''How long has she been under ?" "A bout two hOurS''
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Harper's Bazar, on table manners, says: ''Do not betray by any gesture that you are hungry" Certainly not. For. of course, no one is supposed to go to the table to satisfy his appetite it is mere form. Any indication that you go there because you want something to eat is very ill-bred.
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CLIPPINGS,
The first duty on ito cross if.

The first duty on ito cross if.
 Beats the world"-a tramp 5 Can rivalry between churches he called $ steeple-cliase @@+ @
 The King of the Fiji Islands is said to relish Baby Mine" very much. lie likes 1t well done, too.
 A Calibfidse plan ssas driyen to suicide by reading the Bible. We have Sent a Bible to Private Dalzel.
 A. correspondent, wants to know What to do wifp1l dog shows signs of hytlrophoba We should cllipb tree. y, .,, .~:a-=- IT Autumn leaves will wsAf the sanecoforsthis year'f last. The Ncw Orleans Picayline say S there isilo' f4shionableJn6 about nature.
 Tempora. TtintaHhr- they were feoissl virgihs H ho had no e,il ;Jnew they are the foolish virgins who are too free with the Nerossne,ll ~ = AL&G lJIzL sI
 A man dying recently in St. Louis left $1,- DD0 to an individual wpo, years before, ran away with lis wife. He saiJ ill the will tl:at lie never forgot il favor. .,.t .l 2
 \ yonng lawyer of Boston says that persons seeking solitude, where they can commune With their own thoughts uninterrupted, should come to his office r.
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 Very innocently an Irish newspaper cohcld- es its account of all imposing ceremony 1; ''rLe procession was very fine, being, nearly two miles long, as was also the prayer of the Rev. Mr. McEadden."
 Friend to scientific authority -"Docior. how is ma to tell mushroom from tuatstool ?" Scientific authority-"By eating it. If you live it is mushroom; if you die it is a toad stool"
 ' wish 1 were you for about two hours" |" she sad to her husband, with great tenderness, And why, my dear" he asked Because, |" she said, toying affectiepately with his watch chain, s'because then Iwould Buy my wife new bonnet. ~ @ @H Ea
 Correspondent" the editor please in- form me where my family can go on Sundays and be cool and comfortable without being crowded?" Answer by The Rochester Dem- 0crat, 'Go to church."
 A bad-headed Professor, reproving youth for the exercise of his fists, said. I've fight with our heads at this college" The young man reflected moment and then replied, "Ah, see and you butted all your hair off,"
 Edward, what do hear that you have ,tisobeyed your grandmother, who told you just now not to jump down these steps ?" ''Grandma didn't tell us not to, papa she only cane to the door and said, I wouldn't jump down those steps, boys; and 1 shouldn't think she would-an old lady like her!'
 Harper's Bazar, on table manners, says: ''Do not betray by any gesture that you are hungry" Certainly not. For. of course, no one is supposed to go to the table to satisfy his appetite it is a mere form. Any indication that you go there because you want something to eat is very ill-bred.
 On the river: What's the lnatter Alfred? You look uneasy" ''WelL, niy wife, who is fond of swimming, dived off the boat some time ago. and has not yet come to the surface; 1 ain afraid that something must have happen ed to her" "How long has she been under?" About two hours.''
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Correspondent -'TWilf the editor please in form me where my family can go on Sundays and be cool and comfortable without being crowded?" Answer by The Rochester Den- 0crat, ''Go to church."
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Kitty Dee was married in Hartford at 3 in the afternoon, and at was locked up drunk.
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HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
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One Fastlake Sui fin Rep Silk with Plush Bands Con- ssting of Tete-a-tete, four stuffed Back Chairs, large Easy Chair (and one Patent Rocker), one
 Marble Top Table, one Carved aud Gilt B. W. Framed Mirror, 49 yards of Tap estry Brussels Carpet.
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UISICT OU, N. IT. Favorite Remedyis sold by all Druggists at One Dollar per bottle. strt[.-l,, 26-4w
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~. B. PHELPS, Prop'r. Murray St. N. Y. For sale by wessells Gates, and Buell. WI. oer, Dfuggsts;I Lite hield, Conn.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24
England md Greece.

An important item of the foreign news
informs us that ''the British and French
Ambassadors at Constantinople have re-
fused to withdraw their notes demanding
the restoration of oil the powers of the
Khedive, including the right to make
treaties" So that the English governments
appears to be pushing with some earnest-
ness the point involving the rights of the
Khedive in whom they are interested; but
for the cause OF the Greeks they have little
to say. The government "desires to effect
o settlement" would like to pacify the diff
iculty; wants, in fact, to get it out of the
way and hear no more Of it, especially in
the House of Commons, and must decline
to discuss the proposed boundary" Of the
two countries. In all ways it gives the
cold shoulder to the Greeks, as, indeed, it
did to the case of tho .bondholders against
the Khedive until the resolution of tha
French government forced the game to a.
point where England had to declare her
self. Perhaps that will be the issue in the
case of Greece also.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24

Dispatches from Memphis are still dis
couraging, number of new cases of the
fever having developed yesterday. SAM
tary measures, if any one is intelligent
enough to devise them and has force
enough to compel their practice, may yet
save the city from repetition ofthe horrors
of last year, but the general experience
of infected cities does not afford much
hope in this respect. Memphis contains,
probably, two or three hundred ex-soldiers
of the late Southern army. If these would
associate themselves as health corps, SUBJ
uniting. for the time, to their old discipline,
and claiming that Difference which was ex-
acted from the public by both armies dur
ing the war, the city might even
yet be saved; but such q movement
would require head, and heads are
scarce in time of panic The attempt
to establish camping ground is the most
sensible movement yet reported from Menu
phis, for sickness is next to impossible in o
new camp, on proper ground, if ordinary
sanitary regulations are rigidly enforced.
AS for the towns that are quarantining
themselves against outside influences, they
cannot do better than impress their every
man into cleaning corps, and burn, bury
or otherwise dispose of the filth which is
alluring the disease, if it has not already
caused it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24

The captain of the excursion barge Bald
win, who would not allow the excursionists
from another barge to land at the Broome
boat at one o'clock yesterday morning, may
have been justified in his refusal, but he
certainly was not justified in arming him
self with revolver for the purpose of
backing it up. Probably it is fortunate for
himself that when the pistol went off "acci-
dentally" its bullet found Judgement in his
own left hand instead of in some one else's
body. The shooting captain might otherwise
have suffered greater inconvenience than
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24

In the communication of ga Traveller Z"
published in the HERALD, he says, discuss
ing the wreck of the State of Virginia and
the general subject OF the loss of life in
such cases, II doubt if any steamer plying
between this port and Europe is adequately
provided with the means Of saving life in
case of disaster" All the experience of the
public appears to justify this doubt. We
cannot recall case in which the passen-
gers of o wrecked ocean steamer were saved
through the efficiency of the means pro-
vded on the steamer itself for that purpose.
Many have been saved certainly by boats
and life preservers and hastily rugged
RATS; but there has never been put in
use enough of that sort of assistance to float
the whole company, and except where the
unlocked for aid of neighborng craft was
accessible all have gone down save the few
that could get into boats. Most ships go
down in conditions that involve tremendous
excitement-some loss of discipline, gen.
orally panic. 1t does not happen, in the
case of the ocean steamers, that there are
days OF danger and doubt and deliberation,
such as permitted the construction of the raft
on the Medusa. On the contrary, the ship is
steaming swiftly forward at twelve p. NJ.
and at hall-past twelve she is at the bot
tom, and of all on her only few are
crouched in boats or struggling on spars or
in life preservers Bnt if they had the dis
cipline necessary to accomplish the feat of
putting five hundred in boats the boats
are not there, and the few that they
have are probably out of order. Indeed,
the passenger traffic appears to be con-
Quoted on the assumption that for certain
price paid ship is supplied to float so
many people, and if for any reason what
ever she fails to float them they must go
down. the responsibility of the shippers is
exhausted. 1t may be that the trade would
not supply the burden OF furnishing in two
forms capacity to float all on board in the
boats as well as in the ship, but it is not
supplied. Yet ingenious mechanics could
certainly adapt to the present form of ships
such continuance as our correspondent
SUGGESTS an automatic raft that would be
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24
A just Verdict.

The conviction of Colonel Buford in
Kentucky of murder in the first degree
cannot fail to have wholesome influence.
The law of the bullet has been heretofore
so prevalent in that State that verdict of
guilty and a sentence of imprisonment for
life against citizen of high social standing
for shooting down a fellow being against
whom he had supposed grievance was
wholly unanticipated. 1t is now seen that
a Kentucky jury can be found not
only willing to call the deliberate kill
ing of n man murder, but clear
headed enough not to be misled by the
plausible plea of insanity which was
relied upon to excuse the assassination of
Judge Elliott. This lesson is likely to in
duce hot-headed people not to be so ready
to take life upon trifling provocation or for
mere fanciful wrongs for there is no doubt
that large share of the fre-eating display
in the Southern States is attributable to the
fact that the fre-eaters feel tolerably Sc
cure against such disagreeable consequences
as trial, conviction and punishment. The
hangman's rope or cell in State prison
is terrible destroyer of your chivalry.
The murder Of Judge Elliott was crime
without a single palliating feature. Had
its perpetrator been allowed to escape
punishment the consequences would have
been deplorable. Any sutton dissatisfied
with the decision of Kentucky court
would have felt safe in seeking revenge
with his rifle. The very act of numbering
Judge because he unites in judgment
adverse to the assassin would have been
sufficient to sustain a plea Of irresponsi-
biiity on the ground of insanity. 1t is to
be hoped that the good effect OF the verdict
in the Butord case may not be destroyed by
an ill-timed exercise of executive clemency.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24
Pennsylvania and wisconsin Repub-
Iicnns.


The republicans of Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin met in convention yesterday,
and it begins to be clear that the party is
everywhere consolidating on two points
no change in the election laws and sound
currency. In Wisconsin they demand ga
currency possessing or representing intrin-
sic value" which is sound as far as it goes,
but evades the silver question, which is
probably dangerous out there. In Penn
sylvania they also declare for sound money,
following in this the democrats, who last
week did the same.
We note, as an encouraging novelty, that
both platforms endorse" and praise the
President, mentioning him by name. That
is a considerable change from last year
The Pennsylvania republicans commit
themselves to protection of home industry
cardinal principle of their party, and
send their greetings to their prosecuted
brethren in the Southern States" But on
State affairs-this being the year in which
they elect State officers-they met with q
laughable mishap. A disgraceful scandal
arose in the last Legislature concerning
bill to pay for certain damages committed
by the railroad rioters in 1877, it being al
legged that members were bribed to vote for
were not without blame. Hereupon yester-
day one Of those uncomfortable people
who seem born to annoy the elect,
Mr.. Wolfe, offered resolution
which he desired to make part of
the platform, demanding ''honest men
in Office, with brains enough to know dis
honesty when they see it and courage
enough to fight it wherever they find it. !"
Mr. Wolfe must have seen at once that he
had put his foot in it, for the Convention
arose in great excitement and called him to
order, and the presiding officer, equal to
and made him sit down, refusing to let the
resolution be officially read.
1t is pleasing and reassuring to know
that the Convention at once proceeded to
adopt platform which ardently declares
for human rights and against the democratic
Wolte's resolution in favor of honest State
officers, in the platform. In the place where
we hoped to see it there stands vigorous
denunciation of the South and an express
sion of sympathy with the unlucky carpet
baggers, who would have had their feelings
hurt by Mr.. Wolfe's injudicious resolution.
It is needless to add that Wolfe, having
been crushed, the Convention became har-
monious, and the members parted with
mutual expressions of esteem and conf
dence. What odd creatures Pennsylvania
politicians are, to be sure!
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-24
Georxia,s Mormon Murder.

Governor Colquitt is doing only his duty,
rs an officer who has sworn to execute the
laws of his State, in Offering reward for
the capture of the men who murdered
Mormon elder several days ago. 1t is quite
likely, too, that the unfortunate missionary
was meanly and brutality killed; for
crowd amounting almost to mob,
had gone out against him, and mobs
are always savage, bloodthirsty and
cowardly. And yet it is greatly
to be doubted whether the worthy
Governor will get the offenders, no matter
what reward he may offer, unless their
faith in public opinion is SO strong that
they willingly surrender themselves, ex-
pecting that no jury will think for a
moment of convicting them. Should they
prefer to evade the officers more than half
the houses in Georgia would offer them
refuge. That feature of belief and practice
to which Mormonism owes its unenviable
prominence is in the eyes Of most other
people fragrant violation of moral law.
and, consequently, any attempts at
proselyting, by Mormons impress every one,
in the locality infested, with feelings
akin to those aroused by advances made
upon the family circle by immoral charac-
ters. Murderous tendencies m ust be sup
pressed and we wish the Governor success
in his hunt, but as he is himself deeply
religious man we would suggest that, to
prevent additional occurrences of the same
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he rightly holds that silver should be only

he rightly holds that silver should be only
a subsidiary coinage with us
AS to the greenback and national bank
question, he urged that ''there is but one
way of testing the amount of paper which
is sufficient to transact the business of the
country, and that is It's convertibility into
coin on the demand of the holder; :" and
added that our national banking system is.
in the opinion of the abfest fnanciers of
Europe, the safest and best that has ever
been contrived which is true, for it ac-
complishes the one great end of making
the bill holders absolutely secure. To
substitute greenbacks for national bank
notes would be to greatly and dangerously
increase the greenback circulation, he
said, deprive the government OF the tax
now paid by the banks, and necessitate
much larger reserve of coin in the Treasury
to keep the government notes at par.
1t will be said, perhaps, by some of Mr..
Sherman's critics that though he is COM
placent over his great success in the Treas
ury he owes large part of it to the sue
we have obtained for the surplus exported
but it can be said for him that his own
ability and courage have had very much to
do with his success and when we remem-
Der who were his predecessors in the
Treasury the country may safely congratu-
late itself that it's finances at the critical
period fell into his hands.