Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-29

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 The many towns which have incurred in- debtedness in aid of railroads could not do bet ter than to issue or per cent. bonds to take | up those which are now outstanding-in all cases where they are redeemable. The town | of Winchester recently sold $60, 900 in five per cent. bonds for about per cent premium I-payable in '90 Had they been payable in twenty years instead of ten, they would have readily sold at a premium of ten per cent, Says the Treasurer of the Savings Bank which bought them. The town had bids to the amount of S45O, 900 from various savings banks, averaging about 3 per cent premium. With so much money seeking investment at such rates, even town4 per cents ought to bring par.
 The Springfield Republican points out the great danger that the Southern Delegates to the next National Republican Convention, made up of Pinchback politicians, will perhaps control the result, in opposition to the wishes of the Northern states who must furnish the | electors who are to choose the nominee of the convention, if he is elected. The fair way to apportion representation in any political con- vention is upon the basis of the votes actually cast in the various localities for the party tick ct. This principle would somewhat reduce the number of Republican delegates in a sec | tion of the country which casts a very small | Republican vote. It already prevails in the nf la1a of Massachusetts and New York.
 There are men in New Haven, in Hartford | and other cities who, in manner deal in vot- CTS, and will furnish any man or any party vot- es to the extent of their power and their pat | rons' money. By this statement we do not mean that with money enough anything could be done in politics, though there are those who l really believe such to be the case. But we do say that few elections of any importance occur where voters are not directly bought by unscrd- pulous agents of both parties. Haven | Journal
 There are just such patriots to be found even here in Litchfield, and they never lack | higher recommendations for responsible posi- tions than better men could ever have obtained. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the great Abolitionisf leader, died in New York, on Saturday night. A poor printer, he started the ''Liberator" at Boston at a time when North and South were unit in the justification of Slavery. In spite of obloquy and persecution he kept stead lily on in the course he had marked out for himself, and lived to sec the giant evil he had attacked utterly abolished He was bitterly earnest, powerful man, who has left a mark ed impress of his own personality upon the history of his times.
 1 A bin throwing open public museums and libraries on Sunday, met with unexpected fla vor in the British House of Lords, recently. It received 59 votes in favor to 67 in opposition. Lord Thurlow, in speech favoring the measure stated that in Dublin the opening of the pub lie museum from 9 till Sunday afternoon, had been attended with the happiest results; in Birmingham, Manchester and three smaller places, the returns showed that the poorer arti- sans took advantage of the opportunity to visit the museums Sunday at no place where the experiment is tried had it worked poorly.
 The Indiana Democracy are .reformine' that state with vengeance. Having succeed ed, in spite of al old Republican gerryminder, in obtaining control of the legislature, they have proceeded to redistrict the State ln the interest of their side. They have further dis missed two very competent guardians of the institutions for the insane and deaf f-mutes, and replaced them with Democratic politicians. One of them is dentist, utterly ignorant of the specially he is to oversee.
 Daniel B. Perkins of Willimantic had live ly battle recently with two large black snakes which attacked him as he was building fence and tried to strangle him He fought desper- ately to keep them from his neck and finally cut them to pieces with his ax. The encounter i was the third one he has had with snakes in five years.-Eg.
 To one who has perused the accounts of the dcings of the Canaan anaconda during life, and the wonderful discovery of his body after death, the foregoing seems rather con- mon-place snake story.
 Northfield.
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