Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-24

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 ilTCHFtELD, CONN.
 Thursday, July 24, 1879.
 Ex Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota is to suc- ceed Mir. McCrary as Secretary of War.
 The cotton crop is not looking as well this month as last a-
 Cincinnati has boy with tail, ,-the ''mis- sing link" #
 An Air Line brakeman has been caught stealing goods and trying to wreck train.
 The Dominion government denies the report of a decrease of revenue from their new pro- tective tariff.
 The government income from sale of post age stamps has increased million during the year past.
 Wednesday was the hottest day New York has seen since 76. The thermometer rose to 101e.. r s..
 strong effort will be made to induce the national courts to undertake protection of the Indians, which they have hitherto refused.
 The New York Central Park Commissioners are considering the project of statue of Col umbus. They are in some doubt, probably, as to the value of his discovery .1 H...
 All the planets are to be visible this month, from Mercury to Neptune. Litchfeld county expects "H. N" to sleep, days; lie awake, nights; and report progress.
 The New York World has it's expedition up the Amazon, to explore the Japma branch which empties into the main river, 1900 miles from the latter's mouth.
 The dome of the Capitol at Hartford is to be gilded. They got the idea doubtless, from the name of certain noted literary work of Hartford authors
 The Duke of Argyle has left for Great Brit aln. As the thermometer stood at about 1OOo at the time of his departure, we see no lmpo- liteness in his going. ... .a ...s .=....
 The town and county indebtedness of the State of New York foots about fifty millions, about thirty-one millions of which was incur red in aid of railroads.
 The Pennsylvania railroad proposes to give rapid-transit without seeking legislation. It has bought right of way from the Schuylkill to Broad Street, near the center of the city. Trains will cross the river on high bridge
 Bloomfield has been looking up the accounts of Mr. Samuel J. Mills, it's treasurer for ten years past and finds a deficit of $25 1000. Mills has property to the amount of about $10O00, and the rest islikely to go unsecured.
 Norwich has another, and pretty mild scandal for that locality, in the disappearance of popular clerk, leaving $600 debts uni pro- vided for. $75 was for liquor; $10o for flow CTS; and two years pew nt,-a man of va- ried if not catholic tastes.
 It seems that Gen. Grant does not expect to return this year. He will visit Australia and South America, and return in June '80-but but not with the slightest notion of mixing in American politics.
 Ben. Hill and Aleck Stephens are recon fo oh tbn ocratic machine at the next Georgia election The Independents have State Convention this week. Success to them!
 MT. Chastine Cox has been very promptly found guilty and sentenced to be hung. He professes to be a good deal surprised at the re- suit, and had he been better informed person he would have been more astonished still.
 A Union soldier who lost one leg at Gettys- burgh, and got bullet in the other, gives up Senate doorkeeper's place to make room for Confederate. All wrong Why don't some Union Congressman rise and make room for him? On Saturday night of last week the Steamer Virginia went ashore on Sable Island (about 200 miles northeast of Halifax) in fog and four women and five children were lost by the capsizing of a boat. She was bound from New York to Glasgow. .-fr
 Prince Napoleon is willing to accept the po- sition of head of Bonapartism, but he does not propose to attack the existing government +l, .x,:n c&l>o i. e., till he gets chance. The Dowager En- press proposed an interview, which he declin. ed
 Two novel lawsuits are pending in New York courts one by a wife to recover dama- ages against woman who had seduced her husband; another, suit by woman against married man for breach of promise of mar riage. his existing family relations having been concealed from her.
 A Bunker man recently violated law of the community by marrying grass widow They expelled him, and he starved himself to death. They had offered to let him back, but it was no use. Perhaps he was half dead al- ready, and did not want to go over so much ground again; or. very possibly, the widow turned out an unproftable investment.
 Bismark never does things by halves He is now advancing, all along the line, on Liber- alism, and proposes that hereafter the Reichs- tag shall only meet biennially. Such meas- ure means greater license to an executive much tco strong already. For the present, his alli- anee with Catholicism glves him astrength for reaedonary purposes he is anxious to use to the uttermost.
 Scotch farmers are finding their butter and cheese very heavily reduced in price by the cheapness of American products. A Scotch