Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-18
WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE.

TmExh soEe years my senior, and a long
 rzze s7cx have seem him I feel as though
 \ hmd Busx a peEsOuzl friend He always
 sruzsss me with 30 much .cordiality and con-
 sSs<zxzSs1 Ekzt have ever retained feeling
 oE wE- r1gxrd for him and was much disap-
 ruEzsed xr D0E seeing him On the occasion of
 zr LEz vIs1 to LiEehfeld had the pleasure
 Of -e<<iag Ehe family, however, and partaking
 oE th@ir hospitality and good cheer. They
 lave ny wzruSst sympathy iii this hour of
 tA<E great beTeycmeut-
 s&saa in ny l2st, that the woman Taylor
 h the spois0uing case" had been sentenced
 far fife s1d fl w&s case of ''Deck" with her
 kzsh41d- Our new law makes it the duty of
 th< E b fx the penalty for murder In this
 eze the man pleaded guilty to the Judge,
 wTssSus aay trisI by jury. and the judge was
 ia q q1zs3&ry what to dc ss 10 provision had
 been made in the law for such an emergency.
 He Ez4Ily turned the case over to a jury and
 ther wese 0ut 40 hours deIiberating betVeen
 hanging and the penItentiary- They decided ca life sentence in prison So one was sent to the nu(theEn penitentiary, and the other,
 to the sOalAesn- for life On the way there the wife of Philip Philips, the singer, who has besa singing roaDd the world" entered one of the cars which was crowded, and passed the
 whole length without finding seat, where uPou our sheriff gallantly gave up his seat to the hdy- On reaching the next station, where she stopped, she learned that she had been riding in the seat with the murderess, felt terribly iusulted by this proceeding of our sher- ii, and refused to be comforted
 In the Saloon murder case, three, (man wife and a darkey, were heId over without bail till next term of court in February. The darkey pleaded mot guilty" and then asked the judge Is send him to the penitentiary, till trial
 The great society event of the season came of last night The annual meeting of the De MOIay Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons, State institution with head quarters at Lyons 1 where they have built one of the finest temples | in the West and the greatest ornament to our l city, has been in session most of the week and | last night, held their closing reception and | banquet of tue Temple. Over 800 invitations were issued, embracing ladies and gentlemen | of prominence from all parts of the State It | was brillia assemblage and the Knights of | KadOsh in council entertained their guests right royalty. The Beloit Band, one of the | finest orchestras in the, West, furnished the music, and the series of halls in the Temple | was filled with host where mingled grace. dignity, costume and decorum, would compare favorably with almost any metropolitan gath E ering. A sumptous feast was served in the dining hall, that seats about 120 at time, the Order bearing all the expense
 The weather continues warm, with good deal of rain the past few days. It has enabled the farmers to gather their tremendous crops of corn. All kinds of produce (and almost everything else for that matter) is on the rise, and there is no telling where it will stop. As an inkling of the kind of business some of our lumbermen are doing, I will give the figures of one firm for one days saving: 300, 900 feet of lumber, 60,O0O shingles, 7O,O lath and ''offal" trimmings" 70 cords This would make over 70 car loads, or nearly four trains. The firm is c. Lamb & Sons and they run four mills.
 see the subject of taxing debts is coming to the front again. 1 suppose it makes a diff ference, "whose bull is gored, Fin this case as, in most others, but nothing seems clearer to me than that the poor man (who mostly has to borrow) ought not to be obliged to pay the taxes of the rich Shylocks who have the money to loan. If 1 understand your position this latter class are to go scott free receiving constantly the full value of their money in in- terest, their debt" working for them more than any Slaves ever could, never stopping nights, Sundays nor holidays, but constantly bringing them in the dollars, that ! they may roll ln wealth and pay no taxes. Verify, great is sophistry, from our stand point -E''.-
 Morrison, H., has a judge who must be fond of chicken. He lately sentenced two chicken thieves to the penitentiary, one for ten years, the other eleven. One of them tried to beat the judge by hangir g himself in his cell, but was discovered in time, it is thought-to save his life, but he very nearly succeeded. .T q, r
 There have been four deaths of prominent persons in Lyons within week. One,a beau tiful and accomplished young lady who was to be married soon and q favorite among her mates, died after less than weeks's illness. The largest church was too small to. accommo- date those in attendance at the funeral.
 During the late Grant boom in Chicago young mother in Lyons went in to meet her husband there in business leaving two inter- esting little boys in care of their grandma. One of them had been playing around in a telephone office during the day At night, when they were put to bed, the grand mother told them to say their prayers. The little boy hesitated and seemed in deep meditation "Come, says the grandmother, say Now I hay me-" ''No; that ain't right" says he, "You must say, mellow, God!, first" He thought the praper was to go by telephone, and why not nott 24 -a[I .ald A. B<I
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