Litchfield enquirer., 1879-11-27
WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE


 WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE. LYONS, IOWA, Nov. 20, 1879.
 Ed. Enq.-You have all doubtless read as much of the "Grant boom" as you care to; we have been more than satisfied here. The Chi cago dailies filled from one to three broadsides for the last ten days, all about the 'Grant boom" There were some good things done and said, the accounts of which if boiled down, could be compressed into much less space.
 Mark Twain made some good hits at the banquet that will likely be repeated One of the things he did not say at the banquet, but told on himself in private, is worth repeating. He said he was invited to grand banquet in London, that it was customary to read off the names and positions of the guests by num- Der. When some prominent name was men, toned, it would be applauded and the party would rise and acknowledge the compliment. The list comprised some 800 or more, and it's reading grew to be monotonous. He said he not ced an intelligent geRtleman sitting oppo- site him; and, to relieve the tedium, entered into conversation with him. Pretty soon he heard treWendous clapping; and, thinking some extraordinary parsonage had been ham, ed, to whom it would be discourteous not to join in paying homage, he began clapping too, with all his might. When the noise had sub sided little he asked his right-hand neighbor who it was for-"Samuel L. Clemons" was the reply. He stopped clapping instantly, and was too much surprised to respond.
 P. D.-Very handsomely turned-Thanks 1! Your subscriber might feel inclined to write oftener if be did nut have to take back seat at the banquet, and wait till you fellows are served-(we say fellows, fer we conclude the question of sex was settled by that descrip- ton of wedding toilet few weeks since. It dampens enthusiasm when we feel inspir- ed to say something, to reflect that it will prob ably take or weeks to say it, as was the case with our last.
 The woman concerned in the wife poison- ing case Clinton, about which I wrote you sometime since, has just been sentenced to the penetentiary for life The trial of her h1s band commences to-day, and it is only ques- tion of neck with him.
 A man was brutaliy murdered in saloon in Clinton, a few days since, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, by strangulation, then placed in a shed and locked up, and at night thrown in to an alley. The saloon keeper and wife are under arrest; also negro. The Judge called the Grand Jury together to investigate the matter so that they can be tried this term of court. The parties were seen pulling the body into lhe shed in the afternoon, and trying to resuscitate it, but supposed It was only adrunk- en man. They were all roughs, but the case was so bold and aggravated that excitement ran high, and there was strong talk of lynching thenl They will probably make short work of them, when the trial comes of, as the Judge lives in Clinton and is doubtless more or less in sympathy with the excited feelings of the populace.
 | It is said that our county has nearly double the number of representatives in the peniten- tiary of any other in the northern part of the state, and the man who made the statement, added that there were not half as many there as there ought to be. It is little too much like the man bragging over the neatness of his wife because she swept out apeck of dirt every morning.
 The young man who was "sent up" for burglarizing my store and the post office, to wait trial, is out on bail on two indictments, and is carrying the mails for his father, who has the contract: idea of man carrying the mails under indictment for robbIng tho D O. D., is something of an anomaly but there are powerful influences backing him and ex. pect he will be let off easy.
 1 We had 8 novel set to in our store the other night, that almost rivals Waramaug While waiting the opening of the mails, two Catho lie priests got into wordy quarrel, which ended in knock down, and had they not l been separated, they might have met the fate | of the Killkeny cats. Some of my friends rallied me on keeping disorderly house, but I told them we separated them as soon as we could.
 | we udFc udu spleuulu Tdlu AouoWcu uy cold snap, ice forming in the River last night l The lumbermen have never had so prosperous a year as this. While logs have remained the same, lumber has anvanced from 3 to 10 dol lars per NJ. Taken in eopnection with the fact that our lumbermen send out from 30 te 70 car loads day, making 3 to trains, il makes bloom" of no mean proportions. A. B.