Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-10
ConsociatiOns,

| The Enqulrer's Washington correspondent asks for information in regard to the Litchfield 1 South Consociation.
 The annual meeting at Northfeld was very pleasant one, although not largely at tended. The body seems still to possess immediate future is promising; although there may possibly be some change of boundary 1 lines. and possibly some modification of meth | ods. We shall expect well attended meet ing at New Preston next year, carried on in the manner and with the interest and profit of former years. greatly mistake the charac- | ter of the New Preston churches if it's officers and members would consent te have it other wise H, The two and q half millions left bv Geo. Peabody to establish homes for the London poor has increased ansther million from rents. The fund now houses about 10,0 people; and, on some nine acres, they have recently bought they expect soon to have accommoda tions for as many more. But what is 10000 in city of four millions?
 The special horror of last week was the murder of Mrs. Avent and Mrs. ChiJsey at Avon. They were sisters, aged widows, liv- ing together The bodies were found Mon day morning. The only motive we see assign. ed is that the elder. woman had some $1O.O 900 of property, and that some interested person wished ts destroy will she had made.
 Cardinal Newman received distinguished honors at Oxford, recently, where in the days of early Tractarianism he was such promi- nent figure It is pleasant to see some of the bitterness taken out of theology. A ''perver- sion" such as his would have been treated very differently three centuries ago.
 There has been another large failure in the iron business. Mir. Charles Scoield, heavy New York operator failed Friday, for over two millions. Speculation was his rum. He made half million last fall on the rise in iron and now he has lost some i've times that sum on its fall.
 The River and Harbor bill appropriates nine millions as it left tho Senate thls year,-twice the amount asked for by the administration. In this congressional and presidential year. however, the congressman must have some special hold on his ''deestrict" and that the River and Harbor bill supplies. The public debt was reduced about sixteen millions in May. The reduction of the past k.o millions. There are now less than five hun- dred millions of government 5 per cents out standing; and only twenty-two millions of the six per cents.
 Il. II. Stephens is a great admrer of Grant, | and has urged his nomination, not as a way of injurng his opponents, but in real preference of Grant over auy other Republican.  l Prince Leopold visited the Convention while in session, Friday. There were portions of it which we should have preferred that an En- l glsh prince had not seen | A fellow who tried to kill himself in Mass achusetts lately, by lying on railroad track as train came in, was whisksd off instanter l tried for ''obstructing" the track, and sent to ! jail for three months
 The $30, 900 verdict recently obtained by a Col. Harold for injuries on one of the New York elevated railroads, has been sustained in higher court.
 A colony from Belfast, Ireland, has bought tract of 60, 900 acres on the line of the North
 Pacific.
 | The state of Ohio will see fierce fight in October That is the only October state now left.
 Col. Fred. Grant has been receiving over two thousand year for extra pay on Sheridan's staff, yet he is not satisfied Sara Bernhardt has made an engagement with Boston manager to come to this coun- l try.
 Paul H. Hayne. the South Carolina poet, is said to be lying very ill of hemorrhage from the lungs.