Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-15

Indiana out of the list ot October States and postpones her elections till November. Tle vote though light, shows Republican gains.
 Mir. w. H. H. M Murray has been heard from at Liverpool. He refuses to come. back and see to the settlement of affairs. His wife is nurse in New York hospital.
 The number of immigrants to this country during the year past has been double that of the year proceeding 35,825 arrived at New York between Jan. 1st and April 1st of the present year.
 The emigration of laborers from Canada, especially those of French descent, indicates that the Dominion is worse place for poor men than 'the States" It is larger, this sea- son. than ever before.
 Samuel Glover. the resident of Fairfield who was so terribly hurt by a ''snake head" on Fourth Avenue car in New York city, recently, is recovering, and has sued the Con- pany for $5O, 1000.
 Bismark has sent in his resignation again as Chancellor but it has been promptly rejected by the Emperor. Of course the legislative op position is withdrawn, as is always the case when Bismark insists on the passage of some favorite measure.
 The Thomaston Express is a new, bright looking weekly just started in that lively headquarters of the clock business. It prom ises perlnanence; but it is not with man to say whether he lives or dies as an editor, as sev- ersl previous Thomaston newspaper enter prises have demonstrated.
 The Northern Pacific is pushing surely on. The ties and iron for twenty miles of track were taken over the Missouri during the past winter. Work IS soon to begin on the Yellow stone extension. Emigration to that section continues heavy. The Southern Pacific also makes rapid progress and promises through line to the Pacific within a year.
 Bridgeport is much disturbed by the mar riage of ''daughter of one of its most re- spected citizens" to an employee in one of the manufacturing establishments of that city. What is much worse feature is the claim, partially" corroborated by inquiries of the authorities at Sing Sing, that that bridegroom has already served a term in that prison for bigamy.
 Johnson c. Whitaker, colored cadet, was found in his room, one morning, last week. with his ears slit, and otherwise wounded about the head. He says he was attacked in his room, mutilated and bound by three masked assailants, Southern cadets, he be- lieves. On the other hand, it is said that the outrage could not have been committed by outsiders in the manner he describes without arousing others, and without sure interruption and discovery. A court martial is inquiring into the matter.
 The Rev" Wm. H. Green, after spending fourteen years in State Prison on life sentence died at that place on the Sd inst. He has for many successive years petitioned for release on the ground that he had been uniustly con- victed. We have little doubt not only of his guilt of the offence charged, but that the crime for which he was sent to the State Prison was one of several similar murders he had committed in various States He was a man, however, who could tell very plausible story, which he induced some to believe.
 Niagara Falls, sublime as they are by na- ture, ought not to be themselves made disa- greeable by Innumerable exactions nor prosaic by being turned into a mill privilege; but should be preserved in a worthy manner as one of the true wonders of the world. A measure for that purpose is now before the legislature of New York State and deserves to pass. The West has much that is almost as marvellous as the Yo Semitic Valley; but the East has nothing comparable with Niagara. We hope it will he kept from complete dis fgurement by either State or Nation.
 A powerful anti Grant address to the Mass achusetts Republican Convention has been signed by long list of Republicans of note m Boston and other cities The movement will prove at least equally effective with the New Haven protest in our own State. The complexion of the delegates thus far chosen to the Massachusetts State Convention is de. cidedly favorable to Edmunds Still the Blaine workers hope by the shrewd tactics they practiced here in Connecticut to capture number of the Bay State delegates.
 The New York East Conference have made the following assignment of ministers for this vicinity:
 Litch6eld, J. Cromlish; West Goshen and Cornwall Centre, F. M. Hallock; Cornwall Bridge and Ellsworth, w. Wake; New Mill ford, J., H. Lightbourn; West Winsted, J. Pullman; Wolcottyille, H. E. Barnes Wood bury. B. Pillsbury Thomaston. H. O. Judd; Watertown and North Wartertown, s. K. smith. Washington, Roxbury, Woodville, Warren, Bakerville, Bethlehem. Pleasant Valley, and Oolebroook River to be supplied. Haven; Mir. Douglass goes to East Granby Mr. G. A. Graves, to New Canaan.
 The N. Y. Times has been having long re- ports regarding a difference between Pres. Porter. of Yale, and Prof. Sumner, regarding the use of Herbert Spencers Elements of So- ciology as text book The former claims that this work is written in an irreligious spir- it; the latter, that it is the only book in the language on that subject fit to be used. If a professor of history should undertake to treat certain transitional periods between ancient and modern history, he would find Gibbons History the only work he could use. Should he dis. card it because it is written in an anti chris. tian spirit? The classics are the work of heather writers. If our colleges were under secular government-as they, should be, to be in harmony with our general theory of school management,-no such questions would ever arise The best works on scientific subjects would be the works studied.
 The question is sometimes asked why it is that the house of Messrs. w. B. Hall & Co.,, of Bridgeport is so successful. They seem 1.o -sA.