Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-09-23

district Bull Run two years ago. and led the
victorious side. He is more than likely to do
it again.
In the first district Gen. Hawley's pulling
out is plain indication that mis- friends do
not wish again this year TO hear that his place
in the House forbids his promotion to the
Senate. Had he not been in the House two
years ago be would have been ia the Senate
to-day. They want him there now, and it
looks as if the whole state did. He is in de-
mand everywhere 70 speak, and wherever he
speaks is most enthusiastically received. 1t
may this time be thrown at him that he didn't
run, but Mr.. Buck, who is nominated, will
carry the district. There is little fear of that.
Only one man could give him much of pull
in the contest, and that man the democrats
themselves have headed off in their efforts to
keep him off the state ticket; that is X. ID.
Hubbard. Mr.. Hubbard has been so unkind-
ly and personally hurt that he will not go
into politics this year. That is very certain.
No other democrat stands living show in the
district, and his would be very slim against SD
strong man as Buck. The talk is of Geo.
Beach, rich and handsome gentleman of
this city, member of one of our best business
houses. But he could not be elected. There
is not just the right piece of timber in the
district on the democratic side of it, and they
have no hope of carrying 1t. Similarly John
T. Wait. of Norwich, will be reelected in the
Sd district They always do it over there.
&c. too, Phelps will surely be elected in the
I'd New Haven district. The only district
where the contest will be close enough to make
it interesting will be in the 4th. Miles fully
intends to go back to Washington, and, with
all the talk there is about him, it seems only
fair to say that he is an excellent man. He
is good legislator, and socially the pleasant
cot ind 0f 0hor hn dno fI,nfh x,I 10
mere money-bags as some papers call him,
is all nonsense. Whoever meets him has to
acknowledge the element of personal mag
netism that there is about him.
On Friday afternoon there occurred an ex-
plesion at the works of the Union Metallic
Cartridge Co., in Bridgeport. The most dam
gerous parts of the work are done In small
buildings in what was formerly known as
Pembroke Grove, on the western border of
Pembroke Lake. These buildings are of
wood and scattered about among the large
trees. One of them was entirely destroyed
by the explosion. The grounds for quite
distance from the building destroyed were
covered with the debris of the explosion, and
the timbers were reduced to kindling wood,
while the broken limbs and battered trunks of
the trees combined to show the frightful force
of the explosive material.
The force usually employed in the building
destroyed consisted of four men and three
boys. One man and his son were fortunately
absent at the time of the explosion The five
who were engaged in the building were all
killed They were Captain Philander Clark,
aged so years Wilbur Fischinger. aged As;
Michael Dempsey, %; james Tobin, II; and
Philip Sullivan, aged Is years.
Captain Clark formerly commanded the
schooner Hazard plying between Bridgeport
and New York. Heleaves family. Fischinger
also leaves wife and children. The bodies
of Captain Clark and Tobin were almost en-
tire-that of the boy, Sullivan, was blown in
to the side of another building, used as
store-house, and was crushed int shapeless
mass but no part of 1t was missing. The body
of Dempsey was blown into the lake. 1t
struck against a tree in its course and this
took off the legs near the body. The body of
Fischinger was torn into hundreds of pieces
The Company employ. about 800 hands in
busy times, and has capital of $500, 900. At
present they are doing much less than during
the recent Turkish and Russian war, when
they furnished enormous supplies to the bell
ligerents. No one knows the cause of this
disaster, the first of Importance, we believe
that has occurred to them.