Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-07-29

The new Parallel Railroad line talk vigor
ously, but have done little as yet.
Prof. Willard Fiske, of Cornell, has mar
ried an heiress worth four or five millions.
Mr.. Froude was one of the Englishmen who
protested against monument to the late
Prince Imperial in Westminster Abbey.
An immense crowd welcomed Rochefort
back to Paris where he will proceed to carry
on bis promised war against "Gambettism."
The acreage of cotton under culture at the
South is 10 per cent. greater than last year and
the yield promises to be 10 per cent. better.
A young Englishman residing in Philadel-
phia is said to have just fallen heir to an estate
worth g. DOC, 900, left him by an uncle in
Australia.
1t is said that Logan and Cameron are hard
at work for Garfield. Conkling is taking
matters very easy, as yet, and may have more
''malaria"
Secretary Evarts is supposed to make from
$75, 600 to 100000 a year from his profess
sion. The receipt of $50, 900 for fec, in sing
le cases, is not unusual with him.
The new Chief Justice of the New York
Superior Court is but thirty-seyen years old,
and is only fifteen years out of college. His
term, if not reelected, is but one year.
We see it stated in the papers that DR.. Hol-
land has been in such poor health for year
past that he has done but little work upon
Scribner's.
1t is thought that the new Amer of At
ghanistan will get on well enough without
British help. The troops are therefore to be
withdrawn, and one part of Beaconsfeld's
''imperial" policy will be happily abandoned.
FIRE IN SHARoN.-Two barns Of Austin
Cartwright we're struck by lightning on Mon
day, July Goth, and entirely consumed with
their contents. Loss about 5000. Insurance
in Litchfield Mutual 1850
1t seems that Congressman Tyler of the
Second Vermont District, was director of
Col. Waite's scuttled bank. This will be a
serious load for candidate to carry in this
exciting political year.
The Grant phalanx at Chicago are to have
medals issued to them after design by Don
Cameron. In view of the Great Tanners old
vocation, and of the intelligence of his present
bo oE
The Republicans expect to gain over twenty
Congressman in the Western States. They
are liable, however, to meet with some losses
in the East The next House will be almost
as close as the vote for president, and is very
likely to turn the same way.
In our advertising columns will be found the
inducements offered by the Agard 6 Nichols
Hardware Co., OF Wolcottville. They keep
everything in the line of Hardware, and make
specially Of Plumbing, Jobbing and Steam
Fitting.
St. Augustine has hitherto claimed the
oldest dwelling in the United States-a house
built in 1865; but there is an old pueblo dwell
ing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was seen
there by Catholic Missionary in 1885,
Water traffic has been greatly increasing
for few years past. The number of boats
on Southern and Western rivers is larger than
ever before, and the New York canals are car
rying more freight, this season, than ever be-
fore.
The census returns from Pennsylvania indi.
cate population of about 4, 800, 600 people
gain of 30 per cent. on 1870 The popula
ton of New York will probably exceed 5,
600, 600. The country towns in Northern ILL
nois are said to show decreasing or at best
stationary population.
The Narragansett investigation, SO far as it
has gone, shows little that is new. The two
captains misunderstood each others signals ;
and the want of careful preparation for acct
dent, as claimed in the papers, seems fully
proved. President Babcock, of the Stoning.
ton line, thinks that less than thirty lives were
lost.
Montreal is feeling the grinding tyranny OF
modern railroad despotism, and the Quebec
parliament has just passed bill to tunnel the
st. Lawrence at Montreal. The move is di.
rected against the Grand Trunk monopoly
which strained every nerve to prevent the
possage of the bill
1t is believed that it was William H. Van.
derbilt who furnished the money to bring ovel
the Egyptian obelisk which arrived at New
York, last week. The ''monolith" was erected
by one king, and it is proper that it should be
preserved by another, even if 1000 years do
intervene between the dynasty of the
Pharaohs and the dynasty of the Wander
bilts.
Turkey refuses to abide by the recommen
dations of the Great Powers in the matter O
the Grecian boundary. and it remains to b,
seen whether they will compel the re
nunciation they have advised. The peopl,
of the territory it is proposed to annex ar,
indeed fve-sixths Greek and Christian, bu
the other sixth are much better fighters, anC
are so long used to keeping down the Christ
iana that it will be difficult to get them out O
the habit
1t is reported that the Russian Genera
Skobeloff has been recently killed by Turco
mans in Central Asia while few days since
his mother was attacked and killed, In Europe
by one Ouzatis, sub-lieutenant. out of re
venge because she would not let her mai,
marry him. Such heaping up of misfort
unes upon single family would seem to-
strange to be true. Skobeloff was one of tn
most brilliant of the generals of the recent wa
with Turkey.
A terrible accident occurred at Hudson
T.