Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
Thursday, Jan. l, 1880.

Thursday, Jan. l, 1880.
 MT. Bassett, late Minister to Hayti, has been appointed Haytian consul at New York, an office worth some $6,000 year.
 Destitute negroes continue to land at St. Lotus on their way to the promised land of Kansas, though no very formidable exodus has started as yet. #f8tf
 The managers of the Panama railroad will give all the help they can to M. Lesseps in his scheme for a Panama canal. The railroad would benefit by the experiment, feasible or not feasible.
 A stone has recently been set up at the grave of Nancy Lincoln, the Presidents moth- CT. She died in 1918 near Lincoln City, Ind. to which place the family had removed from Kentucky two years before, when Abraham was about ten years old
 A curious case ofpolitical persecution" has occurred at Albany. Dr. Blagney, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in that city, voted for Kelley for Governor. and has been forced to resign his pastorate in consequence. We think the doctor acted foolishly but wherein was he unchristian?
 The Springfield Republican rates T. B. Keough, the North Carolina Republican re- gently appointed to a place on the National Committee, among the 'b'hoy" politicians The choice lay between him and Pinckbeck, and, knowing nothing of Keough, we never theless fell very confident that he is the prefer able statesman of the two.
 A perjury case started in Hartford, recently, had to be stopped because the States Attorney found that he could never prove that the &C., cused witness had been sworn No record is ever made by the clerk of court of the names of the witnesses he swears and it is by no means an uncommon thing for witnesses to give evidence where the oath has been omitted through inadvertence.
 There seems chance that the legality of the action of the Maine Returning Board may
 
 Such course would be sensible and just, and avoid the risk of serious popular uprising. Indeed it would save the necessity of double organization of the legislature, and double election of state officers.
 We shall soon know what sort of Cover nor of New York Cornell is to be. Should he reappoint Insurance Superintendent Smythe, and promote other serviceable Stal. warts of odorous fame, he will probably settle the doubtful question of the next New York election in way that will not be altogether satisfactory to his Stalwart friends.
 The story of the church fight at Pittsburgh probably loses little in telling. According to all accounts it was more like controversy between rival engine companies in the days when the citizen volunteered to put out his own fires, than any of the milder methods of our time. Some people have very aggravat- ing religious views;. but these are cases where violence kills but never cures.
 Two criminals who were being taken to the Trenton prison, recently, jumped off an ex- press train going at full speed. They were handcuffed and chained together by the feet, as the time. Though badly and probably fatally hurt, they managed to creep away into the country, where they were captured by a farmer. Courageous crime sometimes puts cowardly honesty to shame.
 A Southington lawyer has been suspended for unprofessional conduct. He undertook to collect claim Of s; but failed, and then charged his client $6 for services. Still worse, he collected claim, failed to pay over the proceeds, and had the impudence to charge his client dollar extra, for advice" when dunned for the money. We had supposed the disbarring of lawyers obsolete; at least such a thing has never happened of late years in Litchfeld county.
 As the time draws near when the Edison light is to be put to trial the interest increases. means of horse shoe shaped burner of charred card board. MT. w. E. Sawyer ayers, on the other hand, that he has tried this very method that the burner would not last over an. hour, and that he had thrown it aside as practically worthless. The proof of the light will be in the burning.
 The bones of John Randolph have been re- moved from Roanoke to a cemetery at Rich mond. He died in '33 and one of the pail bearers at the reinterment was present at the first burial This man was great power in his day, though his ecceptricity destroyed much of the usefulness that would have other wise resulted from his remarkable talents anC honesty.
 Further news confirm last weeks report! that the Chilians had nearly annihiated tho army of the allied Peruvians and Bolivians and that the result of the war was probably de cided. The Chilans have always been rae, of hard fighters, and their financial credit i 90 good that they find no difficulty in raisins money. Their triumph, in short, is one O honesty and courage over numbers, for thu population of Peru and Bolivia is near thre times that of Chilli.
 Mir. E. V. Smalley gives an interesting ac count of his iourneyings over the new rail road, now just approaching completion, whic stretches from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. l extends some 336 miles due South, has beel built by the city of Cincinnati at cost o near twenty millions, and shortens the presen route through Nashville and Louisville at leas hundred miles. The country, however, very difficult one, necessitating heavy cuts and bridges of enormous length and height Mr. Smalley is examining the Cumberlan' plateau of East Tennessee with view t Northern settlement. Land there is yer, sufficiently fertile. the region would suit tn NortLarr, blr .ss= g