Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-13

oA Eo@A1n4slSf ~Geuelal when hey gets ns iU3gc<hip-if he ever does.
 TheTe n gsOd prospect of a good harvest n EGroQe, this year. Should this fair hope ssem to be inevitable. The amount sown for the 1ext season is the largest ever known.
 IF is now believed that the British training shlp Af2Ianta, with its 300 lads on board, is certainly lost The bottle found and purport- Izg to have been flung out when the ship was sSnking. w2s hoax
 We are sorry to see project for another 1aE5ocsI bankrupt law. Here ID Connecticut, 1.b>zzz O0r State insolvent law is vastly less ex- pe@sFve And more useful than any federal sr1.ase- The latter involved a large amount cf fees and red tape and blocks the way of the Ss1-e Aw-
 N VseuTsesnps, the violinist has had an uzpdeks&ns experience while travelling in AL gsrIA He wss riding is an open carriage, wae@ n Ar4h. for DO assignable reason threw hErxe ssC0e Ht his head, giving him a severe w1ul6
 WI1s could tha, Arab have known of fid- dBtzss
 i EzE&l @ucs8ent occurred at the Naugatuck rzil-ua4 crossing West Main Street. Water hz-v Oo T0esiaE- Carl Schulz 8 German Ev-g 1 SOuGhbuy, was driving with his vie Ea b0Egy and crossing the track just za EAN train came along. Schulz tried vainly ss saGck his horse, but could not, and was struck Ay the eagDe: he fell into cattle guard and wzE B0E hurs. but his horse and wife were ETEed
 Mir Fawcest charges the late British Minis Ey wNh imposing upon parliament in very gru@ way ss regards the expenses of the Af- Ehaz wE Il seems that at the very time that tA<T were allowing s ruse-colored statement to he ua@5E in Parliament regarding the financial -sunE&xSra ef I8fian administration. they had -vH3<1cS thai the Afghan war had cost them zom< twsaEy million dollars.
 If the law and order party in San Francisco are ont very careful they will make martyrs of A4y0r KaIBoch and Dennis Kearney. No S1uhG the fellows are excessively blatant and dzsAgreezhSe. but if every man that makes him. self ds2grseabIe to the powers that be, is to be hsrkesd up. we shall suddenly find ourselves lA1Esed h Frsnch instead of American repub- EczaEza-
 Rather an interesting shit for breach of promise was triedN at New Haven recently GeTsruie Hill. of Sa5brook, sued Samuel Har- risaC, of North Brsnford, alleging case of gross misconduct On his part Fearing that jury would prove too soft-hearted. the defend ans suffered default, and had heanng in damages before Judge Hovey. Harrison seems to have got out of the frying pan into the fire however, for the judge gave the plaintiff Sleoo damages and the costs amount to $500 more
 We See among the names of those present at the meeting of the Independent Republican Association Young Scratchers) of New York City, these of Geo. Wm. Curtiss, Gen. B. H.. Bsistow, DOrman B. Eaton, E. L. Goldkin (eSiisOr of the Nation) and Gen. Frank c. Bar low, who went to Florida in '76 to oversee the cnunt and told the truth about it on coming back Rather noted names these and promis- ing warm work fer Grant or Blaine, should the ''Yocng Scratchers" have to do a little more scratching. next fall.
 Senator WOodin, of New York, announced when chosen that we should feel bound by the instructions voted by the convention i. favor of Grant Last Friday he rose in the Senate and said that he still felt bound by those in s'ructio0s. but that he should resign his place rather than vO:e for Grant against Blaine. He also sad that his alternate would go to Chicago. and as this alternate is a Blaine man and bound in no way by Woodin's utterances the Grant men rather naturally look upon woOdin as fraud.
 tariff bill has finally been prepared in the Ways and Means Committee which effects very important reductions. It includes a re- ductien Of the duty on wood pulp from 20 to 10 per cent, and on paper of all sorts from 20 tO lS per cent and large reductions of duties on all manufactures of cotton and woolen, and the placing on the free list of salt, type, books and all printed matter. The type and wood pulp mcnopolies are especially and justly Odious to printers. and we hope they may suc- ceed in abolishiug them.
 A curious case came to trial in Bridgeport. last week William K. Seeley, a we'll known lawyer Of that city, was attacked and very roughly handled some eight years, since. by Dr. E. B. Middlebrook, while delivering an argument in case on trial before the Common Pleas Court. Seeley was comment. ing rather severely on the testimony of Mid. dlebroOk who was the party and chief wit. ness opposed to nim, when the latter seized and threw him to the floor, breaking chair and stunning the lawyer so that be could dc
 nothing to help himself The officer in attend. auce happened to be out at the moment, and no spectators were in, so that Middlebrook es caped out of the city and State He has staid away ever since, to avoid the severe sentence impsaed by Judge Brewster for so fragrant q enniempt of court Mir. Seeley brought civil suit which. aatex lingering for years on the dockea, finally came te trial. The jury disa. greed upon the amount of damages to be givea-