Litchfield enquirer., 1880-02-05

sASN~AAy A- AAO-' A Lewiston (N. Y man has built his house about an immense elm tree. The Spaniard who went gunning for kings, | recently, proves uhquestionably insane. Bismarck's protective duties are very protec- I tive The tobacco impost is trebled; wheat | pays 12 cts. per hundred flour, twice that. A Guilford man has been fined $7 for | pounding his wife who differed with him re- garding the Hayden case. Chamberlain, the hero Gf there has been a hero) of the Maine insurrection against fraud ulent government, is adistinctively antl- Blaine person. -n s U. S. Grant, Jr., IS about to marry Jennle Flood, daughter of the California million aire, it is said. She takes two and half millions in four per cents to begin keeping 1 house upon. The Springfield Republican believes that Horatio Seymour will finally allow his name to be used in connection with the presidential nomination. It seems the only escape possi. ble from Tiden. One fifth of the women of Massachusetts work at some non-domestic avocatlon. Ought not all avocations to be open to a sex which so plainly needs every rghtful opportunity for earning an honest living? E Mir. Boynton, the Washington correspond | ent of the Cincinnati Gazette, has called for a court martial of Gen. Sherman on the sland- CTS he claims that the general has published ! about him. It is hardly probable that the offer will be accepted. +a John T. Price, the lucky" drawer of a $5,O0O prize in the Louisiana lottery some- time since, was it will be remembered the editor of the Newtown Bee. After he got his prize he tried hating, but now he once more ''im- proves each shining hour" Edison has filed his claims for patent of his electric light. They seem to be based on the application of carbon wire so arranged l as to offer great resistance to the electric cur rent in placing the burner in nearly perfect vacuum, and then securing it's continuance by sealing the platinum conducting wires into the glass. ..t.a -...
 Mir. Bayard made speech on his famous resolution in the Senate, last week, holding firmly to his hard money views. There was qnite running fire of attack on him from in- hation Senators, in reply, showing that the l Democratic party, as represented in Congress, is very far from sympathizing with the Dela- ware Senator.
 With the retirement of the Fusion legisla- l ture as collective body, and the return of most of the Fusion Senators to the regular | body, the farce of ''counted in" legislature seems to be over in Maine. That it could l ever have occurred shows how thoroughly our politics is pervaded with the spirit ot unfair ness The Kansas exodus is a more considerable matter than hss been generally supposed. About 16,0O0 negroes have reached that State since April and they are still coming at the rate of nea: 30 a day. Three fourths of those who arrive have to depend on charity, in part at least, and the Governor of the state ques- tions the expediency of further immigration.
 A bill is now before the U S. Senate plac- ing telegrams under the same immunity from seizure now enjoyed by letters in transit by mail There certainly ought to be some pro- lection, but the cases can hardly be considered parallel. No letter in transit by private hand receives auy such protection. Give the govern control of ina talanro pho nd and they will be protected as letters now are.
 Miss Norma Conner, the organist of the Van Vert CO., Methodist church, was publicly reprimanded in church Sunday by Rev. J. R. Henderson, the pastor, for attending dances, and when she met Henderson in her fathers store day or two later, sEe gave him a thorough horse whipping. .-Es.
 No doubt the parson entertained the audience in the meantime with the operatic selection "Hear me, Norma !"
 MT Butler retires from the editorship of the New Haven Palladium, position he has held for dozen or more years. He is able but sour; likes Ben Butler in his own right, and hates Joe Hawley as a duty to his employers; is something of bull in the crockery shop of Connecticut politics; is English by birth and education. and has thorough English contempt for everything American, which he is not always careful to conceal.
 There has been plenty of revolutionary rhetoric in the Maine greenback papers, as would appear from the following electric" ap- peal in the greenback Chronicle:
 "The State House MUST BE TAKEN out of the hands of the mob IF TT COSTS A THOUSAND LIVES. If Joseph l.. Smith is Governor, let him show it. Is not he had bet ter resign in favor of some one else Wade Hampton of South Carolina took one State House away from the Republicans. We say TAKE THIS OR BATTER IT DOWN. Where are the men who voted against the Republicans? Are they willing to be thus cowed aud kicked about by bond -bloated bank brokers? Had the red coats done in 1776 what was done last week in Augusta, we should have had a Lex ington and Ia Bunker Hill years before; IF are forever disgraced. Garcelon would have captured it before this" " f
 Exactly how anything the fred coats'' could have done in '76 would have affected the bat ties of the year before, is not obvious In fact the editor who peuned the above is as obliv- ious of history as he is devoid of sense and discretion. msE s-.s fa@s-.-
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 All readers of Blackstone will remember that, by the common law. lawyers could col feet no fees of their clients. It seems that, in New Jersey a decision of their highest court has gone back to the old rule and declared that lawyers cannot recover for their services except in case of special contract. Last week bill came up in the House of Representa- tives at Trenton providing that lawyers might recover fees even in cases where no special contract had been made The Tribune pub fishes the following report of the discussion