Litchfield enquirer., 1880-12-09

- mA1A1o9 19o ush UcoPie Weac S1ifieo
PuInan cars. East year.
Denver q building the finest union depo
wsst e CAicaeo. and . big opera-house.
prupgiaEio1 bills AID 70 attempt little genera
IegizlAxioo-
The red1csson o: postofice money orde
charges % S eta 90 orders less than @5, is
grsseful promise annoanced IN the papers
DEphGheria 10 q serIous epidemic in ant
ahous New Yoke In Brooklyn from 20 Il
= zev cases are reported daily.
Mr.. Chrissianey. ex- Judge, ex-U. s Sen
assr, and ex- Minister to Peru. has failed in hi
suia for divorce from the Treasury clerk b.
rxEk-r ruuansically married, some years since
A New YORK GIand Jury nave found bills
s<zinst Nogey for perjury, and against PHIL
and thsee other persons connected with the
paper called Truth, for q criminal libel
ne closing up of religious houses in France
IL q mrch uoEe serious matter than has beer
supposed No len than three hundred mon
asteries have been closed and 5000 persons
expelled
u = said that the new Chinese treaty leaves
this country to regulate immigration from
China 10 Il pleases- The Imperial govern
zseat desires the emigration Of its subjects
a little ss California desires to receive them.
IL 10 raw stated that q new apportionment
IL Representatives will be made this winter.
IL i moi believed that the present number can
he reduced, but that il is likely to be raised to
800 OF S95
Mr. Vanderbilt Is building four houses in
New York which are expected to be the finest
in the city. The thing Of the ground foot
and halls are to be made by Morris, in Eng.
Isud- and viH Soss SO. 600.
The estimate for the next House OF Repre-
sentmsives shows 14s straight Republicans
majority Of one There are besides at least
foar Independent and Greeuback Republicans
ada nnmber Of Independent Democrats, 90
thai the practical Republican majority is put
At Is
The sudden closing of navigation has in
cnuveuieuced the cpal dealers at Hartford and
elsewhere On the Connecticut River not a lit
lie. Some 1s.0OO tons of coal have had to be
transferred from boat TO car, slow and ex.
pensive affair.
The Cs0gregatiOnalist, noticed on another
PAGE, with such contributors as Prof. Austin
PheIpA Rose Terry Cooke, Susan Coolidge,
President Bartlett. Marion HarIand, Rev. L.
w. Bacnn, Mary Clemmer, and others, cannot
fail TO be enjoyed In the family. We cordially
commend IL TO our readers.
The largest giant now known to be living
arrived af New York last week. He 10 about
nine feet high and developed in proportion TO
that extraordinary stature. He is a China
man named Chang and has been employed by
the firm Of Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson
for year.
Winter has caught up the Southerners near
ly as sharply as it bias us of bleak New Eng
land Thousands Of dollars damage have been
done cotton, sweet potatoes, cane, &c. Snow
hiss fallen in Texas aud cattle were frozen in
Mississippi. The damage to the sugar crop
alone is estimated at $3.000.O0O
Another murderer has been caught. About
Q month since Andrew ]. Gillen killed Mary
Sigerson at New York, because she refused to
marry him. He escaped and was supposed TO
have drowned himself. On Friday last he
was arrested at Cedar Keys, Fla, and tried to
kill himself, bat failed. Probably the hang
man will be more successful.
As an incident OF the Liberal victory in
England comes the choice of an unusual mum
Der Of Dissenters as Mayors at the recent mu
cicipal elections. As in Connecticut in ole
Charter times all denominations except Con
gregationalsts were Demecratic; 80, in Eng
land. the Dissenter in church matters is al
most invariably Liberal in politics.
Gen. Terry, has, it seems, prevented anothe
Indian war. Major Ilges had chance tc
strike some Of the ''hostiles," recently, ant
wrote to Gen Terry for permission to ''uI
and at 'em." The General refused seeing nj
reason to attack the hunters who were dein,
no one, at present, at least, any harm.
Brockway, the counterfeiter, has been re
leased on disclosing the whereabouts of tn,
dangerous bond plates that have been hereto
fore used 90 successfully. II the conviction
Of accomplices is also secured, that maj
amount to something, but Brockway does no
seem to be the kind Of fellow to be at larg
il there 10 any law for shutting him up.
A Montreal court has recently decided
rather important election case. Certain Cath
Ollie priests had refused the communion Il
those who voted the Liberal ticket, in the in
terest of one Robillard. member of the pro
yincial Legislature. The Court consisting O
two Catholic judges and one Protestant-uu
seated Robillard on account of the undue in
t1uence used.
The New York Times claims that the result
in New Jersey was unquestlenably attrib
utable to the interference Of the Pennsylva
mia r. r. Co., in favor of the Democratic
candidate for Governor. The state OF Scam
den and Amboy," as New Jersey used to b
called, seems not to have forgotten its naturs
allegiance to . railroad master wherever
can aud one.
The Rev. Mr.. Prime. the well knswn col
respondent Of the New York Observer, dis
courses OF ''the pleasures and pain of grindiu
axes for other people" in q way that editor
can not fail to appreciate. He detail
some Of the ways in which free advertising
got out of newspaper for charitable objects