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Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
HarWlnton.
A Happy New Year.

A Happy New Year.
 Now is the time to ''swear off, bad hab- it's.
 Miss Jennie Minor, of Roxbury and Miss Laura Minor from Bridgeport, are visiting at our post masters.
 Miss Julia Curtiss of Naugatuck, is on visit at E. W. Hinman's
 E. A. Kunkle will now hang out his shln- gle in Meriden.
 MT. Ames c. Scoville was honored by surprise party last Friday evening.
 While MT. Ames Scovile was cutting wood, one day last week, his axe glanced and cut an ugly gash under his ankle. He now hobbies through ice and snow on crutches, to tunes more loud than charming
 Mir. Fred Kimberly was badly hurt last Saturday. While loading logs, large lever fell on his thigh bruising it so that he had to be carried home and put to bed..
 A few days since, as Mir. Alanson A. Ne gus was removing large rock with the help of a neighbours team, he tried to assist the cat tie by prying under the rock with crowbar. When the rock started, one end of the bar drawn over his leg tearing off the flesh to the bone.
 The evening after Christmas, party of young folks drawn by four horses driven by our post master went out for sleighride. About ten o'clock they drove into the writer's yard and halting before the door, sang num- Der of Christmas carols for our especial bene- fit. We, unknown to them, were absent from home at the time, and totally unconscious of the honor bestowed upon us. They, finding that they were not appreciated, went home, but felt rather cheap the next day when they found that they had been serenading an empty house. #. Two young boys living in the west part of the town who had been given ten cents each to spend for Christmas, went to McNeil's drug store, in Wolcottville, to invest it in candy. A large number of wax candles were display ed on the counter, and the boys, thinking they were new kind of candy, asked the price. which was three for five cents. The sticks were 50 large that they concluded to invest all their money in them exclusively. When half way home, one of the boys, impatient to learn how the new kind of candy tasted, opened one of his packages and divided oneofthe sticks" between them. They pronounced the taste funny, and the candy rather tough" they finally concluded that it was chewing gum, :. and ''chewed" all the way home, where they learned for the first time what the '' new can- dy" was.
 The late Mrs. Nathaniel Winship, of this town, was formerly teacher of Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the names of these celebrities are in some old school registers which are still preserved.
 Some trouble has occurred in two or three of our district schools and some of the chil- dren have been removed by their parents be- cause the children had been punished.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

The success of the Read Carpet Co.'S Car pets is something wonderful, commencing a few years ago making not more than five or six thousand yards per month they have in creased to an enormous production which is all mediately taken up by such leading houses as A. T. Stewart 6 Co.,, & w. & S. Sloane, N. Y. They are not only the handsomest designs many of them rivalling the best Body Brus- sels, but they are superior in quality to any Carpet made, and are sold at prices lower than the same grade of any other make. David M. Read, of Bridgeport, is the sole agent for the United States, he supplies all other merchants with them and cuts them up to his Retail custimers at wholesale prices
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Great Britain.-On Sunday night part ot thegreat bridge over the Frith of Fay, gave way carrying down passing train; seventy five lives were lost.
 The steamer Borussia, from Liverpool to New Orleans, was lost at sea on the 2d ult. It is believed that 220 out of 234 persons on board have been lost.
 France. new ministry has been formed with M, Freycinct at it's head.
 Tnrkey. is great distress in Roume- lia -,s.,x- ... 3.a..,,.f
 Gpain- The Cuban Emancipation bill has passed the Senate, 134 to,14.
 4fghaaistan. Gen. Roberts has defeated the Afghans and entered Cabul
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
w ashington.

READING, &c.-On account of the storm on Monday evening there was but a small attend ance at the readings and recitations of Miss Lancashire, some seventy five perhaps in all Her selections were chiefly from Carleton's Popular Readings, and rendered in manner highly satisfactory and entertaining, in most instances excelling Miss Dargon, one of the popular readers of the day. We would invite the attention of the public to her entertain ments which are announced in the papers of the day.
 ARR1vALs.-Mr. and Mrs. R. Tompkins Kipp from Bethel at c. C.. Ford's;'G. w.. Judd, from New Haven, and others. Quite a number of strangers attended service at the Hall on the Sabbath. ...F
 SooIETY's MEETING.-The Annual meeting of the first Ecclesiastical Society was held on Tuesday. The committee reported society out of debt The old officers were reelected. D. N. Garfield, c. l.. Hickox, F. N. Galpin and s. Logan were appointed committee to assess slips; safe to take place on Saturday, the 3d inst.
 MEETINGS. Meetings were held in every district hut the Centre, Tuesday evening St. Johns church was tastefully trimmed with evergreens, anfaypropriate religious services was held there on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus has been unusually busy and generous, and we think upon the whole it has been Merry Christmas.
 ENTERTAINMENTS FOR THE WEEK.-On Sun- day, Rev. J. Brainard Thrall preached very able sermon at the Hall, and will lecture Tues day evening at the same place, subject, ''By Land and by Sea-" On Wednesday evening, church sociable meets a: s. Leavitt Brins. made's. Annual church meeting on Thurs day Leap Year Ball on Friday evening.
 To the Editor, correspondents, and all others Happy New Year. s.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
DOMESTIC.

Gov Van Zandt declines the Russian Ms sion.
 There was heavy fire in Boston. Sunday night. Houghton. Osgood, and Co.'S book publishing concern and others were burnt out ; loss about $1, ,OOO, ,OOO; fully insured.
 Gov. Gracelon has refused to submit the returns to the Supreme Court.
 There was riot at Bangor, last week, on the attempted removal of state arms.
 Recorder Hackett died at New York, last week.
 Hart won the last weeks walking match, making $40 miles; Khrone made 534 Faber, 531 Sport" 500. ..>s.. :, Two men have been lynched in Colorado Grant is in Washington.
 Hayden's testimony is finished. @
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

It is barely possible, though by no means probable, that Gen. Grant may finally run as a sort of conservative Republican, favorable, on the whole, to the Southern whites Strange as it may appear, when we remember the high handed interference of federal soldiers with the organization of Louisiana legislature, under his orders, and various other acts which Southern Democrats have ever since denounc- ed as federal tyranny, they seem really in- cliued to prefer Grant to any other stalwart Republican. The fact that he is a soldier rather than a politician, his leniency at the close of the war, and his recent moderate views, incline them to expect less ''persecu- tion" from him than from red-hot radical" of the Blaine type. The difficulty is that this sentiment is not like to find expression in electoral votes. The Southern white has strong preferences in the matter of possible Republi- can presidents, but he will not allow the vote of single Southern State to be given for any Republican candidate if fraud and intimida- tion will prevent it. That Grant will be the weakest possible candidate in many close Northern States, seems conceded. There is no reliable evidence that he can carry single Southern State. Will even the politicians fa- vor his nomination in the face of such facts as these?
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
Mrs Fred Kimberly is m tha s;ol, l;,+

Mrs. Fred. Kimberly is on the sick list.
 There are now living in the, seventh, Campvilfe district, eight persons who are between seventy and eighty years old. and six octogenarians whose united ages are five hundred and four years and seven months.
 Three new houses have been erected in town during the year as follows Ames c. Scoville, in the west part of the town Mrs. Morris, little east of the Centre; and Stephen Watson's, in the north east. They are all occupied, with the exception of Mir. Watsons, and it is rumored that he intends to join the matrimonial choir. L,G.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

Catarrh is poisonous infection of the mu- cous membrane, just as Smallpox is virus of the blood Catarrhal virus can be only reach ed and exterminated by antidotal, inoculative elements, that are absorbed by the purulent mucus. Dr. Wei De Meyers Catarrh Cure is unquestionably the most important medical discovery since vaccination It never fails, Supplied by Druggists, or delivered by D. B. Dewey & O., 46 Dey St., IN Y., at $1. 50 a package Pamphlets, with full explanations, mailed free.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

A stone has recently been set up at the grave of Nancy Lincoln, the Presidents moth- er 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
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and indis. cretions of youth, nervous weakness. early decay, loss of manhood, &c., will send recipe that viii cure you FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered by missionary in South America. Send envelope to the REV. JOSEPH T. MAN, Station D, Neto Fork City.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
Nofice-

yTye will meet at rooms in the Litchfeld County
 w jail buildings on the 1st and 3rd Mondays in November, and on the 1st Tuesdays of each month, at three o'clock, p. m. for the purpose of acting appca tons for cense receiving reports of pres ecutng agents and transactng other county business ss@ GEORGE PIERPoNT, l x LYMAN CUNNING, County Comfs.
 vE JOS. F. CALHOUN. s ss45.sf
 Litchheld, March l, 1879.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
LOGAN HAZEN,
ORDER OF NOTICE,

ANNA N. HAzRN
 State of Connecticut, County of Litchfeld ss, Litchfeld, December 1Uth, 1879.
 Upon the petition of the said Lngan Hazen, pray ing for reasons therein set forth, for @ divorce from the said Anna M. Hagen, by his petition brought to the Superior Court to be holden at Litcn- field, within and for Litchfeld County, on the 4th Tuesday of January, A. D. l8sU.
 It appearing to- and being found by, the subscrib- ing authority, that the said respondent residing in parts unknown to the petitioner and is absent from this State.
 Therefore, Ordered, That notice of the pendency of said petition by given he said respondent by the petitioner causing this order notice to be published in the Litchfeld Enquirer, newspaper published in Litchfeld in said County four weeks successively, ommencing or.or before the 18th day of December, A. D. 1879. VIM. L. RANSOM, Clerk
 of the Superior Court for Litchheid County.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

The managers of the Panama railroad will give all the help they can to M. Lesseps in his scheme for Panama canal The railroad would benefit by the experiment, feasible or not feasible
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

No MORE HARD TMEs.-f you will stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food and style, buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing; get more real and sub stantial things of life every way, and despecially stop the foolish habit of employing expensive, quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure reme- dy, Hop Bitters that cures always at tri- fling cost, and you will see good times and have good health. .-C Chronicle.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

MT. Bassett, late Minister to Hayti, has been appointed Haytian consul at New York, an office worth some $6, 900 year.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
SAEEiS.
Established in 1855.

Established in 1855. rERWuLLIGER co s celebrated triple hange ire ! proof safes, with patent inside bolt work, steel lined doors thick walls combination locks solid welded angle iron frames. improvei fire proof ing. making them the.
 BEST SAFE IN THE WORLD. Warrented free from rust and dampness. House Safes Second Hand Safes, all sizes and knes very cheap. Burglar Proof Safes, Vault doors. Bank work of every description specially Safes for town records Over thousand references. Send for catalogue.
 THOMSON co. 273 PTS State, cor. Wooster St. New Haven Ct.
 38-4w.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
STRAYED!

TrRoM the subscriber, about the 10th of Nov., red E bull calf; little white the belly, about 10 months old. Whoever will return give information of said calf. will be suitably rewarded
 HENRY B. RESELL.
 Bantam Falls Dec. 18th 1879. Ss-swA
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
Notice.

NYOTICE is hereby given that applications will be 4y made to the next General Assembly for the re lease of Charles J. Allen, William E. Green and Chas Lampman from State Prison.
 litchned, Dec. 18th 1879. 39-2w
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

GUILTY OF WRoNG.-Some people have a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with the large mass of patent medicines" and in this they are guilty of a wrong. There are some advertised remedies fully worth all that is asked for them, and one at least we know of-Hop Bitters. The writer has had occa- sion to use the Bitters in just such climate as we have most of the year in Bay City. and has always found them to be first-class and reliable,
 doing all that is claimed for them. Tribune.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

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 *gtt
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

DEPORT of the Condition of The First National IO Bank at Litchfeld, in the State of Connecticut, at the close of business, 18th Dec. 1873.
 RESOURCES. Loans and discounts 3O3, ,S34 28 Overdrafts IA 98 U. s. Bonds to secure circulation 1000 % Other stocks. bonds and mortgages 8,792 50 Due from approved reserve agents 31, 1,234 08 Due from other National Banks 2,782 91 Due from State Banks and bankers ITO 96 Real estate, furniture, and fixtures 14,449 Il Current expenses and taxes paid 2,689 80 Checks and other cash items 946 41 Bills of othen Banks 382 co Fractional currency Qncluding nickels) LOLA O1 Lega-tender notes 5,O25 % Redemption fund with U. s. Treasurer
 6 GO of circulation) 5000 co
 Total s 5s1, ,Os6 64
 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $2O0,0oO co Surplus fund 3O,OOO co Undivided profits 17,195 GA National Bank notes outstanding 174,663 50 Dividends and taxes unpaid 636 % Individual deposits subject to check 145,S76 3i Demand certificates of deposit 227O 79 Due to other National Banks 6,898 27 Due to State Banks and Bankers 3526 IS s5s1 ,oss s4 State of Connecticut, County of Litchfeld. ss. I, George E. Jones. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly that the above statement true to the best of my knowledge and elief.
 GEORGE E. JONES, Cashier Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of Dec. 1879.
 WILLIAM DENYING, Justice of the Peace. Correct-Attest;
 H. R. corr, F. b. MCNEIL. Directors.
 H. W. BUEL.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
Dividend Notice.
FIRST NATIONAL BAN

FIRST NATIONAL BAND, Litchfeld Ct. l
 27th December, 1879. THE directors of this bank have this day declared the as six months payable to stockholders on and after Jan. 2d 1880. GEO. E. JONES, Cashier.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

Lydia,E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound doubtless ranks first as curative agent in all diseases of the procreative system. degenera- tion of the kidneys, irritation of the bladder, urinary calculi. &c., &c. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham. 2SS Western Ave, Lynn, Mass. for pamplets.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

Nothing is uglier than crooked boot or shoe; straighten them with Lyons Heel Stif- feners. ; 40-4W.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

A perjury case started in Hartford, recently, had to be stopped because the States Attorney found that he could never prove that the ac- 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
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

the action of the Maine Returning Board may be tested at once before the Supreme Court. 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.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

Further news confirm last weeks reports that the Chilians had nearly annihilated the army of the allied Peruvians and Bolivians, and that the result of the war was probably de- cided. The Chilians have always been race of hard fighters, and their financial credit is 30 good that they find no difficulty in raising money. Their triumph, in short is one of honesty and courage over numbers, for the population of Peru and Bolivia is near three times that of Chilli
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
R.H. WHITE &CO. BOSTON MASS

R. H. WHITE & co. BOSTON MASS.
 PATIENTS.
 R. H. DI,
 No. 76 STATE ST.. opposite Kilby, BOSTON, Secures Patents in the United States also in Great Britain France, and other foreign countries Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by remiLting dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington. Nc Agency i the United States pOssesses superior facilities for obtaiaing Patents GscertGiig the pGtentGbility ef inUefstions. R. R.EDDY, solicitor of Patents. ,+ TESTIMONIALS.
 s"I regard Mr. Eddy of the most capable and sWccessful practitioners with whom have had official intercourse. askH
 CHAS. MASON, Commissioner of Patents" .'Inventors cannot employ person more trustwor. t1ysor more capable of securing for them early and favorable consideration at the Patent Office. EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of Patents. BOSTON, October 19, 1870. R. H. EDDY, Esq--Dear Sir: you procured for me, in l840, my first patent Since then you have acted for and advised in hundreds of casss and procur- ed many patents, reissues and extensions. have casionally employed the best agencies New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but still give you al- most the whole of my business in your line. and ad- wise others 10 employ you.
 Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER. BOSTON. January l. 1880. 40-1y
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

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
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

A Southington lawyer has been suspended for unprofessional conduct. He undertook to iit collect claim Of s. out failed, ana 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 Litchfield county.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

As the time draws near when the Edison He expects to accomplish this we are told, by means of horse shoe shaped burner of charred cardboard. Mr. 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
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

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.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

Mr. E. V. Smalley gives an interesting ac- count of his iourneyings over the new rail- road, now just approaching gcompletion, which stretches from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. It extends some 336 miles due South has been built by the city of Cincinnati at cost of near twenty millions, and shortens the present route through Nashville and Louisville at least a hundred miles. The country, however, is a very difficult one, necessitating heavy cuts, and bridges of enormous length and height. Mir. Smalley is examining the Cumberland plateau of East Tennessee with view to Northern settlement. Land there is very cheap, the climate excellent and, if the soil is sufficiently fertile. the region would suit the Northern emigrant admirably.
 The Democratic papers take grim and natural satisfaction in the Maine situation i; but some. like the World, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Chicago Times, ant. the Louisville Courier Journal have the manlness to condemn the trickery proposed by the Maine Fusonists. On the other hand, the leading Republican politicians counsel moderation, and are evi- dently afraid that 50 important trump card for 1880 may be lost by any nasty revolution ary Republian movement In fact they are no doubt anxious in their hearts that the fraud should be consdmmated by the counting in of a Fusion legislature, and the election of a Fusion Governor and Council
 The N. Y. World (anti-Tilden Democrat) recently published the following paragraph which stirs up the Hartford Times to the de- fence of Barnum:
 If the idea gets well abroad that such promi- nent national democrats as Mir. Barnum. the chairman of the national democratic commit tee, for example, had anything to do with the Maine business with an eye to getting the Maine legislature to appoint greenback demo- cratic electors in 1880, who can doubt that the republican legislature of every northern state including New York and New Jersey-will promptly act in the Interest of Grant .
 The Times considers this ssneaking at tack" upon Connecticut's favorite Democratic statesman. s9.ta -s4.@ss
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Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

DEPORT of the Condition of The First National EO Bank at Litchfeld, in the State of Connecticut at the close of business, 18th Dec. 1879.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

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 and honesty
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

The Springfield Republican rates T. B. Keough, the North Carolina Republican re- gently appointed to 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.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

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, at 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.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01

The story of the church fight at Pittsburgh probably loses little in telling. According to all accounts it was more like a 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.