Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Great Britain: The Irish Compensation
Bill comes up in the Lords, this week
Two of Lorilard's colts have won the stakes
at the Godwood races
The Liberals are holding meetings in favor
Of ehollshing the hereditary peerage.
Gladstone is quite sick, having congestion
of the lungs.
Heavy rains have damaged the crops in the
south of England.
Recent shipments of gold to America
amount to $950,0OO.
Sir Bartle Frere has been recalled from
South Africa.
France.-The Republicans have carried
everything before them at the late elections.
Admiral Ribourt has been removed. for
hostility to the Republic.
Owing to the poor harvest remission of land
tax is proposed.
Germany. taxes are to be imposed,
the revenues showing decrease.
Italy.-An international exhibition is plan
ned for 1885.
Turkey The Porte declares that it cannot
make the cession to Greece required by the
powers, and they are preparing for a naval
demonstration.
Queen Victoria has written the Sultan ask
ing him to yield to the wishes of Europe.
AfgbGnistGn. Burrows defeat is now
reported. Reinforcements are hurrying to his
relief.
PerW.-It is expected that Lima will soon
be bombarded by the Chllians
DOMESTIC.
The cotton worm is doing some damage in
the South.
The Military Department of the South has
been temporarily included in General Han
cocks charge.
The President has designated a number of
persons from civil life for second lieutenants
in the Army.
Secretary Sherman requires Supervising
Inspectors of Steamboats, to make daily re-
ports.
New Hampshire's census shows an increase
in population of 29,011.
The paper-makers agreed to restrict the
production OF paper.
Treasurer Gilffilan says that 4S per cent of
the silver dollars paid out have returned to
the treasury.
The National bank losses during the last
six months were much less than for the same
period last year.
The excess of expenditures over receipts in
the Post Office Department are less than at
There was an increase of over ten million
dollars in the internal revenue receipts daring
the fiscal year just closed.
A large fire IN Buffalo, Thursday, destroyed
property worth $250,000
The inquiry about the wreck of the Nara
gansett was concluded on Thursday.
The Abbott and Butler Democrats in Mas
sachusetts have agreed to call joint Conven-
ton.
The Mexicans have had fight with Vic
toria's band.
NhD ITO Tvls he Is~;1 ,>e
lands in severalty.
A forgery of bonds at Jacksonville, Fla,
amounting to $137,OO0 was brought to light,
last week.
Governor Colqutt, of Georgia, has ordered
troops to the scene Of the attack by masked
men on Joseph Thompson, a .colored man,
near Atlanta. on Wednesday night.
The schooner George Washington was recent
ly searched by Spanish man of.war while ON
the high seas.
The Socialists have Endorsed Weaver the
Greenback candidate.
Messrs. Hancock and English published
their letters of acceptance Saturday.
General Garfield will arrive to attend the
conference of Republican leaders at New
York, Wednesday evening.
Investigations into the embellishments of
Deputy Collector Boone, of Brooklyn, show
them to have extended over several years.
Crop reports show that the yield of wheat is
above the average in most of the States of
the Northwest.
Saratoga and Long Branch hotels are
crowded and the season at Newport is pros
porous one.
There is great excitement in Georgia over
the murder of colered family at Janesboro
An accident on the Long Island Railroad,
last week, resulted in the death of one man
and injury to seven Others
Rev T. B. Miller, Of Philadelphia, was ar
rested yesterday, charged with perjury.
More grain passed over the Hudson River
Railroad on Saturday than ever before in
single day.
The coffer-dam at the Hudson River Tun-
mel proved failure.
A number of receivers of public moneys for
the sale of bonds have been discovered to be
delinquent.
A recent fire in Tahona County, California,
destroyed $780, 900 worth of property.
Alaska is slightly increasing in population.
At the State election in Alabama Monday,
the Democratic candidates were elected by
heavy majorities.
Census returns show gain of 1904 in pop
ulation for Vermont, about 90, 900 for Maine
and 80 per cent for Missouri.
GOOD WORDS FOR A Coon THING.-The
papers are so full of exaggerations about all
sorts of things that it is hard to tell what to be-
lieve. Yet all things are not humbugs, nor