Litchfield enquirer., 1881-09-01

Thursday, Sept. 4, 4ooA.
 The polygamist Marvin" has been taken to Richmond.
 The Free Masons are to take prominent part in the Yorktown celebration. 60, 900 are expected to be present. .......
 Four horse thieves were lynched in Texas last week, near the town of Dolores. They were part of gang that has been operating along the Rio Grande
 There was a great fire at Chicago, Friday, by which the Hartely packing establishment was burnt destroying property to the amount of million. =.
 It is now said that when the new French Chamber meets the present Ministry will re- sign. and that a new one will be formed with Gambetta as Premier.
 The Howgate scandal assumes larger and larger proportions The deficit amounts to full an hundred thousand dollars, and there are women in the case, besides.
 Mayor Grace has finally removed the three New York police commissioners for neglect of their former duty of cleaning the Streets. Their case now goes to the Governor.
 There is now talk of an English Land bill to help the English farmer in his time of trial. AZ political move such bill would promise much for Gladstone
 There has been brutal murder at Middle town The Savings Bank at that place has recovered it's securities. How much did they have to pay.
 Gen. Wickham, 6 prominent Virginia Re. publican, casts in his lot with the Bourbons. If he takes Democracy at all he proposes to take 1t straight.
 It is now said that England is about to give mp Cyprus, as an expensive, unhealthy, useless appendage of an empire that has enough prop. erty of that description already.
 The Princess of the Hanover branch of the English royal family who married mere nobleman, IS having bad tune with her rela. tives, who cannot be reconciled to such mis- alliance
 One of the Zulus at the Brooklyn Museum lias married an Italian girl. Brabantio pro- posed that DesdemOna be sent to Blackwell's Island; Othello continues his hideous perform apces at the Museum.
 A platform loaded with ton of slate, smash- ed through Dr. Cuyler's church in Brooklyn on Thursday, breaking down gallery, injur- ing the organ and nearly killing two work men.
 good many of the coast custom houses cost far more than they realize in revenue. The salaries at many of our New England ports are strangely disprOportioned to the re- ceipts.
 A Conservative candidate for North Durham, an English borough, is out Tn favor of releas ing Irish prisoners under the Coercion act, and Parnell will throw his influence for him and against the Government candidate.
 Mississlppi Republicans have united with Greenbackers and bolting Bourbons to fight fhe regular Democracy. The result there, and in Virginia, will be looked for with much in- terest.
 The experiment of lighting Broadway by powerful electric lights placed high above the street, has not been success. It is to be further tried, however, with more and stronger lights in Madison and Union Squares.
 The "moonshiner' Redmond has finally confessed to various violations of revenue law and his gang is reported broken up. A South Carolina revenue officer may now cherish some hope or dying natural death.
 New York Good Templars have passed strong resolutions .favoring prohibition. They do not seem to see that without woman sui frage, prohibition cannot possibly be maintain. ed in a state where there is so weak temper ance sentiment as in New York.
 The Barnes family. to the nnmber of 200, met at Sea Side Park, Bridgeport, last week. There was genuine Rhode Island clam bake. The family hold their next meeting at High Rock Grove, on the Naugatuck railroad.
 Mr Parnell has issued manifesto to the electors of North Durham in which he de nounces the Land act in the most violent terms, and declares it impossible to enter into any alliance with coerclonst Ministry.
 The Church of England is more liberal to it's womeh than the American branch of that church. Two women are to address the Church Congress at Newcastle along with the Archbisoop of Canterbury and other high dignitaries ....
 Danbury dog was caught recently by a New York & New England train on trestle work near that place. He escaped easier than most sufferers under like circumstances, los ing but three claws of one foot and half his tail. rtt .s.1 D.
 1t seems that there has been talk of leasing the Consolidated road to the Boston & Albany. Tlformer company would lease if ensured 9per cent on their stock. The party of the second part were not disposed to be so gener. ous. p ..5
 It pleasant to find now and then an inves- tigation resulting in exoneration ot the person accused. Such seems to be the result of the San Francisco mint investigation. Superin- tendent Dodge comes of with flying colors, and Congressman Page. who started the scan. dal, can now find no evidence of misconduct,
 A strange death is reported from Hartford. An old man named Hills had been enticed into room with four swindlers. He was found there dead, and the men had escaped. He had not been robbed and 1t is supposed that the fhock of finding himself in such company