Litchfield enquirer., 1881-01-20
February Magazines.

The INrERNATIoNL REvIEW contains: John Quincy Adams Diary; Froudes Defence of Henry the Eighth The Tariff Question; NJ. zola as a Critic; Hans Christian Andersen; Fiction and Pubic Libraries Mir. 'Tennyson's New Volume ;AOur Mercantile Marine.
 A. S. Barnes & O., New York, $5 year; price per number 50 cts for sale by news dealers and booksellers .
 HARPER's MAGAZINE contains: The Gospel History in Italian Painting (with eleven H. lustrations); Asleep, by Rose Terry Cooke; The English Lakes aud their Genii, III, by NJ. D. Conway (22 illus.); Pottery in the United States GA illus.) The Old New York Volunteer Fire Department, II, (11 illus.)
 Literary and Social Boston (18 illus. Anne (continued); The Fire-Fly; The Early His tory of Charles James Fox; Fuss Tanners D fense; A Laodicean, I, by Thomas Hardy; Editorial Articles
 Published by Harper Bros., New York. S4 year. .. as at Esha nss ,s Senator Sharon, being questioned by an in- terviewer about the recent election in Nevada 1 remarked, 'sThe canvass was conducted as contests have been conducted before in Neva- da-on business principles" We would like to inquire whether MT. Shsron's work as Sen- ator has been conducted on "business prlnc- ples ?" During several of the longest sessions of his SIX years term Mir. Sharon has never once appeared in his place in the Senate At | the most liberal estimate he has not been pres. ent one-sixtH of the time the Senate has been in session since his election. In the British House of Commons, to which men are also often elected on ''business principles" the average attendance is very poor ; but these members receive no pay and have therefore some excuse tor non attendance How wou Id
 MT. Sharon treat one of his own employees
 who put in only one days attendance week 7 l Business principles are supposed to imply full work for full pay. What we are now curious 1 to see is whether the next California million l aire who has bought Nevada Senasorship
 will improve on his predecessor in the matter 1 of attendance
 l AucTc Couiu uaTuiy Oe more horrible tn- stance of youthful depravlty than that of Warren Longmore, Maine lad aged nine,
 who shot a boy only 8 year younger than him.
 self and was discovered digging his grave.
 While doing so, the boy that had been shot
 showing signs of life, he struck him on the
 head severa! times with his spade He has
 been sentenced to the Reform School during
 minority. We doubt whether SD entirely ab
 normal young brute ought ever to be set at 1 liberty. e
 The Sun publishes absentee lists of mem- I bers of Congress. If the Hartford Post,
 which has already put the state under
 obligation by publishing the biographies tau tobiographies2@ of members ef the legislature would only publish lists of sbsentees on Tues ! days and Fridays of each legislative session, it would render q still greater service. On re- fection it might take less type and answer all purposes to publish lists of those present. -
 The result of Mir. Gladstone's conc;liatory policy towards Ireland is ts be seen .n the d
 vision in the ranks of the Home Rulers. A part of them stasd ready to discountenancc ilibustering against coercion aud to give their support to just land bill They have in fact joined the English advanced Liberals who are ready to concede every just measure of reform but are not prepared 10 vote the pr actical Acknowledgement of tue British En- 0lre. mfsg hssti s8ts 4Am ss.i3 9. fasffss1t. .3