Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-01

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 LiTCHFlELD, CONN. al - ------- -- cr Thursday, Dec. l, 1881. fla About 1000 deer have been killed Tn New ne York, this season. .'' There has been hard fighting in Tunis and fo. the French have advanced to Gafsa. e;, It's reported that Mrs. Garfield is much an- sa noyed with begging letters. mt Jay Gould is reported as proposing the es- e.. tablishmeut of new Stock exchange in New York. o, A desperado named Maxwell who shot vel sheriff in Wisconsin was Iynched by mob, to last week. rr bo Among the postmasters recently appointed sfe we notice the name of Myron Hart, of River 'us ton, Conn. pe' In the French Chamber. last week, new $ election was ordered because of interference ow of the clergy in the case contested. fee A pistol, supposed to be tho one used by the ger murderer Lefroy, has been found on the line mu of the Brighton railway. be On Friday the town of Hartford voted to l. erect a soldiers monument and appropriated 'o'' $60, 900 for that purpose. ":- The Central National Bank of Boston, sm whose failure we noticed last week, has ie- a c sumed payments dre
 | Mir. J. B. Hoyt, of Stamford, has offered ce' the Suffield Institute $20, ,000 oB condition iaV that $SO, 900, more is raised by others. eae There nave been serious nooos 10 the oan- no, gammon River, H., doing damage estimated ' ct quarter of million dollars.
 How to keep Guiteau from making farce isls of his trial by continued interruptions is a bla problem that his triers have not yet solved. wo
 TT sit There is to be lively contest in the next ,h. legislature over the proposed repeal of the law hr making Putnam the county seat of Windham nor county. r,, The attempt of the Malleys to obtain their ing release through writ of hateas corpus has pro failed. Judge Beardsey refused to grant the are desired release. ant A Western Senator recently spoke of col as hs if Ss saw!"
 It is claimed that an Alabama revenue off, nm, cer has horse which will detect au illicit still the miles away by the smell, then turn and take hu, his master directly to it. ;no Aeronauts have way of estimating their life height from the ground in the night by lallo- cou ing and then estimating the height by the time out it takes the echo to come back gro Of the 61 Anti -Conkling members of the New .O' M York legislature twenty have been re- . elected While of the 28 Conkling men, but W. one has been sent back ~ A new Nihilist plot against the Emperor cor has been discovered in Russia. The plan was to drop balloon filled with explosives into mi the palace yard at GatchDa. exl A passenger on train South from Hartford, 'o" Saturday, had his hat blown of as he was W" going from one car to another about two miles oo from the city. He got of, walked back and no got his hat and came Oh in a later train. so'
 | tai Lorne and wife are not coming back to rip Canada. The Princess does not like playing bo, vice-queen to so su.all and countryfed an au- tho dience as the Dominion furnishes. bo
 del The attempt to assassinate the Italian pre- - mier, last week, shows that the "crank" bus- e~ ness IS being sver-done in Europe as well as in ~. America. N A Hamilton County (N. Y. doctor claims ot to save much time by using pigeons to carry is messages. In this way he can be kept posted cos as to the condition of patients at distance. cet can send home for medicine Sc. to The St. Gothard Tunnel. just completed is nine miles long-twice the length of the to' HOosac tunnel and about mile and half eel longer than the St. Cenis tunnel It is % th' feet wide and 90 feet high. thu By & combination with the Catholics, Bis -. mark has secured the organization of the =. Richstag. On Thursday last an able arraign- - - ment of his policy was made by Herr Richter y. which evidently made powerful impression. - Another Star Route robber has escaped. ra' Evidence was obtained to secure the convic- a' tion of one Lilley when all of a sudden the ''' witness on whom the government depended '.' was found to have slipped away. VI The Earl COwper has made a speech on fit Irish affairs supporting Gladstone's policy. in He proposed to put down lawlessness and then as grant such just reforms as will remove the fla dissatisfaction that has so long prevailed WI throughout Ireland. -> la
 tn The Springfield Republican justly criticizes ,b the conduct of the District authorities in talk ,h ing so few precautions against murderous as- .. saults on Guiteau. Three attempts have al-
 ready been made to take his life, yet there is ;, prosecution in only one. and that is hardly 1r likely to amount to anything ~ The overthrow of the Republican ring who th have been so long in control of Philadelphia, SC last fall, has led to the exposure of large VI frauds in tax-collection. Estimates cf the e amount of plunder vary all the way frsm VI few hundred thousand dollars to three mill hi lions. cc The contested election case of Mackey vs
 Dibble, from South Carolina, will. come up "' early and will attract good deal of attention s' According to the lists kept by the Republican supervisors, Mackey had nearly 1O, 900 majori. al tY, but by box-stuffing and other devices his VI opponent was given an apparent majority. :.