Litchfield enquirer., 1881-01-20

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 lITCHFIELD, CONN. Thursday, Jan. 20, 1881
 Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, recommend woman suffrage.
 Real estate in Hartford has improved de cidedly in price. -.z-..s- .es4ss.s--s..a
 Lucien Frazier cut his throat iu Barkham sted, last week.
 Jersey cows are hriuging $1000 apiece fs their owners, it is said, owing to the Ameri can demand.
 Quail and cartridges have been destroyed ir great numbers by the severity of the sea son.
 Two men and \ woman have been found guilty of robblng the bodies of victims of thu Narragansett accident.
 The House Military Committee has refused to approve the bili placing Gen. Grant on the retired list with the rank of General
 The Governor of Minnesota urges the pay. meut ot the repudiated debt of that state. Honesty is sometimes good policy. then?,
 The suffrage qualifications are to be great. ly reduced in Italy. It, is BOW restricted to to about 600, 900 persons.
 Sara Bernhardt went to see herself bur. lesqued in a negro minstrel show. She found that her son played rather prominent part in the burlesque.
 Senator McDenald, of Indiana, closes hi political career for the present with marrying a department clerk, MT. Christiancey's awful fate to the contrary notwithstanding.
 One of the first acts our legislature should pass is a statute making railroads liable fol injuries to employees, except when the injury was caused by their own carelessness.
 The construction party on the New Yorf and New England railroad have nearly reached Brewster's on the Harlem. The bonds of thu company sell at par.
 The State Bar Association holds meeting at Hartford en Wednesday of this week Judge Seymour reads a paper on the nev Practice act. .sa
 The cotton crop of the year past has nearl reached six million bales and the acreag planted next year will greatly exceed that c 1880.
 The Caucasian petroleum wells now bein operated by Americans are said to be yieldin immensely. They have large Russian gral and the oil is both abundant and of excellen quality.
 A government engineer has recommends a canal around the Enfield Falls in the Cen necticut It would cost something over million, but would open up navigation [ Holyoke.
 6 The Republicans of Maine did @ creditabl thing when they gave Plalsted, Greenbacker the position of Governor ID spite of the fac that he was misnamed on enough tickets t. defeat his election had the Garcelon tactic been countenanced
 The Etna Insurance Co.,, have won a case against an insurer in the U. s. Circuit Cour on the ground that his property, while insure' for several thousand dollars, was, in point o fact, worth but little over two hundred.
 Theie seems to be no diminutioH o anti.Jewish feeling in Germany. It ha spread to Saxony, Bavaria, and Silesia. Tn petition iu circulation against them has re eeived 40,O00 signatures. -~r *..
 The lext House of Representatives. thoug it is Republican by a small majority willha a majority much weakened by the withdraw al of Garfield, Hawley, Conger and others while the Senate is filling up to distressin extent with Stalwarts and Money Bags.
 The son of a British lord, and his wife, ar camping out in Wyoming Territory, sleepin in an open tent with the thermometer som SOo below zero. Such is humanity ! Tn people in civilization like to fly from it, whi those in barbarism are not always satis6e with their condition, either. ,, .-- .
 The Massachusetts legislature has bee urged to pass laws allowing her citizens to u' the name of the state in suing upon bonds other states SO as to give the United Stat courts jurisdiction of the cases. The prop sition meets with much objection as tendir to make it easier for Massachusetts capitalis to send their money out of the state for i vestment.
 A New Jersey grand jury proposes whi ping post tor husbands who beat their wive Such punishment would be beautiful for t husband, bat would it improve the prospee of the wife? Would not the brute simply a, it in by way of compound interest to the ne beating he gave her? ai ,st as-..
 The suspension of the habeas corpus act Ireland is by no means an uncommon ever It has been done seven times within the Ia 33 years, says the Tribune. The effect . suspension IS not to deprive the subject his right of trial by jury, but to enable | government to keep suspected or dangero persons in custody without trial.
 The effect of his recent illness upoh Mir. T. Barnum has been excellent He has ma up his little differences with people who h cheated him-perhaps with those he h cheated-and now he starts with renew spirits on his renewed career of ''usefulness P. T. Barnum is by no means the worst hul bug in all this weary world. 7t.a
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