Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-17

Che fitebhel6 Gnquirer,
 llTcHFIELD, CONN.
 Thursday, Mar. IT, 1881
 The use of the postal cards has greatly re duced the amount of letter paper used.
 There has been an increase of foreign pop ulation in New England, but not in tn Union.
 Mir. Henry c. Pearson, son-in-law of Post master Gen. James. has been nominated Post master of New York.
 It is thought probable that Lord Derby vii be added to Gladstone's Cabinet as Secretary of State for India.
 The figures of the lumber business are some thing astounding. Chicago alone received over billion and half feet, last year.
 The Springfield Republican expects deter. mined efort on the part of the new Postmas. ter General to breal up the Star Route steal
 The Irish Arms bill passed the Commons on Friday. The Government proposed to make the supply bills ''urgent" under the new rules, but the Conservatives object. ;est
 Cremation is not so cheap after all. It costs $45 per corpse besides railway expen- ses, as per announcement of the trustees of the Lemoyne Crematory.
 England is likely to be represented at the Paris monetary conference. Bismark took strong position in the German parliament, last week, against remonetizing silver. 2
 The President has nominated Levl P. Mor- ton Minister to France and will continue Minister Lowell in England if that gentleman is willing to continue.
 The Massachusetts legislature will submit the matter of Prohibition to the people next fall. If they would let women vote on it there would be no question of the result. Now it is little doubtful.
 
 Philadelphia as Claude Melnotte and Hamlet. We should imagine it would be wiser for Miss Dickinson to wait till she succeeds as an &C., tress before trying to be an actor.
 New England Senators are rather poor lot financially Washington cores pondent They Will not average mucn over nd West usually aflsw milionaires to take their aenatorships.
 The Queens Bench has decided that Brad laugh had no right to take his seat in the Commons on affirmation instead of oath. He moves an appeal, and the Conservatives have moved in the Commons for an election to fill his seat
 The appointment of two such men as Ex. Secretary Evarts and Ex-Senator Thurman as commissioners to the Paris monetary confer ence, shows a determination on the part of Pres. Garfield to make the conference suc- cess.
 The Senators who are appointed or elected to succeed Mir. Carpenter and the new Cabi- net officers taken from the Senate are Judge J w. McDill, in Iowa; Angus Cameron, in Wisconsin; Wm. P. Frye, in Maine and J. A. Edgarton, in Minnesota.
 Everything indicates large German emi. grafton, the coming season. The home gov ernment does everything to discourage this but in vain. Heavy taxation, high cost of living, low wages, and, last but by no means least, an unrelenting conscrlption, are driving crowds out of the Fatherland.
 We hope the measure proposed by Senator Psndleton for giving Cabinet officers right to speak upon matters concerning their several departments in either House W Ill be passed as soon as the new Congress meets The utter lack of harmony between the executive and legislative branches under our system is one of it's weakest points.
 The new French law of the press is very creditabie to the Republicans It wipes out any quantity of bad statutes inherited from royal and imperial times when the freedom of the press was specially obnoxious to bad rulers The new statutes fashions the law of libel more nearly upon English and American models.
 The claim to popular majority for Han cock now made by the Democratic press rests upon the disposition made of about 10000 votes cast by Republican bolters in Louisiana for distinct set of electors. As these were just as much Garfield electors as the others we do not see why the votes cast for them should not be placed in his column of the popular vote.
 MT. Windom, the new Secretary of the Treasury, has certainly been little shaky on the matter of soft money. His later record, however, shows manifest improvement. A good many Western politicians yielded, for a time, and in greater or less degree, to the SUD- posed will of their constituencies Both politicians and people however, have learned much since those disastrous years just follow ing the great crash of '73. a.
 The Democrats of the Senate undertook to reorganize the Senate Committees in their in- ~Rerest on Saturday. Senator Davis announced his intention of voting with the Democrats for that purpose, though by no means committing himself to the full support of that party. The Republicans opposed any action till all the Senators who are to fl the four vacancies oc. casioned by death and translation" to the Cabinet had arrived, which Mr. Conkling an- thoff 1 l>