Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-03

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 Thursday, Feb. 3, 1881 state.
 Rome has just finished it's first horse rail road.
 The Prussian revenues are reported i'm nrovYsD sz..'a -ss.9saz 1sa1aa.1Aaas.1
 Charley Ross is again discovered-this tim among the Tuaearors Indians! OIII
 Sec. Sherman favors funding bill whicl will authorize 3A per cent bond. The Putnam Phalapx has wisely determinet not to attend Gar6elds inauguration .s4as4 Wesleyan University now, numbers Y1e: students, ten of whom are girls . .,s ,.a;;& s:fetowe has lost all her oranges iron the extreme cold of this winter. , ..ga Out of 46, 900 votes given Garfield in West Virginia, less than ninth were those of col ored men,. -. a.@ 50 S--
 The N. Y. and N. E. R. R. Co.,, have cho sen Gen. J. H. Wilson president, in place oi Hart resigned. 755" :. ,e't' ;:
 The failure to press the electoral count res olution to vote, last week, has probably killed the measure. .3 as,o ..-.li
 Forest planting is said to be succeeding ad mirably in Minnesota. It will not be long be fere ees. fores.e will be needed
 The Boers have again repulsed the British forces. They were trying to force their way through the Drakenburg Pass. ..g,,a;
 The new Senator from Wisconsin is the original of "Bardwell Slote,"" the congressman in the play of the Mighty Dollar" or.f,r6,
 This has been severe winter in Europe aa we'll as in America Half the orange and lemon crops of Southern Spain have been de- stroyed Y Madrid had foot of snow ''9sy}
 The House Committee upon the Isthmus canal projects favors Eads plan, but will not advise the government to risk the forty five million guarantee of interest It proposes.
 The Emma mine is not turning out 50 fear. fully. after all. The English stockholders get some $2, 400, 900. It is said that the vein is g good one and that it is doing we'll. ,. ,-a
 The Springfield Republican notes rise in real estate as the natural result of the low rate of interest. Building is going on rapidly in New York. Chicago, and other large cities, and land bids far to boom" again. .s,-
 James c. Fair, the new Senator from Ne vada, Is assessed on $42, 900, 900 in Nevada Es. '.,-H ID 7f. - .<''>
 The man that owns state ought of course to'pay taxes on it. .. :, a.. '' The nomination of Stanley Matthews to the U. s. Supreme bench is sharply criticized by the Springfield Republican which considers him too ill balanced a man for SO important a place. iAt .. " e" -, ".t .i ..-
 --.----------x-- trn,9.4 ...i'' The papers report 35 suicides within the first weeks of the present year-mostly caus- ed by financial difficulties. If money is the root of all evil it is none the less indispensi. ble in these degenerate days. U" 'a. a'' The House Sub- Committee of Ways and Means have voted the removal ofthe taxes on matches and bank checks This would be . considerable relief from an annoying tax on business, and from aha inpost ou one of the necessaries of life. t., f,f, ,'"" as's. '.I1
 The loss to shipping and cargoes by wreck throughout the civilized world, is estimated al near $34O, ,0O0 900 during f8sO This is g fearful percentage, yet probably small com. pared with tue proportional loss of a century or two ago. lb5 a1.,l, 'isJ-.I t1i ha] 2-s
 The Russians under Skoboieff have won au important advantage over the Tnrcoihans oi Central Asia in the capture of Geok Tepe. a place before which the Russians have before suffered serious reverses. /, ""s'@1t 7'
 ND Vi rG-NT1 S.LSH.~aL2 f~sfisib dts| lS One of the most useful compendiums ot statistics is the Tribune Almanac, recently out for 1881, It contains crowds of recenl facts and figures not easily found at any sucf cheap rate elsewhere. -' .''
 Texas papers still urge division of tha enormous state. Northern Democratic pa pers fayorit asa means of saving the Senat, during Gar6elds administration. ;. It is claim ed that this may be done by simple resolution of the Texas legislature without further con sent of Congress- .ga gta .h.sa'a7
 The New York and New England is fnall, completed to Brewster's, on the Harlem rail :oad, though there is much ballasting to b done and trains will probably not run til spring. The company promise to pusl through the remaining 36 miles to Fishkill il June next ..a s.f5... .... .i-.
 Gov. Jewell has testified before the Hous Investigating Committee that there was n franking of political documents by the Re publican National Committee, but that $10, 900 were paid by them for postage and s6, OO for expressage on such documents. Now cal up Barnum! '''.' .''.' D.
 Dr. Todds church (Congregationaliet) i New Haven, has discarded the everlasting future punishment clause from its creed dur ing the month past, says the New York Sun The next question is whether the Sun is no too interested party to be believed on tha question.
 The Ponca Commission has reported in favo Of allowing them their lands in severalty an taking them either on their old reservation Q in the Indian Territory The Senate debat of Friday bore very hard upon the course talk GU by Sec. Sehurz regarding this tribe. '.Brigh Eyes" seems ts Lave won the game afte all 5.a s.. .5 .e,