Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-26

1be citebhel0 Guquirer,
 liTcHFlElD, CONN. Thursday, May 2e, 1881.
 The Czar seems set against reform.
 The army worm and the potato bug are busy in New Jersey.
 The late Mark Hopkins leaves an estate in- ventoried at $20. FOG, 600. -.-s=---a1z75..s.z
 The Monetary Conference has adjourned till June 30th. ~. -r.rr stAFr -Fg
 The popular attacks on Jews in Russia are said to be part of the plots of the Nihilists
 Gen. Francis A. Walker has been chosen President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... s.
 Evidence is closed in the Whitaker court martial and the case is to be argued week after next.
 An Indiana hurricane carried a barn with six horses in it over half mile without hurt ing the horses.
 Guttenberg. the person accused of the mur der of Nina Muller, has been arrested in New York. He assents his innocence.
 The letter from Grant published last week condemning Robertson's nomination will not make Conkling any the more popular.
 A hostile amendment to the Land bill was voted dswn in the Commons, Thursday night, 352 to 176-iust two to one.
 Count Won Armin, whose difference with Bisulark led to 6 severe sentence by court martial, died at Nice on Thursday.
 Senators Davis and Edmunds knew of Conkling's purposed resignation, it seems. sometime before it was sent in.
 In his lectures to the Yale Students Prof. Sumner denounces the Reconstruction act as the worst legislation of the century.
 Most of the Yale Seniors are said to be IT, tending law; a fair proportion, medicine; few, divinity fewer yet, matrimony.
 Fears are expressed in England of another poor wheat crop. The season is backward and both sun and rain are needed.
 Anti Masons are to erect a monument to Morgan. whose supposed murder led to such momentous political and other results, half century since.
 Judge Bolles, of the Norw lch Bulletin, has a divorce suit on hand, his wife, daughter of the millionaire Sturtevant bringing the pe- tition.
 The Psi Upslon Fratern ity met at Chicago last week. This society has branches in most northern colleges, and numbers over 5000 members Capt. Ead's engineers have discovered two practicable routes for his proposed Tehaun- tepec ship railway. His plan is regarded as certain of accomplishment. We are greatly pleased to note the rejec- ton of Chandler which is one of the few good things the Senate has done during it's ten 
 In recent thunder shower four barns were struck and burnt in East Hartford causing loss of near $12,OOO HOne flash of lightning caused the whole damage. There was a serious mining casualty in Da- kota, last week, by which thirteen men were either buried alive, or shut off from outside communication by the caving in of a shaft. An East Haven grand juror has brought 71 prosecutions against persons failing to register their dogs The sufferers pay $5 fine and costs, apiece, and are thankful.
 The grain crops of the United States for the past ten years are estimated to have been worth ten billions, or an average of billion year. Wheat was exported to the amount of $21O, ,OOO, 900 in 1880.
 The Derby Transcript meets with an ire. parable loss in the death of it's founder and editor, the Rev. W. T. Bacon. Mr. Bacon graduated from Yale in '37 and was one of the founders of the New Haven Courier
 The Baltimore Sun celebrated it's forty fourth anniversary, last week. It began in the disastrous business year of 1887 and has grown to be one of the wealthiest, and ablest journals in the country.
 The Senate finally adjourned without day CD Friday, after acting on all the nomina. tions sent in by the President. Gorhan and Riddeberger still stay out in the cold and Malone seems of greatly less importance than before the Conk ling tantrum.
 On Wednesday Robertson was confirmed in the Senate without serious opposition. The men who might have made fight if Conking had been there, contented themselves with a grumbling "No," and even these were not more than four or five.
 Another crooked Dorsey transaction comes out, or rather came out long ago and has been lately re-discovered by the press. In 1878 he obtained from the postmaster at Little Rock certificates to the suficiency of Star route bonds-which certificates the postmaster sign. ed before ne bonds ,oere filled out The papers were then used by Dorsey to defraud the gov. ernment.
 In England and Germany as well as in the United States the census tells the same story of population crowding out of country into city life. There AS in the older States of our own country, the rural population is diminish. ing All that will no doubt continue for time, but can it last ? Can the city continue to live and thrive by merely sucking the coun- try almost dry of its population9 Surely the time must come when return tide will set in and when the country will gain on the city. Otherwise both will eventually decline together.