Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-08

Ube Git1b6elo Gnquirer,
 LITCHFIELD, CONN. T Thursday, Dec. 8, 1881. o ,zzz=zz-==--z=------------ ---- - Il The reports all indicate very short cotton n crop. An indictment has been found against the .' man who shot at Guiteau. A great falling off in German exports has o resulted from Bismark's protective policy. |, The French Minister of Education has taken D former assistant of Pere Hyacinthe as an ie assistant A Buffalo grave robbery has turned out to
 be a conspiracy to defraud several insurance companies.
 A Nebraska postmaster, and two stage line W agents, have been indicted for Star Route s frauds. al
 It is claimed that new ship is building at g Nyac which can make twenty-eight miles an
 hour. S Four persons were canonized at Rome, last ~ ', week. No American has been thus honored, 'U that we have ever heard of. - Schneider. the actress who made the Duch- W ess of Gerolstein SO popular, has married. of She is rich and forty. at Some Scotch resurrectionists have stolen al the body of the late Earl of Crawford with Ia the intent apparently to levy ransom .' Senator Beck has been renominated by
 Kentucky legislative caucus. He is one of
 the ablest Democrats in the Senate. lit Charleston colored Republicans approve the :. Virginia coalition and predict the downfall ;. of the Bourbon Democracy in other Southern h, States. Ii, The death rate in New York city has in- de creased 9 per cent in the present year There pr have been il, 300 more deaths than births in 6e the city. gr An effort is being made to raise fund for - ! whether any great enthusiasm will develop in .a . favor of the project.
 A reduction of nearly two millions has been
 made in the cost of carrying the Star Route - mails since MT. James came into office. - A Russian prince has been sentenced to D, dismissal from the army. and to three years of confinement in fortress, for wounding mer- in chant. ] in Bismarck was beaten, two to one, in the m Reichstag. Thursday, on vote for payment ga of the expenses of an economical council, tn which he declared absolutely necessary. w Commissioner Baum recommends abolish tb ing all the internal revenue taxes except those he on liquors and tobacco and articles manufact- th ured from them. ;n A queer affair happened in Wallingford. re- ar ceuty. A girl ran away with an old lover on fir her wedding night and after she had actually to married the wrong man. to The Russian Nihilists are paying dearly for oa ~ the crimes they have committed Over sixty ILL will be soon put on trial. and numbers are
 peaching on their stouter accompliices. nc Miss Anna Dickinson has started another ot lawsuit against theatrical manager If she 'n would turn her attention from the stage to the si law she would start with more cases than es most young lawyers. '. 's There was reduction ia the public debt, | ay last month, of $7,249, ,126. Since July 1st, to the reduction has been sixty two millions, as la against thirty-seven millions in the same m months of last year. M It is now said that Gould 6 Cyrus w. Field :" own controlling interest in stock of the New " " York and New England ratIroad and there is '' talk of new Grand Central Depot ip New ". ~. York City for the Gould road. "'
 ps The Rev. MT. Thwing has been investgat- ac ing into the effect of the Maine Law in Maine te While on the whole his report is favorable to re its efficiency, he is convinced that many of the ca town agents are iu collision with the tipplers re Edinburgh has pulled down 2,700 houses u' u. which were decided to be unfit to be inhab- '' tted, in the last IA years, and has spent 24
 millions in improvements. A fall of the death in rate from 26 in the thousand to 90, has been m one of the results. m It is now said that Mir Frslinghuysen will C certainly come into the Cabinet as Secretary tc of State He is of old Whig descent ('Hur- to rah for Clay and FrelinghHysen" eec- os ton of '44) and is Grant men though not an W irredeemable etalwart, we hope n Outrages continue in Iceland. Last week, rs farmer was killed for paying his rent, in one le place 200 head of cattle were mutilated, in hi another; and police officer declared guilty ct of murder by coroners jury for shooting lc woman in 8 crowd of rioters d Mrs. Lilly Christiancy, defendant is the mo- Q torious divorce suit. was found on Washing c ton street the other night bsreheaded, in her c night dress, with hair streaming over her e shoulders and wild in her actions. She was D sent home in hack. Her troubles Ere SUD- p posed Co have driven her mad b The high assessment of candidates prevails
 in both parties to an extent that now and then \, meets a pretty firm rehuff Tn the ,aaf Ohio l "