Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-29

why 10 Oautd Siaus aiWayS FcpTcScHCc0 WILL the face of a bloated old bummer not quite recovered from his last spreep Couldn't he be put on course of bread and water some- time in November and made half way presen- table by Christmas?
 s Peruvian bonds, to an amount exceeding $2OO, ,OO0, 900, are outstanding and it is fast becoming doubtful whether there is to be any Peru left to pay them. Half these bonds are owned in England. Peru is very rich coun- try and could easily pay her debt if there could be anything like stable and honest government there.% 4s "5 AFit ,. '. Y.a7h'
 A correspondent of the London News was arrested at Constantinople, last week, on charge of using language insulting to the Sul- tan In restaurant. He claimed that he was under the influence of fever. He was just out of jail at Merv. The career of . newspaper correspondent in semi civilized countries seems not an altogether desirable one. ta e9
 A Philadelphia scientist has secured the skull of an extinct species of monkey. of very small size, but in conformation more like the human skull than that of any animal yet dis. covered. He considers it the earliest indica- ton of mans existence. t
 A druggists clerk WAS bound over at Spen. Ger, Mass, last week, for having killed wo. man ny giviug her oxalic acid instead of Ep. som salts It seems that the accident was oc- casioned by the emptying of package of crystals of oxalic acid in.o drawer of Bosom salts, and the crystals looking SO much alike that no one could see any difference between them. #-' ."i. There is split in the Democratic ranks in Tennessee from which the Tribune hopes that another crack in the too Solid South may re- suit. Queerly enough the coalition in this case is between the wing of the Democracy opposing repudiation and the Republicans. One advantage of tue arrangement is already secured in an apportionment of Representa- tives favorable to the Republicans. ,a
 The rescue of most of the Jeauette's crew is welcome news. 1t had been generally sup posed that they were all lost. It seems that the vessel was crushed in the ice on the I1th ot June. The crew took to three boats and after cruise of more than three months reached the Siberian coast In September. There IS some hope that the second boats crew may have found their way to the mainland. 1.F ,5f .FAt4 ->s- L-~- --a-.}Ftf fI
 |. Among the promising schemes before Con. gress are several for appropriation of from $s,- 0O0, 900 to SIG. .00O, 900 Tor the improvement of the Mississippi river. The plethoric coudi- ton of the national treasury suggests great many such plans. Why might not our ever increasing piles of buzzard dollars be arranged along the banks of the Father of Waters in such way as would accomplish the double object of getting rid of this superfuous c,lrren- cy aud leveeing the river: er .tea# F :.
 The Springfield, Republican thinks that Speaker Keller has done his worst m the dis tribution of House Committees. ..He has paid for tue support of Pennsylvania by put ting the remarkable tariff fauat,c and iinan- ciaI crank Judge Kelley, in the place of leader of the House, as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. - s<We have . slalwart president, stalwart cabinet a stall wart speaker. all done 90 quietly that scarcely a protest has been heard s.s That man Guiteaa has made Q deal of history, gentle men," as sa