Litchfield enquirer., 1881-07-28

Over forty of the employees on the Old n Colony railroad have been dismissed for color e blindness. t.
 Two engineers and fireman were killed near Zoar on the Fitchburg railroad, last Ii Wednesday. u The office of collector of delinquent taxes iu Philadelphia is thought to be worth from $150, 1000 to $2O0, ,OOO.a year. An Arkansas editor, proprietor of the A Fourche Valley Times, Tn Perry county. was s, shot dead on. Thursday night. T About 800 French troops are reported kill led or wounded at the taking of Sfax in Tunis Ia The Arabs still hold part of the town. d. There was a loss of property to the amount VI of $16O, 900 by the burning of Pennsylvania e, paper mil Friday. D, AReyoutinary Congress was held in Lon- 'e don, last week, at which red flags were dis S' played and extreme views advocated. L. The Executive Committee of the 2d Regt. d' c. V. A., have fixed upon Wednesday. Sept. ,h n1 14th for their next reunion at Woodbury. q, It seems that Guiteau had lad his plans to rb shoot the President through the head in nc church on Sunday the Sd inst. ar It is said that Adam Hartman. the famous it Russian Nihilst, arrived in this country as steerage passenger on the 14th inst. ., Three prisoners in an Illinois lookup were tn struck by lightning recently. How about a' Q cruel and unusual punishments? " A French duelist has been sentenced to pay the family of his victim $20, 900 and to go to or seems very slight. .o It costs about one million and three quarters tn to support the poor of Berlin; smaller pro- lii portion than this is shown in London or to Paris.
 A pedestrian statue of General Mac Emerson i' was unveiled at Clyde, Ohio, on Friday. '' Fully 1S,OOO persons are said to have been til present. FO Wm. H. Vanderbilt has offered two thirds -; of the amount necessary to endow 8 woman's ,; college at Nashville. Efforts are being made ,o to raise tbe rest. 7, It is pleasant to see the wife-beater get jus. tice at last. On Friday, Jersey Judge gave D an offender of that description five years in penitentiary. The song of the shirt is not made more III cheerful, unfortunately, by the invention of the sewing machine. A New York sewing wo- man by working IA hours day can make $5 n a week. The Irish Land bill has finally gone through the Committee of the whole. It now passes its third reading and then will go the House of Lords. It has not been materially changed thus far. al Several anecdotes are going the rounds of the country papers regarding the egibility of F Dean Stanley's handwriting. An article he wrote for Scrbners had to be sent back to Il England to be deciphAred, it is said. tt
 Before the adjournment of the New York s' legislature bill passed calling an election in 0 the Congressional districts where vacancies have occurred through the election of Miller C and Lapham to the Senate. n Geo. T. Coles, of Hartford, recently book II keeper at Miners Theatre, NewsYork, was a fatally shot by married woman with whom he had been criminaily intimate, last week. d She has been committed for trial T The Tribune gives one of the curiosities of [ the London stock market in the prospectus of a gold mining company which refers to Gene U sis Il: Il and 12, for descriptive account of the place where the gold is to be found. n The rights of bYcyclers are to be tested in the Jersey courts. A bycycle recently col. iided with buggy and both were smashed and their proprietors hurt Hence the ques- Q tion whether the bycycle is lawful vehicle arises.
 The members of the Irish Land Commission 2 have been designated as follows: Sergeant t O'Hagan, an eminent member of the Irish v oar; Mir. Litton, Liberal member of parlia n ment; and Mir. Vernon, business man of t experience fn managing Irish estates, p In March last the body of young man V
 
 was found in Rubber-MiH Pond, Newtown. t Circumstances indicated that he had been killed by three Irishmen named Kane. Mo i; Namara, and Finnell They were arrested $ and gave bonds for trial before the Superior g Court. Detectives looking up the matter have 1; found Hew evidence against the accused and | they have been arrested on charge of murder a in the first degree.
 World correspondent gives glowing ac- i, count of the debut of Miss Griswold Bret r Hartes niece At Paris, where she has made a [ great hit As singer she has been working 5 very hard for several years and now has her f reward in q wonderful success Iu the mean. time, Low many fail where Miss Grsweld I succeeds? 2 BLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for July. contains: Besieged in the Transvaal, I : The Defence of Standerton; "Reminiscences ( or Prison-life; The Land of Khemi Part II. 7 -Ihe Labyrinth and the Lakes; The Private !, Secretary, Part K; A French Lady and her Friends; King Bemba's Point. A West Af- rican Story; Recolections la Fonrchette : TunIs; The Late Andrew Wilson. Ir