Litchfield enquirer., 1881-07-07

Qbe Gttfbhelo Gnquirer, LlTCHFiELD, CONN. Thursday, July 7, 1881.
 Hannibal Hamlin has been nominated Min ister to Spain.
 There has been fatal case of cholera ir Philadelphia.
 Iowa Republicans had spicy convention last week. A MT. Sherman was nominated for Governor over MT. Larabee.
 The Bulgarian elections are favorable to the court. Prince Alexander will have large majority in the new convention.
 Jay Gould works seven days in the week, which, considering the kind of work he does, is clearly wicked.
 Henry C. Cadmus. postmaster at South Amboy, shot hinslf, last week. He had en- bezzled money.
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 Cornell was beaten. last week, both in its race for the Stewards cup and in the race with the Hertford College crew.
 Indictments have been found by the Albany Grand Jury against several other persons, in addition to Sessions, for bribery.
 Yale won the boat race on Friday. Har- yard had light but plucky crew and gave the Yale giants sharp race.
 The government will soon remove Commis- sioner French, it is believed. He will then become railroad attorney at Washington in all probability.
 Several times recently Instructions have been placed on the. railroad track in North Kent. A fellow named Robert Reinhardt has been arrested on suspicion.
 Dr. Tyng now abroad on life insurance bus. mess, announces his intention of making a fortune before he returns. Then he willf at liberty to preach again.
 The latest news from the President shows continued improvement. Great hopes of his recovery are now entertained although he IS by no means out of danger.
 The size of the old-time New England chimney may be inferred from the fact that 9O,OOO brick were recently taken out of three chimneys in a single house at Portland, Maine.
 Hon. John Boyd, of Winsted was one of the Yale class of '21 which held it's sixth de- cenuial meeting last week. "Give us your hand, John Boyd" was probable a current remark there, as it was in politics years ago.
 There has been savage church row ia Norwalk, Conn.,, resulting in the dismissal of the Rev. E. D. Bentley, minister of the Bap tist church there, and noted in temperance circles.
 Small pox is depopulating Holmdel and Alt lantic township, N. Y. There have been a number of deaths and.a number fatally ill, and people are taking to their heels in every direction.
 Pres Garfield was intending to stay with Cyrus w. Field over Sunday, to go on to the Williams College Commencement, this week, and then to take short tour in Vermont, re- turning to Washington while his wife went back to Mentor. MT. Edwin Booth is back in New York. He is very much pleased as he had a right to be-with his success in England. Still he considers the London theatfes inferior to those of New York, and the actors not as good, es- pecially in Shakespeare's plays.
 On Thursday last, fine oration was deliy- cred before the Harvard, Phi Beta Kappa Society by Wendell Philips. It was anobie appeal for universal suffrage. It specially deprecates the opposition to that measure usually made by literally educated men.
 Mir. Patt has finally withdrawn from the Senatorial struggle at Albany. This leaves the course open to compromise between the Conkling men and the Administration Repub- licans A call for Republican conference has been signed by a majority of the Repub lican members. Astronomers calculate that the comet it about thirty. five million millions of miles from the earth and moving away at the rate of { million of miles daily. It passed nearest tht sun on the 23d inst, and nearest the earth or the 18th.
 Virginia Republicans have finally decided tt call a State Convention. The committee voter IA to 13 an indication of how evenly tn, Republicans of the State are divided on this important question of policy. It is considered triumph for the Mahone wing
 Senator Sessions has been indtted for bri bery. The papers charge that John F. Smytl had the manipulation of the grand jury, ant that it is piece of Conkling persecution There is no knowing whether Sessions is gull ty in this instance; but there is no doubt