Litchfield enquirer., 1881-08-25

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 LiTCHFsELD, CONN. Thursday, Aug. 25, 1881. There seems little prospect of renewal o1 the Anglo Frence commercial treaty.
 Ii is expected that 30, 900 militia will be present at the Yorktown celebration.
 Chinese are emigrating in increased nun bers to Australia and the Sandwich Islands.
 So far Collector Robinson has refused te make political appointments in tue Custom House. e'
 Dean Stanley died worth some $4oO, ,OOO Ii is believed that Canon Farrar will be his successor.
 The man who killed Norwich police of ficer about six months ago. was arrested 1T New Jersey, Friday
 The disaster at the Marseilles bull hgh caused the death of 27 and the woundlng o 
 3O6 persons.
 The Virginia tobacco crop is greatly belo" the average The season was backward ane drouth has followed.
 Mayor Bulkley, of Hartford, sent over loo' noor women and children of that city on ar excursion to Fenwick grove, on Monday.
 The city of Brooklyn has new charte which places all it's executive government un dpr the control of the mayor.
 The Cornell crew accuse Shinkel, thel stroke. who fell suddenly sick in the Vienn race, of selling out.
 The National Bar Association recommend & three years course of study for attorneys and the passage of national bankrupt law.
 It now turns out that ex -Sen Dorsey hold some 12,OOO to 15,0OO acres of land by fraut on the land acts.
 Judge Allen of the Massachusetts Superlo Court bench has been appointed to succeed the late Judge Colt on the Supreme bench.
 The Atlantic Touring mill at St. Louis wa exploded, recently, by stroke of lightning It burnt in half an hour and several live were lost. +.r
 A Wisconsin farmer recently killed sever wolves after sharp fight. He was badl. bitten, but got BIT in bounties and hand some sum for their skins
 Vermont had 75,0OO scolars in the publ schools, last year, and the schooling Of eacf scholar costs about $6. The average cost o teachers is about $83 per annum.
 The Panama canal gets on slowly. Dis ease has carried off four chief officers. Int tools and machinery are antiquated and thu job lauguishes Indianapolis boasts 6 scissors-grinder 10 years old-a British veteran of the Napoleoni war-aud the father of 17 children, of age verying from g to 89.
 The National Bar Association met at Sara toga, last week. Hon. Clarkson N. Potte was chosen President for the coming yea and Alvin P. Hyde, Vice President for thi State.
 A Georgia negro killed whole family con sisting of man, his wife, and two servants on Tuesday of last week. The fellow is il jail with smart chance of being lynched or a favorable opportunity.
 Friday was great day in the Chicago grail market, and the heaviest business ever knowr at one session was transacted Prices range very high with a slight drop at the close.
 We see it proposed to give pensions to tn survivors of Andersonville. The plan is just iy criticised The work of the pension bu reau is already hopelessly behind, and tn country is already paying all it can well af ford for pensions.
 Last week a plucky negro soldier shot on train robber on the Atchison and Santa Fe' railroad, and drove the rest out of the car The soldier was wounded but set an excellen example for men of lighter complexion.
 Guiteau tried to kill one of his guards, ol Wednesday last. He. had knife made O a steel shank of a shoe and sharpened. Tn knife is thought to have been left in the mat rass in his cell by former prisoner
 The Springfield Republican count the Cabi net mostly favorable to civil service reform Blaine it considers teo old, and too hardene a sinner, for conversion. Even conservativ Canada is moving for an improvement of thi kind.
 The Secretary of State has invited variou Steubens. relatives of the old General, and wh are officers in the German army, to atten the Yorktown celebration as guests of tn the government.
 Gen. Moves, late Minister to France, ar rived in this country on Friday He was o course interviewed, at once, and talked good deal about French politics He believe that there can be no serious monarchical op position, and that Gambetta still retains an, deserves to retain the confidence of the Frencl people.
 English municipalities are not so far be hind American in lavish appropriations an, heavy indebtedness. Their city and tow debts have nearly doubled within the pas seven years, and now amount to $35O, GOO, GOO Italy has suffered most of any continenta State in this respect. Florence local taxation takes nearly half the income of real estate.
 The Hartford Times Litchfeld correspen dent estimates the number of summer board CTS on the line of the Shepaug railroad as fol lows: at Ltchdeld, 600; at Waramaug Lake 375; elsewhere, 125. There are a much lar gsr number than usual at Morris, this sum mer. He speaks also of the improving bdsi ness of the Roxbury stone quarries.
 On Sunday the French Republic had a AW