Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-13

Gbe Gitebdel6 Guquirer,
 lITcHFlELD, CONN. Thursday, Oct. 13, 1881. Masked robbers took $1, 300 from Kansas farmer, Thursday night.
 An insect is reported doing great damage to the spruce forests of the Northeast.
 Massachusetts Democrats met at Worcester, last week, and renominated their old ticket.
 A committee has been appointed to receive donations to Garfield Memorial Hospital.
 Typhoid fever is reported very prevalent and very fatal at Boston.
 There have been great floods at the West and much loss of lumber in Wisconsin and Minnesota. t.-.. .t.- -...r,
 On Thursday last there were severe frosts reported from the Southern States, where they came rather earlier in the year than usaal The flag of the ''pirate" Alabama is on ex. hibtion at Boston. Its owner values it at the modest sum of $10, 900.
 An equestrian statue to Gen. Burnside is to be set up in Providence. Several thousand dol lars has been contributed to this object.
 The Ohio wheat crop of the present year is only 70 per cent of that of last year. Corn is also short crop. 7... -. a....G I Mir. Nelson w. Aldrch has been elected U. s. Senator from Rhode Island. Heis a young man as statesmen" go, being only forty years old. .. The Catholic college of St. Therese, about % miles northwest of Montreal was burnt, last week, the loss is from $500, 900 to $40O,- 900. s,f ...t...t. s,....-b...
 It is said that an extensive ring of clerks has been discovered in the Pension Bureau, organized with a view of passing bogus claims. i, .s .lr.
 The convicts in the Ohio penitentiary have sent $1O0 to the Michigan sufferers. They saved it by sale of trinkets and denying them- selves tobacco.
 The Springfield Republican believes that reciprocity treaties with Canada, Mexico and the West Indies would assure American pros perity for half generation.
 MT. Parnell is radical enough in his views regarding just rent. He declares that rentl should be reduced to one-ninth of their present amount. That is hardly possible.
 Gladstone avows that he is in favor of ar English land bill. and that will no doubt be an important matter for the consideration ol Parliament at it's next session.
 The Third Class of the Naval School have been sent aboard the Ship Santee. under or. ders not to speak to each other, for hazing the Fourth Glass, newly entered at the Academy
 It is cheerful to see that New Jersey car succeed where Connecticut fails. Neptune City has carried vote prohibiting the sale ol liquor in the place.
 An important decision of the New York Court of Appeals gives the Boston, Hoosat Tunnel & Western R. R. Co., the road bed oi the abandoned Albany & Northern road, worth about $1, 100000. -
 A correspondent of the New York Tribune protests against the condition of things al Niagara. He favors the idea of an interna tional park, as proposed by Lord Dufferln anG Gov. Robinson.
 It is said that the Nihilst head quarters a St. Petersburgh have been discovered and sixty arrests made. Still, the most extraor dnary precautions are taken for the safety o the CZar -. .
 Edison claims to have made a machine witt power sufficient for 100 electric lights. One of these powerful "dynamos" has beer sent to the Paris Exposition another is going soon to LOnQ0n.
 Bigamist "Marvln" has got ten years in the penitentiary for bigamy and forgery in Vir. ginia Other states are waiting for the termi- nation of these terms to give him his deserts for the like crimes committed elsewhere.
 The French delegation to the Yorktown Centennial arrived at New York, on Wedues day last, and were received by Gov. Cornell They will visit West Point, Niagara, ant other places of interest before going
 A statue of the grand old Huguenot leader Coligny, is to be erected in France. The most distinguished victim of St. Bartholomew is now remembered with pride by Catholics al well as Protestants. .s ."-
 The top of the dome of the new Capitol a Hartford has been much stained by the wash ing Of some acid, rust, or other discolorins matter, from the statue. An effort is to be made to remove the stain.
 One of the important offices now vacan and waiting the action of President Arthur il that Of Superintendent of the Court Survey Gen. Comstock, of the Engineer Corps, ii mentioned as the successor of the late Mr Patterson.
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 The owners of the only factory in Ply mouth' Mass, have been enjoined agains ringing their bell too early in the morning The sumbers of two and half centuries AT not to be roughly broken. sr.