Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-20

The Scotch yacht Madge has been beaten at last by the Boston yacht Shadow, but re. i taiiated by defeat of the Shadow in another sace. -. '..-,---.r The Yorktown guests were welcomed to the l Capitol. on Friday. There was grand re- ception. the city was illuminated, and there was display of fireworks. -,sv-.1 Iroquois was beaten in one race, but won another at Newmarket, last week. The sue ceases of American horses is quite remark able. 7f 9' .9., '7a' The next appointment to the Supreme Court Bench is said to have been promised Judge Gray, of Massachusetts. Senator Edmunds is also mentioned in that connection. The late wife of Prof. Fiske, of Cornell, has made some very handsome gifts to that | college. amounting to near $500, 900 in all. l She leaves her husband $500. 900. The argument of the motion to quash the indictment against the Star Route thieves has been postponed till next week. Evidently there is to be no great hurry. .a l'7' s' The reason of Mir. Windom's hurry to get out of the Cabinet is that he intends going back to the Senate. There will be little oppo. sition, Mr. Edgarton withdrawing his name from the canvass. E-4-o. -,
 A comicalt mistake occurred in New York aarbor, last week. Some custom house of- hcers were rowing around vessel when they were hailed from on board and near 5000 Havana cigars carefully put in their keeping under the belief that they were confederates.
 There are rumors of duel between Ma hone and Gen. Jubal Early. That would be hardly fair. Malone is of too much account 1 to be fooled away but why not let Geo. Cor ham fight Barley? It would be an affair in which the country would be safe whichever wen. f @@"/ fFfa34f'o is r. f'9yT ? |
 -------------.fft. fft.,,f si i}aRip ip, ! The Yale Freshmen have beaten the Soph- omores in boat race. In College circles, " tho arrest of Parnel, the presidency pro tem of David Davis, and the Ohio election are insignificant trifes compared with this great event. &'H+''.t 2'+ r"
 Chamberlain, Chief of the Hartford police, is on trial for alleged ineficieucy and corrup- tion in office. He has been in difficulty often before, and ought no doubt to be removed on the ground that SO often leads to change of parsons-thst ''their usefulness in that field is clearly at an end" ''' v4#
 Mir. Edwin A. Freeman, the English his- tOrian, has arrived in this country with his wife, prepared to deliver two courses of six historical lectures each. One course is upon "The English Speaking Peoples, and their Four Homes" the other upon ''The General Lessons of European History ii .ls, Y
 The losses by the burning of the Morfell warehouse reach large class of depositors 1lr. Vanderbilt loses to the amount of $1Oo,- 900. The venerable Stephen H. Tyng, whose furniture and library were placed there only for few weeks, while changing his residence loses all, and there was no insurance" Miss Ida Greeley is one of the losers. -.. ,.,....
 Virginians of the Malone stripe are raising money among Northern Republicans with which to fight the Bourbons for the possession of the somewhat dilapidated Mother of, Presi- dents. We have an idea that the funds will do the gentlemen who get them some good, but whether they will make Republlcan or aquasi- Republican State of Old Virginia is Q much more doubtful question. .r
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 There was 6 terrible loss of life at Phila. delphia fire on Wednesday night last. Lsn- denburger's mill, building four and one.half stories high, caught fire, there being no fire escapes. and very narrow stairwsys Out of 30 employees at work on the upper floors, eleven are known to be dead and 19 were more or less hurt in jumping to the ground, There is a State law requiring adequate fire escapes, but no attempt has been made to en- force 1t apparently. '2.,
 Congressman Jorgensen, of Virginia, one of the ''stalwarts" of that section who has hitherto refused to coalesce with Malone, A :. nally yields, and concludes to go against the Bourbon even if he has to help Readjustei As the campaign goes on, he says, 1t becomes mote and more evident that the fight is for power and that honesty is 6 secondary consid. eration even with those who profess most.
 The death of Dr. Holland removes one ot the most popular, estimable and amiable of American authors, though not one of our greatest. His habits of thought were conser. vative on most subjects, with now and then a squirt into radicalism. The sharpest arrow ever shot at him by an opponent was "War. ringtons epithet of, 'sThe Great American Tupper." There was just enough truth in the slur to make it effective. Among our few American writers on serious subjects the loss of 60 able, honest, and pleasing writer will be severely felt. 's.,o f. ya
 The Republicans had a very gratifying sue cess in Ohio, last week. They carried the State by about s5, 900 majority and have ( very large majority in the legislature The Republicans consider 1t the greatest victory they have won in the state since 1855. Gin cinnati. though there was much scratching went heavily Republican. Iowa went Repub iican by about 5000 majority-s sweep oi old-fashioned dimensions. 'I, Il,
 Judge Jarnieson, of Chicago, has beer charging grand jury to the effect that thu grain gamblers who are conducting .'business' with high hand in that city are as r,uch lia bie to prosecution as any other gamblers isa pity some example Is not made of them for the damage they do is not confined to thei own success or ruin. They derange th' whole business of the country. 9.ad! ia
 There has been much trouble in accommo dating even the foreign guests at Yorktown The houses set apart for their use are neithe