Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-02

There was magnificent display at the an- nual Brooklyn Sunday School Parade on Wednesday of last week. Over 50, 900 pupils and near 900 teachers were in ine Streets and buildings were decorated and there were addresses and singing in the churches.
 Delaware still clings to it's stocks and its whipping post. Punishment of this kind is meted out to boys of 10 and 13 and the sheriff had recently to put the little sinners on stools SO that their hands could reach the place of confinement in the pillory.
 It is charged that O. 8. Pitney, keeper of the Treasury building at Washington, has been distributing government furniture, car pets, &c, among government officials. Much petty stealing of this kind goes on at our state capitols as well as at Washington.
 On our first page will be found an interest ing description of the first performance of 'King Edipus" at Cambridge, from the pen of Clarence Deming, of the N. Y. Evening Post. It will repay perusal, giving as it does good resume of the plot of the play as well as excellent description of how it was play ed.
 The political situation in Virginia grows in- teresting. The Straight Republicans are much opposed. as rule, to abandoning their organization, and to coalition with the Read. justers. The administration takes the same view, in spite of the supposed necessity of concluding Malone. Recent local elections apparently indicate that the Malone party is losing ground.
 The first mortgage bondholders of the Con. necticut Western Railroad met at Hartford, last week, to start an organization as stock holders. A majority of the bonds were rep. resented and all but very small proportion favored the proposed organization. Books have been opened for subscription of stock in exchange for bonds, and meeting for organi- zation will shortly be held.
 The Republicans of North Carolina are claiming larger share of the public patron- age than they now get, for the negroes. If the spoils belong to the victors then why is not the colored soldier as much entitled to recognition as the white. To be sure the Southern colored vote availed nothing in the electoral contest, but it has given the House of Representatives to the Republicans.
 The annual interest burden on each inhabi tant in France is $6.25; in England, $4, 25. In America this burden differs with different localities. In Litchfeld our annual town in- terest burden is about S1 33; State, 46 cents ; national. $1.2O; total, about $3 per head In comparing our rates of taxation with those of otLer countries we are apt to compare national rates only, forgetting that here in America our heaviest burdens of that kind are our local burdens.
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