Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-29

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 Thursday, Dec. 29, 1881 A drummer killed himself at Meriden, Fri day, by taking laudanum.
 Charles E. Mitchell, of New Britain, Ct., a candidate, for Commissioner of Patents.
 Pres. Arthur attended the New Englan dinner at New York on Thursday night las' The Germans -of,shis staie arc said to | organizing for repeal of the Sunday laws.
 A colored Senator has introduced a bill i'm the Virginia legislature abolishing the whiE n;nO mat W ni N0ff g69 Y.6 zsg fegf'
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 There is now talk of civil as we'll as criin nal prosecutions against the Star Route swit dlers. et Jacob Cramer, father of Jennie Cramer died of consumption at New Haven, iasa week. 3r. .eloev 2ad os7fs27s& < The bill putting Grant on the retired lis with the pay of general will be reported favor ably by the Senate Committee. .''',. x s'55. The defaulting Poughkeepsie bank teller i in an insane asylum, probably for $ brief sea son till it ''blows over" .. ,s.3l.,s E., In Italy the suffrage is now extended to al who can read end write. Heretofore ther has been stringent property qualification. f The Senate finance committee will llrepor favorably on Sherman's bill for the issue Q three per cents. ,..<.se
 General Grant is to be president of th board of trustees of Parson Newmans Madi son Avenue Congregational church. ga;ls. There was large fire at Red Bank, N. J. last week, destroying several buildings wortl some $1Oe.OoO. .-a ''2. f'i' 1'o Sir Edward Reed. an English capitalist has bought railroad and two million acres o land Tn Florida. 1 @
 We see reaction from the extreme fashio, of Christmas and Easter church decoration noted in some of the papers. -
 Senator Jones, of Nevada, is on hand t prevent the passage of any bill stopping th useless coinage of buzzard dollars
 Pennsylvania Independents are not dispose to put up with the candidate for Governo proposed by Mir. Cameron. The capital ex ample set by MT. Wolfe is bearing fruit
 Mir. Vanderbilt still insists that throug rates on ell the great roads shall be identica notwithstanding their difference in length So war is again declared. ..1 .s,a Moody and Sankey are meeting with grea success in London, this winter. Their au diences are estimated to be three times large than on their former visit
 A Church of England minister was sent t. prison, recently, for stealing books. His wifi and Ave children were left absolutely desti ute. at The most celebrated auctioneer of Paris ha retired from business after selling property il the course of his % years work amounting t. over 30 million dollars. .. aa'e The Bible Society does not find peace evel yet. The Connecticut branch comes to tn, charge again with allegations of under-estima tion of assets. ......-.. .-. One of the plans for relief of the U. s. Su preme Court is to divide it into common law equity, and admiralty sections. All the judg es sitting together to adjudicate cases involv ing constitutional and treaty matters.
 It seems that the religious views of the Rev MT. Frothinghsm were greatly misrepresentet snd that there was nothing like recantstioI on his part of the religious belief he has here tofore held.
 The Nebraska Star Route prosecutions ar making more rapid progress than the Easterl cases. The judge of the U. s. District Cour there, has sustained the indictment for con spiracy and trial is expected in January.
 On Friday there was anothex seizure of tn United Ireland newspaper five arrests il different parts of the country, and Mis- Reynolds, of the Ladies' Land League, wa sent to jail.
 The man who has improved the characte of railway refreshments deserves monumeu in Westminster Abbey. MT. Pond did ths very thing, first for Australia and afterward for England. lie died recently, worth $2OO 900.
 Prohibition is not quite effective in Kansa we judge. Gov. St. John has issued prot lamation declaring that the larger cities hay combinations of men who de6antly violate th liquor law, and offering rewards fo. their a rest and conviction. HN
 The Chinese Ambassador has arrived ,s Washington accompanied by his wife an suite. He IS accredited to Spain and Peru $ well as to the United States. His wife, th first Chinese lady of rank ever in this country is said to be quite pretty and attractive. It has been represented that Monsignt Campello. Canon of St. Peter's, whose renul citation of Romanism was recently announced is man of bad private character. Dr. Nevil American Pastor at Rome. denies this accus satiou in toto and says that Campello is gel tleman of unblemlshed character. Fl'
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