Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-02

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 i. West Winsted-Alice D. Hastings, Winnie A. Smith. Mary T. Webb, .Susa M. Ver- schoyle, Emory L. Mead.
 Winsted Fannie A. White, Fredrika Burt ley, Katherine M Beach. Hattie E. Skinner, Alice L. Coe, Lillian B. Dening, B. W. Carpenter, Eva Waugh
 Winchester Center Jennie Skinner, Katie Phelps, Alice M. Phelps, A. Goodenough.
 Woodbury-Susan s. Curtiss, Lillian A. Gladwin, Lanie E. Curtss, Lucy l.. Thomp- son, Mary R. Miner, Emily T. Miner, Carrie 1. Grisworld.
 The accident at London, Canada, last week, turns out one of the most serious disasters, if not the most serious, of the present year. A small steambe at, of only nineteen tons burdent which runs on the river Thames, was loaded down with a crowd'of 800 or 600 people and sank in deep water, her upper deck and avn ings crushing down on the people below and catching as in trap most of those who were not crushed. About 24O people in all lost their lives, and falling upon small commu- nity the disaster is more terrible and crushing than even the large number destroyed would indicate. In some cases whole families were drowned. For days the city was crowded with funerals as in times of pestilence their presence. In many cases several corpses were piled in one grave. 1t is difficult to de- eide where the blame chiefly lies. whether on captain, owners, or the passengers themselves bo fo hou hoo ;,
 ECHo FARM JERsE Ys.-Mr. F. Ratchford Starr has for years contemplated having an annual sale by auction of animals selected from his famous herd. The time has arrived, ir would seem, when this can be done to ad- vantage. Messrs Peter c. Kellogg 6 Co.,, of New York, are to sell many choice Jerseys of the Echo Farm here, at the Charter Oak Park, Hartford, on Thursday, and Friday the 23d and 24th of June. Catalogues with full par ticulars of each animal, are being prepared. The acknowledged exec Hence of this herd is such as will doubtless bring together many interested in such stock. It will probably be one of the largest and most attractive sales of the kind ever held. Certainly no Jersey cat tie ever had wider and better reputation than these.
 The executors of a Danish princess lately found chest in lumber room which, on being forced open. was found to contain a collection of rich furs, loose briliants, pearl and diamond necklaces, velvets, pieces of richly embroidered satin, canes and riding whips with handles of beautifully chiselled gold or silver Inlaid with precious stones, gold cups; in short, a quantity of valuables worth many thousands of dollars. Apparent ly the existence of this treasure had been en- tirely forgotten by the late Princess.
 The conversion of 25O millions five per. cents into "Windoms," completes the con- version of nearly all our outstanding debts into low interest bonds. It also puts most of them into immediate reach of any future Secretary of the Treasury who may wish to pay them up. He thus saves about four millions yearly-about half what is annually thrown away by Congressman in the River and Harbor bill
 Mir. Conklng's failure is complete. In spite of the effort and the personal appeals he has made, only 36 members of legislature could be persuaded to attend the caucus of his friends on Monday, while there were ffty- se0en at the consultation of administration members. At the balloting, Thursday, the highest number of votes he received in the House was 26; in the Senate, eight of his fol- lowers voted for Platt. The Democrats cast 47 votes in the House and in the Senate. Wm A. Wheeler had 15 votes iu the House, and in the Senate; and the rest of the Ad. ministration vote was divided.
 We are rejoiced to see the New York Eve ming Pos: get into such good hands as those of Carl Schurz, Horace White and E. l.. Godkln, with Mir. Schurz as chief editor That will give us personal" as against "impersonal', journalism'in at least one New York paper As the Springfield Republican tersely puts it, "It is gratifying to know that one leading journal has been rescued to the profession from the money changers"
 A fearful,y brutal affair is reported fror, Georgia. The wife of a respectable farmer told her daughter to prepare dinner She re. fused. The mother threatened to report her for punishment. The daughter then shot the mother, mortaly woundng her; and the father, on his return. whipped ihe daughter till she is not expected to live. Both mother and daughter were members of the church.
 About billion letters were sent thought the U. s. mail last year; about a third that number of postal cards, and over 800 papers. England sends just about the same number of letters that we do annually, but her pos lage is less; Germany. about two thirds of our number; and France but little over half as many as Germany. A French paper esti- mates the number of letters annually sent throughout the world at near four billions or