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LITCHFIELD^ CONN._
Thursday, July 7, 1881.
Haoaibal Hamlin baa been nominated Min
ister to Spain. _
There has been a fatal case of cholera in
Philadelphia.
Iowa Republicans had a spicy convention,
last week. A Mr. Sherman was nominated
for Governor over a Mr. Larabee.
The Bulgarian elections are favorable to the
court. Prince Alexander will have a large
majority in the new convention.
Jay Gould works seven daya> in the week,
which, considering the kind of work he does,
is clearly wicked.
Henry C. Cadmus, postmaster at South
4 Amboy, shot himslf, last week. He bad em
bezzled money.
Cornell was beaten, last week, both in its
race for the Steward’scup and in the race with
the Hertford College crew.
Indictments have been found by the Albany
Grand Jury against several other persons, in
addition to Sessions, for bribery.
Yale won the boat race on Friday. Har
vard had a light but plucky crew and gave
• the Yale giants a sharp race.
The government will soon remove Commis
sioner French, it is believed. He will then
become a railroad attorney at Washington in
all probability.
Several times recently obstructions have
been placed on the railroad track in North
Kent. A fellow named Robert Reinhardt has
been arrested on suspicion.
Dr. Tyng ,now abroad on life Insurance bus
iness, announces his intention of making a
fortune before he returns. Then he will feel
at liberty to preach again.
The latest news from the President shows
continued improvement. Great hopes of his
recovery are now entertained although he is
by no means out of danger.
The size of the old-time 5lew England
chimney may be inferred from the-fact that
90,000 brick were recently taken out of three
chimneys in a single house at Portland,
Maine.
Hon. John Boyd, of Wiusted was- one of
the Yale class of ’21 which held its sixth de
cennial meeting last week. “Give us your
baud, John Boyd,” was probable a current
remark there, as it was in politics years ago.
There has been a savage church row la
Norwalk, Conn., resulting in the dismissal of
the Rev. E. D. Bentley, minister of the Bap
tist church there, and noted in temperance
circles.
Small pox is depopulating Holmdel and At
lantic township, N. Y. There have been a
number of deaths, and-a number fatally ill,
and people are taking to their heels in every
direction.
Pres. Garfield was intending to stay with
Cyrus W. Field over Sunday, to go on to the
Williams College Commencement, this week,
and then to take a short tour in Vermout, re
turning to Washington while his wife went
back to Mentor.
Mr. Edwin Booth is back in New York.
He is very much pleased— as he had a right
to be—with his success in England. Still be
considers the London theatres inferior to those
of New York, and the actors not as good, es
pecially in Shakespeare’s plays.
On Thursday last, a fine oration was deliv
ered before the Harvard., Phi Beta Kappa
Society by Wendell Philips. It was a noble
appeal for universal suffrage. It specially
deprecates the opposition to that measure
usually made by liberally educated men.
Mr. Platt has finally withdrawn from the
Senatorial struggle at Albany. This leaves
the course open to a compromise between the
Conkling men and the Administration Repub
licans. A call for a Republican conference
has been signed by a majority of the Repub
lican members.
Astronomers calculate tnat tne comet is
about thirty-five million millions of miles from
the earth and moving away at the rate of a
million of miles daily. It passed nearest the
sun on the 23d inst., and nearest the earth on
the 19tb.
Virginia Republicans have finally decided to
call a State Convention. The committee,
voter 14 to 13 an indication of how evenly the
Republicans of the State are divided on this
important question of policy. It is considered
a triumph for the Mahone wing.
Senator Sessions has been indited for bri
bery. The papers charge that John P. Smyth
had the manipulation of the grand jury, and
that it is a piece of Conkling persecution.
There is no knowing whether Sessions is guil
ty in this instance; but there is no doubt,
that he “has done enough else.”
A man was arrested in a rear yard in New
Haven, on the 25 inst., handcuffed and taken
to the police office. He claimed to have
been roughly treated by the policemen who.
arrested him, and died two days after in the
hospital. Au autopsy showed internal inju
ries of a character that would cause death.
The policemen deny having used violence.
Capt. Robert Hardie, qf Baltimore, the last
survivor of the Dartmoor prisoners at the time
of the massacre died at that place, last week.
That was the Andersonville of the war of
1812; where, if prisoners were somewhat better
fed than at the notorious Southern prison pen,
they were massacred with even less ex
cuse.
The court trying the murderers of the late
Sultao of Turkey, Abul Aziz have found the
following persons • guilty. Mustafa, the
wrestler; Mustafa, a sergeant; Fahri
Bey and Hadi Mehmed of murder; and
Hli Bey, Nedjib, Midhat Pasha, Nourichasa
and Mahmoud Pasha, accomplices, being
privy to the crime. The criminals have most
of them been sentenced to death.
The International Sunday School' Conven
tion held at Toronto, Canada, last week, was
quite an important gathering. About 500 del
ogates were present from this country and
Canada, representing schools numbering over
•even million scholars. This county bas a
representative in J. J. Whiting, of Winsted.
Among the musical features was “God Save
the Queen” by a Canadian chorus, and a verse
or two of “America” (our version or perver
sion of that national hymn) by the delegates
from the States.
One of the worst features of the Star Route
frauds is the facility with with which Dorsey
and others got the signatures of public men in
aid of their fraudulent business. The New
York Times gives the names of those who pe
titioned to have a route from Indian Territory
■to New Mexico “expedited-” The mail bags
generally went empty, and the original con
tract was for but $6,330 a year. Seven LT. S.
Senators, as many Representatives in Con
gress, Gen. Sherman and numerous army offi*
cere, and 100 members of the St. Louis Mer
chants’ Exchange, signed a petition to have
this useless route “expedited.” ft was done,
and the pay raised to $150,591 a year, or
About twenty-five time the original amount.
Attempt to Kill the Pre*ident 1
On Saturday morning tbe whole country
was shocked to hear of the shooting of Presi
dent Garfield by a half crazy Chicago lawyer.
It appears that a little after nine o’clock, the
President drove up to the Baltimore and Po
tomac Station, intending to join his wife at
Jersey City and pass Sunday at the residence
of Cyrus W. Field, at Irvington on the Hud.
son River. Tbe scene at the station is thus
reported in tbe Sun :
The President entered the depot, Mr. Blaine
with him, and was passing along tbe aisle
leading from the door to the inner or large
waiting room. Suddenly there was a report
so loud and resonant that every one supposed
one of those large firecrackers used ou tbe
Fourth of July had been fired. The Presi
dent himself did not apprehend trouble, not
even paying tbe slightest heed to the report.
Had he done so, had he turned, he might pos
sibly have seen tbe assassin, who stood there,
cool and quiet, and not more than three feet
behind him, with a revolver pointed at his
back. But the President did not turn. Mr.
Blaine did not manifest the slightest uneasi
ness, and even, thronged as the . depot was,
people within arms’ reach of the assassin, no
one seemed to realize or to know that murder
was about to be committed. It was done in
an instant. The reports were only such a time
apart as sufficed for the re-cocking of the re
volver. Then came the second one. TLe
President stopped,* turned, saw the assassin
standing there stith the ready revolver, and
for an instant the President and his murderer
were face to face. Then the President reeled.
He fainted not to unconsciousness but to
weakness, and even before he could be caught
he fell to the floor, striking the bench as be
did so. There was terror'at once. The Sec
retary of State seemed instantly to realize
what bad happened and what its consequences
were. He shouted for help. He called
“Rockwell, Rockwell, where is Rockwell ?”
Then be turned and seemed about to pursue
tbe assassin, but the assassin was already in
tbe firm grasp of an officer.
The President it seems never lost conscious
ness. From the very first he feared the
wound was fatal, and said “God’s will be
be done, I am content, either way.” He en
quired the assassin’s name and asked Mr.
Blaine what motive he could have had. The
latter said he was evidently a maniac and
asked Mr. Garfield if he was aware of any
motive the fellow could have. The President
smiled aud said, “I suppose he thought ‘it
would be a glorious thing to be a pirate
king.”’ #
The first telegram from Secretary Blaine,
immediately after the President had been re
moved to the White House expressed strong
hopes of recovery. Later intelligence grew
worse. Mrs. Garfield, herself very weak
from illness, arrived, about seven in the even
ing. He recognised and talked to her. He
was thought to be rapidly failing, but the lat
ter part of the night showed some improve
ment and people began to take hope. On
Sunday morning he rallied and showed mark
ed improvement. Through Sunday and Mon
day there were conflicting reports, but Tues
day morning brought news of a reasonable
hope of recovery.
The assassin’s name is Charles Guiteau. He
is about forty years of age, claims to be Amer
ican by birth, and was for a time, in his
youth, in tbe Oneida CommuLity. He was
admitted to the Chicago bar some dozen years
since, but did little business, being eccentric
almost to the point of iusanlty. He greatly
persecuted a young lady of that place with
his attentions, and was finally compelled to
desist on ly by threats of arrest. From Chicago
he went to New York for a few years, and
then left for Milwaukee. He tried in vain to
get employment as a public speaker from Re
publican committees in last year’s campaign.
When Garfield came in, he appeared about the
White House in the role of office seeker. He
bored Btrangers for “indorsements,” forced his
way uninvited into the President’s presence
and special orders for his exclusion had te be
given the doorkeeper. He has continued to
haunt the neighborhood pf the White House,
occasionally calling at the door and asking if
the President was in. This he did on Friday
night. His whole professional life has been
that of a fraud. He has swindled boarding
house keeper after boarding-house keeper in
Chicago, New York and Washington, being
in fact a sort of professional tramp getting a
living by imposing on one community till found
out, aud then emigrating to another. He claims
to have committed the crime of Saturday in
the interest of the Republican party, and as
serts that the death of Garfield was neceSsary
to ensure lhe success of the party. He spec
ially atmounces himself a “stalwart of Stal
warts.” While there are some evidences of
aberration of mind it is generally thought that
he is more knave than lunatic, and that if
Garfield should die his chance of hanging
would be excellent.
Yale College Now and Fifty Years Ago.
In the report of progress read to the Yale
alumni by Pres. Porter, last week, atten
tion was called to the- falling off in number
of Connecticut young men seeking an academ
ic education at Yale and ether colleges. In
1820, there were 171 young men in Yale from
Connecticut—about half the whole number
then in college. In 1830, there were five
more Connecticut men in Yale college than
there were in 1880, though the population of
the State has more than doubled. Two cau
ses combine to produce such a result. One is
that, fifty or sixty years ago, Yale was little
more than a high school, as will be seen from
the requirements for entry of that day as com
pared with the present. A second reason is
the immense increase in expense. We see it
stated in the papers that the average expense
to the class of 1881 was a little over $950
each per year. This must be more than four
times that of half a century since. To this
must be added the expense of a three or four
years preparatory course; when in 1830, a sin
gleyear was probably sufficient. In other
words a college education in 1880 implies
seven years time and $5500 in money; as
against five years years time and $1100 in
money in 1830. With such odds against a
“liberal” education in our time, the wonder
is that so many still avail themselves of it.
While losing something of its local hold on
Connecticut, Yale has a much wider range
of influence throughout the nation. In 1880
it was a college; now it is a university. It
draws on the Middle, Southern, and Western
States for a much larger proportion of its stu
dents than ang.other New England college.
The additiou of the Sheffield School and in
crease of the professional departments has
fully doubled the number iu attendance aP
college, and with a widened range of study
and influence it occupies a much higher posi
tion among American colleges than it did fifty
years ago.
The Superior Court judges met at Hartford,
last- week, and made their annual allotment of
terms for the coming year. That for Litch
field county is as follows :
CIVIL TEEMS.
Third Tuesday of Augnst, Judge Loomis.
First Tuesday of December, Judge Hitch
cock.
First Tuesday of June, ’82 Judge San
for<jL
CRIMINAL TEEMS.
Seoond Tuesday of October, Judge Par
dee.
First Tuesday of April '82, Judge Gran
ger.
Another murder occurred in a compartment
of au English railroad car last week. An old
man was killed, fobbed, aud his body thrown
from the window of the ear, ^cd nobody the
wiser till the body was .fopnd in a tunnel. A
man named Lefroy is behoved to be ttie
murderer but has not yet been arrested.
Preaching.
Said Lamb to Coleridge, when asked if be
had ever beard him preach, “I never beard
yon do anything else.” One might almost
say the sama of the old style journal. It is
astonishing how much more moralizing,
preaching, reiteration of common places, is to
be found in the old than in the modern news
paper. Bow our grandfathers could take any
interest in editorials written in the style of the
“National Preceptor” is a great mystery to us
moderns. The superiority of the current
newspaper consists in its careful collection of
new facts. The old newspaper, with its
scanty paragraphs of intelligence, and its
columns of common place, is a failure, be
cause it is neither a successful preacher nor a
successful news-gatherer. The modern news
paper is a success because it avoids common
place and gathers heaps of intelligence. Peo
ple are chiefly concerned with what happens,
or to speak more accurately, with what is
happening. Let a newsboy carry through a
train of cars a New York Herald with the
latest information from all quarters of the
globe, and a new Spectator with a new Vision
of Mirza as beautiful as the old, and how
many passengers would take the Herald; how
many, the Vision ?
It is easy to criticise the public taste in pre
ferring the news to the best preaching; but is
the public so far wrong after all, in reading
average news and skipping average preaching?
The mixed heap of straw, chaff, and wheat
which the morning paper gives us, may show
a fearful preponderance of the valueless over
the valuable; but of all chaff is not mete com
mon-place tbe least useful or entertaining ?
Newspaper preaching, to be worth anything,
must be extremely good. An editor of any
talent whatever can throw some light on new
facts. The man who can discourse so inter
estingly and instructively of old facts that
thousands of busy people are glad to read his
discoursings, is a man of a million. Every
Monday morning our New York dailies are
crowded with reports of the sermons of the
day before. How interesting do most readers
And them ? The best thoughts of the most
eloquent of our American clergy seem stale
in the language of tbe Herald reporter.
Indeed, when it is no longer the thing said
but the way it is said that is of moment, we
have risen above the natural range of the daily
newspaper. The young editors who bang
away at all sorts of facts on the wing have no
leisure for careful literary work The quan
tity they write is so great that anything like
first rate quality is clean out of the question.
A few weekly papers like the Natioo, Har
pers Weekly, and the best religious papers,
still offer some good old-fashioned preaching;
but, in the main, the Addisons, Steeles and
Johnsons of our day, preach in the magazines.
There they have greater range, but they also
lose something of the condensation, the light
ness of the old editorial, which is all the more
satisfactory because it is brief and tiecause it
is not exhaustive.
It would seem, in this age of steem and
electricity, as if preaching and poetry were
going out of fashion. The preachers and tbe
poets who have the public ear seem fewer
than in the days when people read less. How,
in short, are people who get their facts hot
frftn the daily newspapers, and their Action
red hot from the dime novel, to learn to dis
criminate between good and bad literary
work?
Yale and Harvard “commenced,’’last week,
and there was the usual number of young
men made Bachelor* of Arts, and the usual
number of D. D’s., and LL D’s created, and
the usual orating on the usual high themes,
in the Dreseuce of dull old dominies, and of
admiring sisters, cousins, and aunts. A few
of the young men graduated have done the
best they will ever do. They have subjected
their physical powers to a strain from which
they will never recover. ISome who mature
early are at their best in college, while others
are as yet but boys, who afterwards develope
power that lav latent in the undergraduate.
In another respect college standing is decep
tive. Talent, an even range of ability in all
things,.counts for more than genius, extraor
dinary power in a single direction. In the
great world, on the contrary, it is the man of
exceptionably ability in one direction who
takes the great prizes. Still, college rank is an
important indication. As a general rule the
youth who rank higher before graduatiou
continue to rank higher after. In one re
spect, college graduates err greatly. They
fancy that the positive knowledge Uiey have
acquired is great. Such is not the case.
After immense toil they can read with more
or less difficulty, and not accurately without
frequent recurrence to the lexicou, the two
more important of the dead languages. They
know a little French and German. They
have a smattering of science. They know
less of the literature of their own language
than most young men of their own age not
“liberally” educated who have a taste and
some leisure for reading. In short they are
just beginning an education wheu uiauy of
them fancy it completed.
Few Americans who read the papers have
forgotten the trial of Rev. Edward Cowley,
keeper of a New York cbildren’s “fold,” for
cruelty to those children; nor the stroug evi
dence against him—the strongest being the
emaciated bodies and filthy, uncared for
plight of the children themselves—nor bis
conviction and sentence to the penitentiary
greatly to the satisfaction of the public. Mr.
Cowley is a presbyter of the Episcopal church,
and he had the support on lne trial of many
promiuent brethren of that persuasion. Re
cently, haviug served out his term in prison,
a committee of ministers was appointed by
Bishop Potter to examiue into the accusations
agaiust him, and, if they proved sufficiently
serious, to bring him to trial before an ecclesias
tical court. The committee made their exam
ination and now declare that they fiud no evi
dence of immorality or criminality against
him. Consequently he is uot tried, but re
mains a clergyman iu good standing in the
Episcopal Churcu, and might be assigued to
the charge of a parish to morrow. This is all
very strange! Was all the testimony on
which he was convicted downright perjury?
Were the children who were such pictures of
misery in the papers, after all, fat and hearty ?
Something iB plainly wrong. Either the
courts civil or the courts ecclesiastical are
unworthy of public confidence.
An important law point in regard to liquor
seizures, has been decided in the District Court,
recently, Soane linjtfoijr were seized in New
Hartford and the case was fried .before a jus
tice who decided that the liquors were not
subject to seizure. The prosecuting ageot
look an appealto the District Court. The own
ers pleaded in abatement that no right of ap
peal lay in favor of the State, and that
there should have been a bond filed for costs
as in other appeals. After long.consideration
the court overruled the plea on both points.
There seems little expectation that the Sil
ver conference which assembled at Paris, last
week, can be productive of much good result.
England and Germany still stick to their pol
icy of “demonetizing” silver, and the “dollar
of the daddies” is never likely to be worth
over 90 cts. SJJyer will always be valuable
but we might as well acknowledge that 'here
after it is to be generally considered through
out the civilized world as tuerobandiae, not as
money.
Centaur Liniment.-‘-Invaluable to Fam
ilies, and ewisi* Of horses. Sold tvsrywnor*.
Guiteau was in attendance on the Moody
And Sankey meetings in Hartford, frequently
on the platform with the clergy, aud speakers
and delivered a lecture of which the following
announcement appeared in the papers:
"Mr. Charles J. Guiteau, of Chicago, an as
sociate with Moody and Sankey in their work
in th*t city, will deliver a free lecture in the
Center church this evening, the subject beiDg
‘A. reply to Ingersoll’s attack on the Bible.’
Mr. Guiteau is considered an eloquent speak
er, and is highly spoken of by the Boston pa
pers.’”
As usual he cheated bis landlord out of his
board and had a lively time escaping from the*
officers on a prosecution brought against him.
He was a passenger en the Narraganset at the
time of the disaster of last year.
Jimmy Hope, one of the noted burglars of
the country, has been caught trying to break
into a San Francisco bank. He has been
connected with repeated affairs, and ought to
have been shut up long ago. He is reputed
to be well off—worth $100,000 or more.
There is mueh suspicion that Guiteau had
accomplices. Deputy Attorney.General Cook
has expressed the opinion that the assas
sin was the tool of a conspiracy.* It has
been stated also that at the time of the shoot
ing confederates were posted in the neighbor
hood of the depot. On the other hand Sec.
Blaine pronounces the whole story unfounded.
Milton June 80th, 1881.
Mr. Editor.—Having seen a letter m your
paper by V I. S. under the title of "Extinct,”
I don’t think the village of L. can lay much
claim to the loss of the eagles if it only re
ceived visits from them once in two or three
years. Why 1 we of this part of the town re
ceive a visit or two every summer, some
times one and sometimes both, and I really
think that one tenth of the people never ob
served that they were more than lafge hawks.
I am not a sentimentalist, but could we go
back the time that t^ose noble old birds first
came te old L. to live, we should see such
changes that it would be almost impossible to
believe them- But what I most want to tell
you is how those selfsame eagles introduced
themselves to me. I was only 12 years old at
the time and was with an older relative fishing.
It must have been somewhere in the vicinity
of where the "Island Hotel” now stands.
I don’t know what kiud of fishing he was up
to, some fancy work sculling around close to
the shore, when from the tops of the trees al
most directly over our heads came one of the
most terrific screams I ever heard, and, with a
great rustling of branches, out came these
great birds. Why 1 you can’t imagine what
great birds they are, especially under such
circumstances. I have often wondered while
watching them since if there were many ever
got as good a view as I did at that time and it
was a glorious one. That was in the year 1805,
can any one tell how much longer they have
been here ? Albkkt.
Washington.
The weather continues. Same farmers have
commenced haying, but make slow progress.
Corn is backward. Potatoes look well; also
the bugs. Rye and oats are favorable. About
one-third more tobaceo is set out than usual.
—Ttie new iron bridge is completed.
—The Shakers have come into town. Dr.
Brown and several others, we understand, are
visited by them.
—This couutfunity is blessed with four phy
sicians. Dr. Platt is having good practice.
—A heavy shower passed over the center
and south part of the town, the 26th ult., the
lightning striking in several plaaes, but doing
no special damage.
—Frederick Frisbie’s sons, with their famr
lies, came home to spend the sabbath with
their father. During his absence from his
home in Brookfield, lightning struck and kill
ed a valuable cow ^pd two young cattle of bis,
also an ox and two other cattle of his neigh
bor, C. H. Goodsell.
—Boarders arrive in great numbers, thirteen
came up on the train, last Friday, and the
editor of the Enquirer, and his family, came
dgwn to his home in this place on Thursday
We welcome them with pleasure.
—Mrs. Hosmer, mother, nurse and two
children have taken rooms at Mr. Galpin’s.
Mrs. Dr. Robinson, of Rochester, at Mr.
Church’s.
—The Van Ingens have taken formal pos
session of their castle, and had for their guest,
the past week, the Rev. H. W. Beecher, of
Brooklyn.
—Miss Reynolds, of New York, is staying
a few days at J. S. Titus’. We cannot name
all the boarders, neither their places. Busi
ness is pretty lively.
—The cars ran over two cows belonging to
Thomas O’Hara one day last week.
—The attention of this community has been
attracted the last week to the Comet, a meteor
on Tuesday night, and lightning bugs, the
latter the most numerous. A more brilliant
scene may be witnessed any cloudy evening
in James Aspinwall’s Bell meadow than any
seen on Ivy Mountain by H. N. of Goshen.
—Two births have occurred the past week :
a son to Henry Foulois; and a daughter, July
1st, to Mr. C. C. Ford.
—A Mrs. Bross, late of St. Lawrence Co.,
N. Y., died at Benjamin Seeley’s on Wednes
day 29th, aged 22, leaving an infant seven
months old. A decent Christian burial was
given her. Her bereaved husband baa the
sympathy of the neighborhood in which she
died.
—Making Night-Hideous.—'The bells of the
churches commenced ringing at 12 o’clock on
the morning of the 4th inst.. much to the an
noyance of the inhabitants of the village. A
select party visited Bantam Lake on that
day.
—The united districts of Romford and Up
per End observed the 106 anniversary of In
dependence in the yard of U. H. Mason Esq.
Tables and seats were provided in the yard,
more beautifully adorned and bountifully sup
plied we have rarely seen, on which thediviae
blessing was asked, and all were fed. One
interesting feature of the occasion was the
presence of Mrs. Abigail Ford, nearly one hun
dred and one years old, going back within
four yearesf its declaration who recited a
patriotic ode learned 80 or 96 years ago. There
were those present of every decade but one
since. Mrs. Marilla Allen 91; Moseley V.
Bronson and Benjamin Mason 75. The old
time Choir and Romford Band of Hope fur.
nished music Sheldon J. Logan and S. H.
Clark were appointed a committee to make
arrangements for next year. S. >
West Cornwall.
Arrivals. —Misses Alice and Mattie and
Master Charles Gold are home from their re
spective schools fora vacation; also Miss
Nettie Harrison, Mrs. H C. Hart and child,
ren, from Hartford; Master Charles W. Bur
ton Hart, of New York; Mrs. Wadsworth and
daughter of Chicago at N. Hart’s; and some
mombers of the Rev. S. J. Scoville’s family
of Stamford, at R. f. Scoville’s.
—To-day is July 4th, and no doubt news
for next week will be more plenty. What a
glorious Fourth if it could he celebrated with
out the use of intoxicating liquors, but ws
must expect to have our pleasure marred by
the disgusting sight of men beastly drunk.
—Mrs. ffarvey Baldwin died, . Wednesday
morning, June'30th aged years, leaving
two small children—a heavy* blow <td the famr
ily and a great loss to the neighborhood.
Justice.
Plymouth Sketches, Ho. 399.
In mentioning last week the close of’ our
Center Schools, and tbe number of scholars
registered in tbe 1st district during the year,
and omitted to say that my report of the num
ber not tardy, and of the names of those not
absent, had reference only to the last term.
In the two preceding terms there were doubt
less ether scholars as deserving of mention as
those I named. The number stated as belong,
ing to the district is correctly printed, being
160. But by the transposing of a figure I am
made to say that the number registered is 651,
instead of 165. Anyone noticing this high
number, and knowing it to refer to a country
village, .night very naturally suppose our
schools to be of such a superior character as
to draw into our midst pupils from all the re
gion round about!
— Another of our widows has departed this
life, in the person of Mrs. Phebe Clark, in her
88th year. She was relict of Richard Clark,
and daughter of Adin Fancier, and was born
in the State of New York,*to which her parents
had removed; yet had lived here front infan
cy or early childhood. Although during both
her married life and widowhood she was in
rather straightened circumstances, and obliged
to live with severely strict economy, she ever
exhibited a cheerful dispofition, and apparent
ly was as contented and happy as auy one
could be m such circumscribed situation. For
a long time she lingered on the confines of the
grave; but at length her spirit was very quiet
ly released from its earthly tabernacle. Her
funeral was attended on Friday afternoon,
July 1st, at the Center Congregational church.
—The widow and children of the late Geo.
F, Wright, the artist, are visiting here at
Frederick £. Landon’s; Mrs. L. being a niece
of Mr. Wright.
—The glorious Fourth is passing here in
rather a quiet manner. Plymothban.
July 4th, 1811.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOREIGN.
Great Britain.—The European Press is
unanimous in its expressions of sympathy and
regret at the attempt upon the President’s life.
Amendments are being made to the land
bill increasing the privileges of landlords.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany is advertising for workmen in Eugland,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Phelan has been acquitted in Dublin of the
charge of murder.
There is still much excitement in London
on account of the Brighton Railway murder.
.One English Lord has been horse-whipping
another. *?
A process server has been shot dead in the
county Kerry.
The steamship Vandalia broke her shaft
when about 1,000 miles to the west of the
Eoglish coast; she carries about 1,000 passen
gers.
Retaliatory duties are advocated more freely
in Englaud.
The Parliamentary Oaths bill has been
withdrawn this session.
The White Star Steamship Britannic, from
New York for Liverpool, is ashore atMilmore,
on the Irish coast.
■France.—The Chamber of Deputies has
passed a vote of confidence in the Govern
ment, by a vote of 282 to 194, after a debate
on Algerian affairs.
The French elections will be held in Sep
tember.
Italy.—It is expected that the new loan will
be signed Tuesday or Wednesday.
• The electoral reform bill has passed the
chamber of deputies 20.1 to 119.
Russia.—The British reserve squadron,
under the command of the Duke of Edinburg,
has arri ved off Cronstadt.
Turkey.—The Arab revolt at Sfax is be
coming formidable.
A dispatch from Constantinople says that
those persons who did not actually participate
in the murder of Abdul Aziz will be exiled.
Mexico.—The Government has decided to
impose additional duties upon all foreign mer
chandise from November next.
Australia.-—The Legislative Assembly of
Victoria has passed a vote of want of confi
dence in the cabinet.
Bulgaria.—Elections in 205 districts show a
triumph of the prince's party.
DOMESTIC.
The steamer Phaeton exploded her boilers
while racing, last week, on the Ohio River;
several persons were killed and others were
wounded.
President Porter, of Yale College, made a
statement, recently, before a meeting of the
alumni of the advance made in fifteen years.
The Virginia Republican State Central Com
mittee met at Richmond, last week.
H. C. Cadmus, postmaster at South Amboy,
N. J., committed suicide, last week.
The President has appointed R. 8. Foster
United States Marshal for the District of In
diana.
The Harvard Freshmen Crew defeated the
Columbia Freshmen on the Charles River,
Thursday.
.Governor Cornell has vetoed the Spy bill.
Senator Robertson will not at once assume
the office of Collector of the Port of New York.
John Burnside, said to have been the rich
est man in Louisiana, is dead at the age of
eighty.
The public debt was decreased in June by
the sum of $12,323,157.
The name of Thomas C. Platt has keen
withdrawn from the Senatorial contest at Al
bany.
A serious railroad accident happened near
Kensington, 111., on Thursday sight.
It is announced that Assistant Adjutant
General James B. Fry will soon be retired.
The Yale crew defeated the Harvard crew
at New London, Conn., Friday.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
call for outstanding five per centum registered
bonds.
Professor Draper was successful in photo
graphing the spectrum of the comet. .
Walker Blaine, son of the Secretary of State,
has been appointed Third Assistant Secretary
of State.
One ballot was taken m the Joint Conven
tion at Albany, Monday, without result.
An engine and five cars were thrown off
the track on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railway, Friday.
The call for a conference of Republicans at
Albany has been signed by fifty-nine mem
bers.
Vice President 4-rthur arrived in Washing
ton eariy Sunday morning and called at the
Executive Mansion.
The celebration of Independence Day was
observed very quietly in most parts.of the
country, owing to the President’s condition.
The Republican conference at Albany will
probably be held Wednesday.
The Governor vetoed a bill providing for the
establishment of a State Industrial School.
The 200th anniversary of the landing of
William Penn was celebrated at Philadelphia,
Monday.
There was a serious cyclone in Virginia
last week.
The explosion of two car loads of gun cot
ton at Tucson, Arizona, last week did $100
000 damage.
The President signed the commission of
Hon. Geo. B. Loring as committee of agricul
ture on Wednesday last.
Depew has killed the railroad commislon
bill in the N. Y. legislature.
The finding in the Whittaker court mar
tial has been sent in.
The new history of Litchfield County con
tains the portraits of 241 county celebrities,
alljOf them of the masculine gender, which
leads us to Infer that (here are no women in
the county worth looking at. Is it so ?—
Wasted Press.
“I have used several bottles of Simmons’
Liver Regulator, and you may record the fact
that my feelirim are so far changed that I can
eat hearty, and am more like a well man than
I have been for years past. I have suffered
four years and am grateful for relief.
“J. Raffebty, Periodical Store, 1806 Mar
ket St, Phila.”
A Smooth Complexion can be had by every
lady who will use Parker’s Ginger Tonic. For
promptly regulating the liver and kidneys and
purifying the blood there is nothing like it,
and tills is the reason why it so quickly re
moves pimples and gives a rosy bloom to the
cheek. See notice.
Health, hope and happiness are restored by
the use of Lydia £. Pinkham’b Vegetable
Compound. It is a positive cure for all those
diabases from which women suffer so much.
Send to Mrs. Lydia JS. Pinkham, 233 Western
Avenue, for pamphlets, i.
Hate Wistak’s Balsam of Wild Cheeky
always at hand It cures Coughs, Colds,
Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Croup, Influeu
za, Consumption, and all Throat and Lung
Complaints.* 50 cunts anti $1 a bottle.
Ash-Tonic.—A Perfected Purifier of the
System. Iu ^bottles; 75 cents. For Dyspep
sia, the many forms of Liver Complaints, Im
pure and Impover9hed Blood, and Functional
Derangements attendant upon Debility. For
symptoms indicated by ludigestion. Loss of
Appetite, Nausea. Sick Headache, Sour
Stomach, Furred Trnguc, Drowsiness, Blauch
ed Lips, Sallow Compaction, Pain at the
side or back, Eruptions, Depression of Spirits,
Irritability and Hysteria, and for Building up
the system. • Ash ' Tonic is unquestionably
the most prompt and energetic remedy yet
devised.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
KINGSLAND SMITH’S
EXTRA FINE.
MINNESOTA FAMILY FLOUR!
Electrically phi itiea under the Stiuith-Obborue
patent system of Electric Alidilliugs, Purifiers
AT. PAUL (MINN.) BOLi.Eli MILL.
SCHUH1HE1EKS A SMITH, Proprietors.
E. G. Stoddard & Co., Agents,-New Haven, Ct.
Dividend Notice.
First National Hank, )
Litchfield, conn. 29th June, 1881. f
THE Directors of this Bank havo this day declared
a Dividend of four (4) percent, payable to Stock
holders on and alter July 1st 1881. lft-lw
GEO. E JONES, Cashier.
PROBATE ADVERTISEMENTS.
AT a Court of Probate holden at Toirington within
and for the District of Torrington on the second
day of July A. D. 1881.
Present, Joseph F. Calhoun Esq., Judge.
On motion of Samuel A. Pratt. Executor ou the tes
tate estate of Elizabeth Barber late of Torrington with
in said district, deceased. This Court doth decree
that six months be allowed and limited for the cred
itors of said estate to exhibit their claims against the
same to the executor and directs that public Notice be
given of this order by advertising in a newspaper pub
lished in Litchfield County and' by posting a copy
thereof on the pnblio sign-post in said Town of Tor
rington nearest the' place where the deceased last
dwelt. 16-1 w*
Certified from Record,
JOSEPH F. CALHOUN, Judge.
AT a Court of Probite holden at Torrington within
and for the district of Torrington on the 5th day
of July A. D. 1881.
Present, Joseph F. Calhoun Esq., Judge
This Court doth direct Charles Mi Barber Executor
on the testate estate of Lyman Matthews late of Tor
riugton in said district deceased, represented to be
insolvent, to give notice to all persons interested in
the estate of said deceased, to appear, [if they see
cause], before the Court of Probate to be holden at the
Probate Office in said District, on the 12tb dav of July
1881, at one o’clock afternoon to be heard relative to
the appointment of Commissioners on said estate, by
posting said order of notice on a public sign-post in
said town of Torrington nearest to the place where
the deceased last dwelt, and advertising the same in a
newspaper published in Litchfield County.
Certified from Record.
15-lw* JOSEPH F. CALHOUN, Judge.
Cooley Creamer
MANUFACTERF.D BY
Vermont Farm Machine Co.
Butter made by this pro
cess was awarded Sweep
stakes at International
Dairy Fair, 1878, Gold
Medal at same fair
1879, Gold Medal at Royal
Agricultural Exhibition, at
London, 1879.
Maue in four styles and ten
Davis’ Swing Churn.
AWARDED FIRST
PREMIUM
over all compeditors at
onlv practical test ever
held at International Dairy
Fair. The box contains
no floats or inside gear.
This churn needs only
to be seen to be appre
ciated.
ALSO
The Eureka Butter Worker
Above Dairy Goods on exhibition and for sale by
WM. A. BUELL, Agent.
Maple Grove Farm, Litchfield Conn.
Circulars sent on application.
IX Otic* €5*
ALL persons having unsettled accounts with U. P.
Bartholomew which have run thirty days and
over are requested to call and settle before the 15th
of July, 1881, or they will be collected without furtuer
notice. 13-2w
HOMER F. BUNNELL, Agent
For U. P Bartholomew.
EaNt Mill.
ALL persons indebted for Feed, Meal, Flour, or
Graiu are requested to maae payment by cash or
uote without delav.
CHARLES ADAMS.
C. F. Baldwin, Agent.
June 2ith, 1881. 13-3w*
SHEPAUU liAlLllOAD.
Summed Arrangement
Commencing June 6th,* 1881.
DOWNWARD.
6.05 a. m_Passenger Train from Litchfield connects
at Hawleyville with 10 57 a. in. train for
Pittsfield and Albany; connects at Beth
el with trains arriving at Danbury at
10.40 a. m.; South Norw.dk at 8.58 a, m.,
New York at 10-24 a. m,; New Haven at
10.15 a. m.; Bridgeport at 9.31 a. m.
2.20 p. m.—Passenger Train from Litchfield con
nects at Hawleyville with train arriving
at Pittsfield at 9 05 p. m ; Bridgeport at
5.45 p. m.; New Haven 6.40 p. m.; con
nects at Bethel with trains arriving at
Danbury 5.10 p. m.; South Norwalk 5.20
p. m,; New York 6.40 p. m.
Sunday Milk, 4.30 p. m. from Litchfield, connects at
Hawleyville for Bridgeport and New
Haven ; at Bethel for South Norwalk,
New York and Danbury.
UPWARD.
10.35 a. m.—Passenger Train from Bethel connects
from New York 8.05 a. rn.; South Nor
walk 9.30 a. m., via D. & N. R. R.; con
nects at Hawleyville from New Haven
9.35 a. m.; Bridgeport 10.10 a. m. via
Hous. R. R.
5.07 p. m.—Passenger Train from Bethel connects
from New York at 3.00 p. m.; South
Norwalk 4.20 p. m., via D. & N. R. R.;
connects at Hawleyville from New Ha
ven 4.30 p. m.; Bridgeport 5.00 p. m.;
Pittsfield 1 25 p. m., via Hous. R, R.
Sunday Milk, from Bethel at 9.10 a, m., connects from
New York at 6.00 a. m.; South Norwalk
8.00 a. m.; Daubury 8.30 a. m.
Through Car to and from South Norwalk on all
Passenger trains. Passengers not taken on Freight
E. McNEILL, Superintendent.
Uie head, accompanied with disagreeable nausea, and
this constitutes what is popularly known as Sick
Headache.
ORIGINAL AND GENUINE,
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
J. H.ZEILIN A CO.,
PHILADELPHIA, FA.
Said by all Druggists, 50-ly -
BAKER & BRINSMADE
KEEP
Buckeye Mowers
AMD ALL THEIR PARTS.
Also knife sections for all other machines.
13-3w
If yon feel dull drowsy, debilitated, have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite and
tongue coated, you are suffering from torp
‘ biliousness,” and nothing
and permanently as to take
bob or Medicine.
The Cheapest, Purest and
Best Family Medicine in
the World.
An Effectual Specific
for all diseases of the Liv
er Stomach and Spleen.
Regulate the Liver and
prevent
CHILLS AND FEVER.
MALARIOUS FEVERS,
bowel Complaints,
RESTLB88NESS. JAUN
DICE ANE NAUSEA.
Nothing is so unpleasant, nothing so common as
bad breath.- and in nearly every case it comes from
the stomach, and can be easily corrected if you will
take Simmons’ Liver Regulator. Do not neglect so
sure a remedy for this repulsive disorder. It will also
improve your Appetite, Complexion, and General
Health.
JPILESf
How many suffer torture day after day, making life
a burden and robbing existence of all pleasure, owing
to the secret suffering from Piles. Yet relief is ready
to the hand of almost any one who will use svstematL
cally the remedy that has permanently cured thou
sands, Simmobs’ Lives Regulator, Is no drastic vio
lent purgo; bnt a gentle assistant to nature.
com TIP AVION !
SHOULD not he regarded as a trifling
ailment—in fact nature demands the ut
most regularity of the bowels, and any de
viation front this demand pavea the way
often to serious danger. It is quite as
necessary to remove impure accumula
tons from the bowels ai it is to eat or
sleep, and no health can be expected
where a costive habit of body prevails.
SIC11 HEADACHE!
This distressing affliction occurs mast frequently.
The disturbance of the stomach, arising from the im
perfectly digested contents, causes a severe paiu in
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Sanford’s Ginger,
“ THE DELICIOUS.”
I* Richest, rarest,most delicious and
only combination of the true Jamaica
Glider, with choice Aromatics and
French Brandy. The quintessence of
all that is-healthy, refreshing, and pre
ventive in medicine or condunents.
I*“ Sanford’s Ginger regulates the
Stomach and bowels, cures cramps,
pains and indigestion, breaks np colds,
chills and fevers, relieves goaty and
rheumatic pains and prevents disease.
Sanford’s Ginger for the nervous,
sleepless, weak, weary and prostrated
is priceless. It eradicates a craving for
intoxicants, and has restored thou
sands to lives of sobriety.
WSanford’s Ginger has directions
for every ailment likely to beset the
human family, besides receipts for com
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WBiware of worthless imitations said
to be as good as Sanford’s. Ask for
Sanford’s Ginger and take no other.
Sold everywhere. Weeks & Potter, Boston.
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GLIM FLOUR
For DYSPEPSIA, DIABETES, LUNG
TUOUBL.ES aud NEKVOUs DEBILITY.
The ntw Waste-UepnlrinK Bread and Gem
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itAREWELL & RHINES, Prop’s., Watertown, N. Y.
For sale oy Allyu. Blanchard & Latimer, Hartford, Ct.
The MASON & HAMLIN
ORGAIV CO.,
Makers of THE BEST CAB
INET or parlor organs,
offer new and improved styes
at lower prices. For cash :
THREE AND A QUARTER OC
TAVE ORGANS, $22; FOUR OC
TAVE, $30 ; FOUR OCTAVE, FIVE
STOPS, $51 ; FIVE OCTAVE,
SEVEN STOPS, $60; FIVE OC
TAVE large and elegant caBefsee
cut) eleven stops. $102 ; ONE
HUNDRED OTHER STYLES
up to $500 and more. Observe
that Mason ib Hamlin Or
gans have greater power.
VARIETY and CAPACITY EVERY
way, and VERY MUCH better quality than the
niueh advertised "cheap" organs with two or three times
as many stops.
All except the very smallest styles of these organs
are now sold
FOR EASY PAYMENTS,
from $5 per month up ; or will be rented for reason
able rent, with privileges of return at any time, aud
agreement that if retained until the whole amount of
rent paid equals the value of the organ it becomes the
property of the party hiring without further payment.
The rent of an organ so taken Is ten per cent of its
value per quarter year (6.38 and up, according to
size aud value). Organs will be furnished on these
terms for any place within easy access from New York
city.
MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS ARE CERTAINLY
THE BEST IN THE WORLD, having taken highest
awards at every cne of the GREAT WORLD'S IN
DUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS for more than thirteen
years, no other American Organs having been found
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circulars with particulars free.
MASON k HAMLIN ORGAN CO.,
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CHEAP]
est Bookstore
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ALMOST GIVEN AWAY. New Cata
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ELI D. WEEKS
Agent for
Walter A. Wood’s
BANTAM FALLS
June 23d 1881. 13 2w’
Notice.
ANY anc haying Chairs that they wish re-seated
with cane, can have it neatly done by leaving
them at the jail.
Litchfield, June 14th 1881. 12-3w
The vary tergeand constantly Increasing sales of the
incomparable CZAR BAKING POWDER is proof
that the publie appreciate and will buy the beet goods.
Nothing but the purest and healthiest ingredients
ever enter into its composition; IT IS WARRANTED
TO CONTAIN NO ALUM, or anything unhealthful.
and we solicit an unpredjudioed comparison with
any other Hairing Powder in the world.
IF Try one can. Tor sale by all groeers..fl
STEELE A EMERY, Manfre, New Haven, Conn.
FRED. KOEHLER.
Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon
Under the Mansion House
ALSO,
TAXIDERMIST.
AU kinds of Birds, Animals, &c., stuffed
and mounted to order.
Orders taken at the Barber Shop under
the Mansion House. 18tf.
A FEW BUSHELS
■ Of very nice, heavy
Seed Buckwheat!
FOR SALE
ELI D. WEEKS.
Bantam Falls. June 23d, 1881. 13-2w*
The Place to buy Goods
IS AT
Him k ELMORE'S!
They still give great bargains in
AND
GROCERIES,
A full line of
Teas, Coffees md Spices,
at prices that cannot be beat anywhere,
Thankful for past favors we hope for a continuance
of the same.
Respectfully,
GANTING & ELMORE.
Litchfield, March 21at, 1881.
37-if
PLANTS
* .AT.
Beckwith’s Block
May 20.
I again take pleasure in calling your attention to my
K KEEN-HOUSE,
Vegetable and Bedding
Plants, *
For Ilie Coining Season ;
which are
IOW SEAiiT AND EQUAL TO AIT
HERETOFORE OFFERED.
In order to accomodate ail, I have rented a room n
Beckwith’s Block, where I intend to k< ep a good
Assortment of Plants,
as well ns at my Green-house, also a supply of
Rustic Baskets, Hanging Va
ses, etc., etc.
All orders will receive prompt
attention.
Please give ns all an early call,
Respectfully,
JOHN L. PLUMB.
Litchfield, May 16, 1881.
I
GOOD GOODS
-AT
LOW PRICES!
We are receiving
Fresh Groceries,
Fruits, &c.,
Every XDety.
Our stock is complete and we
shall endeavor to keep the qual
ity of the goods at the highest
standard and the prices as low
as the lowest.
You can find anything 3*011
want in our line here, and we
dont mean to he undersold by
anybody.
ADAM WATTS.
LORD’S BITILDJSO.
Litchfield. May 16th. 1881.
,er Styles
MILLINERY
—AT—
Trimmed
HATS AND BONNETS,
Dress Making and Patterns,
TRIMMINGS
for Dresses and Mantles.
Best Black
KID GLOVES,
PARASOLS! PARASOLS!!
A large assortment of
Edges, JLstces, Ham
bergs, Torchons, Ac.
LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
6 for 35 cts.
PRICES AS LOW
as in the city.
Mrs. 0. P. Peck
—HAS—
JTJ8T OPENED
» very large stock of
Millinery and Fancy Goods,
to wbich the attention of the public la Invited.
PRICES THAT SUIT ALL
A full Une of
TRIMMED HATS and BONNETS an
HAND.
Work done by experienced city trimmers.
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In Linen and heavier foods.
Dress Trimmings, Satin
Surahs, Striped and Plain
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fringes, Girdles, Ornaments, Laces,
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Corsets, Gauze Undervests.
Look at our
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