THE ENQUIRER.

LITCHFIELD, APRIL IS, 1888.
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LITCHFIELD, APRIL IS, 1883.

 T Ofthe election in this state, we have no further returns than had las: week, except that Is tained that the whole ofthe National Republican Con- gress ticket is elected-Messrs. Foot and Tweedy the highest Jackson candidates by maorIies of 800 600. Whether Gov. Peters Mir. Edwards has the plurality of votes for Governor, do not Iearn.- There is not much difference.

 Massachusetts.-Int this state the election for Mem- bers of Congress held the first Monday of this month. The returns we believe are all in. In Bos- ton district no choice has been made-a majority of ihe whole being required to eIec and there four or five candidates. John c. Gray she National can- didate, lacked between l and 200 of majority. At the trial he will doubtless be elected. Messrs Adams, Choae, Everitt, Reed, Davis, Bates, Briggs and Grennel are reelected. In Bristol district, WM. Baylies, JacksOnian, is elected. In Essex North and Norfolk districts no candidate had a majOrity-of course new election is to be held in these two dis trcts, as we'll as Boston.

 Rate of Interest in NesO- York.-lt will be remem- bered, that it stated in the papers weeks ago that the House of Assembly tn the state of New-York had passed bill reducing the of interest from to per ceat per annum. In the Senate the bill referred to the committee fnance-which comnit- zee had the subject for many weeks before them with out reporting. On Friday last however, the report was communicated that body, and is adverse to the passage of the bill. The report concludes in the fol- lowing manner:

 "The committee have come 10 the conclusion that the best interests of the state will be advanced-

 Frst-ln promoting the free circulation of foreign and domestic capital over state, by giving stability and security to its investment; and by extending e Rslave facilities tO associations who borrow and lend capital unconnected with currency-as savings banks, trust companies, &c.

 Second-By restraining banks in their circulation eO the their capitals and by restraining them in their discounts tO per ceMt.

 Thrd-By repeating the usual penalties except in relation to banks and fixing the legal rate of interest al per cent.

 IT, however, the usurv penalties should be re. pealed, would object 10 reducing the limit o: inte- res, from per ccnt which seldom presses upon the market rate, except R the parts O our state and 6xing that limit at per cent, which, in many parts of our state, and all ,imes ,oonid press upon ,he market rates, aggravatng the evils incident tv the present standard of interest.

 If these amendments, generally, should not prevail, then would respectfully recommend that the fur ther progress the bill under consideration be ed in conformity with the prayer o all the memorials addressed to the Senate"

 d1aSn 1'FeSSWe-NoW that Ane eieCuOn N over, us really amusing for mere looker-on-one who feels little interest in the matter-o witness the frotIy porngs and silly denuncations which are lavishy thrown ou, against each other by ofthe Jackson presses in this state The Witness, at Middletown, for conceive sufficient reasons thereunlo mov- ing, would not support the whole Of the ticket for Congress made out by the Jackson Convention-the editor had the independence only say so but to give his for doing. For this he is bran ded with all sorts of hard names by the born zea- lot in Hartford. In the last Jefcrsonan, the editor commences an article with "the pful traitor who conducts the Wipess"-soes through one sentence and commences again" the poor convicted apos- ate-proceeds little further, and calls the editor "noisy urchin"- says that he "s responsible for his profgate disregard of the wishes of the Jackson par ty-ha, he "was the first raise the flag of rebel. lon"-,hat he "most basely and nfamousIy caused the defeat" of the Congress ticket-and finally, flor we might copy fire whole to show in what pleasant state of mind the person must have been who penned the article the editor of the Witness :" had the 6end like maligniiy charge the responsibility of the fail. nre'' upon others These some of the beautes of bro,herly love and friendship which characterize tue "bre:hren of principle" Truly, they must know each other "cxceedng well.'

 Cantion At this season of the year, when the young shrubs aHd plants sprinsng into life, and children greedily devourng every thing which is fresh and green. they should be careful ,Aat they dig up and eat. Last week, three children of Mr. Seth Kellogg, of Goshen, dug up roots of the cicua, poison hemlock, through mistake for swee. sicily, and ate them. All immediately sckened, and were more less convulsed; and, though the usual reme dies were speedily administered, of them very promising boy about six years old, expired. The two others recovered.

 Hayfford Female Seminary.-This institution, as our readers in this vicinity all probably know, conducted by Mr. John P. Brace, late of this village IL sustained under Miss Beecher a very high reputa- iion-and we have every reason to believe will lose nene of its deserved popularity under ;he management. of Mir. Brace. A friend to the Institution has reques- ted the insertion in paper of the following extract of letter, recently published in the N. Y. Conner cal Adveuiser:-

 "Ha,4ford, 18th March, 1885,

 "Tn answer lO your inquiry respecting he Hartford Female Seminary, can say that Mr. Brace, the pre- sent Principal has than answered our expectR- 1ions. This gentleman has been in the uninterrupted cultivation Of the female mind for eighteen years.- llis these duties have been constant ibat he has literally been totns i Is No collateral