LITCHFIELD, JUNE I7, 1880.
LITCHFIELD, JUNE l7, 1880.

 TWe are requested to state that meeting of the Litek6sld Tsmperance Society will be holden the west school house, in this village, Friday evening the 18th inst. at half past o'clock at which time punctaal attendance of all the members Ofthe Society is requested.

 The next monthly meeting Ofthe Litct6eid sCOnHty Tsmpera.ce Society will be holden at South Canaa" the fourth Tuesday of this month.

 @ Cop. TOmiiasons piedge' Co ate JacksO" party.- The New-Hayen Register of last Saturday, in order to put to sleep the gratuOus and unfounded lnsInua- lions of the >Nesv-Haven and Hartford demagogues, says, farewell address to the Legislature, Gov TomIinson took occasion to state explicitly, that in the Senate of the United States, while it would be lis effort to protect the rights a"d advance the inter- esis of the State of CoRnectcn he should be govern ed i,y the principles which had hitherto governed his political course. Gov. TomlinsOn, during the two years of his Congressional service under the last ad- ministra,ioa, was the known, decided and efficient friend of Mr. Adams

 Ssann.er Weather at iast.-The two last days have been fine summer weatler--sueh as 'ce are glad to Geel Yesterday, at o'clock, the mercury stood in the shade at 88 deg. FahreRheit. a .-ls John Randolph Clay, of Philadelphia, has by the President been appointed Secretary of Legation 10 Russia. The newly appointed minister, Jo'is Ran oolph, had previously sgnied his wish that Mir: Clay might receive the appointment. We wonder that the nams had not been insuperabe objection both by the appoiated and appOi,aee. # .@tas la

 rI1p .l,. TSoo reflected Comptroller of the Treasury at Washington has been elected by4he legislature of to represent the sovereignty of that state in the Senate of the United States for six years from the fourth o March next, in place of Levi Woodbury, who ren- ouished his pretensions in his favor. What are we coming to, when 'ssach kind of cate," as they say in Tennessee, get into the U. s. Senate?'

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 Sciens;fc ts.-The first number of a ser'esoi tracts under this title to our hands daring the last week from the press of Messrs Carter < Hendee, Bcston-adapted to the of Schools, Lycenms, aud Families. They are, say the publishers, in an article prefixed to this number, "inended 10 be brought wi.ia the comprehension, and to meet the wants oi sha great asass of the community, especially of the Sndkrioas classes, who have neither time nor oPPor- tanses to devote their lives 10 intellectual parsnlts The present number s devoted almost exclusively to che subiecto the Atmosphere. Twenysfoar numbers ol the work are be published in year, and furnish ed at the moderate price of $l 50. Salem Marder.-Tuesday the 2oth day of July next has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Massa- chuse.s for inc trial of the persons lately arrested for being concerned in the murder of Mr. White. Hon. Daniel Webster, it is said, has been retained as coun- sel for the Cnnninghams. &fas

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