The Litchfield County post., 1826-10-17

presenting to our readers. II may De the
means of exciting reflection, if not effort.
There came along the streets, a lean, dir
ty haggafd horse, with scarce substance
enough to make a. shadow. He was fasten-
ed by twine and rags and leather, to an old
horse-cart that looked as if it was blown
together by the wind. In the cart was a
man, apparently about so years old, ragged,
lame and blind, attended BY his son, about
Ia. The son alited-took stone quart
Jug from the cart, and assisted his father
to get out. The father took the sons arm
and thus they passed from store to store,
inquiring for rum! On the sightless eye
balls of this premature old man on his
trembling limbs---on his tattered garments
on his cart and horse and harness---and
worst of all ON the hoy--the sonthat led
him--was written ram He ac0s made blind
By ntemperance.-SpringficH Joaonal.
7RAGTCAL.--Wea are informed that,
on Thursday, Andrew Davis Of Smithfield,
r. /. stabbed his wife in several places in
SO shocking a manner that it was thought
she could not survive many hours. He ak
so stabbed a Mr.. Mason in the abdomen,
so that he was considered mortally wound
ed. Davis then cut his own throat from
ear to ear, and when our informant left
Smithfield, was apparently in the agonies
of death. these enorn,ities are supposed
to have been Committed in consequence Of
Enthusiastically Worcester Ycoman.
From the Vermont Journal of September SO.
Fo,cling Ertraordinary.- Yesterday morn
ing, young man of this village, while quiet
ly reposing in the arms Of Somnus, was sud-
denly reused bya clapping against his win
dow; and a moment after, a plump, full grown
Partridge, having retired farsenough to get
head way, burst Through the viewless barrier
that opposed her progress, and, after iutter-
ing about the room quietly settled upon his
breast. His terror may be imagined-for he
remembered that from time immemorial
witches have visited the iuckless victims Of
their spells through panes Of giass-and had
it been in the" witching time of the night"
he would hare expected nothing less than to
be whisked through the window, and with a
bride in his mouth, and an ugly old bag on
his back, to be rode off to some unhallowed
conclaye of dealers in forbidden knowledge.
But gathering courage from the broad glare
of day he made prize Of the bold intruder,
and thus literally took his dinner ia bed.-The
head Of the partridge was considerably bruis-
ed by the shock she received, and one eye
was cut out by fragment Of the glass.
1t is probably well known that in the for
ests OF the West, roasted pigs run about with
knives and forks in their backssand turkeys
are shot ready dressed for the table sit is an
ticipatcd that our wild fowl will soon ask of
us only the trouble of cooking.
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4 sad mistGke.-A rattlesnake was about
fortnight since discovercdin the canal, in War
wasinl, by an emigrant from the land Of st.
Patrick, who, surprising it to be an eel, with
out any ceremony grappled it, exclaiming
IAN ale /! an ale by the powers ~ Some
bystanders soon undeceiyed him, when it was
found that he had been bitten three times BY
the poisonous reptile. BY a timely anplica-
ton, however, the poison was extracted.
From the National Infelligencer.
1t is not without hesitation that we have
admitted the original article headed Sec
ond Sight and Charms. u We ourselves
profess entire disbelief in either Of these
attributes. But we equally disbelieve in
many other things which we allow. to be
advocated and recommended by our corr
respondents; and upon reflection, do not
regard that consideration as sufficient to
justify the exclusion from our columns OF
an article which will interest the curiosity
of at least portion q, our readers.-Th
article is moreover from Minister of the
Gospel, who pledges his character for. its
veracity. He says that he himself once
doubted the reality of these things, but is
now fully convinced" seeing what these
men can do. For ourselves, we should
not believe our eyes or ears in such case.
SECOND SIGHT AND CHARMS. +,
HAMPsHiRE County, Va. 1896, /
These have generally been classed among
antiquated superstitions, notwithstanding
the well attested cases which come under
the purview Of history. The North of
Scotland has been famous for its seers.
The Jewish nation once possessed them,
as we learn from sacred writ they are still
common. among the Northern Indians, and
even in our own country j know instances
Of them, though very rare. *
No doubt but that great part Of what
is attributed to these seers is exaggerated |:
for instance, their foretelling future events.
and sometimes their discovering stolen
goods, which, in all probability, they were
privy to the taking of. But that some few